What is a integrated graphics card?
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An integrated graphics card is built on the motherboard of your system. You have the option of using it. You aren't required to use integrated video on a PC. A laptop always has integrated graphics so that's not changeable. \nYou can always buy a better graphics card for your system. Either AGP or PCI-E depending on which your motherboard uses. Usually integrated graphics is low end and not very capable for gaming. It is however completely usable for everyday functions even watching movies.
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I think it means a 2D/3D video graphics card installed in the AGP port of your computer.  You can ask your computer dealer about this.
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The guy was right.  You cannot change/upgrade the graphics card on your laptop because it doesn't come with one.  The Intel chipset which is built into the system board is your graphics controller cannot be upgraded.
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Video cards are definitely internal in either PCI-express, AGP, or PCI format.  Modems, the dial up type usually goes in a PCI slot.
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A 3 d graphics card will allow the rendering of objects writen in 3d to appear 3 dimentional on the screen. Computer games have been the biggest supporter of 3d up to this date. Net advertisers are now beginning to render adds in 3d now. Most of the newer 3d graphics cards now have there own processors on the card. These processors are called GPU's for Graphic(s) Processor Unit along with there own on board memory. A typical 3d graphics card has more memory on board than most supper geek computers of the day gone bye. Gone are the days of XGA and VGA. I hope this answers your question.
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AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) is an interface on a motherboard for connecting a video card.\n\nXGA (Extended Graphics Array) is an IBM video standard from 1990 that supports resolutions of up to 1024 x 768.
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your card can't handle the graphics.
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Since it is an 8X AGP interface, you have many many models and prices to choose from. Nvidia just released a bunch of cards in AGP - which was in planned obselecence until they realized there was too many people with AGP boards.\nFor a little over $200 you could get something with the Nvidia 6800GS Series which is a good performance mid-priced card.\n\nhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814143045
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Assuming you have windows XP.\nRight click on your desktop\nproperties ---> settings ---> advanced ---> graphic card.\nwill tell you all.
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How Graphics Cards Work\n\nThe images you see on your monitor are made of tiny dots called pixels. At most common resolution settings, a screen displays over a million pixels, and the computer has to decide what to do with every one in order to create an image. To do this, it needs a translator - something to take binary data from the CPU and turn it into a picture you can see. Unless a computer has graphics capability built into the motherboard, that translation takes place on the graphics card.\n\nA graphics card's job is complex, but its principles and components are easy to understand.\n\nGraphics Card Basics\n\nThink of a computer as a company with its own art department. When people in the company want a piece of artwork, they send a request to the art department. The art department decides how to create the image and then puts it on paper. The end result is that someone's idea becomes an actual, viewable picture.\n\nThe four main components of a graphics card are connections for the motherboard and monitor, a processor, and memory.\n\nA graphics card works along the same principles. The CPU, working in conjunction with software applications, sends information about the image to the graphics card. The graphics card decides how to use the pixels on the screen to create the image. It then sends that information to the monitor through a cable. \n\nCreating an image out of binary data is a demanding process. To make a 3-D image, the graphics card first creates a wire frame out of straight lines. Then, it rasterizes the image (fills in the remaining pixels). It also adds lighting, texture and color. For fast-paced games, the computer has to go through this process about sixty times per second. Without a graphics card to perform the necessary calculations, the workload would be too much for the computer to handle.\n\nThe graphics card accomplishes this task using four main components:\n\n    * A motherboard connection for data and power\n    * A processor to decide what to do with each pixel on the screen\n    * Memory to hold information about each pixel and to temporarily store completed pictures\n    * A monitor connection so you can see the final result \n\nProcessor and Memory\n\nLike a motherboard, a graphics card is a printed circuit board that houses a processor and RAM. It also has an input/output system (BIOS) chip, which stores the card's settings and performs diagnostics on the memory, input and output at startup. A graphics card's processor, called a graphics processing unit (GPU), is similar to a computer's CPU. A GPU, however, is designed specifically for performing the complex mathematical and geometric calculations that are necessary for graphics rendering. Some of the fastest GPUs have more transistors than the average CPU. A GPU produces a lot of heat, so it is usually located under a heat sink or a fan.\n\nA heat sink or fan keeps a graphics card's processor from overheating.\n\nIn addition to its processing power, a GPU uses special programming to help it analyze and use data. ATI and nVidia produce the vast majority of GPUs on the market, and both companies have developed their own enhancements for GPU performance. To improve image quality, the processors use:\n\n    * Full scene anti aliasing (FSAA), which smoothes the edges of 3-D objects\n    * Anisotropic filtering (AF), which makes images look crisper \n\nEach company has also developed specific techniques to help the GPU apply colors, shading, textures and patterns.\n\nAs the GPU creates images, it needs somewhere to hold information and completed pictures. It uses the card's RAM for this purpose, storing data about each pixel, its color and its location on the screen. Part of the RAM can also act as a frame buffer, meaning that it holds completed images until it is time to display them. Typically, video RAM operates at very high speeds and is dual ported, meaning that the system can read from it and write to it at the sa
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Graphics cards are usually built into the motherboard itself, so this means you can't replace the graphics card.  Some laptops do have a slot at the bottom for internal wireless cards.  You can also purchase a PC card for the PCMCIA slot.
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No, usually the graphic's chip is intergrated unless it's a high end notebook.
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Your Chip set is NVidia nForce 410 and  Video Output Interface PCI Express, it depends on who much you want to spend on a Graphics Card, i would suggest GeForce 7 series
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Windows XP has this built in.  You need to install additional graphics cards.  Usually those will need to be PCI as most computers only have 1 AGP or PCIx port.  Or use a higher end video card with multiple ports.  Most mid-range ($100 and up) video cards and higher have 2 ports on them, some have more.  For instance ATI has something called "Hydravision", But I recommend letting Windows do all the work for you.  I think ATI gave up on the extra Hydravision stuff now that I think about it.\n\nAnyway, when you have mulitple video cards installed, right click on the desktop and choose "Properties" and then click on the "settings" tab.  You'll see all available monitors shown graphically there.  You can click on the monitors and "enable" them to get the screen to show up there.  All monitors through Windows are autonomous and can display different data from the master (1) monitor.
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It's easy...for windows XP, go to start->control panel->Performance and Maintennance->System. Then go to the "Hardware" tab, click "Device Manager". Click view and choose "Devices by connection". Expand all the Icons (click on the small + in the small box beside the icons) till you see PCI bus. Expand more icons till you see your name of your grapics card. Then look back upwards by one stage and you will see something like "Intel(R) 82131XX/XX/XX Processor to AGP Controller". AGP Controller means AGP bus. PCI controller means PCI bus and so on.\n\nSimpler step is to look up the computer's manual for info regarding the graphics.
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AGP or Accelerated Graphics Port succeeded PCI or Peripheral Component Interconnect as a technology to connect graphics cards to a computer's motherboard. PCI is still used to connect other devices like ethernet and sound cards.\n\nAGP slots provide a dedicated link between the card and the CPU and thus providing faster communication between them.  There are other enhancements as well.  See the source for more.  But the bottom line is that AGP cards perform much better.\n\nBut now AGP is getting phased in favor of PCIe or PCI Express which is even faster and can be used as the bus for all the devices in a machine.
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No.\nPC's have changed video card interfaces as they have evolved or reflected the complexity of the video display it presents\n.\nWhen I first started in computing there was a graphics adapter for a 12" monochrome (green or white or black text with very crude graphics or pictures) display.\nNext came EGA and VGA and super VGA cards allowing better video and graphics on larger monitors. \n\nThe cards are also slot specific.\nPCI video cards can only fit in PCI motherboard slots.\nAGP video cards can only fit in AGP motherboard slots.