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I am trying to put an upgraded display adapter into a laptop mobo that, according to the HP tech, isn't supposed to be upgradeable.
I have the new card installed and working, but with the old drivers for the ORIGINAL card.
(New card= SiS 651, Old card=S3 SavageIX)
I have tried forcing new drivers, using Ubuntu LiveCD to see if it was just windoze, and just about every trick I can to get it recognized.
Anyone familiar with this process/dilemma?
J
I have the new card installed and working, but with the old drivers for the ORIGINAL card.
(New card= SiS 651, Old card=S3 SavageIX)
I have tried forcing new drivers, using Ubuntu LiveCD to see if it was just windoze, and just about every trick I can to get it recognized.
Anyone familiar with this process/dilemma?
J
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Re: Hacking BIOSes
Mon, January 7, 2008 - 12:23 PMI tried to replace a BIOS in an HP once before, fried the MB. (I sent the system back to HP and they replaced it, did not even bother asking what happened :) )
I would say tread carefully in this area. Most of the HP MB's are stock boards from (I forget, Asus maybe?) If you look on the boards you will find the true model numbers and then the company from that. Be forewarned though, HP has some mods on some of the boards so even if you get the (Asus) MB flashes, they may not be the correct ones. Of course the downside to this is that HP removes some "features" from the OEM flashes which is why I was trying to re-flash mine with the OEM flash.
Ubuntu did not see the card? Did you try Knoppix? I have found Knoppix has a much richer hardware database. -
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Re: Hacking BIOSes
Mon, January 7, 2008 - 8:03 PM..lol..
best of luck the old mac® 2.7 - 9.x bios is available to
one and all all in soƒtware..
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