Replace dead x1300 in advanced dock with newer card?
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 1:18 pm
I have a T60p running XP Professional, 2.0Ghz cpu with 2 gigs of memory with an advanced dock. I had a X1300 in the dock to play games at a playable rate. I am not a hard core gamer and the most taxing game I play is World Of Warcraft.
The X1300 just died and apparently they do not make the card anymore. So I thought cool I will just pick up a better ATI card and run with it and hopefully pick up a few fps. Well I have tried a number of ATI cards in the dock and all have failed with various results. By playing with bios settings and disabling drivers and all other sorts of stuff, I have been able to get all the cards to boot to windows desktop, but from there it is just normally a matter of minutes before the machine goes BSOD or just freezes. The best results were with an MSI ATI 4850 card. Actually got about 3-5 minutes of playtime in World of Warcraft before it suddenly flipped to 640x480 and 16 colors and then froze. I have gotten no nVidia cards to even boot.
I was making sure that the cards rated power requirements were below the dock's output. The ones I bought were rated lower, at least on paper.
Has anyone gotten anything except the X1300 to reliably work in the Advanced dock?
I know laptop drivers are generally 'special' by brand and there was even a special X1300 driver to get the X1300 card to work. I was wondering if I try a card that IBM places in other laptops and try and load the ATI drivers for that laptop, if I would would have better luck?
For example. IBM puts the 3450, 3470 and 3650 cards in current laptops but does not support the 4000 series boards yet. Do you think I would have any luck with something like a 3650 a T500 ATI driver for the 3650 in the dock?
Think at least a X1650 or X1550 would work any better? Possibly still using the X1300 drivers?
If not, **sigh**, I suppose I can eBay for a wholesale/used X1300 and start saving for a better light gaming system.
The X1300 just died and apparently they do not make the card anymore. So I thought cool I will just pick up a better ATI card and run with it and hopefully pick up a few fps. Well I have tried a number of ATI cards in the dock and all have failed with various results. By playing with bios settings and disabling drivers and all other sorts of stuff, I have been able to get all the cards to boot to windows desktop, but from there it is just normally a matter of minutes before the machine goes BSOD or just freezes. The best results were with an MSI ATI 4850 card. Actually got about 3-5 minutes of playtime in World of Warcraft before it suddenly flipped to 640x480 and 16 colors and then froze. I have gotten no nVidia cards to even boot.
I was making sure that the cards rated power requirements were below the dock's output. The ones I bought were rated lower, at least on paper.
Has anyone gotten anything except the X1300 to reliably work in the Advanced dock?
I know laptop drivers are generally 'special' by brand and there was even a special X1300 driver to get the X1300 card to work. I was wondering if I try a card that IBM places in other laptops and try and load the ATI drivers for that laptop, if I would would have better luck?
For example. IBM puts the 3450, 3470 and 3650 cards in current laptops but does not support the 4000 series boards yet. Do you think I would have any luck with something like a 3650 a T500 ATI driver for the 3650 in the dock?
Think at least a X1650 or X1550 would work any better? Possibly still using the X1300 drivers?
If not, **sigh**, I suppose I can eBay for a wholesale/used X1300 and start saving for a better light gaming system.