GandalfTW

so after, u were able to get the sound card working again? as in, u re enabled it after everything was ok?

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 ,

GUYS GUYS GUYS, I have an M17x R3 and I managed to get my on board sound card working again with the 780m installed. J95, correct me if I'm wrong ok.

This is what happened to me:

I was messing around with my laptop and I decided to buy an NVIDIA heatsink and replace the AMD heatsink I got installed, because I'm frightened to JB Weld the copper shim to the heatsink, because the gap is too small. Anyways, I decided to test out what would happen if i was to remove the card and re-seat it.

i.e. imitate me putting back in the card as practice for when I get the other heatsink. So I took out the card, put it back in and there was like 6 beeps/ 5 beeps/ 8 beeps WHATEVER...... I was frustrated... WTF DID I DO!?!!

So I decided to stick back in my old AMD 6990m to see if that would help... STILL 6 beeps. I re-seated the card like 5 times!!! STILL NOTHING!

I decided to pull out the mobo battery to reset the bios:

I pulled out the 6990m, pulled out the battery, waited 30 secs, put in the card, put in the battery, screw it back up, powered on and still beeping. Nooooooooooo!

So i decided that i will take out the 6990m card again! Take out the battery, put in the battery first, so it would get power without the card being in there, put in the card and screwed back everything and booted... It worked!!!!

I loaded the bios (F2) and disabled sound card, integrated graphics, set monitor thingy to peg, set workaround to always. etc... F10... On the reboot, I force powered down and swapped back in my 780m gtx. Powered it on and it worked! I was relieved. It booted up normal and into windows. NO SOUND!.................... Mind u, my sound was working before.

I shutdown, booted back up. Went into bios and re-enable the integrated sound card. Hit F10 and restarted... It booted up into windows with sound and everything. (This is what I did the first time round)

So my theory:

1/ beeping like crazy???: Pullout mobo battery, pull out card. Put back in card then battery (I think this will only happen with the A12 bios, because it never happened with the A08 bios before)

2/ With old card still in the system, disable whatever u need to , i.e. sound card, integrated graphics, whatever.

3/ Replace card with 780m gtx (mind you, my drivers were installed all the time, but first time, no drivers were installed)

4/ Let it boot up like normal... shut down...

5/ Boot into bios and re-enable the sound card and it should work.

(NOTE: This worked for me. I HOPE, but I can't say for sure, that it will work for everyone)

My theory is that for the first time the 780m is installed, i.e. no card in the system -> 780m in the system, the sound card needs to be disabled (along with everything else) and once it boots up like normal (and NVIDIA drivers are installed) then the sound card can be re-enabled.

I think if u going to take out the card again, u need to disable the sound card FIRST then take it out after shutdown.

Like I said, this is just a theory based on what happened to me just now. J95 or someone, please correct me if I'm wrong.

Also, I read that it will not work for a fresh install of windows. I re-installed windows fresh from the windows 7 disc I got with my pc when I bought it. I downloaded all the drivers from Dell's site to get everything working. Please tell me if I'm right or not. I really want to make a contribution to this community.

I REALLY WANT SOMEONE TO CONFIRM IF THIS METHOD WORKS. SO PLEASE... ANYONE?

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.