How do I tell what expresscard slot I have?

Hey guys, ive spent some time searching through manuals and online resources to find out if my expresscard slot is a 1.0 or a 2.0 I would like to setup and external GPU so I would like to know what I have. If someone could tell me what I have or how to find it that would be awesome. Here are my specs:

HP DV7-3173ca
Intel Core I7 CPU Q720 @1.60GHz 1.6GHZ

Any information would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Kevin

 

There's 4 options from my perspective (only because I don't know a 3rd party app to report this )

- Buy the product anyways, insuring you're buying from a good reseller that gives you a nice return policy in case it doesn't work.
- Call/email HP to get the details from them.
- Scour your INF folder (C:\Windows\INF) You might need to enable "View hidden/system files". In this folder, you don't need to look at all of them, just the OEM**.inf files. There is one of these files for each piece of hardware installed. But that still leaves you with a good few INF files to scour through. And even then the details and comments in the header of the ExpressCard INF may not tell you v1 or 2 clearly. But could be worth a try. (I'd use Notepad++, select a whole mess of them via ctrl+click and then drag them on top of Notepad++, and then cycle through the tabs.
- Get a Vidock 4 which lets you hook up a graphics card for desktops and allows you to run it on your laptop.

Sorry, I know my suggestions are less than ideal. Most devices that are 2.0 are backwards compatible to 1.0 also.
The specs i'v found on your laptop say 1 ExpressCard/54 Slot (also supports ExpressCard/34).

 

yeah I just want to get really high performance, not sure if I will get that with a 1.0 I already have the laptop and its out of warrenty