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Can an extra video card be hooked up to an Inspiron 7500?

post #1 of 6
8/2/06 at 4:36pm
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Does anyone here know of any way for me to hook up an extra video card to my Inspiron 7500? My 8MB card is limiting, to say the least!
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post #2 of 6
8/2/06 at 5:13pm
Nope. and the 2x AGP support on that old 440BX mobo isn't helping your cause either. Notebooks are formfactor designs; there is no upgrade, and no way to hook up a vid card externally to such a limiting form factor.
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post #3 of 6
8/2/06 at 7:28pm
nope no way the only "video upgrade" is a matrox 2go but that splits up ure screen over other screen as a extended desktop
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post #4 of 6
8/2/06 at 11:36pm
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Thanks, DanFortH and aircool.

I know that the Inspiron 5000e offered a 16MB video card. I also know that one of the (former?) members of this forum said that he used to own an Inspiron 7500 that had an UXGA screen, like the 5000e offered. I wonder if the Inspiron 7500s that had UXGA also had 16MB vid cards, and if so, whether I could successfully replace my vid card with one, if I were to find one.
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post #5 of 6
8/3/06 at 12:27am
YES!!!!!!!! In fact they make a couple of PCMCIA video cards that run about 32MB up to 128MB to drive external monitors only... no internal solutions as I think that chip is soldered on the board... It would be cool if someone came out with a pcmcia upgrade gpu that can override the internal one... I think it could be done and it would be profitable (except to the new computer market)...

here is an exampe I whipped up real quick of the mac version...

http://sewelldirect.com/vtbookpcmciacard.asp
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post #6 of 6
8/3/06 at 4:04am
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Thanks, whackamac.

The chip on the original mobo does seem soldered on, *but* the replacement mobo I bought on ebay (my serial port connection had gotten messed up because of impact in a vehicular accident) has it just screwed in; I just now unscrewed it, popped it out easily, and popped it back in securely. So, my last question remains, although the external add-on option is very cool.
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