Posts by buckiller

looks like the HP fx1600 is a different form factor than the Dell card.

So I currently have disassembled my e1705 in an attempt to install an hp fx1600 I bought on eBay. I have a bunch of great resources to help: http://eduncan911.com/blog/why-the-i...is-a-king.aspx Blind Flashing and You 7900GS + GTXBios =...

Quote: Originally Posted by dave-p The FX1600 has to be from a Dell, A HP version will not work in a Dell @($* Anyway to blind flash the HP one? Whats different about the freakin things? They are both fx1600...

Im thinking about jumping on a fx1600.. apparently its a common card in HPs. I just finished a VHDL class. Basically programmed everything with behavioral. But the BIOS chips arent FPGAs, they're just memory, right? So BIOS updates are...

Quote: Originally Posted by atwood7fan e1705 will only take (I believe): x1400 6800go/ultra (some features may not work) 7800go 7800gtx (some features may not work) 7900gs 7900gtx 7950gtx fx1500 fx2500 fx3500 possible...

what is the *** for? Also might help if you put a list of all the mobile cards you considered for each system?

Interesting... Im not TOO familiar with BIOS but I do know a decent amount about low level C programming (embedded stuff, ISRs, OS etc) I always thought of BIOS as just doing the bootstrapping and hardware signals. I always thought these...

Quote: Originally Posted by atwood7fan e1705 will only take (I believe): x1400 6800go/ultra (some features may not work) 7800go 7800gtx (some features may not work) 7900gs 7900gtx 7950gtx fx1500 fx2500 fx3500 possible...

sooo. Is there no limitation on plugging newer card into the e1705? As long as im willing to do some physical modding to make it fit? Just need to know if the chip/sockets match fir the newer mobile cards coming out.

Quote: Originally Posted by qhn Like "Generic PnP Display" on such and such Graphic card? cheers ... Yeah, when you uniinstall the nVidia drivers it goes back to the default windows driver, shows up...