What can be useful to do from a laptop with a failed video chip?

SSar2012-02-09 09:57:25

Do it yourself

SSar, 2012-02-09 09:57:25

I say right away that the question is addressed to the craftsmen, and not to the hucksters.
Judging by the numerous DIY topics on Habré, there are quite a few of them. Notebook RoverBook Voyager
V553 . The only malfunction is the nVidia GF8600M video chip soldered into the mother, and it was the place of soldering that died from overheating. The rest of the components are normal. PS Offers to throw out and forget are not considered.

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harmboy, 2012-02-09
@SSar

If the board is seriously led - maybe it makes sense to look for a live one, on E-bay? It will cost inexpensively, often much cheaper than restoring the declared fee. Although - from personal experience I will say - this is a rather rare case for her to be so mischievous. Unless the craftsmen heated it with a hairdryer. If they didn’t heat it, then it makes sense to look for another master with straighter arms and a head, pay him about four thousand for a chip replacement and use the beech for its intended purpose. In order not to clog the topic, you can write me a private message on jabber, I'll try to help with advice.
PS Oh, bl ... just now it dawned on me that this is a rover. Oh, they don’t like his masters, oh ... how they don’t like ...

Mikhail Krainov, 2012-02-09
@medved13

Join the question. There is about the same machine, with the same malfunction.

Alexander Kozhevnikov, 2012-02-09
@bethrezen

If there is WiFi, you can make a router and download torrents on any Linux, which is to your liking.
I came across Dell laptops with the same problem, but alas, problems with the built-in video card interfered with the stable operation of the system - sometimes it hung tightly.

Dmitry Zemskov, 2012-02-09
@SADKO

Well, look, if the beech is loaded without video, then you can make it a home file downloader \ garbage can + print server. It all depends on your imagination, but it often happens that laptops with video chip damage hang during the BIOS initialization process.
If “it was the place of soldering that died”, then I see no reason to refrain from reheating or even resolder the chip. The latter requires some skill and a set of accessories, but as a rule, any self-respecting telephone master in the local market has all this.

Eddy_Em, 2012-02-09
@Eddy_Em

You can make a good quiet server-ruter. Saw down a simple web face and upload lists for downloading there so that the main computer does not rumble at night.

Maxim Kuzovlev, 2012-02-09
@KY3EH

1) Fix it.
Or soldering the chip with an industrial hair dryer, which is not for long.
Or replacing the motherboard (On a Dell laptop, I replaced it with a mother with an Intel video card, since with nVidia, chip soldering is a standard problem)
2) Look in the direction of connecting an external video card .

Evengard, 2012-02-09
@Evengard

So we can try to solder back?) Or is there absolutely meat?

glazs, 2012-02-09
@glazs

You can make a heated bed for a cat.

Konstantin Kitmanov, 2012-02-09
@k12th

Somewhere there was an article about attaching an external vidyuhi to a laptop ... it seems, through pcmcia.

Nikolai Vasilchuk, 2012-02-10
@Anonym

If it loads, make it a media center. Large passive heatsink + DIY case. Hang on the back of the TV and there will be happiness)