I need to upgrade the video card in my laptop. I have an HP Pavillion
N5475 with a Trident Video Accelerator CyberBlade-XP video card. How
can I upgrade it?

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Request for Question Clarification by huntsman-ga on 16 Jun 2002 23:31 PDT

anon2me2,

Do you want to *keep* the Trident Video Accelerator CyberBlade-XP
video card and upgrade it,

- OR -

Do want to *replace* the Trident Video Accelerator CyberBlade-XP with
an entirely new card?

huntsman

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Clarification of Question by anon2me2-ga on 16 Jun 2002 23:36 PDT

To keep my existing video card is fine, but I'd prefer to obtain a new
video card instead of the one I have.

Hi anon2me2,

I've talked directly with HP's technical support about this, and
simply put, you can't upgrade the video cards in any of HP's notebook
computers.  In general, notebook video cards are part of the
mainboard, and thus not replaceable without replacing the entire
board.

The N5475 was only ever made with a Cyberblade-XP, so a replacement
from HP is out of the question.


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I hope that answers your question, even though it may not be the
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jjb

The answer was good, but it didn't really help.

Laptop computers on the whole are not designed to be upgraded. You
will also find that you do not had a video card in the machine as the
card you quote is integrated into the motherboard as are most of the
systems, sound, lan etc. There will be no space in the machine to add
a video card.

The only real hope if if you can get a docking station that has an AGP
slot to allow you to add cards while the machine is docked, but this
will mean you will still be using the Trident card when the machine is
not docked.

This is probably not the answer but that is just the way laptop
computers are built, portability of upgradability.

It is very hard to upgrade laptops.

Most ocmputers these days come with on board chips, for sound and
video, this in turn increases the bus rate of the A/V processing. Un
fortunatly the only way to upgrade thse on board chips (meaning built
into your mother board) is to buy an addition sounds/video card, and
have both running at the same time. making sure none of the IRQ's
conflict.

The only things that are able to be upgraded on laptops are:
memory - HD's
memory - ram
cpu
external PCIMIA slots. http://www.baber.com/laptops/addoncards.htm

you can not upgrade:
motherboards
onboard chips
LCD's


Assuming the style of question you asked, you probably do not
understand most of what i said. I also assume that you wanna beef up
your laptop to play games on. For one laptops, are not mean to play
graphically instenive games on. In fact most PC's have a hell of the
time trying to accelerate open GL. if anything find a PCMIA card that
has an openGL chip in it. That will make your graphic a million times
faster.

oh yeah
one thing about the docking station with AGP. It really really sux,
its not plug and play with AGp/Pci cards, you need to reboot to use
the docking station then. with all that crap you would buy, should
just get a desktop.