The Nvidia Defect Forum

Hello Wilfredo and welcome to our forum.

Sorry to hear that your laptop has failed.

I am also sorry to hear that you have no legal recourse, I hate it when this kind of situation occurs but there is a glimmer of hope.

If you are handy with a screw driver then there is a quick and easy way to get the laptop working again.

Luckily the GPU in your laptop is located on a removable card rather than being bonded to the mainboard so this makes it nice and easy to work on.

Ordinarily one would use a proper rework tool on the GPU but it is unlikely that you will have one of these and so using only a screw driver and a hair dryer you will be able to get your laptop working again.

In order to do this please do the following:-

1) Firstly, remove the battery and AC Power.
2) Next, turn the laptop upside down and remove the screws from the large removable panel. Then remove the panel.
3) When you have done that you will see the heat sink assembly. Remove all the screws holding this in place and remove it.
4) You will then see the Nvidia PCI Express card. Remove the 2 screws holding this in place and remove the card.
5) Using a hair dryer on its hottest setting heat ONLY the Nvidia GPU for between sixty and ninety seconds.
6) Leave the card to fully cool.
7) If there is any thermal paste on the GPU then remove this and apply some fresh paste. Also remove the old paste from the CPU and reapply this.
8) Re-assemble your laptop and presto - it will work again.

How long it will work is indeterminable but if it fails again then simply repeat the above process.

I hope the above helps.

Any questions please let me know.

Best wishes

Paul
The Admin Team