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Tech help - Toshiba TECRA laptop
Bizarre - February 24th, 2009 at 07:25 AM

my 'puta died at work so a new one has turned up

The old one was a 4ish year old Toshiba TECRA lap top

The graphics card died apparently.
I can get it back off IT
Anyone know if i can "easily" replace the graphics card or is it part of the main mother board??

It wont charge a battery either.
Put 2 new batteries in and still no go - so that is obviously the charge section

Dont want to spend money on it but if it is a cheap fix it can do as a school puta for one of the tribe

Thanks

barry

555bug - February 24th, 2009 at 07:41 AM

off topic i'm sorry but I got a MSI U100 super small 10 inch for my Birthday that I'm not into as I already have a laptop, new in the box if anyone is chasing one 550.

Stephen

rob53 - February 24th, 2009 at 09:31 AM

Most laptops have inbuilt graphic cards on the motherboard which cannot be replaced. But some higher end models have separate card. What is the model number of the laptop?
If you do a search on eBay for parts for that laptop, you might be lucky to find a graphics card for it (providing it has a separate one).

sinecure - February 24th, 2009 at 12:20 PM

I have a spare tecra 8100, let me know if it's of any use to you.

Bizarre - February 24th, 2009 at 01:34 PM

It is a TECRA M3 PTM30A-029002

Will go looking on ebay

Gibbo - February 24th, 2009 at 02:32 PM

Laptops have the graphics card built in, so you are looking at having to replace the main board.

rob53 - February 24th, 2009 at 03:30 PM

It looks like it's a separate graphics cards for that model. The specs say nVidia Geforce Go 6200.
You could try ebay for that also, and get a replacement.

eraser - February 24th, 2009 at 03:58 PM

I would say get a new laptop, you could buy a graphics card only to find out it was the motherboards connection to the graphic card that has gone, or it works for another week and something else dies.

And this advice coming after working in the IT industry for the past 9 years ;)

-M

Bizarre - February 24th, 2009 at 04:09 PM

Already got a new one

It is weather or not i spend $50 and try and get it going for a school special

rob53 - February 25th, 2009 at 09:45 AM

My old laptop has the lcd go. I was about the throw it away but I checked ebay by chance and bought a part for $20. Installed it and it worked. I later sold the laptop for $250!

Often people throw out broken laptops, so you could possibly find a compatible graphics card in that too.

Out of curiosity, are you able to plug another monitor into the laptop and see if it works? I ask because I was told the same thing, but it was not the graphics card, it was the LCD inverter. It is a very common problem.

Bizarre - February 25th, 2009 at 04:35 PM

Nah - i run 2 monitors at work
Both were gone