Posts by vivin

Try using thermal paste (Arctic Silver). Also, download memtest86 and test your RAM to see if it's bad.

Hey guys, So I sent in my laptop to Ztronics, and they were extremely prompt and helpful. The issue turned out to be my video card (6800 Go Ultra) which burned out. It was preventing power from being sent to the mother board. So if...

Well I am thinking I will send it to Ztronics. I talked to them today. They have a $98 flat rate to take a look at it and fix it if it is something simple like a resistor or capacitor.

Well, my beleaguered m7700 finally dumped on me. After numerous overheating problems (that I thought I had fixed), it finally decided to shut off while I was in the middle of playing Spore. Now it won't even turn on. At first, it turned...

Thanks for the link! I will check it out. Do you have any idea what the 6800 Go Ultra would not have those pins? I thought it was an MXM?

I guess what I mean is that my card doesn't have pins at the bottom like this one:

And the mobo has connectors like these:

I tried looking for the replacement cards, but the leads on it don't seem to match the one I have. For the card I have (6800 Ultra), the leads come out from the underside of the card, whereas in the pictures I have seen of the 7xxx...

Never mind. Found this - hope it is helpful to you all!

I checked out my revision and it was 6.1N - what GPUs are supported by this rev?