Madmonkee Posted June 28, 2009 Report Share Posted June 28, 2009 Ok guys, I am pretty switched on when it comes to Desktop pc's so upgrading this laptop to me shouldnt have been to difficult.. *cough* as I am posting here, obviously I am not as good as one first thought :) Problem: I have a 8400m GS according to BIOS on the Inspiron 1720, Device manager, GPU-Z, Si-soft sandra and NV tuner. Now I have bought a 8600M GT from a well known auction site and the p/no: suggests it is indeed a 8600M GT, but when I install it, bios see's its as the 8400m GS and all of the above did also. Now do i have the 8400M GS or don't I? The part numbers are different for the two cards? So I am stumped. Do Dell lock the bios so I cannot upgrade the GPU? Or is it just that I am installing the same card? Cheers guys, please someone enlighten me :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madmonkee Posted June 28, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 28, 2009 (edited) this should be just plug and play shouldnt it? Or am I missing something here? is there anyway of checking that the new card is indeed a 8600m GT? Does anyone have any information on it? I have searched the web and have found this now the numbers all match up :S that says its a 8600mGT but my laptop seems to think its deffo a 8400m GS Edited June 28, 2009 by Madmonkee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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