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Thank you gentlemen . I'll get back to you about success if the fix and I hope its not the motherboard or faulty card.

Mr Fox, thanks for the card help, my dell service tech is looking at it, but my bios on boot up is password protected, so we cant turn on or off functionality of devices etc.

This is a separate issue, any tricks?

Thanks

Dell tech installed a factory image from start and loaded all current drivers from dell. Nvidia graphics drivers can not load as no matching cards are detected. Tried a fresh install, failed to complete and returned to last known config, (image)

Dell tech took out one card which we thought to be suspect and still no joy.

All I bought a 3rd hand laptop with a locked bios, I'm also having difficulty with the graphics(other post) but We need access to it , does anyone know how to get around it without replacing the motherboard?

Any tricks?

please help?

Brian, thanks.

The Dell tech installed a alien image firstly with win 7 Home preimum, we loaded all the Dell drivers and tried nvidia ones with no joy

We can see them in device manager as standard vga card but Nvidia cannot install as it can't detect what type they are.

We tried a new install and win win 7 but failed to complete and the reversed install to last known good setup(alien image)

Any thoughts?

Does anyone have a 18x R2 with 780m cards in it?

Thanks

My M18x R2 has 2 x Nvidia GTX780M cards in it but after respawn of different factory image(some muppet wiped both drives and image, then slapped vista on it) no joy in the graphics world. Device manage sees them but I can install Nvidia Graphics drivers as it cant detect them. Dell tech pulled one out which we suspected as failed but still no joy....

What do we need to do? Is there a mod?? / patch

Will it run on one card?

Am i up that creek looking at a big bill?

Dell warranty expired...........help..........