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Hey there buddy, I have a Clevo 680M in my P150HM. Currently I've tried these VBIOS's from this thread: 680m_Clevo_OCeditionNew.zip -------------------- Unlocked software overclocking (You can overclock beyond +135MHz), and acoording to svl7, he tweaked it to remove throttling completely. So what you get is just an unlocked card, at stock clocks and voltages, and no throttling (theoretically; although I believe some Alienware users are still dealing with this problem regardless) MSI_GTX680m4gb_'OCedition'_VBIOS.zip ---------- Unlocked software overclocking. What you get here is an unlocked card, at stock clocks and voltages. I can confirm it can be flashed to a Clevo card without issues, but it does throttle. (on a P150HM, other systems may vary) MSI_GTX680m4gb_+_200MHz_OV_ver2.zip -------- Unlocked software overclocking. What you get here is an unlocked card, at 915MHz core/1800 memory, 3D-state voltage at 1037mV. A little bit high for me, it concerns me. On a side note: this enables the most extreme overclocking, but use with caution. They all work as advertised on the first and second post of this thread. For daily use, I dug around and found @widezu69's thread and loved it: http://forum.techinferno.com/general-notebook-discussions/2062-using-your-4gb-gtx-680m-its-safest-full-potential.html#post26060 I use the VBIOS he shares in his OP, it is an MSI VBIOS modded by slv7 running core at 915/2250 memory, 3D-state voltage sits at 1000mV. This VBIOS has given me great stability and performance and I'm not too concerned about temperature or pushing my card. I leave it as it is with that rom. Try it out, you might just love it. Cheers - - - Updated - - - OMGGG!!! TY! I'll try this later tonight!!!!!!!! @mw86 Thank you so much!

I wrote some code for my mbed and dumped the contents of the 1-wire EEPROM in my 240W power supply. Here is the output: Read ROM: 0x09 0x1A 0xF8 0xB2 0x08 0x00 0x00 0x73 Read memory pages: 0x0000: 0x44 0x45 0x4C 0x4C 0x30 0x30 0x41 0x43 0x0008: 0x32 0x34 0x30 0x31 0x39 0x35 0x31 0x32 0x0010: 0x33 0x43 0x4E 0x30 0x4A 0x39 0x33 0x38 0x0018: 0x48 0x37 0x33 0x32 0x34 0x35 0x39 0x36 0x0020: 0x43 0x32 0x32 0x35 0x34 0x41 0x30 0x30 0x0028: 0x32 0x28 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0x0030: 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0x0038: 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0x0040: 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0x0048: 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0x0050: 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0x0058: 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0x0060: 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0x0068: 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0x0070: 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0x0078: 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF Read status registers: 0xFC 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0x00 The string from memory page 1/2 in ascii form: DELL00AC240195123CN0J938H7324596C2254A002 It's a DS2502 (Family code 0x09, the first byte of ROM). The datasheet indicates that the first two pages are write protected (0xFC). If the 330W PS is the same way, it won't be easily reprogrammable. However there is something about memory page redirection that I could possibly use to change the value returned for a given read address. I will have to order a 330W PS to see if it is the same chip. I dumped the contents of a 90W dell PS, and got a different family code so I will need to figure out the part number of the 330W to see if it is reprogammable or would have to be replaced with one that's not write protected.

Yeah... believe it or not, but Dell just posted a new bios for the M17x R3. ... and (*surprise*), they even give a tiny bit information about the changes they made. Under 'fixes & enhancements' it says: "Alienware M17XR3 A12 BIOS add GPU switch option in F2" Here's the link to the official Dell site: Drivers and Downloads | Dell [united States] Please let us know how it works out! As the Dell server currently seems to have some issues regarding this file, I also attached it to this post. I'm waiting for your reports. If there's enough interest I can unlock and apply the Sata tweak (if necessary). M17x-R3_A12.zip

[Started 6-9-2009 as DIY: Adding SSD or HDD using an optical bay caddy (NBR). Relocated to T|I due to being banned by Lenovo fan ZaZ] Introduction - This article contains details on how to make best use of an optical bay caddy to extend notebook storage with a 2.5" SSD or HDD in place of the standard or slot-loaded optical drive. Included are links to buy the correct caddy plus some configuration items: hotswapping, setting spindown timeout on secondary HDD. Benefits of using an optical bay caddy Inexpensive. Ebay caddy is only US$12-US$26 delivered worldwide. Identical faceplate. Transplant your ODD's faceplate to an ebay Fenvi or some newmodeus caddies to achieve identical appearance to your current optical drive drive. 9.5mm ebay | 12.7mm ebay Improve performance and extend battery life using a hybrid SSD+HDD system. A small, fast SSD hosts your os and apps in your primary bay. A 2.5" HDD in optical bay caddy, in battery-efficient spindown mode when inactive, provides a decent sized data repository. 1TB/1.5TB/2TB of storage capacity using a combination of 9.5mm 500GB and 12.5mm 1TB 2.5" HDDs. Hotswap versatility. Allows the optical bay caddy and optical drive to be swapped in/out as required if used with a primary SSD/HDD. Eg: Can access an optical drive when needed to say load software or watch DVDs, then hotswap back in the HDD in caddy to access your repository of multimedia or document files. If prefer not to hotswap, can use an usb adapter/enclosure to allow either the optical drive or caddy to be used externally. Eg: PATA: 9.5mm & | 12.7mm | adapter, SATA: e-sata/usb cable or enclosure Use SATA drives in older PATA-only systems. Latest 250gb-per-platter SATA HDDs are faster and cheaper per GB than 160gb-per-platter IDE HDDs and are well matched to ICH2M+ 83-87MB interface speed. SATA SSD a good performer over sata-to-pata bridge as astericksed here. SATA SSD/HDD can be transplanted in newer SATA systems in the future. Older notebooks can be resurrected as fileservers or media centers, conditional on 48bit LBA bios support to allow full use of > 137GB storage. Can be better bang-per-buck than a system upgrade. When you consider how a primary bay SSD can provide day-and-night improvements in os and app performance improvements over a HDD. Can provide lower running temperature of HDDs compared to using the primary bay [user reported] Optical bay caddy configuration matrix I/O Chipset Primary Bay Optical Bay Optical Bay Caddy Product Link Example link/caddy used ebay & newmodeus0 ICH2-8M pata or sata1 pata23 7.0mm sata-to-pata 9.5mm pata#1 sata-to-pata#01 12.7mm pata sata-to-pata#0 - 9.5mm pata sata-to-pata 12.7mm pata sata-to-pata HP 2510P 9.5mm sata-to-pata,pata/newm+ebay Dell M1330 9.5mm pata [slot]/newm Dell Vostro 1400 12.7mm sata-to-pata/ebay Clevo M570RU 12.7mm sata-to-pata/newm ICH9M or newer sata sata 9.5mm sata 12.7mm sata 9.5mm sata 9.5mm sata 12.7mm 9.5mm Clevo P150HMA 14mm/ebay Toshiba R830-835 9.5mm/ebay-Fenvi Alienware M14x 9.5mm/ebay-Fenvi Dell E6400/E6500 9.5mm sata/ebay &newm HP 2530P 9.5mm sata/newm HP Envy14 9.5mm sata/newm Sony Vaio Z12 9.5mm sata/newm Lenovo E420 12.7mm sata/newm Sony Vaio FW51JF 12.7mm sata/ebay HP 8730W 12.7mm sata/newm Dell XPS 1647 12.7mm sata [slot]/newm Alienware M17xR2 12.7mm sata [slot]/newm 05% discount coupons on their facebook page. Their slot-loading products the same as others linked above minus the faceplate. Their 12.7mm product allowing the use of your optical drive's faceplate as shown here. 1 SATA SSD performs best when installed in primary SATA bay. ICH8M: CAP.ISS shows if 1.5Gbps cap applies. 2 if sharing PATA bus with primary bay drive, a master/slave jumper gives more config flexibility. 3 sata-to-pata chip adds power consumption overhead. newmodeus(Sunplus)=0.8W, ebay (Marvell)=1W. The newmodeus caddy has issues with SSD TRIM - the ebay caddy doesn't. Intel ICHxM UDMA5/ATA100 PATA interface measured to give maximum read of 83-87MB/s. This post compares power consumption/performance for PATA and SATA-to-PATA caddies, benchmarks show great SSD/HDD performance. Product Link #0 can be modified to improve functionality: faceplate strength for hotswap ability, master pinmod, HDD LED. #1 rear connector unscrews to reveal JAE50 like shown here. Hotswapping the optical drive and 2.5" drive in optical bay caddy Hotswap! provides a Safely Hotswap Hardware system tray icon to simplify disabling the device prior to removal or scanning the system when inserted. Allows hotswapping in/out the optical drive and 2.5" drive in optical bay caddy if using a primary SSD or HDD. Hotswapping is supported by the ICHxM SATA/PATA interfaces. So can for example watch a DVD with the optical drive then swap in a 2.5" HDD to access your multimedia files or documents. Setting standby idle standby timeout to improve battery life hdparm allows control of individual drive standby timeout periods to spindown the HDD if it's idle to conserve power. This would be recommended if running a primary bay SSD and optical bay 2.5" HDD at the same time. The commands below are easily added to a batch file to run in Windows startup folder. Download hdparm for Windows. Identify the drive you wish to operate on: Set a batch file to run in startup with standby time of your choice, example 1 min. Refer to the -S parameter in the hdparm commandline options. hdparm can also be used to set drive transfer mode, eg: 'hdparm -X udma5 /dev/sdb' Versatility: using 9.5mm caddy in other 9.5mm/12.7mm optical bay systems The newmodeus 9.5mm SATA-to-PATA/PATA caddy slides straight into a 12.7mm PATA optical drive bay. A great way of sharing data at full speed between hosts, without having to setup a network or be limited to USB speed. Can then hotswap the caddys between multiple systems. The SATA version likely to offer same versatility. Adding a 1.8" SSD/HDD in a 2.5" drive bay 1.8-to-2.5" adapters allows a 1.8" SSD or HDD to be installed in the optical bay caddy or 2.5" primary bay. SATA adapters shown here. PATA adapter is available on ebay for a few dollars. Quirks applicable to Sandy Bridge HP Probooks/Elitebooks using Insyde BIOS How to enable Upgrade Bay Hard Drive boot: so can hit F9 and boot off an optical bay caddy HDD or SSD. Quirks applicable to PATA optical drive interfaces (ICH8M or older) 1. Some system's bios sets the pata optical interface into slow UDMA2 mode. See tiuser's software and/or MBR workaround. 2. Some system's bios sets the timings to use 33Mhz rather than 66Mhz timings. Notably HP 2510P which then caps write performance to software workaround. Consider too hardwiring the caddy Pin 34 (-CBLID) to GND to set "80-pin cable mode" which uses 66Mhz timings. 3. Phoenix bios directs boot to optical caddy HDD. See software workaround. 4. Some Toshiba systems whitelist the HDD in a sata-to-pata caddy. See here 5. May need to do a slave_mod & to get an ebay caddy running as slave. Mod works with the topda branded ebay caddy. Followup If using an optical bay caddy to extend system storage, please post some details as examples. Eg: - which caddy you are using, eg: ebay or newmodeus - the look, feel and performance of the caddy. Photos against the chassis compared to original optical drive - any gotchas or tips and tricks - any mods, eg: on/off switch on the sata-to-pata caddy to conserve power if using it with a SSD. Note I have no commercial affiliation with any of vendors whose products are highlighted in this article. This information is provided to assist others in creating a great bang-per-buck storage expansion/performance upgrade.

I don't think there's a command to restart from dos. After clearing all operations in a DOS/cmd prompt type of app, I do a cls command, to clear the screen and then simply press the power button to shutdown , or ctrl+alt+del to reboot.

hey guys i would like to use XM chips because they give us the most amount of room to test adding more power and voltage if it works. Also most systems with XM chips have better cooling and give a room look at performance. I would love to try thought the clevo netbook with 3610 and 650 since it runs super hot. Also if you got an interesting situation i would love to test it. I also got my fujifilm pressure paper so I can start testing. Sorry for being so flaky...fell super behind and failing managerial account lol so been busy trying to learn it. I took financial accounting like 3.5 years ago online while away and i don't remember a damn thing of it and one chapter required all the basis of financial accounting so i fell super far behind. I don't think anyone here PMed me agree to do testing with mailing me an address. I'll start mailing this week because i'll have time and i'll change a few things up. I want to do a test of prime95/F@H and a test of intel burntest. Intel burn test is nuts but it is inconsistent with power draw so i would like to do both tests for comparison.

I thought R194 would be marked on the motherboard, so I was just going to try and spot that resistor and then lift one leg and connect it to GND. I don't know how I will find out which side of the resistor to lift, but I expect that to become more clear when I find R194. But due to work, I wont be able to find time for this mod in the next week, so it may be a little while before I can report back.

Think I will stick with the i5 for now then, probably put some money into an SSD instead.

I disabled the NVS4200M, the GTX 660 Ti remains in x1.1 link even when running a game. I will try more games though. Do I hit F3 before hitting 'Chainload MBR' / is 'Chainload MBR' included as part of the startup.bat? So would my initial setup be: dGPU off, PCIe compaction iGPU and eGPU, Hot reset eGPU, hit F3 ? I have it on an SSD will it be under 3 seconds? (Not really important, but curious) Thanks again. Have you tried just using a normal PSU to see if the card work/act normally? If you 360 PSU is being difficult you might try a PSU from a MicroITX computer. They are roughly the same size. I am actually using a MicroITX case (but a normal power supply). I dunno, just a thought, the MicroITX computer/case I am using is small enough for me. I'll get pics if you want to see. (Still have to finish up on it though, making it look pretty.)

read the rules, mate. You have to wait till you got five -->qualified<-- posts. Then you get access to the files.

Error43 is tricky as it could be hardware problem or pci-e configuration issue. First thing I'd do is try the video card in a desktop system to confirm it's all working well. Then use a generous-specced ATX PSU to power the eGPU (no 5V/12V issues). If that all passes then can try a Video cards->PCI space.!Save dump if using the video card on a system and it works well. Then move the saved file in config to your system and use Video cards->PCI space.Load dump to see if that solves it. Also you have Video cards->!Show state to see if ATiFlash reports any issues with the video card. As mentioned, mPCIe implementations are tricker than expresscard so you may need to play with various permutations to nail it. Can't help with repairing the video cards. What I can suggest however is double-check your PE4L and XBOX360 PSU wiring using a digital multimeter. First thing I'd do is confirm the floppy molex output plug from the xbox360 PSU that goes into the PE4L has the right voltages across it. Ie: 12V, GND and 5V. Then do a continunity test between the the 12V and GND points from the pci-e plug and floppy molex so are using the same reference. If all checks out then one possibility remains, something I've seen before. Turns out I had a PE4L 2.1a whose internal wiring had somehow shorted out causing the eGPU to intermittently appear/disappear not to mention resetting my systemboard bios settings. I had the impression PE4L 2.1b had solved that problem by generous internal glueing down of the cable strands on the EC2C end but then again you are using a PE4L-PM3N 2.1b so may have endured more bending to fit it into the mPCIe slot. Worth investigating, especially if the XBOX360 PSU voltages all check out above.

Setup 1.1x will give a startup screen if it doesn't detect the eGPU instructing you to power on the eGPU, the hotplug the PM3N component. Have you tried that? I assume you are using the wifi mPCIe port2 for the eGPU. When doing that, the mPCIe slot may not have secondary buses assigned or may be whitelisted by the bios. The methods to correct that are in PCIe ports->Anti-whitelist. Another method to use is boot with the wifi card installed, halt bootup either with F8 (win) or go to Setup 1.x, then hotplug the PM3N with eGPU attached. Then the HD7870 eGPU should appear OK. If in Setup 1.x, you can perform PCI compaction if needed to overcome error12. mPCIe implementations can be more complicated that expresscard ones.

I'm glad you like it Sam Congrats on your first post!

My best so far at 1087/2600: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M video card benchmark result - Intel® Core i7-3740QM CPU @ 2.70GHz,CLEVO P170EM score: P8651 3DMarks And no, it is actually a P150EM still, just running a P170EM bios to get XTU control.