Richard wrote: > John Beardmore escribi?: > As i said on my prior message (right at the bottom), laptops are almost > as standarized as desktops. So, when you bought your Vostro the > standard graphics card was the 8400M, but maybe they sold it off and > started to assemble it with 8600M. > Today the Vostro 1720 has a 9600M and if you want, you could put an ATI > one. They're called MXM modules and are small PCI-Express video cards > for notebooks.
No real interest changing unless it meant I could do protein folding oin the GPU. I think I can do that with the nVidia though, but I'd have needed to upgrade the video driver. For some reason I couldn't get the driver to update. I suspect Dell may have frigged the OS to make it hard to install drivers they hadn't supplied, but I never got to the bottom of it. Wouldn't have been a bad thing to upgrade the driver though. It did do the odd funny thing in Scribus. >> Device manager also mentions a >> >> Mobile Intel(R) PM965/GM965/GL960 >> Express Processor to DRAM Controller - 2A00 >> >> so I guess that's all fairly ambiguous unless all or none of them can >> access more than 4 gig ? > ??... Is Intel claiming that the chipset can't access more than 4GB of > RAM?. > The current vostro 1720 is offered with up to 8Gb of RAM. Assuming that "Express Processor to DRAM Controller" is the relevant bit, I guess I'd first need to know if I have the Mobile Intel(R) PM965, GM965, or GL960 ? Not sure how I can determine that without taking it apart ? >> Indeed, but I don't want to muddy the warranty situation by using non >> Dell stuff at this stage. > Well... as in my country usually there is not such thing as a warranty > or when there is one is applied "piece by piece" because we are not used > to brands but yes to clones, i'm not too familiar with the fact that you > can actually void your warranty if adding something not "autorized". I have in the past, and I've got away with it. > So, keep on the brand, but i can tell that you may go to your autorized > dealer to ask for the bigger available hard disk without issues. There > is nothing about incompatibilities. Unless you ask for something your > chipset or O.S. can't handle, but at least 500GB shouldnt give trouble. Fo some reason Dell claim that I'll need a different mounting plate for a 500 gig drive. I suspect this is bull, but we'll see when they send it. As the machine is under warranty they owe me a 250gig disk anyway. It only costs me ?50 more to upgrade the replacement to 500gig so I'll do that. > Today i have changed my 4GB/666MHz memory on the laptop, to 4GB/800MHz > (went to 760MHz -AMD cpu/bus division stuff-) while vendor and > manufacturer claim it won't work. (i'm writing from it) I'm similarly working on an old T30 ThinkPad with 2 gig of RAM. According to most suppliers it won't go above 1 gig, but if you flash the BIOS it will. Cheers, J/. -- John Beardmore,MSc EDM (Open),B.A. Chem (Oxon),CMIOSH,CEnv,AIEMA,MEI Managing Director, T4 Sustainability Limited. http://www.T4sLtd.co.uk/ Energy Audit, Carbon Management, Design Advice, Sustainable Energy Consultancy and Installation, Carbon Trust Standard Registered Assessor Phone: 0845 4561332 Mobile: 07785 563116 Skype: t4sustainability
