topic Re: What's inside door #3? in PCs & Accessories

What's inside door #3?

Chewi — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:58:24 GMT

I've had this PCG-K195HP for about six months now and last night, boredom got the better of me and I took a look inside each of the doors on the back. I found the hard drive, the RAM and... umm... something else. I've worked on countless machines and built several from scratch in the past and I've never seen anything like this. Does anyone know what it is? It's got some coloured tape over it and it's next to the monitor port. If it's possible to upgrade my graphics card, I'd be ecstatic but somehow, I doubt it's that.

http://www.dur.ac.uk/james.le-cuirot/vaio.jpg

Re: What's inside door #3?

kee-lo_ — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:39:55 GMT

Isn't that for wireless cards?

Re: What's inside door #3?

Chewi — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 17:27:39 GMT

Hmm possibly. I've already got wireless built in so maybe that's it.

Re: What's inside door #3?

Chewi — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 18:21:19 GMT

You know, maybe I should take it out and see what stops working.:smileywink:

Re: What's inside door #3?

kee-lo_ — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 18:43:43 GMT

Heh

Re: What's inside door #3?

feederfan — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 19:39:58 GMT

To save you knackering your computer, if you have inbuilt wireless on your K series, the one behind door 3 IS the MiniPCI wireless LAN card.

Re: What's inside door #3?

kee-lo_ — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 21:33:24 GMT

I was right

Re: What's inside door #3?

feederfan — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 22:18:41 GMT

you sure were, you can use other things there aswell as wireless cards tho, basically any miniPCI card

Re: What's inside door #3?

kee-lo_ — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 17:07:59 GMT

There's not that many around really.

Re: What's inside door #3?

feederfan — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 17:12:21 GMT

No, i know, but thats because they can make a WLAN chips, so cards are uneccessary, its just another chip on the motherboard! Cant wait for a MiniSD Wlan card for my phone :smileygrin: !

Re: What's inside door #3?

kee-lo_ — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 17:16:10 GMT

Nice

Re: What's inside door #3?

Chewi — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 17:39:14 GMT

Aha! Thanks very much. If only I could upgrade the god damn graphics card...

Re: What's inside door #3?

feederfan — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 18:29:25 GMT

Haha, yeah the Gfx Card does suck, personally i think that Nvidia's laptop chips are far superior, but when your looking at that X-Black screen and comparing it to another laptop, the VAIO always, always wins! Anyway, could be worsed, you could be landed with intel extreme graphics....urgh...

Re: What's inside door #3?

kee-lo_ — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 18:47:37 GMT

That's still a long way off, costly technology.