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| posted on February 24th, 2009 at 07:25 AM |
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Tech help - Toshiba TECRA laptop
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
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| posted on February 24th, 2009 at 07:41 AM |
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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
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| posted on February 24th, 2009 at 09:31 AM |
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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).
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| posted on February 24th, 2009 at 12:20 PM |
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I have a spare tecra 8100, let me know if it's of any use to you.
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| posted on February 24th, 2009 at 01:34 PM |
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It is a TECRA M3 PTM30A-029002
Will go looking on ebay
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| posted on February 24th, 2009 at 02:32 PM |
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Laptops have the graphics card built in, so you are looking at having to replace the main board.
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| posted on February 24th, 2009 at 03:30 PM |
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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.
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| posted on February 24th, 2009 at 03:58 PM |
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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 
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| posted on February 24th, 2009 at 04:09 PM |
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Already got a new one
It is weather or not i spend $50 and try and get it going for a school special
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| posted on February 25th, 2009 at 09:45 AM |
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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.
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| posted on February 25th, 2009 at 04:35 PM |
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Nah - i run 2 monitors at work
Both were gone
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