doggieshaman
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Just so you know, if your laptop has an Nvidia 8xxx series GPU, you can safely expect your laptop to meltdown and fail within, say 15 months of your getting it - mine just did, i sent it in for repair under warranty, they replaced the entire mainboard, and in just TWO days after I got it back the same problem came up again.
I did some reading and apparently this had happened with many other laptops with the nvidia GPUs -Dell, HP, Apple (yes, MACBOOK PROs are affected too), Toshiba, Lenovo, whatever) basically anything that holds the nvidia chip is kind of fried! Dell apparently acknowledges this problem early on and has issued stop gap measures that are designed to make your laptop kill itself more slowly beyond the warranty period (so they don't have to pay for the repair of course) by jacking up fan speed and stuff, HP has done pretty much the same thing but zilch from everyone else.
And Nvidia is clamming up and blaming everybody else from the suppliers to consumers who use it (oh really? It's my fault I purchased the laptop with this chip, and it breaks down because I made it do what it was designed, and claimed to be working, to do?) and Fujitsu is kind of slow, probably because not that many of their models are affected (I wouldn't know)
What happens is, the design and construction of the chip itself is faulty, so something goes wrong with the GPU's heat cycle system (or something like that) - basically it means your laptop's GPU gets HOT, then REALLY HOT, but does not cool down fast enough when you shut it down and boot up again. A.k.a your graphic card is melting, and is taking your entire mainboard along with it.
Here's the great speculation: Nvidia realised that it has screwed up big time, the 8400/8600 series are like, their flagship model so far, so there are like MILLIONS of these units sold. And to design, remodel, remake and replace every single defective part will cost like, US$150 per unit.... so, just simple calculations that there are millions of laptops with their chips sold in the past few years, that amounts to billions. Yes BILLIONS. Means nvidia will go bankrupt, even.
Kind of sad because now in order to avoid a system meltdown I am restricting what I do with my laptop (no graphically intensive games, or even MILDLY intensive graphic processing activities) as it is a SUNDAY and Fujitsu are not open.
Just so you know, if your laptop starts showing these symptomps:
-double pictures
-psychedelic colors
-hangs
-blue screen of death
-boots up with random blue lines on the boot up page with random hologlyphs turning up all over the screen
Yeah. You got it.
Generally speaking, from what I read, if your laptop has the nvidia 8400/8600 chip you are so so screwed (so am I). I'm going to contact Fujitsu about this and see what they do.
I am just hoping Fujitsu would quietly slip in a replacement from a rival manufacturer (read: ATI) who apparently are much much better at making chips that last. My desktop runs on ATI and punches above its own weight (its an old desktop) and my mini-PC also uses ATI and not much of a problem there.
And I thought nvidia was better at first, well now I know I'm wrong :/
I did some reading and apparently this had happened with many other laptops with the nvidia GPUs -Dell, HP, Apple (yes, MACBOOK PROs are affected too), Toshiba, Lenovo, whatever) basically anything that holds the nvidia chip is kind of fried! Dell apparently acknowledges this problem early on and has issued stop gap measures that are designed to make your laptop kill itself more slowly beyond the warranty period (so they don't have to pay for the repair of course) by jacking up fan speed and stuff, HP has done pretty much the same thing but zilch from everyone else.
And Nvidia is clamming up and blaming everybody else from the suppliers to consumers who use it (oh really? It's my fault I purchased the laptop with this chip, and it breaks down because I made it do what it was designed, and claimed to be working, to do?) and Fujitsu is kind of slow, probably because not that many of their models are affected (I wouldn't know)
What happens is, the design and construction of the chip itself is faulty, so something goes wrong with the GPU's heat cycle system (or something like that) - basically it means your laptop's GPU gets HOT, then REALLY HOT, but does not cool down fast enough when you shut it down and boot up again. A.k.a your graphic card is melting, and is taking your entire mainboard along with it.
Here's the great speculation: Nvidia realised that it has screwed up big time, the 8400/8600 series are like, their flagship model so far, so there are like MILLIONS of these units sold. And to design, remodel, remake and replace every single defective part will cost like, US$150 per unit.... so, just simple calculations that there are millions of laptops with their chips sold in the past few years, that amounts to billions. Yes BILLIONS. Means nvidia will go bankrupt, even.
Kind of sad because now in order to avoid a system meltdown I am restricting what I do with my laptop (no graphically intensive games, or even MILDLY intensive graphic processing activities) as it is a SUNDAY and Fujitsu are not open.
Just so you know, if your laptop starts showing these symptomps:
-double pictures
-psychedelic colors
-hangs
-blue screen of death
-boots up with random blue lines on the boot up page with random hologlyphs turning up all over the screen
Yeah. You got it.
Generally speaking, from what I read, if your laptop has the nvidia 8400/8600 chip you are so so screwed (so am I). I'm going to contact Fujitsu about this and see what they do.
I am just hoping Fujitsu would quietly slip in a replacement from a rival manufacturer (read: ATI) who apparently are much much better at making chips that last. My desktop runs on ATI and punches above its own weight (its an old desktop) and my mini-PC also uses ATI and not much of a problem there.
And I thought nvidia was better at first, well now I know I'm wrong :/
