I've received and installed the hd3650 I ordered from ebay this afternoon. Results:
_The laptop goes through post and the bios reports 256mb of video memory. So far so good.
_Windows boot, drivers installed. Doing basic tasks is fairly uneventful.
_GPU idling at 60.
_Gaming: No go for now. I didn't reapply any thermal paste when I swapped the card so the temps basically spike to 90 and I get artifacts and back to the desktop with "driver crashed but successfully recovered message.... I need to scrap the thermal paste of the heatsink and apply some AS5. I also need to slightly move the memory chips thermal pads as they are not fully covered.
Off-topic: I need a new 9 cell battery for the lappy. During last week it was only lasting 1hr per full charge and it coincidentally choose today to completely die on me... Does anyone know where I could buy one? Thanks
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