Upgrading Laptop Graphics Card

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    Majin is offline Dedicated Member

    Upgrading Laptop Graphics Card

    I have not upgraded any laptops other than giving them more RAM but I wanted to know if it was possible to upgrade graphics cards in laptops? And also is it possible to upgrade mine?

    This is what I currently have:
    http://www.everex.com/products/xt5000t/xt5000t.htm

    Everything is as same as I bought it other than I added a 2Gb Memory stick.


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    jephree is offline ¨*·.¸ «.·°·..·°·.» ¸.·*¨
    Some models have removable cards and some are integrated.

    Your model has no mention of upgrading video plus this diagram appears to indicate it is integrated:

    http://www.everex.com/support/xt5000...ram_bottom.pdf

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    Majin is offline Dedicated Member
    Thanks Jephree also how would I go about upgrading my WLAN card?

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    jephree is offline ¨*·.¸ «.·°·..·°·.» ¸.·*¨
    Not sure you can.

    I am looking here:

    http://www.everex.com/support/xt5000...0t_support.htm

    I will download the manual if I have more time.

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    Majin is offline Dedicated Member
    I think the only way is the ExpressCard Slot.

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    Majin is offline Dedicated Member
    I have a question about adding a new hard drive. Does this laptop use Serial ATA150 Interface or what interface does it use? And when buying a OEM drive what do I need to install this hard drive into my laptop?

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    jephree is offline ¨*·.¸ «.·°·..·°·.» ¸.·*¨
    Chapter 7 of the manual covers adding a hard drive. There are 2 hard drive bays according to one diagram.

    http://www.everex.com/support/xt5000...ser_manual.pdf

    Your notebook computer offers one 2.5" format, 9.5mm height hard disk.

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    Majin is offline Dedicated Member
    Thanks for pointing that out for me I have read chapter 7 but I did not see anywhere what type of Interface it used.

    I belive its Serial ATA150? But I wanted to be sure.

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    jephree is offline ¨*·.¸ «.·°·..·°·.» ¸.·*¨
    Hard Disk Drive
    • Configured with 1 100GB Hard Disk Drive
    • Bus: Serial-ATA (SATA-150)
    • Rotation: 5400RPM
    • Height: 9.5mm
    • Total Available HDD Slots: 2, with RAID 0/1 options (additional settings and software may be required)

    http://www.everex.com/support/xt5000...ation-v1.0.pdf

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    Majin is offline Dedicated Member
    I have read somewhere that SATA drives require drivers to be installed for it before you install the OS to get the most throughput out of it is this true?

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