video card upgrade

[ababa]

Hi,
I have a VAIO FS415S with NVIDIA Geforce Go 6400 PCI Express 128 MB Turbocache.
I would like to know if is possible to change the video card for a better one. And more if possible, what can be upgraded/changed and what cannot.
Thank you.

[Blencogo]

Hi ababa and welcome to Club Vaio.

The graphics cards in all Sony laptops are soldered to the main board and are not economically upgradeable.

A handful of very large laptops on the market do have interchangeable cards but these are very rare and expensive!

You are really limited to additional RAM and perhaps a hard drive upgrade.

[ababa]

Thank you very much for your help. At least is it possible to get a new driver for it ? I tried different versions of forceware but only few of them are suitable to this type of graphhic card (actually I found only two). I searched on NVIDIA site but nothing. Even the original drivers were not available on the above mentioned site. I downloaded them from VAIO SUPPORT, etc.
Thank you again for your help.

[Blencogo]

You're very welcome ababa.

:smileygrin:

[rgoggy]

hi

i use http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/ to get new nvidia drivers.
they mod the ini file that the installer recognizes the card right.

because in real, all nvidia drivers are a pack of drivers for all nvidia cards

[ababa]

Thank you !!
I will try the latest one.