[grandeede]

A couple of years ago (3?), we purchased 2 HP Pavilion zv5000 laptops. Almost identical configurations. The video card in one has already died. It appears that the video card in the 2nd one is about to go.

HP Pavilion zv5000
AMD Athlon 64
NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go 64m

1) According to HP and the configuration, the video card cannot be upgraded/replaced - It's on the motherboard.

2) The laptop w/ dead video card can be used via remote desktop on another computer.

3) 2nd laptop - starting to see problems, working on backing up now. Hope to find "work-around" before the video card dies all together.

QUESTION
There's an IOGEAR (?) USB 2.0 External VGA video card to add another display to your current set-up. I've read online that some people have taken this external video card thing apart and upgraded the video card inside it. Anyway, I don't need anything special - just a work-around until I can save up to get a new computer. I don't need to upgrade or have any fancy video card - just enough to do average web-surfing and a little game playing - but not really graphic games.

Can this external hard drive be used as a replacement video card for the laptop? maybe by disabling the integrated video card (BIOS) or something like that? Even using a second monitor with this external video card is ok with me. I don't have another computer to use remote desktop. I should be able to set-up this external video card before the other one dies completely.

Any other ideas for a workaround?
THANKS!!

 

[mslefaye]

QUESTION
There's an IOGEAR (?) USB 2.0 External VGA video card to add another display to your current set-up. I've read online that some people have taken this external video card thing apart and upgraded the video card inside it. Anyway, I don't need anything special - just a work-around until I can save up to get a new computer. I don't need to upgrade or have any fancy video card - just enough to do average web-surfing and a little game playing - but not really graphic games.


Can this external hard drive be used as a replacement video card for the laptop? maybe by disabling the integrated video card (BIOS) or something like that? Even using a second monitor with this external video card is ok with me. I don't have another computer to use remote desktop. I should be able to set-up this external video card before the other one dies completely.

Any other ideas for a workaround?
THANKS!!

You may want to watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FnHg-k8N3Y

Here are some external card options:

This one specifically says for replacing internal:


Others for sale:




These should work for what you said normal web surfing, spread sheets, even light video game use.

These will not be cheap!

 

[mslefaye]

QUESTION
There's an IOGEAR (?) USB 2.0 External VGA video card to add another display to your current set-up. I've read online that some people have taken this external video card thing apart and upgraded the video card inside it. Anyway, I don't need anything special - just a work-around until I can save up to get a new computer. I don't need to upgrade or have any fancy video card - just enough to do average web-surfing and a little game playing - but not really graphic games.


Can this external hard drive be used as a replacement video card for the laptop? maybe by disabling the integrated video card (BIOS) or something like that? Even using a second monitor with this external video card is ok with me. I don't have another computer to use remote desktop. I should be able to set-up this external video card before the other one dies completely.

Any other ideas for a workaround?
THANKS!!

You may want to watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FnHg-k8N3Y"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FnHg-k8N3Y

Here are some external card options:

This one specifically says for replacing internal:
http://www.everythingusb.com/iogear_usb_2.0_external_video_card_12787.html


Others for sale:
http://www.cinemassivedisplays.com/index.php?a=4


http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=30534-DT&cat=VCD


These should work for what you said normal web surfing, spread sheets, even light video game use.

These will not be cheap!

 

[twajetmech]

You might try calling HP, the mobo (with video) is still a part you can order (though expensive) they might do a core swap if you can ship them the mobo and drop the price to $256


P/N 360685-001
Motherboard - Full-featured PCA - Supports AMD Athlon processors only - 64MB NVIDIA(R) GeForce(TM) 4 440 Go graphics memory - IEEE 1394 and a integrated 5-in-1 Digital Media Slot (Pavilion) 456.73 0.00 456.73
Part is orderable, please call 1-800-227-8164 for availability