Acer Aspire 5920G + hd 4650 mobility. Help!

[MaLLy_R]

My 5920 came back from service... they replaced mobo and graphic card (they said 8600 died too.). I had to pay a half of laptop value. now i dont know what to think. i found cigarette ashes inside my laptop... and additonal 1Gb of ram. They also forgot to thermal paste, and there was some screws missing.
Some of Polish laptop service companies are strange ones...
I think i will be avoiding this one...

[MaLLy_R]

My repaird 8600M GS little annoing.
Im on extreamly low budget now...
wich one is faster/better?

GF 9500M GS pulled from acer maschine:
nVidia GeForce 9500m GS 512MB DDR G84-625-A2 GW FV (1510048169) - Aukcje internetowe Allegro

Radeon HD3650 from unknown laptop:
ATI RADEON HD3650 512MB MXM F.VAT najtaniej SS (1531670650) - Aukcje internetowe Allegro



PS: 9500M is cheaper...

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Price difference is negligible difference in speed is not that big either bur 9500M GS seems faster than HD3650.

[MaLLy_R]

I managed to get this:
KARTA GRAFICZNA ATI RADEON HD4650 1GB (1535074514) - Aukcje internetowe Allegro
(price ~105 euro)
Will it work in my machine?
Or i just dumped my money (lended) again?
what worries me is:
"Manufacturer Part Number: 109-B80631-00A
replace Part-No.:VG.M9606.005,VG.M9606.006"

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It should work. You'll know soon enough anyway

[MaLLy_R]

I hope it would work...
Seller just send me an email, informing that it was pulled out of Acer Laptop.
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My pour luck.
HD4650 was just delivered. I putted in my laptop, it worked!
But nothing is perfect, it had ugly artefacts, I had to return it to a seller.

[MaLLy_R]

Funny story continues...
In act of desperation bought gf9500, and...
Guess what. It didn't worked!
Am I Cussed or something?
I returned it to a seller, and paid for another hd4650.
Maybe this time it will work properly...

Wish me luck.

[triturbo]

"Tons of good luck" - sending in progress

[MaLLy_R]

"Tons of good luck" - sending in progress

Many Thanks!
I just installed freshly arrived HD4650.
And it works! Finally!

52 degrees in idle,
90 degrees in stress
I used 0,5mm copper mod (self made) and arctic MX-4 paste.

Now I'm testing the "gemstone"

[olealienator]

History was like this.
Today once again i instlalled 4650.
Same as allways. blank screen. so i tried blind flash. with number 0 in command line, no resoult
with number 1 in command line, same no resoult.
so i puted back my old gf 8600gs, aaand - blank screen, hdd works, vista boots (i can hear the welcome sound) but no screen. Nothing on internal, nothing on external.
so i ran to local laptop service to ask if they got spare gpu. they took my laptop plugged it in and said that probably one of power lines to gpu is missing...
(Sorry for my bad english)

About the same happened with my Aspire8735G. After my attempt on changing the CPU (and a small accident with the graphic card) the laptop wouldn't turn on anymore (black screen). It wasn't booting either. After several weeks spent in service I got an answer: the graphic card was completely dead. Further more, some voltages for the graphic card were missing (mobo fault).
Solution: voltage regulators on the mobo replaced and new graphic card (HD4670).

It's weird to read of another case of dead mobo (I mean the power supply for the GPU) caused by a faulty graphic card. I never thought it was possible.

i found cigarette ashes inside my laptop... and additonal 1Gb of ram. They also forgot to thermal paste, and there was some screws missing.

Same thing here, in Romania: screws missing, bad case assembly, heat sink mounted worng, etc. They say they are "Acer authorized repair shop". Really?!?! Before paying for the repair I made them put things together the right way. They did, except for the heat sink => 110 degrees Celsius on the GPU in stress. I hate leaving things in service.

Anyway... On my second attempt on changing the CPU (No, I did not give up! ) it works just as it should have worked 2 months ago. I mounted the heat sink the right way together with ZM-STG1 thermal paste. It works great. Temps around 40 degrees on both CPU and GPU at idle.

Reading your story and adding it to my recent experience with "repair specialists" looks like some of the end users have more knowledge and do things way better than "authorized personnel".

Good luck with your mod. Hope you make it work just the way you want!