Amenges911 Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 I have an M18x R1 that i recently purchased new GPU's for. After I installed them and went to turn PC just a blank screen appears. No BIOS screen or amything. I was told the new cards were compatible. I have A05 BIOS and was replacing 580M's with 765's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amenges911 Posted February 5, 2017 Author Share Posted February 5, 2017 Surely someone has ran into this issue... These are the two cards I bought to replace my 580m's. (http://www.ebay.com/itm/272484446212?_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT) Tried installing both, cleared CMOS and started PC. Blank screen. Removed one of the cards, same thing. Replaced one of the 580m's, works great. ...I even got so brave and impatient that I loaded Win7 using onboard vid with the laptop still in 38 pieces, installed new cards (plug and play style) then used the DevMgr to scan for hardware changes. It picked up the card and driver install failed of course... When I downloaded the 765M drivers from NVIDIA and tried to install them, it couldn't find any compatible hardware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoldago Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 14 hours ago, Amenges911 said: When I downloaded the 765M drivers from NVIDIA and tried to install them, it couldn't find any compatible hardware. You have to mod the driver because Dell never sold the M18x R1 with 765M. And for the bios issue i'm not sure if you need a unlocked bios. I think it's the same like the M17x R3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amenges911 Posted February 6, 2017 Author Share Posted February 6, 2017 5 hours ago, Zoldago said: You have to mod the driver because Dell never sold the M18x R1 with 765M. What do you mean by mod the driver? I thought downloading a driver from NVIDIA would work for an NVIDIA product, regardless of what PC build it's in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoldago Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 6 hours ago, Amenges911 said: I thought downloading a driver from NVIDIA would work for an NVIDIA product, regardless of what PC build it's in. That's the point. Nvidia driver checks the laptop id in combination with the graphicscard id and if this is not listed in the driver then you get this not compatible Hardware found message. And if you have a combination that's never been sold by Dell it's not listed in the driver. So you have to modify the driver. You can find instuctions here https://www.techinferno.com/index.php?/forums/topic/4055-guide-modding-nvidia-oem-inf-files/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amenges911 Posted February 9, 2017 Author Share Posted February 9, 2017 On 2/6/2017 at 6:16 PM, Zoldago said: That's the point. Nvidia driver checks the laptop id in combination with the graphicscard id and if this is not listed in the driver then you get this not compatible Hardware found message. And if you have a combination that's never been sold by Dell it's not listed in the driver. So you have to modify the driver. You can find instuctions here https://www.techinferno.com/index.php?/forums/topic/4055-guide-modding-nvidia-oem-inf-files/ ah gotcha. well i'm at my wits end with this thing. tired of removing 38 screws to try an resolve this. when i plug and play the cards with windows running, checking for new hardware from the devmgr doesnt pick either card in either slot up, so the drivers naturally wont install anway. When I install the cards with the system off, either 1 card or both, i'll either get just a blank screen before the BIOS screen even appears, or I'll get 5 beeps and sometimes 8 beeps. I've tried clearing CMOS, the Fn trick and everything. I thought I would need an unlocked BIOS to make this work, because I was going off of what the EuroCom website says as far as upgrading. http://www.eurocom.com/ec/upgrade(2,267,0)ec Where it says BIOS it says A05 (Unlocked) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Masterchief88 Posted May 10, 2017 Share Posted May 10, 2017 In my R1 runs an GTX 780M OC Version with the normal A05 BIOS very fine. Only the NVIDIA driver must be modded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack sparrow Posted May 11, 2017 Share Posted May 11, 2017 I also want to upgrade my R1 whit an GTX 780M. Great to hear that it works fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiDo Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 I cant download any files here... Pls help!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaeron Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 On 10/29/2017 at 2:45 PM, MiDo said: I cant download any files here... Pls help!! You have to have 5 QUALITY POSTS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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