acer 5920g nvidia 8600 help

[emu]

looks like im suffering from the symptons here

https://fixitfriends.com/fixits/nvid...oms-and-advice

under the new part number for the gpu it says that its soldered to the board

has anybody fixed one of these?

[emu]

http://i59.tinypic.com/2i8dhfk.jpg

looks like its not soldered and a separate card

[evilsatan]

A lot of the time the problem is you have to use a like for like card because the heatsink for the CPU also caters for the GPU and on another card the chip might not be in the right place for the heatsink. Have you found replacement cards using that P/N?

You could always try the oven trick on your GPU as you have nothing to lose. When putting it back together consider using a copper shim with heat pads so there is efficient cooling and the shim puts more pressure on the chip to help prevent solder breaks.

[emu]

Thanks for the reply. Baked it lunchtime and reapllied thermal paste. Its working for now lol