Sorry for writing on this forum in English, but this is by far the most informed forum on Amilo Xi1526 and the best place to seek help. You can respond in any language you prefer. I can understand English and dutch and will use Google Translate for German.
My daughter had a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xi 1526 laptop with T5500 1.66GHz CPU, 2x80GB HDD (in Raid-0), 1GB RAM and Nvidia Go 7600 MXM II videocard. Bios FSC 1.27 (latest)
Had used it for very simple games (not 3D) and for watching YouTube. Recently Santa bought her a Minecraft for PC license. She played that game on 25th December. On 26th December when she tried to power-on the Amilo it keeps rebooting every few seconds (when pressing the power button the leds light up the HDDs start spinning, the screen stays black, the computer does not complete POST, then after 2-3 seconds it powers down and up again in a loop) the only way to take it out of the loop is to remove the power and battery. I tried to clear the CMOS but the problem is still there. I think either the videocard or the mainboard are defective now.
My daughter is devastated. I'm looking to buy a MXM videocard to replace the Go7600, preferable one which is not that expensive and also a slower one which does not get very hot. What would you recommend me which will work on Amilo Xi 1526 (maybe after updating vbios)? Is there a chance a HP MXM II card to work, they seem cheaper than other cards available. How I can find out in advance if a specific model can be made to work on FSC Amilo Xi 1526 ?
I see a lot of info, although hard to pick the relevant information in my case:
For example someone said a Geforce 9300 will work cool and correctly on this laptop with some bios adjustments, but could not find which are those adjustements ?
Someone else said the FX770 will also work with drawbacks (such as the 30seconds delay at boot), but there are 2 versions of the card to chose from and only one work. How do I find which one will work ?
Added complication, my daughter was using the laptop under linux mint, but I'm willing to switch to Win 7 if neither Nuveau or the Nvidia closed source drivers will not work.
I several cases I saw cards which will not show anything on laptop screen until OS is completely booted. Unless this is solved, I would pick any other card, the priority is for the card to run as cool as possible, even if it has very low 3D performance.