my friend played elder scrolls four on his laptop heaps and eventually after playing for a long period of time that part where the power was plugged into just melted, stupid shop where he bought it have been fixing it for about 8 months now. i think he gets it back soon though.

Not neccesary jbennet, I had to send my Acer 5512 for screen replacement as the vertical strips of lighter colour something about 1 inch appeared on my screen. Once I pressed frame above this strip it temporaly gone, but it went worster. Reason, inside frame screws getting lose.

@sergio51 >How hard was it to replace the video card?
Can be realy difficult and you do not want to do it on your own, better to send to authorised service. Reason, ATI and nVidia laptop cards came with different slot version unlike desktop when it is AGP or PCI-Express