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My new laptop has an Expresscard slot, but no PCMCIA slot and I need to find a firewire expresscard. Any suggestions? Is this format new?

Mostly PPoint and any size is fine.

Ok, I need a basic laptop for under a grand. AMD if possible, but whatever has good battery life and something I can dump more RAM into. Any suggestions? Experiences?

Ive been an AMD fan for a while, and my last laptop was an AMD. Dell screwed me over on a ship date and a back order so Im thinking about going elsewhere. Something AMD or if the extra money is worth it 64Bit AMD. Who makes a quality AMD laptop?

IF you know what you are doing and getting into, then build. Otherwise buy, less compatability issues, but less upgradeability. Also when building warrenty issues are often an issue. Buying you deal with a single warrenty usually and there is a service number to maybe help you.

We tried an old Geforce 2 AGP card and it worked just fine.

Well doesn't seem to be a cooling problem. Ran with the side off and still died about 5 minutes into it.

Any other suggestions to go along with the cooling? I check the mobo specs and it supports 4x/8x AGP. But there doesn't seem to be a way to tweak any of the AGP settings in the BIOS.

Ill check again, but last time it didnt' show up in the device manager, only the ATI card. Thank you for the help BTW.

Ok our new ATI 9550 only came with a heat sink. Id like to replace it with a fan/sink of some sort. Maybe ram sinks while Im at it. Any suggestions??

They simply need to get used to the niche market they have backed themselves into.

Every install walk through Ive seen calls for uninstalling the old drivers. I can't disable it in the bios, and we'll try to disable it again in device manager. The problem is if you boot with the card then you don't see the onboard in the device manager.??? We'll have to try running it with...

The stock ATI 9550 doesn't have an active fan, it simply has a heat sink. :( Any suggestions on a fan would be great though.

Well first off, we tried to turn off the on board in the bios. However the options where PCI and AGP/On Board.. We uninstalled the drivers for the onboard card from the device manager. Ill try leaving the cover off. The original PSU was only 250Watts and clearly not enough for everything...

Ok kinda a newb question, but we are having serious issues and don't know where to turn. Ati 9550 256Mb AGP Presario SR1030NX 2.16 GHz Athlon XP 3000+ 512 MB RAM Windows XP Home Edition 400Watt power supply We have unistalled the onboard video drivers. The Bios has a PCI option and...