can you just not use the dock card? i belive its just a standard chip internal card, i have not tried it though on a 20" lcd, i would assume it runs it but it might not do 1600x1200.
I have a C840 with a dual PCI docking station and have only found two cards that will work with the system:
Matrox Graphics Millennium PCI
ATI Radeon 7500 PCI
I've tried other cards (Nvidia and ATI), but without luck. The laptop gives a short
blip complaint and shuts down. I haven't seen any noticible degradation in performance with either of these cards, however the ATI has more memory (64MB) and has both, VGA and DVI, connectors. You can run two montors off this single card.
Side Note: I personally know of 2 of these docking stations where the built in VGA port has went bad.
I have a CSx H500 with upgraded cpu and a BFG Geforce FX5200 seems to work.
3DMARK2001 PROJECT FILE
PROJECT
Name My Benchmark
Description
Registration Name
Registration Key
3DMark Version 330
DISPLAY
Platform NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 (Microsoft Corporation)
CPU Optimization D3D Pure Hardware T&L
Width 1024
Height 768
Depth 32 bit
Z-Buffering 24 bit
Texture Format Compressed
Buffering Double
Refresh Rate 60 Hz
FSAA Mode None
OPTIONS
Show Title Screens Yes
Continuous Benchmark No
Benchmark Run Count 1
Demo Sounds Enabled Yes
Continuous Demo No
Game Sound Effects Enabled Yes
Game Music Enabled Yes
Game Detail Level Low
RESULTS
3DMark Score 3150
Game 1 - Car Chase - Low Detail 41.5 fps
Game 1 - Car Chase - High Detail 12.0 fps
Game 2 - Dragothic - Low Detail 56.9 fps
Game 2 - Dragothic - High Detail 31.6 fps
Game 3 - Lobby - Low Detail 50.2 fps
Game 3 - Lobby - High Detail 22.2 fps
Game 4 - Nature 17.5 fps
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 545.0 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 699.1 MTexels/s
High Polygon Count (1 Light) 7.3 MTriangles/s
High Polygon Count (8 Lights) 2.9 MTriangles/s
Environment Bump Mapping 47.6 fps
DOT3 Bump Mapping 49.0 fps
Vertex Shader 37.1 fps
Pixel Shader 44.1 fps
Advanced Pixel Shader 26.2 fps
Point Sprites 6.0 MSprites/s
SYSTEM INFO
System Info Version 2.2
Installation ID 0x00000000
OEM ID
CPU INFO
CENTRAL PROCESSING UNITS
Manufacturer Intel
Family Pentium® III
Internal Clock 598 MHz
Internal Clock Maximum 598 MHz
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3DMARK2001 PROJECT FILE
PROJECT
Name My Benchmark
Description
Registration Name
Registration Key
3DMark Version 330
DISPLAY
Platform NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 (Microsoft Corporation)
CPU Optimization D3D Pure Hardware T&L
Width 1024
Height 768
Depth 32 bit
Z-Buffering 24 bit
Texture Format Compressed
Buffering Double
Refresh Rate 60 Hz
FSAA Mode None
OPTIONS
Show Title Screens Yes
Continuous Benchmark No
Benchmark Run Count 1
Demo Sounds Enabled Yes
Continuous Demo No
Game Sound Effects Enabled Yes
Game Music Enabled Yes
Game Detail Level Low
RESULTS
3DMark Score 3150
Game 1 - Car Chase - Low Detail 41.5 fps
Game 1 - Car Chase - High Detail 12.0 fps
Game 2 - Dragothic - Low Detail 56.9 fps
Game 2 - Dragothic - High Detail 31.6 fps
Game 3 - Lobby - Low Detail 50.2 fps
Game 3 - Lobby - High Detail 22.2 fps
Game 4 - Nature 17.5 fps
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 545.0 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 699.1 MTexels/s
High Polygon Count (1 Light) 7.3 MTriangles/s
High Polygon Count (8 Lights) 2.9 MTriangles/s
Environment Bump Mapping 47.6 fps
DOT3 Bump Mapping 49.0 fps
Vertex Shader 37.1 fps
Pixel Shader 44.1 fps
Advanced Pixel Shader 26.2 fps
Point Sprites 6.0 MSprites/s
SYSTEM INFO
System Info Version 2.2
Installation ID 0x00000000
OEM ID
CPU INFO
CENTRAL PROCESSING UNITS
Manufacturer Intel
Family Pentium® III
Internal Clock 598 MHz
Internal Clock Maximum 598 MHz