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Expresscards are small cards for laptops. They are the successor of PCMCIA and PCcard.

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How to get Grub 2.0 to see usb device on (USB 3) expresscard

Im runing ubuntu off of a usb flash drive. My laptop does not support booting from my expresscard (nor has any usb3 ports other than what i have added via my expresscard). I'm using Grub 2.0x that ...
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How to work around laptop graphics card failure?

I've got an old IBM R52 laptop who's graphics card just completely failed. Is there any way to get a graphics card that plugs into the Expresscard slot? I'm not talking about the ViDock, but a ...
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6 monitor setup via ExpressCard using ViDock with External graphics card on T420s

I am planning on getting a 6 monitor setup for my home office. The problem is, I want to use those monitors with my Lenovo Thinkpad T420s. The T420s supports only 3 external monitors by itself. ...
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Install Ubuntu 10.04 On An Expresscard Drive On MBP

I have a macbook pro (4,1) and an external SSD that is in my expresscard slot on my macbook pro. I would like to install Ubuntu 10.04 on the SSD and be able to boot into it from my macbook pro (...
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RJ45 not working on my Toshiba Qosmio X500 Notebook

When I plug the RJ45 cable into the machine, running Windows 10, I get the message Unidentified network - No internet I do have a Wi-Fi connection to the router, so I am on the internet, but the ...
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Can I use a ExpressCard slot as image input?

I have an old laptop which I would like to use as a secondary monitor for another laptop. While this is typically not possible, I just realized that my old laptop has a ExpressCard slot. It is a ...
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Supplying Power to an ExpressCard USB 3.0 Adapter

I have a ExpressCard USB 3 adapter for my MacBook Pro 17. It is working fine, but it does not seem to be able to properly power my external HDD. The card has a power barrel connection on it, but I ...
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e-SATA formatted external HDD not recognized by USB

So I have an external HDD, I believe it's a Hitachi, 2tb, working fine EXCEPT: when I formatted this, it was via e-SATA, thru an Expresscard slot in my Mac Book Pro A1151, 2 partition, NTFS/Fat32. The ...
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External GPU through expresscard slot - Power up PSU

I got one of these: http://www.banggood.com/EXP-GDC-Laptop-External-PCI-E-Graphics-Card-p-934367.html It's an external gpu dock through expresscard slot (exp to pcie). I hooked it up to my PSU as ...
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Will an express card|34 to PCIe x16 work?

My laptop has an ExpressCard|54 (it will fit ExpressCard|34 as well) and I want to add a discrete GPU, the AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB. Will the ExpressCard|34 to PCIe x16 adaptor work?
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