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M2200 Driver/Vbios issue


mx90

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Hello, I purchased an M2200 (mxm 3.0a) off eBay. I'm attempting to install drivers for the card on my Dell M4700 Precision laptop. So far, I've tried editing the .inf file according to null's guide. After so many failed to work, I began to suspect something else may be off.

 

At this point, I backed up + checked the vbios on the chip and it turns out that it came up with the version listed here, for the M2000, which quotes a hardware ID of 1430: https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/186135/186135

Note that the version on the card is 

84.06.51.00.05

 

I found this vbios online for the M2200, which quotes a hardware ID of 1436: https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/205283/dell-quadrom2200-4096-161024

 

Note that the version on this firmware is:
84.06.76.00.1C

 

Now what's interesting is that in Device Manager, the card itself shows up as" PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_1436&SUBSYS_153E1028&REV_A1

This is confusing to me - why did it come with the firmware for 1430 if the device reads as 1436 in the Device Manager?

 

Should I try flashing it with 1C firmware? I'm also not entirely sure what to put in my .inf, but I believe this is the relevant line:

%NVIDIA_DEV.1436.07B0.1028% = Section136, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_1436&SUBSYS_07B01028

 

I've tried many ways of editing this, including setting the %NVIDIA_DEV. to 1430 while keeping the PCI\VEN part as 1436, but so far I've gotten nowhere. I'm also changing the 07B0's to 153E (to match what comes up in Device Manager as per null's guide).

 

If anyone could share any insight into this, I'd really appreciate it!

 

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I'd like to add a message I received from the seller since I posted this.

 

"These cards are pulled from HP ZBook 17 or 15 G4 Notebook.
We know for fact VBios is part HP Bios.
Drivers you can try this drivers from HP:

https://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp90001-90500/sp90105.exe

If you do not have HP system just simply unzip it

Thanks"

 

That link he sent me seems to be an HP bios file.. I don't think that helps me any! I took a look at the HP Graphics driver for that model, though, and saw lots of entries for Device ID 1436 but none for 1430.  Should I try using the Section###'s listed in the HP .inf in my Dell .inf?

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Hi!

Device Id: 10DE - 1430 it is Quadro M2000 (GM206GL)

Device Id: 10DE - 1436 it is Quadro M2200 Mobile (GM206GLM)

It's different GPU.

I think that you can flash this vbios:  https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/205283/dell-quadrom2200-4096-161024

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I tried with a few versions of nvflash, but it seems like this one got the furthest: https://www.techpowerup.com/download/nvidia-nvflash-with-board-id-mismatch-disabled/

 

Here's the screenshot of when it froze.

 

VXtpoQR.png

 

Is there another version or command that someone would recommend? The command I used was: --index=0 -6 GM206.ROM

I've tried some of the commands with -f and -4 -5 -6, but they send an invalid command flag.

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4 minutes ago, mx90 said:

I'm wondering, are these crashes due to my OS? I'm using Windows 7 x64

I don't know.

I think that may be seller reflash M2000M to M2200M with hardware SPI programmer.

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9 minutes ago, Klem said:

I don't know.

I think that may be seller reflash M2000M to M2200M with hardware SPI programmer.

I'll keep this possibility in mind. What do you suppose is causing the Joe Dirt versions of NVFlash to not detect the GPU?

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I finally managed to get Joe Dirt's nvflash mod to work in Linux (Ubuntu), but this was the result:

DKM4y2Y.png

 

I believe this is because the tool was made for Geforce cards, not Quadros. I did contact Joe Dirt on the overclocking forum it was posted to about this, but he hasn't been seen there since last month - might be awhile before he can reply!

In the meantime, I did start another thread about this here incase anyone is interested: http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/m4700-gpu-upgrade.826477/

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