View Full Version : Laptop graphics card dead, need some help
schlafmuetze
09-01-2009, 08:59 AM
hey guys, a mate of mine gave me his laptop to fix the dead graphics card.
it is an amilo m3438G. it shows a black screen when turning it on so methinks its the graphics card.
i tried heating it in the oven and currently got it in the freezer and hope
it will work afterwards. any other ideas or is it completely dead? i got 3 screenshots from it, here they are, i hope you can help me a bit out.
http://www.abload.de/thumb/img_0570z4oe.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=img_0570z4oe.jpg)
http://www.abload.de/thumb/img_0571l2f2.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=img_0571l2f2.jpg)
http://www.abload.de/thumb/img_057232lj.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=img_057232lj.jpg)
monst0r
09-01-2009, 01:45 PM
Why would you heat it in the oven? If anything that would've broken more solder joints. The freezer trick is iffy, leave it in for at least 24 hours before trying to do anything else.
GTSRboy
09-01-2009, 04:52 PM
someone on hard forum fixed a dead dekstop GPU by cooking it in the oven, it binds togehter tiny cracks in the circitry and restores connections or somthing...
But from the looks of it, its dead...it looks burnt. Youve got a case of a Dell, HP whatever PC based laptop this is, you pay for a cheap laptop, you get dead parts. My XPS laptop's GPU died also, youll just have to replace it
wildeh
09-01-2009, 10:40 PM
But from the looks of it, its dead...it looks burnt. How do you tell it from the picture?
GTSRboy
09-02-2009, 09:44 AM
How do you tell it from the picture?
It looks really "beat"...not in good shape. If heating it up and freezing havnt done anything, im betting theres no hope for it
cirthix
09-02-2009, 03:03 PM
looks like mxm-iii
you can get a replacement card on ebay. 3870 or g92 would be a good upgrade too :)
Frank M
09-03-2009, 08:06 AM
It looks really "beat"...not in good shape.
IMO that's just half-cleaned-off TIM, that doesn't look like burn marks on it.
looks like mxm-iii
you can get a replacement card on ebay. 3870 or g92 would be a good upgrade too :)
It looks like a 1,73 Dothan P-M 2M / 533 -- for such an old processor,
those cards are overkill.
Not to mention this machine looks old (P-M 1,73 and Go6800), you can
be happy that at least it lasted this long, with the Fu-Si Amilo-line's
build quality, other parts may start giving up soon even if you get a
new video-card.
NovoRei
09-03-2009, 08:22 AM
Dont understand. People have some fetish with electronics and freezer? Cold only heal inflamations...
Use a heat gun over the gpu. Use foil to cover the board but not the gpu. Pre-heat the board slowly for 5m. Heat the gpu for 5m. Put a foil over the gpu and let it rest for ~30m,60m.
The oven is useful if u have an IR thermometer.
Bigred1
09-03-2009, 10:04 AM
Dont understand. People have some fetish with electronics and freezer? Cold only heal inflamations...
Use a heat gun over the gpu. Use foil to cover the board but not the gpu. Pre-heat the board slowly for 5m. Heat the gpu for 5m. Put a foil over the gpu and let it rest for ~30m,60m.
The oven is useful if u have an IR thermometer.
People Have been using Freezers to fix a lot of things. Its uselful in fixing RAM and Hardrives. Harddrives I understand, but RAM i do not. But it has been proven that it will bring back dead sticks