GX700: Upgrading the vga to ATI 4650.

I own a GX700 and I am thinking of changing the vga because I am having problems with the Geforce 8600M GT. I tried buying another 8600M GT but it did not last even a week before it went bad and I got a full refund on it.
Now I am thinking of switching to ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650 MXM II but I am not sure if I will need to change the vga bios.
Could you give me a link or send me a bios for the HD 4650 that should work with my GX700 or do you think it should work with the bios that will be in the vga?

Quote from: Stu on 03-October-10, 21:50:55
What problems?
Black screen flashes, black flickering of the screen, vga driver crashes and restarts (on vista/win7, on XP just crashes), blue screen with memory dump, restart. That is pretty much it
I have tried using XP, Vista, Windows 7, older or newer drivers. Nothing makes any difference.
Video Memory Stress Test shows errors in the memory.
Quote from: Stu on 03-October-10, 21:50:55
How did it "go bad"?
At first it worked fine on every game/test that I tried. After a few days it started giving me the good old black screens, flickering, etc. They were a little bit different but with the same origin.
Video Memory Stress Test showed a little bit different errors in the memory, compared to the old video card.
They tried testing pretty much everything before they gave me the refund. It turned out that the problem was with the video card again.
I read this: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1028703/all-nvidia-g84-g86s-bad
and some article about Apple giving 4 year warranty on those video cards even if the macbook's warranty is over.
After that, I decided that I want to try a different vga.
I can underclock the card if it overheats but the question is - can it work with my laptop at all? Do I need a msi vga bios?

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