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Melted video card

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1/10/07 at 9:46pm
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I have had my 9880 since they released the series about a year ago i had to replace the video card because it melted. i could turn it on and the blue light around the on button would light up then instantly shut off. anyway it has done it again and i cant aford to pay the 1000+ for the repairs and shipping. so my question is, is there a cheaper way i could replace the video card that anyone has found or atleast extract my data of my HDD? (the HDD are in a strip raid formation) i havent done alot of work with laptop HDD so im unsure if there is a caseing i could buy or another way to extract it.
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post #2 of 3
1/15/07 at 7:00am
The graphics module is proprietary to Sager, so you would need to replace it with a Sager part. The first thing I would do is look in the for sale forums and see if there aren't any for sale. There are a significant number of people who upgrade thier 98xx's and you might find one from them. In addition, failing 9860's pop up in the Sager support forums alot and you might find someone who needs a mobo replacement willing to sell you theirs so they can upgrade.

As a last resort you can try looking around for a replacement GPU (7800?) from a second hand parts provider like rjtech. A new replacement GPU is still going to cost around $500 though. Since this is the second time this has happened, there might be a problem with your mobo and you may want to save up to do the complete upgrade.
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post #3 of 3
1/16/07 at 11:41pm
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Originally Posted by poxxhunter
or atleast extract my data of my HDD? (the HDD are in a strip raid formation) i havent done alot of work with laptop HDD so im unsure if there is a caseing i could buy or another way to extract it.

to extract your data you need to:
1) connect the drives to another computer. if these are sata - there's no problem, power and data connectors are same as for desktop ones. if pata, you can use external usb enclosures (or 2.5-to-3.5 ata dongles).

2) copy the striped data from the drives to another drive (of same or greater capacity). you'd have to boot to a live linux cd (ubuntu 6.06 works fine), and use "mdadm" tool to build your array, and then "dd" tool to copy your data to the new drive. typically, the top drive in the assembly is the first one, and block size is 128kb.

there might be more elegant ways to do that, but that's what worked for me (twice).
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