GandalfTW

So, I picked up a new 1TB SSD and decided to reinstall Windows 7. I disabled IDT, installed Windows 7, installed all the drivers, reboot, bios, enabled IDT. Boom, I get White screen when booting into Windows 7. After a bit of troubleshooting it seems there is an easy fix for that. I just booted into Windows safe mode F8. Uninstalled the NVidia driver using https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/550192/geforce-drivers/display-driver-uninstaller-ddu-v7-7-1/ Rebooted into Windows 7. Reinstalled IDT driver, reinstalled NVidia drivers. You're done. So it seems there are two issues with IDT. 1. The beeping issues described in this thread, which I avoided by disabling IDT before installing 780m and NVidia driver installation on Windows 7 setup with IDT drivers already installed. 2. The white screen issues on fresh Windows 7 installation, which is just some kind of driver conflict. Resolvable through IDT driver installation prior to installing NVidia drivers. Or fixing white screen through the steps I performed. For issue #2 my Windows 7 installation is the professional version with SP1, audio driver R303928.exe, NVidia driver 331.40-notebook-win8-win7-64bit-international-beta.

I have been running some tests on my new 780M using 3DMark Vantage and I noticed in GPU-Z 0.7.3 a power related throttle. Is this accurate? Did any one else observe similar behavior? It happens at the very end few seconds before the test is finished (during feature test). It is strange this would happen with 240W power supply M17x-r3 has. Could it indicate an issue with the PS? Date , GPU Core Clock [MHz] , GPU Memory Clock [MHz] , GPU Temperature [°C] , Memory Used [MB] , GPU Load [%] , Memory Controller Load [%] , Video Engine Load [%] , PerfCap Reason [] , VDDC [V] , 2013-10-01 12:23:02 , 849.2 , 1248.7 , 66.0 , 151 , 99 , 2 , 0 , 0 , 1.0000 , 2013-10-01 12:23:03 , 823.1 , 1248.7 , 66.0 , 151 , 99 , 2 , 0 , 0 , 0.9810 , 2013-10-01 12:23:04 , 823.1 , 1248.7 , 66.0 , 151 , 99 , 2 , 0 , 1 , 0.9810 , 2013-10-01 12:23:05 , 823.1 , 1248.7 , 66.0 , 151 , 99 , 2 , 0 , 1 , 0.9810 , 2013-10-01 12:23:06 , 823.1 , 1248.7 , 67.0 , 151 , 99 , 2 , 0 , 1 , 0.9810 , 2013-10-01 12:23:07 , 823.1 , 1248.7 , 67.0 , 151 , 99 , 2 , 0 , 1 , 0.9810 , 2013-10-01 12:23:08 , 823.1 , 1248.7 , 67.0 , 151 , 99 , 2 , 0 , 1 , 0.9810 , 2013-10-01 12:23:09 , 823.1 , 1248.7 , 67.0 , 151 , 99 , 2 , 0 , 1 , 0.9810 , 2013-10-01 12:23:10 , 823.1 , 1248.7 , 68.0 , 151 , 99 , 2 , 0 , 1 , 0.9810 , 2013-10-01 12:23:11 , 823.1 , 1248.7 , 68.0 , 151 , 99 , 2 , 0 , 1 , 0.9810 , 2013-10-01 12:23:12 , 823.1 , 1248.7 , 68.0 , 151 , 99 , 2 , 0 , 1 , 0.9810 , 2013-10-01 12:23:13 , 823.1 , 1248.7 , 68.0 , 151 , 99 , 2 , 0 , 1 , 0.9810 , 2013-10-01 12:23:14 , 823.1 , 1248.7 , 68.0 , 151 , 99 , 2 , 0 , 1 , 0.9810 , 2013-10-01 12:23:15 , 823.1 , 1248.7 , 63.0 , 146 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0.9810 , 2013-10-01 12:23:16 , 823.1 , 1248.7 , 62.0 , 146 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0.9810 , 2013-10-01 12:23:17 , 770.8 , 1248.7 , 61.0 , 146 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0.9500 , 2013-10-01 12:23:18 , 770.8 , 1248.7 , 60.0 , 146 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0.9500 , 2013-10-01 12:23:19 , 770.8 , 1248.7 , 60.0 , 146 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0.9500 , 2013-10-01 12:23:20 , 548.7 , 400.0 , 59.0 , 146 , 0 , 2 , 0 , 0 , 0.8620 , 2013-10-01 12:23:21 , 548.7 , 400.0 , 59.0 , 146 , 0 , 2 , 0 , 0 , 0.8620 , 2013-10-01 12:23:22 , 231.4 , 162.0 , 58.0 , 146 , 0 , 3 , 0 , 0 , 0.8370 , 2013-10-01 12:23:23 , 231.4 , 162.0 , 57.0 , 146 , 0 , 5 , 0 , 0 , 0.8370 ,

I just got 780m installed on m17x-r3 3D and I followed the instructions of disabling IDT chip prior of installing 780m. So after I installed NVidia drivers I enabled IDT back and the sound is working for me. It is not a clean Windows 7 install but it looks to me that once the NVidia drivers are installed there are no IDT driver issues. BTW, I run into another issue that kind of got me scarred. My card was stuck at 324Mhz max. I'm not sure what caused this issue for sure but I suspect it was my power supply ID chip that had a hiccup. The bios was complaining I do not have original Dell power supply. So I unplugged my power supply and let it drain for 5-10 minutes. Then hooked it back in. No more warnings and 780m would start working properly within its full MHz range.