Intel(R) 915GM/GMS, 910GML Express Chip Set

[tomdeg6]

Hello, and thank you for reading.

Laptop is a Dell Inspiron 1300 with upgraded microprocessor, RAM, and hard drive.

Would you be able to assist with these questions?

1) Where in the laptop is the integrated Intel(R) 915GM/GMS, 910GML Express Chip Set?

2) If the graphics card is soldered in, where are the steps written down for its removal? A service manual?

3) Once removed, what can the chip set be upgraded to?

4) If the entire mother board has to be upgraded, what are the suitable upgrades?

Thank you for reading.

 

[WyomingKnott]

1) It's in the processor, accessed via the chipset. It's not separate. It's little areas of silicon on chips that mostly do something else.
2) There is no graphics card. Laptops simply don't have graphics cards, with the exception of some fairly advanced models that use a special mini PCIEe board, but these are high-end and expensive. Some notebooks have a separate graphics CHIP. The motherboard is highly specialized to use that chip and would not work with another one.
3) Nothing. Don't remove your chipset; your machine will stop working.
4) Motherboards are custom and specific to the make and model of PC. Only a very few will be compatible with a given PC, or no others will be.

Generally, you can't add graphics to a notebook machine. They don't take "graphics cards," they either use onboard graphics or have a GPU soldered into a motherboard that is specific to that GPU.

Some fairly expensive machines will have a socketed GPU that can be replaced by a very limited number of other compatible GPU chips. But since the support for the GPU is on the motherboard, it can only support a limited class of GPU chips.

Really, really neat machines will take a tiny little graphics card in the fumfum (I have to look it up) format, but you don't have one of those. Sorry.

EDIT: I take it back. I can't find a single Mini PCIe graphics cards, only adapters that will let you connect to a graphics card in a large and expensive external enclosure.

 

[Joshua Martin]

I'm not saying it isn't possible, but it isn't easy to upgrade a laptop.
They aren't known for being upgraded and even if you can and it IS possible, It's probably incredibly difficult.
The RAM and HDD is the only parts of a laptop that you can easily upgrade.
In my opinion, I wouldn't try upgrading the CPU or GPU.

 

[tomdeg6]

Thank you for your replies.

Will be a pity to waste a machine that is reliable in every other way but for the non-compatibility of the 915GM integrated graphics chip set with new Windows 10 OS.

 

[WyomingKnott]

Oh, that's the issue?

The most likely answer is that a driver for Windows 10 for that machine will be available soon. Many systems have upgraded to 10 before all the necessary drivers were available.

 

[tomdeg6]

Thank you again for your reply.

Information available is that there is no driver for 915GM even for Windows 7 although for that there was a solution. Information available notes that the type of graphics card driver is unsupported (XPDM v WDDM?) and that the Windows 10 kernel (?) does not includes any programming to support the old type of card (XPDM?).