but I carved a hole in the back of my C/Dock "hood" so that I could even connect to them. One of the USB and one of the Firewire ports come off the edge of the card internally. Eventually I picked up a combo card with 5 USB2.0 ports and 3 IEEE1394 ports. Then I passed my original CPx on to the wife and bought my current C840. After hitting F1, everything was fine, but that got old pretty quickly. The first one I tried (USB2.0 only) caused a beep and a disturbing "F1 to continue" on every post. I've had interesting experiences with USB2.0 cards in the dock. I suspect the trail has gone cold but I thought I'd register and drop a note in anyway. I stumbled on your post while researching my own C/Dock II issue. Update: Apparently no one at Dell knows what video cards are supported by the C/Dock II. do you know of a BIOS that would allow one to overclock a Latitude? Specifically a C840? Post here if you find a video card that worksĪnd Bill. Right now, I'm on the phone with Dell Tech support (34 minutes now.) waiting to talk to someone with half a ****ing brain to tell me if there is a list of supported video cards I can use. Tomorrow, I'm going to try a BFGTech GeForce FX 5500 (256mb DDR, 128-bit, 4 pixel pipelines and see if that works. The card worked fine in my desktop, but it wouldn't even post in the Dock. I tried putting an EVGA GeForce 6200 (256mb DDR2, 64-bit, 4 pixel pipelines, and my laptop wouldn't even post. I tried putting an EVGA GeForce 5200 (128mb DDR, 64-bit, 4 pixel pipelines ) in and that one worked, but for some reason it was registering as a DX8 card instead of a DX9. well, technically any PCI card should work, but that's not the case. Most external HDs require twice that, and only come with one usb plug (if you can find one with two, that should work, or one with an external power supply).Īs for the videocard. The s***ty thing about laptop USB ports (even on the docks/replicators) is that they have they are powered by the minimum amount of watts required. Just stick with the BOIS you have (should be A13, I think.) That is a pretty good configeration, but really these days your better off pluncking down money on that dual 8700m GT quad core desktop CPU raid 5 capable laptop Pieter mentioned in the news section a few days ago.
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You might want to get the belkin usb2 cardbus card, a nice belkin 7 port hub to go with it, then install a sata RAID card in the dock and a second graphics card. You could of course replace an external card's antenna with custom made cantenna or soemthign like that of course, to hook an external antenna up to a built in card would require some wiring rerouting inside the laptop, unless you like having wires coming out from the bottom. You can install better antennas in the laptop than typical desktop PCI cards, or laptop PCMCIA cards usually have sticking out.
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However there are better options these days with all the new N stuff, so you might want to search around, you also might need to mod some custom antennas in your laptop, but its definitely a better option than docking only wifi.
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As for the best PCI video card, your best bet is either the GF FX 5700 LE or whatever its called, or I think there is also a GF 6100 or 6200 PCI card as well.įor mini PCI cards I replaced the crappy 11mbps ab card with a netgate card with an atheros chipset that is capable of full 108mpbs super G, and has many features (can probably run as an access point in linux, ect) can do 100 mw power output. I do not know about power issues (I don't have any with mine and a single 2GB ethernet card, nor do I know anyone who has had issues), but if you know what you are doing you can probably use a desktop power supply with some cable splicing and stuff.ģ. As for USB 2.0, I just use a belkin pcmcia card in my laptop and my dock pci slots are freed up. (which might not be possible due to processor or cooling system limitations)Ģ. The latest latitude BIOS from Dell is the best option in your case, unless you want to overclock or something crazy like that. Since you already have a latitude BIOS with full dock support (as opposed to the inspiron which has port replicator support instead) there is no practical reason to cross flash to an inspiron or precision BIOS for your system.
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