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    Nvidia 9600m GT 1GB vbios issue?!

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by polzdgl, Jan 21, 2012.

  1. polzdgl

    polzdgl Newbie

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    Hi all,
    I have acer aspire 7720g laptop. Originally came with nvidia 9300m g 256mb video card. This card is very weak. Then I bought a nvidia 9650m GT 1GB from ebay and it worked. I had to disable power mizer to fix driver issue though.

    Now I bought another card from ebay(coz it was a very good deal)
    Nvidia 9600m GT 1GB. This card was taken out from a ASUS laptop. The card even has ASUS printed on it.

    After I put that on my laptop, for some reason, nothing comes on screen. I hear the windows 7 startup sound. I can tell the windows boot and everything, but no display on screen. Then I replaced it with my previous working card and everything back to normal.

    Any idea why is this happening? Do I need to flash the vbios from ASUS to Acer?
    If so how, i mean i dont get any display. Or is it that the card is bad.

    Any ideas would be great. Thank you.
     
    polzdgl, Jan 21, 2012
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  2. pengy_666

    pengy_666 Notebook Evangelist

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    Have you plugged it into an external monitor see if you get output?

    This thread may be of some use to you
     
    pengy_666, Jan 22, 2012
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