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Originally Posted by Troll2k
How do you get the 2nd power supply(external for the video card) to turn on when you turn on your laptop?
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The PCIe board comes with another little board with a switch that plugs into the 24pin PSU cable. You power up the laptop and wait for the bios boot screen to show before powering on the GPU. Or leave it turned on and plug the expresscard in after the bios boot screen appears. It's hot pluggable once your into windows too as long as you have it configured properly during boot up.
I have 8GB ram in my laptop which means I need to move stuff around in memory with a pre-boot utility to make address space for the external GPU.
With most 4GB ram laptops you can just boot straight into windows no problem.