Sunday, December 25, 2011

HP Pavilion zd7000a (zd7380us) Upgrade

I was the proud owner of an HP Pavilion zd7380us until one day the screen went black and it wouldn't start up.  Being out of warranty and I paid HP to fix the laptop at a flat rate.  What I got back was something different.  I was now the proud owner of the HP Pavilion zd7000a.  The primary difference is that the video card.  Whereas the zd7380us had an nVidia GeForce FX Go5700, the zd7000a requires the ATI M22/M24 video driver.  Windows reports it as the ATI Radeon X600.

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