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Hello, with this combination you always need modded drivers. It's because Dell never sold this combi and so it's not listed in the Nvidia driver.

It is bypassable but I can't remember how. There's no need to flash the BIOS anyway though. For Dell systems you need to modify your own ME FW dump or else the ME FW will be crippled. You can try modding it yourself and I can look over it. I can mod it but I have a lot of other stuff going on right now.

Keyboard is the same. Thermal pads are 0.5mm and 1mm.

This was working for me (with a GTX 980Ti): sudo ./automate-eGPU.sh -url http://us.download.nvidia.com/Mac/Quadro_Certified/367.15.10.15f03/WebDriver-367.15.10.15f03.pkg Thank You!!! :-)

My BIOS version is A11 I tried to backup BIOS using fpt and it reported Error 26 So I went on and did the pinmod. This is an iGPU laptop so I didn't have to disassemble it, yet it was still it a bit difficult to access the chip which is hidden under the case but accessible from the side. I managed to reach the pins 5 an 9 with a modified paper clip, or a piece of wire if you like, in the form of a fork. I bent the wire and twisted the two arms against each other so that the fork would be stiff enough. I sharpened the points of the fork so that they would not slide away from the pins while inserting the battery and switching the laptop on. I might have been a bit too careful here but I recently managed to short-fry a chip on a motherboard only by disconnecting the LCD cable from the MB while I forgot to remove the battery first. The pinmod worked and I could save the backup copy of the BIOS image. Edited the dump file and reflashed it and yes, after a cold start the flash descriptor remained unlocked! I tried to flash the A18 BIOS one more time just to try if unlocking the FD had some influence on the BIOS update but no, it still did not work, which I expected. But now I see I can actually flash anything with the fpt tool so, in theory, if I had a dump of the A18 version, I could flash it this way. Also, I could maybe modify the BIOS Update Flag manually because that is what I understand might be failing (the flag not set by the BIOS update program) - according to the document "Dell Client BIOS: Signed Firmware Update" where the BIOS update mechanism is described. Or to set re-set the BIOS' sfuenabled variable to off and see if that might solve the issue. Anyway, happy to see my E6430 survived the pinmod, that everything seems to work well, and the laptop is free now and opened to new possibilities. Thanks for your guidance and the tutorials and all your efforts!

maybe this will shed some light on the nvidia cards? https://www.techinferno.com/index.php?/topic/5319-Lenovo-y410p-1.07-GT750m-successfully-SLI'ed-with-a-GT755m-Ultrabay-NATIVELY

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