ViTosS

I see guys, thanks for the report, I'm using the stock bios, do you know make a boot device for safe just in case something go wrong when I try to flash next time? I saw some thread somewhere saying to creat a .bat and something like that, but I didn't find it anymore

Hey svl7, I created the bootable usb pendrive and everything went good, I flashed did all the commands but I didn't know how to save the bios, I looked for my filename of my respective bios before do the flash, and I also flashed and it asked me two times to press ''yes'', I did and made a beep sound and at the end it said it flashed sucessful, I pressed CTRL + ALT + DEL and went to the system, but the vbios was the same I started with!

That's not svl7 vBIOS...also no driver installed and it's only one of the gpus...

Really? Damn, but I did everything in the tutorial from Nvidia BIOS Flash thread, it asked if I wanted to flash and I typed yes and asked something again and I typed yes, it did a beep sound and said at the end the bios was flashed sucessful

@ViTosS Make sure to check the VBIOS version on each GPU with GPU-Z to verify that both cards where flashed.

@xigital Re-install the 3D VISION (Emitter driver)...also what are your systems main BIOS & EC versions (shown in F2 boot/BIOS menu)

Took a print from GPU-Z, this is the version of the vBios, what do you think Prema? Is it really the sl7?

Is it hard to open the notebook, and reapply thermal paste? I have Arctic Silver 5 and Arctic MX-4, how is the fixation on the heatsink for the CPU and where is it located?

I was just brave enough today to try the svl7 V-BIOS and the whole issue of flickering & white lines have all disappeared 100% and the notebook is working flawlessly in all games at 120hz, in SLI mode with no problem at all.

Here is a list of games I have tried so far with the new Svl7 V-BIOS:

Batman Arkham city

Batman Arkham origins

Assassin Creed III

Just Cause 2

Sleeping Dogs 2

Tomb Raider 2013

Splintercell Blacklist

Farcry 3

Crysis

Metro 2033 & Metro Last light

BTW I have tried the new Nvidia driver 331.58 before modding my V-BIOS and it didn't work, it may even made the flickering worse.

I'm really gratefully to Svl7 for making this V-BIOS & the only possible solution to this problem. I think the reason why this V-BIOS solved the problem is the SAGER V-BIOS version is so bad it doesn't have the correct voltage/wattage to feed the 2 GPU cards (in 120Hz) for good performance, thats why its always flickering & making all games f###d up because of the bad V-BIOS version that doesn't supply both GPUs with enough power to work properly.

Thanks again to Svl7, Prema & Bud Marley for creating this post to resolve this huge problem which affects all the SAGER NP-9380S Notebooks.

Nice to hear that, unfortunately for me the vbios didn't work, what OS are you running? And using the 331.58 driver as well? Can you post a screen of GPU-Z of your BIOS version? Because I did flash, and at the end it said sucessfull and everything, just to make sure I really flashed the bios.

Thanks.

So with the new driver re-introduced the problem even when using the modded vBIOS?!...LOL.

Glad you said that, I'm going to try with the old driver now (327.23)

Hey guys, I want to know the average temperature of your processor while gaming, from whose that have the i7 4800MQ, I'm using the maximum performance mode in the Windows 7 and my core temps average is 40~45ºC in idle, but when I'm gaming, games very light weight like Black Ops 2 and my processor go to the 80~80ºC average in minutes, in Battlefield 3 it reached the 90'sºC, is that normal? My laptop is Sager NP 9380-S, bought directly from Sager.

Thanks

OH HO! So Sager cant fix it. what a surprise! (>.<)

Well, I just tried with the vbios sl7 and the problem still exists (flickering lines) but it is hard to make it to happen, I had to alt+tab 5 times to see the lines, and the screen gone black and driver crashed. I don't know what to do now...

Edit.: Just opened Black Ops 2 and the screen gone black in first few seconds with the new vbios

Hey guys anyone here has the stock bios saved? Because I did the vbios update but I wasn't able to save my stock bios, I'm gonna test now with the vbios from sl7 and keep you guys update if the problem has been fixed

Edit.: The problem is not fixed, just played BO2 and the screen gone black and in BF3 there was flickering lines

Just to make you guys updated, I tried the new driver apparentely was everything ok but I did some alt+tab and everything and the flickering lines appeared and the game crashed with black screen, I'm gonna flash the bios

Video bios requires a flash, the regular bios is what your talking about for the EC

So the Prema topic are for the whole system bios, like a bios for a motherboard in a desktop PC? And the other ones are for the GPU, those don't require anything before the flash? And what is EC?

These are BIOS Mods for the whole system. For the W-series they also incl. vBIOS Mods.

The vBIOS that fixes the issues on your system is discussed here.

Right, can I flash the vbios for the system (like motherboard for desktop PCs?) and also use the vbios for the GPU in which fixes the flickering/black screen problem?

And sorry but I didn't understand which vbios is for my model on that list. Thanks for the support, Prema.

you can mess up your computer by flashing but if you follow the notes correctly then you wont have a issue

i talked to sager today about this and the flickering issue and they said the new patch soposidly fixes it.

check for the update that was released yesterday. 331.xx i think it is.

they are working on my notebook right now running a 48 hour benchmark to see if it fixes it.

Really? I'm gonna test this new driver, but in case it doesn't work, how can I be able to recognize if I'm with everything ok to flash de vbios? I mean, I saw the Prema topic and there is some procediments before the flash, but I don't know he just said me this vbios fix the problem but in his oficial topic before flashing a vbios we need to check the version, EC and things like that, do I have to check something before the update or just update?

Thanks again for the answers.

What file is the vbios for my laptop? And this is a bios for the whole system or for the GPU? My model is Sager NP9380-S.

Thanks.

I remember I used to have your problem when playing bf3. Flashing the vbios fixed it for me, so you can give it a shot.

Which vbios did you use? Is it hard to flash, there are any risks?

Thanks.

Hey guys, I have one Sager 9380 with 780M SLI and 120hz display, when I'm going to play a game (tested with Black Ops 2, Battlefield 3 and Borderlands 2) after few seconds the screen goes black and the game freezes or crash, do you guys know what is causing that? Have you experienced the same problem or know the solution?

Thanks.

Interesting that some people here only have the flickering problem, while mine is the black screen problem, maybe that vbios fix for both?

Hey Prema, do you know if some of those BIOS solve the problem during the game with 780M SLI and 120hz the screen goes black and the game crash?

Thanks.

Does anyone know if this fix the game black screen? I have 780M SLI and 120hz, I'm not experiencig flickering but after some seconds in the game the screen goes black and game crash later.