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Hello again.  Well I gave up on saving windows install and working on fresh copy.  However with fresh copy, once amd drivers install, system will freeze up at the windows 7 box (I call it that, it glows and glimmers).  I then have to go into safe mode, ddu and restart.  I have every driver on system up to date.  Tried Leshcast 14.4, 14.12, 15.7, 16.2.1, no luck.  Upon reading elsewhere I noticed that my system has one of those nvram bios, where taking out battery isn't enough.

 

What has bothered me is that on the first screen of the bios (Main), when you go to entries for Integrated Graphics and Discrete Graphics 1, they use to say Intel Hd 4000 and AMD 7970m, respectively, now just Integrated Graphics Intel Ivy Bridge and Discrete Graphics AMD Gfx.  Even if I remove the graphics (amd) card, I can't get the bios (a13) to say Intel HD 4000 (or some combination of those words).  I does detect and name the CPU type on the main page.  So this is why I am starting to wonder if I have a bad nvram or corrupted data in the nvram (as all of this occured when my SSD install of Win764sp1 froze in game about 3 weeks ago - yes I am a determined type).

 

Now I cannot find a guide that is exactly for the M17xR4.  There are guides that say to short out the Cmos Clr location.  Others call for the RTCLS to be shorted.  Still others say look for a password bridge.  Yet still others say move a jumper or pin (which I don't think laptops have because of being moved around).

 

So I guess the question is, how do I get the bios screen main page show Integrated Graphics Intel HD 4000 and the Discrete Graphics 1 to show AMD 7970m (this also is a possible way it was shown, since I haven't seen it since I can't give the exact name it used but close to what I just called it, you will know you have a 4000 and 7970m in your system).  As mentioned stuck at A13 bios, they flashed bios during repair to A12, so can't go backwards without major risk).  Everything else is being listed with its proper name in the main page (ssd, optical, cpu, etc.).  That is when I jumped on the NVRam issue in terms of not truely clearing the bios (with the old fashion way of pulling the cmos battery, laptop main battery and ac adapter, power on once, then go back and replace battery, etc.).

 

Note after rebooting with amd driver in win installed, first attempt at system repair says "bad driver" but second and on just say no reason.  I have even disabled the hdmi audio and other audio from Intel in device manager to make sure the AMD driver for audio isn't clashing with intel/Microsoft version. (Intel driver v 10.18.10.3958)

 

Please put me out of my misery over this.

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