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Well I finally took a break from Folding@home to run a few benchmarks. OCed the CPU and GPUs a little. and was able to come up with these results. Not bad for two generations old. Didn't have much time to tweak though, but this is a decent start. Has anyone else benched an X7200? I'd be interested in seeing some more X7200 benches. Vantage: 29046 3DMark11: 7043 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-980X Processor,CLEVO CO. X7200 score: P7043 3DMarks

I can confirm that the fix worked on the modified BIOS.

I just went ahead and flashed the .67 Clevo vbios on my Clevo x7200! It works flawlessly - although it seems not as good as the .33 did for me. Direct Comparison: (Note, in the .67 Vbios runs I turned HyperThreading on, it pushed my Physics Score a bit) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-980 Processor,CLEVO CO. X7200 score: P6971 3DMarks --> .67 Vbios, 915/2200 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-980 Processor,CLEVO CO. X7200 score: P7176 3DMarks --> .33 Vbios, 915/2200 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-980 Processor,CLEVO CO. X7200 score: P7479 3DMarks --> .67 Vbios, 1006/2250 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-980 Processor,CLEVO CO. X7200 score: P7680 3DMarks --> .33 Vbios, 1006/2250 It seems, I lost ~400 GPU points at all clocks. I will revert to the .33 revised one Update: I don't know what's wrong, but even after reverting to the first "revised" .33 Vbios I get the same low scores again. I tried both the revised & revised 01 for correct clocks, but same thing. I even turned off HyperThreading again to see if the higher CPU score trades off GPU score, but nope :/ http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/5256820 --> my good old .33 Vbios, 915/2200 that previously got 500 GPU points more... it should not be the Texture Filtering thing, as I have set it to high performance already.

Hows this bios been running for everyone? No more laptop bricking issues?

I finally got my X230 setup working well enough, thanks to a comment by Zak9909. Previously the eGPU was only working when not using the mSATA SSD at the same time. I booted Setup 1.x from a flash drive, but found that it could not chainload to my SSD which was on a GPT partition table. I tried the uefi chainload mode but Tianocore's UEFI-DUET got stuck and there's little information on it. So I reinstalled Windows 8 on my SSD this time using an MBR partition table. Then in Setup 1.x I did PCI compaction with the 32-bitA method (iGPU and eGPU only), and chainloaded with mbr mode. This is with everything plugged in at the beginning, and it worked. The only issue I still have is sleeping sometimes results in a blue screen or black screen. Also, initially I didn't realize I needed the patch to Setup 1.x that adds Series-7 chipset support, it's on the stickied thread here but not on DIY eGPU Setup 1.x Help. Setup 1.x even seems to fix the error with my BIOS not detecting the SSD after a forced shutdown, I run it without the eGPU and compact everything including the SSD - it shows up as Ricoh because I guess Lenovo meant for it to be used for a media card reader.

hummm, then i wonder what this run is worth... NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2960XM Processor,Alienware M18xR2 score: P14797 3DMarks

At last, it works (again?). The sequence I'm following now: Initialising the eGPU, Compacting PCI with 32-bitA method (iGPU and eGPU - not "All": that breaks the mSATA drive) Initialising the eGPU again (mostly for superstition - I haven't done proper checks to see whether it's the first, second, or both initialisations that are needed - just that at least one seems to be) Chainloading with the menu.win above (probably not required for most. It's like that to cope with the /bootmgr partition being on a different disk from the Windows partition) All is good. I had some BSODs until I ditched the $10 eBay special 80W PSU. Now with the PSU from my old desktop powering things it's rock solid. Last thing I need to do is read up on automating all that through startup.bat. Thanks again Tech Inferno Fan for your efforts.