Ralph Schaafsma

So as you might know my aspire 5920 died a while ago and I was still looking for the problem. Some time ago I handed it to my dad, he took it to his work where real military technicians took a look at it. Totally ignoring the note I gave with the laptop(because they’re used to complete retards) they concluded/guessed the graphics card was broken.

To test it I asked my good ol’ buddy Mike to lend me the graphics card from his 5920 and the crazy man that Mike is he allowed me to do so. After placing in the working graphics card, which is suprisingly easy, we powered it on.

Low and behold there was my laptop working again! Finally we knew what the hell was wrong with it. The next step is to find a replacement, either trying to get one from Nvidia via warranty or buying a second hand one. Too bad there isn’t a 8600M GT available in the Netherlands as far as I know only a GS version. Still if I want to go through with the mobile laptop and workhorse desktop thing I shouldn’t really care. $150 is a lot better than over $600 for a new (and slower) laptop.