Toshiba satellite l870-147

Hi is it possible to replace a non working video card on this laptop ?

Toshiba L870-147 Specifications
This is the peer support forum for Toshiba USA. While you are still welcome here, yours is actually a Toshiba Europe model.
Your unit is essentially the same as a Satellite L875-S7245. Given that you have an Intel processor and chipset, and an AMD Radeon HD 7670M graphics card with 2GB of dedicated VRAM, your video card is technically replaceable.
However, having been through this myself, I would warn you that you have to find a Toshiba AMD Radeon HD 7670M graphics card. You will NOT be able to use a retail AMD Radeon HD 7670M card, nor one from an HP or any other laptop manufacturer. Toshiba uses proprietary connectors to their motherboards, and tweaks the chips to work in their systems.
Finding the same laptop model you can use for parts, or a Toshiba that uses the same video card maybe eaiser, and perhaps cheaper, than finding the card itself.
Good luck.
Mike

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    Message was edited by: .Pinocchio.

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    Solved!
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    There appear to be two recovery partitions. Maybe one for 32- and one for 64-bit Windows. Or maybe one is for English and the other for French.
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    About all I have to offer is this: Be wary of drives with advanced-format technology. See my message about that.
    -Jerry

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    It sounds sort of like it could be related to overheating, but on the other hand, you specifically said that it doesn't always feel warm. If you're okay with backing up your files, you might want to perform a full recovery back to factory default conditions. At that point, you'd at least know whether it was due to hardware or software.
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    It sounds sort of like it could be related to overheating, but on the other hand, you specifically said that it doesn't always feel warm. If you're okay with backing up your files, you might want to perform a full recovery back to factory default conditions. At that point, you'd at least know whether it was due to hardware or software.
    - Peter

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