Thursday, December 3, 2009

Can you replace one graphics card with another one?

I have a old laptop with a "S3 Savage/IX graphics chip with 8MB of SGRAM" graphics card. The graphics card on my other computer seems to be broken, it is a "NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX Integrated Graphics with 64MB Shared Memory" Can i replace that card the the one on my laptop?



Also i'm not even sure if the graphics card is broken, the computer keeps on suddenly restarting and when i log on there is a message that the restarting may have to do with a error with the graphics card



Thanks in advance



Can you replace one graphics card with another one?

You can't use the graphics chip from your laptop, it is soldered to the motherboard.



The desktop's graphic card is also attached to the motherboard. You can put a new video card into a desktop but I doubt that that is the cause of the reboots. Given that it has a Geforce 4 mx I can deduce that it is getting old. You could try to find someone with an old card you could try. But I would not recommend spending too much money on repairs.



Can you replace one graphics card with another one?

Those are integrated which means they are part of the motherboard and can't be removed.



Can you replace one graphics card with another one?

Yes you can change graphics card but the important thing is to know what is compatible for your system.



Can you replace one graphics card with another one?

I am betting no. However, some laptops actually have small video card screwed into the motherboard( I have not seen this in a long time). But giving the chances of you having two laptops with screw in video cards is really low. No would be the answer.



If the system is restarting with errors on the video card. try going into safe mode and remove the drivers and restart. If you cannot get into safe mode, I would feel safe in saying it is a bad card or motherboard.



good luck

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