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post #21 of 48
1/14/11 at 8:43am
Take the cover off and see if you can clean the fan area from there - compressed air and the vacuum cleaner at low speed would help

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post #22 of 48
1/14/11 at 4:08pm
well i tried what you said and i reseated the card fans,keyboard ect. now seems to be good i guess just needed that.. but i did run into the problem again where the fan does not kick in full gear even at 104C, i tried different drivers seemed to have done it with the 186.91 im running 186.81 has not done it so far..but the perfomance in these drivers are not good at all i get lag..i even tried the dox drivers they were not so great either.
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post #23 of 48
1/14/11 at 5:00pm
Give our NBF Mobile Force driver a shot. You find them in the Mobile Force Section. Follow the instruction carefully for installation steps.

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post #24 of 48
1/14/11 at 7:32pm
thanks ghn..
couldn't thank you enough for the help and effort!
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post #25 of 48
1/14/11 at 7:36pm
Did the NBF Mobile Force driver work for you?

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post #26 of 48
1/15/11 at 6:39pm
im not sure as i have not tried them yet..because with this specific laptop i think i cannot past 186.91 drivers and here the NBF are 190.38 i downloaded.. do you think they would still work?
i hear there is problems with blue screen and error about the vga not starting up..
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post #27 of 48
1/15/11 at 6:59pm
Never hurt to try. Make a restore point and you are set.

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post #28 of 48
1/16/11 at 5:23am
yeah but i actually just stood with the 186.81 they are working just fine and the fan is not being weird.. so everything is good!
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post #29 of 48
1/16/11 at 6:33am
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Originally Posted by tik987 View Post
yeah but i actually just stood with the 186.81 they are working just fine and the fan is not being weird.. so everything is good!
Yep - if it works, don't mess with it. I was under the impression that you had some issue. My bad.

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post #30 of 48
1/22/11 at 6:02pm
my bad didn't make myself clear i guess..
but hey i have yet another problem..so im not sure but the computer would get random shutdowns, assuming the card..so i took the card out re applied artic paste..i put the card back in and was just a black screen. i did not hear the computer beep nor did it boot into windows..as you sometimes get an issue with black screen but windows is still possible to hear.
so im under the impression that its the mxm slot? the computer boots up fine with internal graphics.(which i type from atm) any help?
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post #31 of 48
1/22/11 at 6:07pm
Sounded like a bad card - time to bake it or replace it

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post #32 of 48
1/22/11 at 6:54pm
well it was working just fine before i took out.
now can you help here.
do you think its possible that baking would still help if i touched the gold part and somehow got static there?
and after this black screen happened i did happen to pop it in the oven but no dice.
i did it for 7mins 180c i believe. and still same situation.
the card does get warm so it is receiving power.. so wether the card got static..is this fixeable?
and i thought baking was only for solder.anyway thanks for the help!
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post #33 of 48
1/22/11 at 6:59pm
7min and 180C is low - I use 10min at 190C - give it one more shot. When it's done baking, just leave the oven door open for at least 1 hour and don't touch anything during this cooling off period.

Not sure about the short-circuiting during removal. Baking might not cure that

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post #34 of 48
1/22/11 at 7:22pm
yeah, well i will try i guess the baking again tomorrow morning. 11:22pm here..
but like i said it was working just fine before the shutdown occurred..but these shutdowns are just random i suppose while it happened before and i turned it on without any issues.
so im a bit stuck..i want to say i managed to figgle with it and touch the gold plated and that did it..because i have a hard time thinking its soldered went bad..but again might have happened..only way to find out to try the baking again.

want to add.. if the gpu gets warm..then theres still a chance the soldering is bad?
or shorted out would still get it warm?
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post #35 of 48
1/22/11 at 7:30pm
you must be on the same time zone as I am here.

Any circuit boards can get pretty warm if power is being fed through it. Good luck with the re-bake.

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post #36 of 48
1/22/11 at 7:33pm
Yes if you are in utc+1 im in germany..but from cali.

And i really hope the card just needs a baking or could be the mxm slot? no because it gets warm right?
i will report back tomorrow afternoon
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post #37 of 48
1/22/11 at 7:38pm
Cool - good night then

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post #38 of 48
1/23/11 at 11:15am
so tried it and still nothing, My guess is that the card is working but perhaps the mxm slot is not making correct contact?
because when i try to insert the card its very easy to insert i mean there is no force at all needed to slide in there..normally there is a small amount of force with feeling that it snapped in place..but nothing like that just goes in at in angle with no force and folds down and thats all..
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post #39 of 48
1/23/11 at 11:26am
I always thought that the GPU is part of the MXM board, together in one - meaning you can't just take the GPU itself out. Time to visit eBay

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post #40 of 48
1/23/11 at 11:59am
well its a mxm card meaning i can remove it from the motherboard of the laptop. its the pcie slot in the motherboard is what im talking about.
and im not sure what to replace since i do not have an extra mxm card around to see if it is in fact the slot in mobo.
very complicated at the moment
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