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    dv6103nr Graphics

    Discussion in 'HP' started by rascalking, Nov 25, 2006.

  1. rascalking

    rascalking Notebook Guru

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    just picked this baby up on Black Friday at Best Buy. AWESOME laptop for the price except one little thing.......graphics. The graphics card has to be literally the worst on the market, considering most picture look very pixelated and have bad quality. Movies run and look fine though. Question is, is there any way possible to improve graphics with my current graphics card OR is there any way to replace the graphics card with another one? Thanks
     
    rascalking, Nov 25, 2006
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  2. Sleepy_Sentry

    Sleepy_Sentry Notebook Enthusiast

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    There is no way to upgrade or replace the graphics. You are stuck with the graphics that came with your laptop. If I'm correct, it has Intel GMA 650 integrated graphics.

    I find it interesting that you say most pictures are of bad quality. Do you have drivers installed? It's possible, though unlikely, that the driver for the video was either not installed or corruptly installed.
    http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/sb/CS-020683.htm

    I looked at that laptop for Black Friday and found it has a 1 year warranty on it. It's good to know you have it in case the picture problem cannot be fixed.

    Also, what resolution do you have the laptop set on? It must be set at 1280x800 to get the best display quality. If you set the resolution down on an LCD, display quality will go down. CRT monitors do not have this problem.

    If the above does not help you, posting a picture of the problem would help in better understanding the problem. What seems like a bad picture to one person might not to another.
     
    Sleepy_Sentry, Nov 25, 2006
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