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This thing on my Motherboard.
Name: Soapy Smith Date: January 5, 2000 at 10:22:49 Pacific
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I know this is probably not the right place to ask this, but I have a small (2"x1.5") card in it's own slot on the motherboard of my HP Vectra VL5. It has like 3 transistors on it and one black chip, but the odd thing is, it has it's own heat-sink. Anyone know what this is and what it's purpose is? I've already been to HP's website and "Motherboard Homeworld" looking for diagrams or schematics, to no avail. The only info on manufacturer is the HP logo printed on the center of the board. Can anyone help?
Name: Mike Date: January 5, 2000 at 10:34:14 Pacific
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does this computer have the video card built on to the mother board that could be the chipset for the video.
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Response Number 2
Name: Soapy Smith Date: January 5, 2000 at 10:38:42 Pacific
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Yes it does have the video built in as a matter of fact.
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Response Number 3
Name: Mike Date: January 5, 2000 at 10:46:20 Pacific
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alot of video card now especially the new ones have very fast processors on them that require their own heat sink to cool them off. If this video card is 8 meg or more then that might be it. But I am not HP certified. I hope I have helped you some. If not I apologize ahead of time.
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Response Number 4
Name: Ken DuCharme Date: January 5, 2000 at 14:14:04 Pacific
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I believe you're referring to the Voltage Regulator. For some reason, HP uses big funny lookin' ones.
I have never seen an on-board video chipset that needed any additional cooling. Heat dispitation on the motherboard would cause too much crosstalk and circuit noise.
But, then again, I only work with the things, I'm not HP certified either.
However, some newer memory and PCI/AGP chipsets (onboard) have a small heatsink on them, but those are only ICs, not processors.
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Response Number 5
Name: Soapy Smith Date: January 5, 2000 at 14:46:27 Pacific
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Voltage Regulator might make sense. There is nothing that looks like a processor or chip (I know I said it had a chip, but then I got a good look at it....the "chip" is actually another transistor.) on the card, so it can't really be there to do much. I'm still mystified, but I really appreciate the suggestions anyway. Thanks.
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