Sony Offering Support for Faulty Nvidia GPUs

[dawn323]

furthermore, my temp sensor is correct. how do i know? because i've seen many an M1330/M1530 throttle at the very temperature the chip was rated to throttle at. the software was spot on. not even a degree off.

 

[bloodroses75]

Any chance of Toshiba stepping up as well? Both of my 8600m on my x205-sli3 are acting up (artifacts/locking/heat) as well to where it's basically a $2500 paperweight atm.

 

[dawn323]

call toshiba, that's the easiest way to see what can be done.

 

[nachowarrior]

[citation][nom]dawn323[/nom]answer me this: why did my 8400M GS fail 3 times even after dell's official firmware update addressing this problem? it is widely known that the firmware update solves nothing. it merely retards the problem, and allows your gpu to last a little longer, but does not fix it.[/citation]
did you read my pre\/ious posts? oh wait, no you didn't. that's why you opened your mouth ignorantly.
if you must know, it's how and when the gpu cools that affects the failure. the same gpu's go into desktop machines and i happen to ha\/e two test machines at my disposal that ha\/e the affected gpu's and work fine due to good cooling, both ha\/e been pushed for hours on end.

 

[zelza]

I have a Sony VGNAR-520E it has a Nvidia 8400MGT. The card is defective, got the destorted screen, artifacts. the black screen. Called Sony, long story short, i was told I had the defective chipset by 4 diffirent Sony retard customer service people including two tier 2 service managers. All 4 people said it was a defective chipset, but because my model of lap is not on there list of free fix's I get ZERO! Exact words of the last tier2 manager "You have a recalled computer, but its not recalled"
Thats what they told me. Sony Sucks! Oh ya Laptop is only 1 1/2 old and cost $1200 new. Google sony complaints and read about the great Sony customer Service from this thug, rogue company!

 

[Guest]

I have a Sony Vaio VGN-AR61M with Nvidia GeForce 8400M GT GPU chip which failed just recently. It was working perfectly well with Windows 7 until I used my recovery disc to reinstall my original OEM Vista Home Premium OS to gain functionality on the front keys (multimedia buttons, S1, S2, DVD drive eject). Just after recovery completed my screen suddenly went to 8-bit colors and 640x480 resolution which won't change even I install the latest driver from Sony and Nvidia. I used nvflash and NiBiTor to check the graphics card properties, it cannot detect the built-in Nvidia Geforce 8400M GT GPU display card, only blank with 0x46 unknown ID.

Anyone out here who can share a backup copy of bios file for Nvidia Geforce 8400M GT GPU so I can try to re-flash my corrupted, probably faulty graphics card?

 

[Guest]

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