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basscleff   09-23-2006 at 10:01:43 PM

I have a presario r3000, after a while the video starts to get fuzzy and distorted. I believe its a heat issue, or the GPU is on its way out. I was told that the video can be replaced, either a daughtercard, or a socketed gpu, can anyone offer any assistance, or verify that the video (card/GPU) can be replaced?

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Que   09-24-2006 at 02:03:30 AM
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As far as I know, it is an onboard soldered chip. I have one with a nvidia 440 go, and it's definatly soldered to the board, as the video memory chips. Dead chip is dead board.

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basscleff   09-24-2006 at 02:05:09 AM
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thx, as I suspected.

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hansonesh   05-15-2009 at 01:04:52 AM
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The video card is under the keyboard and is in a slot that can be removed. What is compatible or not I do not know. There is also the second ram slot there as well with a removable 256 megs of ram. I also do not know if the board can take more then 1.25 gigs of ram.

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Que   05-25-2009 at 10:58:12 PM
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hansonesh wrote :

The video card is under the keyboard and is in a slot that can be removed. What is compatible or not I do not know. There is also the second ram slot there as well with a removable 256 megs of ram. I also do not know if the board can take more then 1.25 gigs of ram.


Nonsense, it's an onboard nvidia for amd or ati videochip for intel. 2 slots can hold 2 pieces of 1 gigabyte memory.


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hpnotebooks   06-08-2009 at 05:29:11 PM
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hansonesh wrote :

The video card is under the keyboard and is in a slot that can be removed. What is compatible or not I do not know. There is also the second ram slot there as well with a removable 256 megs of ram. I also do not know if the board can take more then 1.25 gigs of ram.



No that is the wireless card the graphic chip is soldered onto the motherboard

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hpnotebooks   06-08-2009 at 05:34:45 PM
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have you tried changing the lcd cable which plugs into your motherboard ? this cable can cause interference / lines anything really.

http://stores.shop.ebay.co.uk/HPNOTEBOOKS

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xndr   07-17-2009 at 04:43:29 PM
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I tried repairing one of these for a friend. The LCD becomes so populated with artifacts (flickering lines, stuck characters) that the computer is no longer usable. We did replace the LCD cable, which seemed to be in bad shape -- it's a frightening hand-made tangle of thin-guage wire wrapped in silver tape. It runs through the laptop's hinge, so after years of opening and closing the lid, some wires could well have broken. Got a very inexpensive replacement from eBay, but it didn't help at all. Since I'm seeing the same issue on the VGA monitor I attached for testing, it's GOT to be the GPU. But after taking apart the ENTIRE case (more screws than I have ever seen), I have found no way to replace the video card, and it now seems hopeless. If anybody has found a solution, let us know...

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hpnotebooks   07-17-2009 at 06:23:01 PM
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check with an external lcd display using a standard vga cable or into a plasma with pc input etc. if the lines are there on the external then its the graphic chip if no lines then its the lcd screen itself ;)

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xndr   07-17-2009 at 06:29:03 PM
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hpnotebooks wrote :

check with an external lcd display using a standard vga cable or into a plasma with pc input etc. if the lines are there on the external then its the graphic chip if no lines then its the lcd screen itself ;)



Yes, as mentioned in my first post: Since I'm seeing the same issue on the VGA monitor I attached for testing, it's GOT to be the GPU.

The question remains: is there any way to replace the broken chip? (Apparently not.)

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hpnotebooks   07-17-2009 at 06:41:36 PM
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not really unless you have a desolder station but the replacement chip it would be expensive - cheaper getting a motherboard off ebay we sell them every so often search ebay for item 360167011203 this one takes an athlon cpu

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