Guest Gazz Posted October 26, 2008 Report Share Posted October 26, 2008 Hello all I bought an 8600m gt with acer vbios on from ebay, put it in my acer 5920g and get black screen, the laptop boots up as i can hear the startup sound. When i inspected th card there appears that there is a gold pin missing like in the pic below. Is this why i get black screen, is the card broke? Its the only thing i can think off as it supposed to have acer vbios n i would have thought would have worked straight away for my laptop. Anyone else had any problems like this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Zinco Posted October 26, 2008 Report Share Posted October 26, 2008 why did you replace video cards for a laptop? I have the same computer as you and even the same laptop. I have no issues whatsoever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gazz Posted October 26, 2008 Report Share Posted October 26, 2008 I upgraded because i wanted a batter card for playing games and the 8600m gt is much better than the gs version Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morris Posted October 26, 2008 Report Share Posted October 26, 2008 get it replaced, looks defective Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted October 26, 2008 Report Share Posted October 26, 2008 Hello! The card isn't broken. At least not because of the "missing pin". I have a GT too with the same "missing pin". It works fine except for high temperatures:(. Which version of system bios do you have? Maybe you just need an upgrade because if the card were defective the notebook would say some beep at start - i think. Have you tried with an external monitor? Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morris Posted October 26, 2008 Report Share Posted October 26, 2008 Gazz, who did you buy it from on ebay?, which version did you get? 256 or 512? DDR2 or DDR3? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gazz Posted October 26, 2008 Report Share Posted October 26, 2008 Good to know that someone elses card looks like mine. I have version v1.3811, i upgraded to this version to see if my card would work but didnt :) . I tried monitor and that didnt work. If the laptop still boots up as normal just i get a black screen mean card isnt broke? The seller said it was a 512mb gddr3 version with acer vbios although he wasnt totally sure on it being gddr3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted October 26, 2008 Report Share Posted October 26, 2008 As far as I know there is a 256MB DDR3, a 256MB DDR2 and a 512MB DDR2 version of 8600M GT. If you login to your notebook via Remote Desktop Protocol you can run Everest and find out what is your card's vbios. In Everest under Display then GPU menu you should see your card's name at Device Description and it's should be Acer in brackets. Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gazz Posted October 27, 2008 Report Share Posted October 27, 2008 I couldnt get remote desktop to work so i used logmein and used gpuz to see graphics card information but it just comes up as unknown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gazz Posted October 30, 2008 Report Share Posted October 30, 2008 Anyone in UK fancy giving this card a try in their laptop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trustdesa Posted November 19, 2008 Report Share Posted November 19, 2008 Which is the name of seller? I am interested to buy a GeForce 8600M GT for my Acer 5520G, i watch some seller on ebay that sell video card with Acer Bios... You are certain that the problem isn't only your card? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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