I'm trying to find out how to upgrade the video card on an HP Pavillion dv9000, its got a lame NVIDIA MCP67M and from what ive been told its soldered to the mother board. Does anyone know if its possible to upgrade it and how?

you cant go and buy a graphics card for your laptop and replace your current one, but what you might be able to do depending on what your graphics card is already using/sharing is change the amount of memory your graphics card borrows from your RAM

i think you can only borrow upto 128mb im not sure.

you can do this by going into your BIOS settings.

turn laptop on
press either f2, f10, or f11 cant remember which.
find the menu/option that allows you to change the amount of memory you want to allow the MCP67M to share.

hope this helps :)

i wouldnt concider changing the amount if you have 256mb or less of ram, as it will slow your laptop down. but if you have like 512mb or 1gb ram then go for it.

Yeah, i read somwhere else that you can change the memory shared between your RAM and video card and did that previous to submiting this but it really didnt seem to help much. Also I've been told that its impossible to put a different video card in a laptop, atleast with one that has been intigrated into the mother board by the manufacturer. Is that true?

Yeah, i read somwhere else that you can change the memory shared between your RAM and video card and did that previous to submiting this but it really didnt seem to help much. Also I've been told that its impossible to put a different video card in a laptop, atleast with one that has been intigrated into the mother board by the manufacturer. Is that true?
If you pay somebody EXPERT in doing this, the cost is just going to be enormous AND you are going to waste a lot of time with a project that will probably end in disaster.Be cheaper to sell it on and buy another.

Also I've been told that its impossible to put a different video card in a laptop, atleast with one that has been intigrated into the mother board by the manufacturer. Is that true?

You're basically stuck with the original graphics card. If gaming (and therefore regular CPU and/or graphics card upgrades) is your thing, don't buy laptops!