S540: Video card got warm, case bent

I was working on a WebGL application, then my laptop (I assume it's the video card) got pretty warm. Temperature monitor said it got about 75 degrees Celsius, which should be fine.
NOT!
My laptop bent... the right front corner (with the little ThinkPad logo and the red light) comes up 3-4 mm now.
This isn't the first issue with my ThinkPad, the score after less than half a year:
motherboard broke down, got replaced
touchpad broke down, got replaced
battery (connection) broke, laptop got replaced
casing bent... now what?
After half a year I've been able two use my ThinkPad for just a few months, for the rest it's been in the repair center or at DHL/UPS.

well, i'm cannot give you a direct answer since you're description of your scenario is unclear.
1) you have both video cards installed? and you flashed bios to which card? if you AGP card is dead, and are using the PCI, are you sure you flashed the AGP and not the PCI?
2) how old is your AGP card? if it is under 1 year it is stil under warrenty, RMA to MSI. search the MSI site for RMA instruction or your card should have instructions on RMA'ing the card. emailing them will do nothing.

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What is your BIOS revision? If it's 7, ok. If it's 8, your into UEFI. It's possible to get GPU's that do not have UEFI requirements. Some readings to understand why WIN8 and UEFI are the newer system.
If you can get over the PSU hurdle, look at this UK seller for example. Corsair 600W
If you go to this site, you can run various configurations. I took the liberty of linking "Assassins Creed IV". You enter various specs, and it gives you "values" based on these specs. If you want to enter a different game, either google into the site with that game name, or use the "Can I Run It" tab. Then you need an account, but it's free.
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I am currently running Photoshop CS5 and my video card is an ATI Radeon HD5400, when I open Photoshop and check the prefrences I see the graphics card listed and Enable OpenGL Drawing is ticked. However as soon as I open an image or new document, and check the prefrences (performance) the GPU settings are greyed out, I have downloaded the latest drivers for the card (as at 13 December 2011). Prior to opening the initial image I have gone to the advanced settings in the GPU settings and changed to basic, this had no effect!, everything works fine in PS except the GPU functions, any help wopuld be much appreciated.

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Thing is, in EVERY case where I could reproduce this behavior, I opened an image through Camera Raw.
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Hi all,
I have recently purchased a ThinkStation P700 to replace my ageing setup and hopefully serve me for many years to come - It has not yet arrived (that's a different story altogether...).
I have a bit of a dillema regarding the video card I purchased for it. For my work I need CPU, much less so GPU, and especially not a Quadro. So for pure pleasure I added a GeForce GTX Titan Black (yes, I know that Lenovo will will not provide support for stability issues caused by this, etc, etc). I have the card already - here's my problem:
The card uses external power - it has one 8-pin and one 6-pin PCIe power connector on top of the board. With adapters I can get this to three 6-pin or multiple Molex, etc. The motherboard and the PSU in the P700 however, are so well designed and modular, that they almost seem too modular... I looked up the motherboard layout in the manual, and there are only 4-pin (?) connectors on the board, which are supposedly meant to be used with video cards. After a very long session with google it seems that hardly anyone has even heard of 4-pin power connectors for PCIe. Looking at pictures of the chassis available online, everything seems completely self-contained - the PSU slots into the board, and there are no free-hanging cables available whatsoever - am I right? Also pictures showing two full-size video cards installed, do not show power cables at all - maybe they're just cute marketing pics - the Quadros have power ports at the back - I simply can't see power cables in those pics, and the motherboard sockets are free. Obviously I know that the 4-pin, 6-pin and 8-pin are only combinations of 12V rails and ground.
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- is there a spare part in the form of a 4-pin to 6-pin adapter? Is it perhaps bundled with the P700?
- how are the Lenovo-integrated video cards powered - surely with how thin the PCIE tracks are, they can't be powered only from the board - or can they?
- is this perhaps a joke on me / catch to make sure I only buy the pre-approved cards?
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Hi,
Now THAT was lots of info, and more. Much appreciated.
1. Power connectors - Indeed, Titan (Black) is 8 + 6 - so I'm happy with the info I got from you guys so far.
2. Specs listing dual K6000 - this site (looks like a Lenovo site?): http://thinkstation-specs.com/thinkstation-p700/ - there's a PDF with the same info there. This even says 3 x K6000 in SLI. I mean the board physically has three long slots, and three of those 4-pin ports that according to the manual have something to do with power - but I can't see this working. The psref site says K6000 (one) but the online shop will not let you configure the P700 with one - unless some other options preclude it and that's why I didn't see it.
3. CPU - I have no need for dual CPUs right now so I went for a single E5-1650v3 - I bought the P700 not P500 just so that I have an upgrade option, I may not use the second socket in the end but who knows.
4. Yes, I got the 9364-8i card (plus supercap module) - is this a Lenovo-specific model? Hard to find anything about it online - or is it just new? The blind mate assemblies are good news. So not much different to server-type drive caddies in the end - minus hot swap maybe.
5. Regarding the drives - are the internal (not front - the bottom ones) drive bays also referred to as FLEX bays? Theye are four of them and I intend to use four drives only ( 2x 240G SSD RAID 1 pre-installed + 2 x 4TB RAID 1 mine) - so why do I need to stick two drives into one tray - or is this just if I wanted to maximise the number of drives usable? The 4TB drives are HGST UltraStar 7k4000 - standard, full-thickness 3.5". The SSDs are Lenovo's whatever - the "240G SSD" option - Intel I think, looking at psref.
6. Shipping delays - see, this is the sort of concrete info I was looking for and I'm immensely thankful for this.
The rest is a rant/vent someone from Lenovo should read.
So - in the meantime I started giving Lenovo UK & Ireland some abuse over Twitter (sorry, but well deserved IMO) - name and shame does wonders in the age of social media.
Had I been told something along the lines of "sorry, new product, build issues, we're working on it", I would have (reluctantly) shut up and waited for my turn. I'm an engineer myself, supporting systems where minutes of downtime cost hundreds of thousands, and working with vendors a lot. Delays and issues happen, when an engineer tells me there's an issue and I don't sense B/S, I accept it.
If the product is still wet, don't open it for orders or say it's pre-order. I can see that in the US the P700 is still "coming soon", in the UK it suddenly became available so I ordered it.
However, the process here is broken: Lenovo UKI (is it the same in the US?) uses DigitalRiver as the shop/shipping/support front end. That's all well and good, outsourcing does work in some cases. BUT there's no way to view the estimated shipping dates - only customer support can retrieve them from Lenovo (why can't they just make this info available online - to avoid people over-relying on it?)
The Customer Support cannot tell me anything. The only thing they can do is pull an estimated shipping date out of some magic 8-ball. Two weeks pass since order, I ask CS, they give me Dec 18th shipping date. I call them on the 22nd, on the call with me they tell me it's now magically the 22nd. Come on...
Throughout all this time I got zero notifications about anything happening with the order, as far as the Lenovo site is concerned, it's "in process" since Nov 29. Do you know that when I order a Domino's pizza from round the corner, I get a live animated progress screen from order through assembly, baking, QA and delivery?
Yes, it costs money and yes, businesses pushing more consumer grade disposable **bleep** than anything else, don't care about customer loyalty anymore, but why don't you at least show the high-end customers some respect - why can't you implement a tracking process for custom builds, or at least keep people updated?
I specifically chose the Lenovo P-series because I have no doubt that they are the best on the market. Dell don't offer the same storage options and customisation options. HP are not up there either. Fujitsu Siemens make great machines with straightforward hinged doors and drive bays behind them, but they have a **bleep** distribution model i.e. via specialised resellers only, making it near-impossible for a regular mortal to buy - at least in the UK. So the sad thing here is that I will most likely just wait and you'll still get my money - but if the official channels keep treating me like an idiot, I am very tempted to take my $4k somewhere else.

Video card starting to misbehave in Quicksilver 2002

A few days ago I noticed while in iTunes there was a 5 second period when a few inches of my display wasn't refreshing properly. I started shutting down applications but the thing disappeared. I just continued working and all was fine for several days.
Last night I left my computer on with sleep mode set and the screen saver on. This morning I came in and the screensaver was frozen there with a kernel panic message superimposed on it. In particular I noticed in the last backtrace "NVIDIA".
The computer is left on 24/7 and I am actually semi-engaged in using it almost 12 hours/day. These (so far) are relatively rare events.
Some history. I just started using this machine about 5 days ago. I transplanted my two hard drives out of my Quicksilver dual 800 and just booted it up. It has an added 5 port USB card. It was tucked in the slot next to the video card and I moved it to the center slot to allow for better air circulation. I didn't even touch the video card when doing this. Oh, I asked the original owner if there were issues but he said none but he hadn't used it in a while.
First, I cannot seem to find a panic log about this event, nor the one a few days ago. My /Library/Logs/panic.log only has two brief entries from two weeks ago, both of which probably took place in my old computer.
System Profiler:
Chipset Model: GeForce FX 5200
Type: Display
Bus: AGP
Slot: SLOT-1
VRAM (Total): 128 MB
Vendor: nVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0321
Revision ID: 0x00a2
ROM Revision: 2060
Displays:
ADI 5P:
Resolution: 1024 x 768 @ 75 Hz
Depth: 32-bit Color
Core Image: Supported
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Quartz Extreme: Supported
Display:
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If this gets worse, any recommendations as to a replacement card? I don't have need for anything high-powered and I spent $100 for the computer so I would prefer not to spend $200 on a video card. Could I take the card out of my other Quicksilver?

Well, it happened again (about 3 days between occurrences), and this time it left a log.
Both occurrences happened when I was away. The first time my girlfriend says she pressed a keyboard button to wake the screen and there was a kernel panic superimposed on the screensaver background. This most recent time I came into the room and the screen had the screensaver with a restart your mac message on it. In both cases I left the Mac on with sleep set to happen in about an hour. In the second case at least it looks like it never got that far. In the first case the screen was dark but the message was superimposed on the screensaver background. Could this just be the screensaver causing this (along with a poor card)?
Unresolved kernel trap(cpu 0): 0x300 - Data access DAR=0x000000004915C34E PC=0x000000003FEC4E14
Latest crash info for cpu 0:
Exception state (sv=0x39142A00)
PC=0x3FEC4E14; MSR=0x00009030; DAR=0x4915C34E; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x3FEC0618; R1=0x228BBB40; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access)
Backtrace:
0x00032E98 0x3FEC0618 0x3FEADC74 0x002E9A80 0x002EB94C 0x0008C248
0x00029234 0x000233F8 0x000ABEAC 0x00000000
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.GeForce(4.1.8)@0x3fea2000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(1.7)@0x3291f000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.4.2)@0x3fb33000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.4.2)@0x3fbba000
dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(4.1.8)@0x3fbd0000
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x39142A00)
previously dumped as "Latest" state. skipping...
Exception state (sv=0x4972AA00)
PC=0x9000AF48; MSR=0x0000F030; DAR=0x02D4A000; DSISR=0x42000000; LR=0x9000AE9C; R1=0xF0283F20; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - System call)
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.11.0: Wed Oct 10 18:26:00 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.24.17~1/RELEASE_PPC
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xFFFF0003): 0x300 - Data access
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
Backtrace:
0x000954F8 0x00095A10 0x00026898 0x000A8204 0x000ABB80
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x39142A00)
PC=0x3FEC4E14; MSR=0x00009030; DAR=0x4915C34E; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x3FEC0618; R1=0x228BBB40; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access)
Backtrace:
0x00032E98 0x3FEC0618 0x3FEADC74 0x002E9A80 0x002EB94C 0x0008C248
0x00029234 0x000233F8 0x000ABEAC 0x00000000
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.GeForce(4.1.8)@0x3fea2000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(1.7)@0x3291f000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.4.2)@0x3fb33000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.4.2)@0x3fbba000
dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(4.1.8)@0x3fbd0000
Exception state (sv=0x4972AA00)
PC=0x9000AF48; MSR=0x0000F030; DAR=0x02D4A000; DSISR=0x42000000; LR=0x9000AE9C; R1=0xF0283F20; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - System call)
Kernel version:
Darp

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http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g5/faq/powermac-g5-adc-ports-dvi- ports-resolutions-supported.html
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http://www.jcsenterprises.com/Japamacs_Page/Blog/4B4B7BA2-7ABB-47F1-87AC-B03D379 42BEE.html
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