Alienware M7700

[Tomchew]

I have this old notebook sitting around and i think the gpu on it is toast, I cant seem to find a replacement for it. I think it was a Alienware M7700 D9T nVidia 256mb Video Card 33-D90T3-05X but are there any others that i could get instead or does it have to be this exact one.

 

[Colin_Laws]

It would have to be the exact replacement chip. It isn't worth the trouble try to replace such a complex electrical component, you could easily rip off a contact and completely destroy the computer. I would recommend trying to contact Alienware and see if they will replace it, if they want to charge, it will probably be worth it in my opinion.

 

[Tomchew]

If I where to send it over to them it would probably cost me more than the computers worth! See as I found a similar card and they are still over 200$! Which is crazy. Looks like I might just have to salvage it oh well.

 

[SKIPPY PB]

Can you pull apart your video card and replace the circuit board part? There seems to be the same models around for other computers and the board looks the same. I wonder if you can carefully dismantle it and rebuild it with a new core, seeing that the factory parts seem to be out of stock for some time now.



Like replacing it with one of these. Granted you had the same type of board in your computer already with the same specs. Or could there possibly be hidden changes when different companies buy the same thing.

http/www.ebay.com/itm/Nvidia-GeForce-7950-GTX-512MB-Video-Card-Alienware-M9700-M9750-40GAB042Z-G28P/301324383490?_trksid=p2050601.c100261.m3456&_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140813125820%26meid%3Db0466979d6ee4b7ab273f12ad1e42e71%26pid%3D100261%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D301324383490%26clkid%3D3718808192713531744&_qi=RTM1963929