GT70 0ND Nvidia GTX 675M Card Died - Help!

[Demonicus]

Hello all, I'm new here.

The GTX 675M in my GT70 puked about two weeks ago. Just like most failures, everything was working just fine, and then it just stopped working. Got a nice BSOD followed almost instantly by a reboot. It didn't take long to figure out that the card had died. The card was no longer showing up in Windows Device Manager.

I pulled the card out, cleaned off the factory-applied thermal paste, and correctly applied new paste. Reinstalled and was still no-go. It was too late - card was fried. However, after several reboots it did once again show up in Device Manager. But the machine would crash as soon as any graphics acceleration was used. Gaming on the machine is out of the question. I am building a gaming desktop PC right now, so I really don't need gaming performance out of this machine. My daughter would be very happy to inherit it for simple things like web surfing.

So here is my dilemma:

For my intents and purposes, the Intel HD graphics processor will be good enough for us. However, even after disabling the Nvidia card in Device Manager, I am plagued by the cooling fan spinning up to full speed soon after the machine boots. The laptop is going into panic mode because it isn't communicating with the Nvidia card. The graphics look fine with the Intel HD processor, but the fan spinning up to full speed is a deal breaker.

I read on a different forum that an unlocked BIOS will enable a setting that allows us to force the machine to ignore the Nvidia card, thereby allowing the cooling fan to operate normally. Does anyone here have any insight into this problem or maybe some recommendations for me? I am not going to purchase another GPU for this machine. They are just too expensive and there is no reason why it wouldn't just fry another one.

TLDR: graphics card died. fan now comes on full-blast. don't want to replace gpu. plan on using Intel HD graphics. how do I return the fan to normal operation?

Thanks in advance!