Do-it-Yourself Notebook and Laptop Graphics Card Replacements or Repairings

Links to do-it-yourself graphics card replacement tutorials for your laptop or notebook. If you have written a free guide yourself (or if you know of a report not linked here), please submit a new entry.

Acer Aspire 135x	Guide to upgrade the VGA graphics card, the VGA cards in these laptops are in the form of an Add-On Daughterboard, so changing them is quite easy, literally opening up the laptop and swapping the parts over.
Apple iBook G3 Dual-USB	What to do if your computer can start up but the built-in and attached external displays are exhibiting one or more of the following symptoms: scrambled or distorted video, appearance of unexpected lines on the screen, intermittent video image, video freeze, computer starts up to blank screen? This tutorial explains how to apply a thermal pad to the GPU (Graphic Processor Unit).
Apple iBook G3 12'' 900MHz	The best ghetto Apple iBook hack ever - Logic Board Fix: if you are a G3 or G4 iBook owner, chances are you are well aware of the terminal LOGIC BOARD FAILURE which has plagued these machines since their inception. The faulty logic board problems manifest itself one day as garbling the screen image and quickly results in total failure of the machine to boot up or otherwise to work.
Apple iBook G3	Repair your iBook with fire and fix an infamous video-problem an iBook which boots, but gives no output, neither to it's own display nor to a hooked up external monitor.
Apple iBook G4	Repair with a blowtorch: the graphics chip on an old notebook had had the pins underneath it broken due to the bending of the board over time. Using a compression and heat method you are able to reconnect the pins with the use of flux [video].
Apple iBook G4 12'' 800Mhz	Here are some simple instructions of how to shim the chip to fix a logic board issue and to resurrect a dead notebook.
DELL Inspiron 8100	Install the GeForce4 440 graphics card.
DELL Inspiron 8500	Upgrading of the video card.
DELL Inspiron 9400	GeForce Go 7900GS graphics chip overclock and GSX mod (in Italian).
DELL Inspiron e1705	How to upgrade the graphics card, includes a step-by-step take apart tutorial.
DELL N.N.	A take apart and video card replacement HOWTO.
Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo M-1437/9	Graphics card replacement tutorial. Upgrade to MXM 6800/256MB.
Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo M-3438	How to replace the 6800 graphics card with a x1800 GPU.
HP/COMPAQ NC6220	How to make a dummy VGA connector to get OSX86 installed smoothly.
HP Pavilion N5190	Shared knowledge: a take apart picture gallery and disassembly guide. Cleaning the fan from dirt and remounting the CPU using thermal conductive paste. Upgrading the hard drive. Replacement of CD/DVD, LCD video driver board and BIOS battery. Fixing a broken power adapter jack.
Medion MD95257 (aka Arima W810-DCX)	MXM Video Card Upgrade Documentation: replacing the NVidia GeForce 6600 Go ( MXM type II card) with a GeForce 6800 Go card.
Santech M3820 (aka Clevo M570RU)	NVidia 8800M GTX versus 8700M GS + MXM: graphics card replacement and benchmark (in Italian).
Uniwill 259 (aka Cebop HEL 950, Rock Pegasus, Alienware 5500)	How to upgrade the Geforce 6600 Go graphics card to Geforce 7600 Go.
N.N.	How to resolder the BGA (ball grid array) RAM chips on the graphics card of an old laptop.
Dummy VGA Adapter	For laptops with nVidia GF2Go-chip and a TV output. But also for users who want to attach their PC to the TV exclusively without connecting a monitor this dummy can be a help.

Adapters and Converters

SVHS2FBAS	S-VHS to FBAS video signal converter cable. Pin-outs and schematics for the Russian method (in German).
SVIDEO2CVIDEO	S-video to composite video adapter. This simple adapter can be used to convert Y/C video (S-video) to a composite video. This adapter is useful in cases where your video output device has only S-video output but your signal source accepts only composite video input. This circuit works with both PAL and NTSC video standards.
VGA2TV	How to make a VGA to TV converter.