DIY eGPU experiences

[flaunt]

try installing new ATI drivers now; disable all unused hardware that I mentioned above.

[ruhtraeel]

try installing new ATI drivers now; disable all unused hardware that I mentioned above.

Well, my mouse and stuff works on bootup, but I'll try anyways. I already did disable like everything before though, to no avail. I guess I'll try it again.

And reinstalling the driver doesn't do anything, it still gives me the same error message that it can't find an ati driver or it malfunctioned.




EDIT:

THIS IS SO ANNOYING. It's like EVERYTHING recognizes the card EXCEPT FOR THE CATALSYT CONTROL CENTRE. It refuses to install the driver at the right place, so the GFX card stays as "unspecified". It may be because it only recognizes whatever the internal GFX card is, but not the external.

[flaunt]

Are you sure you are using desktop drivers and not laptop drivers? I made that mistake with mine

[ruhtraeel]

Are you sure you are using desktop drivers and not laptop drivers? I made that mistake with mine

Yes, I am almost 100% sure. I even used ATI's driver finding website, but still, it refuses to detect it.

[Soup1990]

hi i have lenovo thinkpad t400 with:
PE4H 2.0a with EC2C Expresscard adapter 16x
MSI Cyclone 460gtx graphics card
Corsair CMPSU-400CX 400-Watt CX Series 80 Plus Certified Power Supply
HDMI mini (C) to HDMI (A) regular 10 ft cable

ok, so the problem is, i try to put the ec2c into the expresscard slot on my t400 and it doesnt fit.
slot is bottom right corner of laptop and i dont know how to put the card in?

please help! trying to play FFXIV!!!!!
any suggestions on what i need to complete this set up or how to insert ec2c into my lenovo thinkpad t400 would help! thank you

[Khenglish]

hi i have lenovo thinkpad t400 with:
PE4H 2.0a with EC2C Expresscard adapter 16x
MSI Cyclone 460gtx graphics card
Corsair CMPSU-400CX 400-Watt CX Series 80 Plus Certified Power Supply
HDMI mini (C) to HDMI (A) regular 10 ft cable

ok, so the problem is, i try to put the ec2c into the expresscard slot on my t400 and it doesnt fit.
slot is bottom right corner of laptop and i dont know how to put the card in?

please help! trying to play FFXIV!!!!!
any suggestions on what i need to complete this set up or how to insert ec2c into my lenovo thinkpad t400 would help! thank you

Your laptop has a 54 width expresscard slot, and the ec2c is a 34 width card. Even though it doesn't look like it fits, it really does. Just slide the ec2c in on the left side of the expresscard slot.

Also, I have my doubts about a 10 foot long HDMI cable working since it's so long. I suggest first trying the short 1ft cable that came with the pe4h first to make sure everything words before you try the longer cable.

[DarkCrimson]

Dear notebook enthusiasts,
I have a HP HDX9050ef system and I have bought a PE4H v1.0a+EC2C card. To test it I used and old ATI X300 video adapter, but when everything is plugged and turned on nothing happens. I tryed powering without plugging the EC2C to boot, and then plug it in, I've tryed putting the system in stand by and the waking it up but with no success. The device manager does not show new hardware, and Everest shows the PCI-e ports as empty even though the card is pluged in, and if I connect a flash drive to the USB port of the PE4H it gets recognized by the system...
Does anyone has had the same problem, why the laptop does not even give signs of detecting any new hardware ? The lappy is with a Windows 7 64bit, it should not have problems with hot plugging, I tryed to bood with the Vidock's boot disk, but nothing changed.

Please any ideas ?

[Soup1990]

Your laptop has a 54 width expresscard slot, and the ec2c is a 34 width card. Even though it doesn't look like it fits, it really does. Just slide the ec2c in on the left side of the expresscard slot.

Also, I have my doubts about a 10 foot long HDMI cable working since it's so long. I suggest first trying the short 1ft cable that came with the pe4h first to make sure everything words before you try the longer cable.

thank you so much! the card slid in the very left side and it pushed in all the way. and it works perfect on my HD samsung tv with the 10 foot HDMI cable. works perfect!! now i can play ffxiv with amazing graphics!!

[ruhtraeel]

thank you so much! the card slid in the very left side and it pushed in all the way. and it works perfect on my HD samsung tv with the 10 foot HDMI cable. works perfect!! now i can play ffxiv with amazing graphics!!

WHY IS IT SO EASY FOR SOME PEOPLE?????

I have literally spent half a year trying to get all the parts and get it to work.

[pterodactilo]

WHY IS IT SO EASY FOR SOME PEOPLE?????

I have literally spent half a year trying to get all the parts and get it to work.

So far external videocards for notebooks consist in hacks and are not that easy to make them work. I am interested on this too but I think I will wait and push the trigger later when Nvidia releases polished and more user friendly external solutions. This may coincide with Intel Sandy Bridge and PCI-E 2.0 1x. Today bandwidth available for external devices such graphics cards is severely limited with 1.0 and you need to uninstall the wlan card of your notebook and such, not a clean solution for me. Also being able to reuse internal LCD without significant performance degradation is a must and technology that brings that without need for severe hacking is not present yet. I don't want to sound like I am discouraging use of DIYvidock and such , early adopters of these technologies are rather necessary so they pave the road for lazy people like me. I just don't want to deal with the inconsistencies and lack of maturity of current solutions .