Chris9966

Hi, I am trying to flash my 7970m on M17xR2 with the vbios pack on the first page. 1) Do I should use the Dell7970m.rom? I did not find the checksum for it 2) When I try to flash directly with undervolted, I get the error P/N mismatched. Should I forced the flash. I do not want to brick my card. Thank in advance for your help.

Hi, I finally solved my issue after 4 days of cheking (bios, GPU change, forum reading all over the world lol, etc...). There is no PSU issue in fact it was the position of the card in the GPU slot. Maybe the first thing to be checked. Indeed, I installed the 7970m with 5870M X bracket and try to isloate the card componements which can be in interference with the X bracket. For this reason, the X bracket/card thickness was bigger and the GPU was plug in the slot with a small angle maybe 5° (difficult to see by visual checking). Due to this false positionning in the GPU slot, the lappost was posting from time time. After moving it last time, the gpu probably moved a bit and no post was possible anymore. Finally, I cut the X barcket in 4 part and installed it properly and now it is working without any problem. Now I will check that there is no overheating issue in game but the srew are well tight on the card and there is no reason. I hope it can help!!

Hi, First of all sorry for my english! I did an upgrade of my M17xR2 i7 620m with 7970m. When it starts no problem BF3 in ultra or BF4 in high no issue. But since the upgrade two month ago, the computer won't start from time to time. I mean the media bar and the keyboard lit up the fan start full speed and nothing more : black screen, no bip, no access to bios. Since 3 days the problem is worse, cannot start anymore with the issue described here above. I push on power button 20 sec after removing the battery and the power cord to release the static stuff. I tried to restarts with battery only, with power cord only. I finally remove my 7970m and install back the 5870m and no problem, computer started normally. I install again 7970m and sime issue no post of the computer. Any ideas?? Thank in advance for you help.