Toshiba P25 S609

I am having trouble upgrading my video card. Does anyone know any laptop specialists that could upgrade the video card. Toshiba will not do anything for me. I heard you might be able to purchase a docking station and run a video card through and agp slot. Is this true? This computer scores so low on benchmark I have to upgrade it no matter what it takes. Any help would be really appreciated.

 

I have the P25 509 and would also like to know the answer to this question.

 

nah you can't upgrade the video card bc its intergrated right into the system board. If you are trying to play some nice 3d games I HIGHLY recommend you use a pc.

Keep in mind that the speed of your system is greatly dependant on the proper heat dissipation. If the fan dies or fans in your case, then heat will build up and when that happens the processor will start slowing down to couter act the building heat by putting out less power. It may get to a point where when you first start your laptop everything runs nice and fast and begins to slow down after a little while. Typical symptoms of a processor overheating is that it starts out fine but starts to slow down fast, to the point where video refreshes very slow and the the laptop cuts off. That is probably where you are headed if you feel that your system is running very slow. Dust collects in the vents that dissipate the heat through heat pipes to the processor thermal mod and the crappy toshiba sleeved fans get bone dry bc of the dust or smoke.

What you can do is get yourself a torx screw driver m2.5*6 and remove the panel on the back of your laptop, the one with the 3 fan vents on it so that you gain acess to the thermal mod, fans, and processor. Use a air compressor to clean out the dust, but if you really want to get down and dirty you can take out the fans and the thermal mod. repaste the processor and take apart the 3 fans and clean them up and oil it.. nothing to it. I'm sure its against the warranty and all that but no one can find out.

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also to answer the other question about the docking station and run a video card through it, nah if you got the p25 you don't have a docking station port. Seriously though the video that comes on there is very decent as far as laptops go if heat slowing down your processor isn't the problem then its probably software windows related, at this link http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_home.jsp you can get updated drivers for your laptop which is a must in some cases after installing windows sp1. if all fails upgrade the ram

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