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Upgrading Your Laptop's Graphics Card

Upgrading your laptop's graphics card is no walk in the park; in fact it's something more akin to open heart surgery. But it can be done, and the rewards can be well worth the trouble and risk.

Christopher Null

Step 5: Replace Graphics Card, and Close 6 of 6

On our laptop, the preceding steps gave us access to the graphics/video card assembly, which we removed by loosening two screws. Then, after installing our new card, we reversed the procedure to put everything back together as before, and fired up the laptop.

New card installed, the system gave us basic video with standard VGA drivers, which kicked in automatically. After we downloaded the proper video driver from the vendor's Web site, we enjoyed full resolution and color support.

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