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what upgrade can i do on a hp pavillion dv6285eu

Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by neilbloyce, Feb 22, 2009.

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Hi, does anyone know if it is possible for me to upgrade my RAM and graphics card on a HP DV6285Eu, i dont know how the graphic card works on this, but want to know if it is possible to upgrade or just buy a new laptop

neilbloyce, Feb 22, 2009

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K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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The graphics card in your laptop is a nVidia geforce go 7200. That card is a chipset based graphics card. Meaning that the graphics card is soldered directly to the mainboard. That means the graphics card is not upgradeable.
Since your system is based on the AMD Turion platform, you will be able to upgrade to 2Gb (2 x 1GB) of PC5300 memory.
I do not see why you could not try and upgrade to 4Gb (2 x 2Gb) of memory.
It should work for you as long as HP did not install a Bios limitation for the memory addressing if your system

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K-TRON, Feb 22, 2009

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If you can find a motherboard from a dv6500z with an 8400m gs you could swap it in and it would work. Your laptop can do 4gb of ram with a 64bit OS

Tippey764, Feb 22, 2009

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