I couldn't find a tech support page, hope this is welcome here!
Here's my predicament. I have an old HP lying around with a pcie amd Radeon 7 inside. That laptop has been down for a while, can't even get into the bios, just black screen with what looks like an error code blinking via caps lock light - 3 long blinks then 2 short ones?
Anyway, I also have a Dell Latitude 3420 with an Intel i7 1167g, 16 gb ram (maybe 32 if I harvest a ddr4 from the HP) and.. integrated Intel iris XE graphics card.
I'd like to add the Amd Radeon 7 to the Latitude 3420 but believe the only Pcie port is taken by the M2 processor, at least I believe that's the case, I know there was only one port when I upgraded SSD's.
So, I've heard of people plugging their PCIE cards in via USB/thunderbolt I believe, is that possible? Which adapter would you recommend?
Also, I'm not sure the little dell can power the Radeon 7 and would have to check, if I don't have the power is there anyway to adjust that in the bios, or could I potentially plug the external Radeon 7 into an outlet? That's my next conondrum. It's been a while since I've done anything like this and I'm used to desktops so am very rusty.. if I could just connect the laptop motherboard to a desktop power supply I'd probably do it lol.
I compared the two graphics cards and seems like the Radeon 7 is still much better than what I have, I'd just really like to use it.
Any information would be appreciated!
Also, I'd like to harvest really anything possible from the other laptops (another extra crappy HP) or repair the one I have and maybe just use it, it's touch screen so eh? But I'm pretty sure the CPU in my Dell is faster, the HP is an HP 15 VW 032 WM
Would I maybe be better off to repair the HP? It ran well at the time but I've no clue where to start with it, it's possible the hard drive is just gone but with not having any visuals at all I'm just assuming it's the display?
Anyway, if anyone bothered to read and try to make some sense out of my jumbled thoughts I appreciate you!