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    W860CU Video Card Help

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by 5upa_mari0, Apr 5, 2011.

  1. 5upa_mari0

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    Hey Guys,
    I hope someone can help me out, I have a W860CU made by Sager with a 280m GTX which was overclocked. After playing Crysis 2 for about 4 - 5 hours, the laptop just turned off and the psu starting ticking with no green light on the brick. then when I unplug the laptop it goes back to normal green and no tick. I opened the laptop and noticed a burning electronic smell, I took out the CPU and plugged it back in and same ticking noise. then i put the CPU back in and took out the GPU and plugged it in and it was normal green light and no ticking. So am I to assume the card burnt out?
     
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    MrDJ Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    just hope not as overclocking can void the warranty.
     
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    Im not too concerned since the laptop came out of warranty 2 months ago and Sager doesnt want to do anything even though its the 2nd time the video card went. When I first got the laptop a resistor on the card shorted and I had to send it to them, they most likely didnt replace the card just fixed the resistor? and now a year later the card seems to have gone again and no help from them of course. My concern is I wanna get the 470m or 5870m maybe even the 6970m with some modding but I just wanna see if anyone here knows if it could be anything else?
     
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    No one has any idea?
     
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    what are your temperatures like and have you cleaned the fans out lately.
    download HW Monitor to check on temps.
    also it could need a new psu
     
    MrDJ, Apr 5, 2011
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  7. 5upa_mari0

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    Posted in forum, take a look at the findings
     
    5upa_mari0, Apr 7, 2011
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