My 4/5yr old 9400 with a GS7900Go finally had the GFX problem, lots of coloured squares on boot/bios. Windows 7 got corrupted so I was able to re-install Win8 on it. But I get a square pattern to everything, except plain white. This a Core 2 Duo T7400 (2GHz) with 3.5 GB RAM, 17" 1920x1200 screen. I just wondering is this still worth fixing. Was starting to feel slow, and I was considering getting a SSD for it. Could play back FullHD so was handy for that.
But not sure if its worth trying to bake the gfx and get it working again. Or should let it go. Unfortunately I don't really have funds for another decent laptop atm, it will have to be something cheap. But I'm wondering would even a cheap current generation pentium/i3 with USB 3 would just be a lot quicker. Probably wouldn't have as good a screen though. Would HD3/4000 be better than the GS7900Go?
But not sure if its worth trying to bake the gfx and get it working again. Or should let it go. Unfortunately I don't really have funds for another decent laptop atm, it will have to be something cheap. But I'm wondering would even a cheap current generation pentium/i3 with USB 3 would just be a lot quicker. Probably wouldn't have as good a screen though. Would HD3/4000 be better than the GS7900Go?
