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Test video card by swapping?
Name: mcavoym1 Date: January 20, 2009 at 14:25:44 Pacific OS: VISTA CPU/Ram: 1G Product: Alienware / Area-51 m5550 Subcategory: Video Cards
Comment:
I know that the video card from my Dell Lattitude D630 isn't the right one for the Alienware m5550 but would it work enough for me to determine if the video card in the Alienware is faulty? (If its not the video card I'm pretty sure its the motherboard which NO ONE sells :( :( )
Name: jam Date: January 20, 2009 at 14:38:10 Pacific
Reply:
The majority of laptops don't have video "cards"...the graphics are built into the motherboard & are neither upgradeable nor replaceable. Are you sure your's have actual cards?
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Response Number 2
Name: mcavoym1 Date: January 20, 2009 at 14:46:28 Pacific
Reply:
I do - both are Nividia (Alienware is a Nividia GeForce and Dell is NVIDIA Quadro NVS
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