Dell M1710 possible to repair?

I own a Dell m1710 and my 7900GTX fried and burnt and fans are dead. Whenever i power up the screen is full of dotted lines and extremely off colored pixels. How and where can I get a cheap 7900GTX to replace, as well as fans. Dell charge me 500 bucks and my reply was NO
help please?

 

That's interesting to see some threads about E1705/M1710's failing. Guess they don't last long. Not surprised that it's the nvidia cards that are crapping out. I'd suggest looking at ebay, that might be your best bet. Quite honestly I'm surprised Dell would even still have parts available to repair your M1710.

 

Dell M1710 was my first ever laptop i got for my birthday when i was younger. It really dissapointed me and i don't trust dell anymore. A waste of money yes but I would still spend under 100 dollars to fix it.

 

My E1705 was also my first laptop ever. I got it 3 years ago, but sold it a year later due to overheating issues with the GPU. I've told this story many times here, but I will again. This was about 2 months or so before the whole Nvidia fiasco came to light, and when I had called Dell to see what my options were, they refused to fix it, claimed if there were any overheating issues they'd already know about it, but said they never heard of it. It was then I sold my laptop, and I swore I'd never buy a Dell again (though admittedly I have looked at their offerings from time to time ). My E1705 had the Geforce 7900GS btw. I almost bought the M1710 at the time, but it was $1,000 more and I didn't think it was worth it just for a video card upgrade (the 7950GTX), so I just opted for the E1705.

 

The thing with Dell ist that you have to keep renewing your warranty, i had a M1710 as well so when the video card fried for the 3th time they gave me an M1730 which is working fine so far
Anyway, as said, ebay is your best bet !

 

Keep looking on ebay, eventually some one will post it. You will be able to buy it for around $100, I am guessing.

 

looks like there's plenty of them on ebay :
http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=79...3286.m270.l1313&_odkw=7950m&_osacat=0&bkBtn=1

 

guess I was wrong about the price tag, still better than Dells' price tag.

 

FYI - the Precision M90 card will work as well.

 

Bake the GPU in the oven, plain and simple.

 

i think you are referring to this procedure

I never tried it myself but i heart at least a dozen people saying it helps, for a month or so, but then you need to repeat the operation

 

I baked my go 7800 GTX in the oven for my old XPS M170. This was for over 4 months ago and my GPU still works.

 

Are you able to post a screenshot of the corruption? If it's memory then your card is probably shagged. If it's due to the solder on the GPU failing then a bake is in order.... nothing to lose!

If you do decide to bake it, make sure you change the thermal compound to a good brand on the GPU (plus you may as well do the CPU at the same time). I baked my m170 7800GTX bake to life, and it ran a good 15 degrees centigrade cooler after I changed the compound to a silver one, plus cleaned the fans and heatsinks thoroughly.

Before I had only cleaned laptop with compressed air, wish I'd opened it up before the card failed, would have saved alot of hassle!

Good luck...

 

WOW, they gave you a m1730 for FREE? What kind of warranty you got, I call Dell and it doesn't work out the way i expected it to be, and it was just horrible. My m1710 has no warranty whatsoever, and dell doesn't even claim it and recognize it anymore

My m1710 is fubar, it needs a new casing base, a power hinge cover, a new battery, new fans, new speakers, new video card, and cleaned

All those money, time and effort wasted can get me a new laptop with decent integrated GPU and faster CPU. what's the point then? I am going to sell it for parts soon!

 

I have a mobo, speakers and keyboard for sale if anyone is interested

 

I got dell's XPS warranty, which you must renew every year otherwise you get in trouble someday