anvalarwatari

Hi, I purchased a 64mb nVidia GeForce4 440 card for my Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop off of eBay. However, the card did not come with instructions. I did a search on google and came up with these instructions: http://www.bay-wolf.com/geforce4-1.htm
The first step asks me to download a driver. Where do I find this driver? And does anyone know a more detailed set of instuctions on installing the card? Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.

~Erica

Wiredzero

Hate to break this to ya... But the GeForce 440 is for a DESKTOP PC, not a laptop.) Most of the time, the videocards in laptops aren't upgradeable as the GPU (Graphic Processing Unit) is integrated into the motherboard.

With a laptop, about the best you could expect would be to upgrade the drivers occaisionally.

If it's a "440 GO" videocard however, and the laptop is indeed upgradable (which would be REALLY RARE), then you'd probably have to crack the motherboard housing open with a screwdriver, and look for where it is upgradable. There should be a port where a similar card should be already installed...simply find where it's connected, disconnect it carefully, then perform the reverse for the installation of the new videocard.

The place where you'd want to get the drivers from would be:
http://www.nvidia.com

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anvalarwatari

It's a Geforce4 440 GO card! lol. It is made for laptops. The auction even said it was for Dell Inspiron 8100/8200. And I already know it will fit in the laptop, I know exactally where it goes [under the keyboard] and whatnot. I just need to know what drivers I need to download before I actually put the card in my computer!

Wiredzero

Well, you're lucky to have one that's upgradable.
Go here:

What drivers do I need?

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