On Saturday 16 August 2008 03:57:42 b.n. wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann ha scritto: > > In short: all 8XXX chips are bad. Because of the thermal environment > > laptops are on a different place of the bell curve than desktops. Laptops > > with nvidia graphic are failing left and right. Whole series of HP, Dell, > > Asus, laptops are walking ghosts. Desktops might be in the mess soon too. > > Just to know: what to do when your laptop graphic card fries? I don't > think I can just take it out of a socket and change it.
Correct. You have a few options, none good: 1. Replace the motherboard 2. Lean on the dealer to replace the laptop with a different model using a non-nvidia card 3. Take it in the shorts -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
