Green Blockhead
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the Starting Windows screen.
So after a freak accident involving compressed air, my original graphics card on my laptop, a Medion Erazer X7817, went kaput. So I ordered a new 765M from eBay and I got it yesterday after many days of waiting. I knew how to operate on my laptop, so I took off the bottom cover, took out the dead GPU, set the new one in with thermal pads + paste, and started the laptop. When I first pressed the power button, the laptop turned on for two seconds but then shut off. I pressed it again, and it booted up successfully. However, when Windows loads it's a 640x480, 4-bit mess of a screen, but it's navigable at the least.
So I downloaded the latest Nvidia drivers, had to edit some .ini files so the system check would catch the "Standard VGA Graphics Adapter" that was just installed. After that, I restarted the computer, and now it won't go past the Starting Windows screen though I do hear the startup tune and can even login, blindly.
Any suggestions?
So after a freak accident involving compressed air, my original graphics card on my laptop, a Medion Erazer X7817, went kaput. So I ordered a new 765M from eBay and I got it yesterday after many days of waiting. I knew how to operate on my laptop, so I took off the bottom cover, took out the dead GPU, set the new one in with thermal pads + paste, and started the laptop. When I first pressed the power button, the laptop turned on for two seconds but then shut off. I pressed it again, and it booted up successfully. However, when Windows loads it's a 640x480, 4-bit mess of a screen, but it's navigable at the least.
So I downloaded the latest Nvidia drivers, had to edit some .ini files so the system check would catch the "Standard VGA Graphics Adapter" that was just installed. After that, I restarted the computer, and now it won't go past the Starting Windows screen though I do hear the startup tune and can even login, blindly.
Any suggestions?
My Computer
At a glance
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-BitIntel Core i7-3610QM - 2.30Ghz16GB RAMNVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- Medion Erazer X781X
- OS
- Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit
- CPU
- Intel Core i7-3610QM - 2.30Ghz
- Memory
- 16GB RAM
- Graphics Card(s)
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1080
- Hard Drives
- Boot (C:)
Data (D:)
Recovery (E:)