- EXTERNAL GRAPHICS CARD FOR LAPTOP HOW TO
- EXTERNAL GRAPHICS CARD FOR LAPTOP UPGRADE
- EXTERNAL GRAPHICS CARD FOR LAPTOP FREE
but i was lucky the wlan card is located near a hole in my laptop bottom near the RAM compartment so i don't need to cut open a new hole. some laptop owners are lucky since the location of the WLAN card is easy to reach while some others don't.Īs for my asus, i need to disassemble the laptop first. you may need to cut a hole in your laptop bottom to let the cable trough. this is where your cutting tools come to play. make sure it doesn't mess with the fans, and the cable HDMI end can go outside the laptop. don't forget to remove the cables first.Īfter you replace it, you will have to think about the cable layout configuration. usually, wlan card is a module with 2 cables attached. but your goal is to take out the wlan card, and plug the beast interface cable.
EXTERNAL GRAPHICS CARD FOR LAPTOP HOW TO
You might want to search in youtube, on how to disassemble your laptop. Open your laptop using screwdriver, locate the WLAN card and replace it with the beast interface cable. the power cable (8pin to 20 pin and 4pin) and the interface cable (that weird mini pcie/ngff/expresscard to HDMI cable)
EXTERNAL GRAPHICS CARD FOR LAPTOP UPGRADE
If your laptop has meet the above requirement, you can start gathering the upgrade material if not, then you can stop here. this will require a modding of BIOS and that is beyond my knowledge so i deem it's not worth the risk. If your laptop is BIOS-Locked, then you need to unlock or whitelist it first. and sadly the GDC is not an authorized / whitelisted card. my lenovo e145 (and other thinkpads) won't boot if i change the included mini pcie wlan card to 'unauthorized' other wlan card. many laptops (usually thinkpads) has their BIOS Locked for authorized hardware by their manufacturer. usually there are small cables attached to the wlan card.Ģ. for those who don't know which part is the wlan card, try google "wlan card" and you will see its shape. or if your laptop has an express card then you don't need to open the laptop. the fastest way is to open your laptop, and see the type. the Mini PCIE and the NGFF and expresscard. there are 2 kind of interface that could be used as external GPU. check your laptop's WLAN slot interface type. There are two things to check before you start buying the upgrade materialġ.
EXTERNAL GRAPHICS CARD FOR LAPTOP FREE
You're free to share this tutorial on your website, or anywhere else as long as you still give credit to me and put a link to this site. I AM ALSO NOT RELATED TO ANY SELLER OF THE PARTS LISTED IN THIS INSTRUCTION. DO WITH YOUR OWN RISK.ĪLL PICTURES SHOWN IN THIS INSTRUCTABLE ARE MY OWN. IF YOU WANT TO FOLLOW MY TUTORIAL, YOU MUST AGREE THAT I CANNOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE CAUSED.
HOWEVER, I DO NOT GUARANTEE IT WILL WORK ON YOUR LAPTOP.
you can refer your problems to each sectionsĭISCLAIMER: I MADE THIS TUTORIAL BASED ON MY OWN EXPERIENCE. This tutorial will be consist of 3 sections. And I will not bore you with long introduction since i know none of you will be interested anyway and get straight to the point I made this based on my experience in upgrading my laptop. English is not my first language so please forgive my grammatical errors. This is my first tutorial on instructables.
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