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Hi I never really ran into problems before. It happened out of the blue where everything started slowing down and just started crashing. What would be the power needed for the 7970m?

Tyty

So I replaced the GTX570m in my MSi GT780DX to a Dell GTX675m and everything works perfectly EXCEPT for the HDMI port. VGA works fine. But the thing is, there's never any sort of error message or notification, no "Device not recognized", etc. Anything plugged into the port just won't show up. No "You plugged something in! : D" Sound effects, so it's more like it's just pretending it's not there. Before I give my hypothesis, here's what I've done:

First off, I have Windows 7. In preperation for the GTX675m, I removed the graphic drivers (using "add/remove programs" and "Driver Sweeper", carefully following an instruction set, so nothing gets unnecessarily removed) for the GTX570m, opened the laptop, cleaned and repasted where necessary, installed the card, booted the laptop, installed the appropriate drivers, rebooted. Tried out some games on it and as expected, it throttles constantly, but it functions! Anyway, I hesitantly proceeded to follow Xonar's instructions to utilize his modded bios (retrieved the appropriate version, made a bootable flash-drive, etc). Works perfectly. Installed and activated ThrottleStop to stop throttling (hurr). That works too! :3 By then I noticed an issue with my HDMI port. I can't recall all of the methods I attempted to get it to at least realize that it exists... Reinstalled graphic drivers, went through Nvidia control panel and tried everything necessary there, tried Fn+F2 (for this particular model, that's the "connect to a projector or external display" function). Tried different monitors, I KNOW the cable works, I still use it for other things, I searched for it in Device Manager, tried refreshing for hardware changes, changed some seemingly relevant options in the now extensive bios. One of which was enabling on-board graphics, which I knew would most likely result in a blank screen. It did, so I looked up a picture of the bios to find which function key restored defaults. Blind-booted into bios and restored defaults, works fine. ... I'm sure I tried more, but I can't remember.

I suspect it has to do with the new Bios options and I just don't know for sure what it is. I'd rather not kill my computer or spend hours looking up what all the abbreviations stand for just to find it's not the solution. No, I haven't flashed the Vbios, GPU-Z will even tell me that the sub-vendor is Dell. I very much doubt that's necessary, anyway. I really don't want to get into anything else risky unless somebody reputable and very knowledgeable on the subject tells me that it's definitely the solution.

Thanks in advance for any help! I REALLY hope to get this fixed. VGA streams 1920-1080, but doesn't look as good. And 3 displays are better than 2. XD

Hi! Quick question regarding the installation! In preparation for the 675m, does that same procedure apply to a Dell 7970m?

I had tried to upgrade my 560m to the 580m and could never get past the throttling. I had flashed the stock MSI bios, added the extra power wire, Throttlestop, etc...

I could never get it to stop throttling.

I then moved to the 7970m with the clevo no enduro bios and it works great with zero throttling.

There was only one thing that doesn't work is the sound over hdmi (video still works).

Hey! I have a question about the 7970m if you don't mind Was it a dell card with which you flashed a clevo vbios? And did you have to modify the bios of your MSi laptop? Thank you!

Hey all! Pretty new to this, so quick one: I was wondering if my GT 780's crashing will pose a problem for flashing with the unlocked bios. I was planning on flashing my laptop in order to make my Dell 7970m work on it. The reason for replacing is because I've run into the problem where my Nvidia Gtx 560m which came originally with the laptop has run into overheating probs and so crashes, sometimes the screen even shuts off ( no back lighting) So yeah, should I be worried that my gpu will fail me during the flash and brick my notebook? Ty