Jahnsinn

all weekend long. Just say time

temporarily uploaded it here till the Dell's works again:

http://jahnsinn.no-ip.org/M17x-R3_A12.zip

lol. I actually prefer the background )))))

Hi,

Why when i clik on "gamepad.zip" i only have:

I confirmed my registration in meil.

Sorry for my english.

read the rules, mate. You have to wait till you got five -->qualified<-- posts. Then you get access to the files.

hm, I got the dell vbios shipped with the card and the fan control was working. I thought it's the other way round, the clevo doesn't support the fan control???

bit confused ?(

I've got the Logitech G930 and it's pretty awesome. Clear 7.1 surround sound in every game, wireless, pretty good base, even when listening to music, 10h battery life. All in all the best headset I've ever had.

I have the 12.9 beta Guru3d installed. As said before just installed also amd overdrive from here:

AMD OverDrive

OD for gpu is possible in ccc without an amd cpu.

Sent from my GT-N7000

hm, strange. I installed overdrive and actually wanted to run it. it just says "AMD Overdrive cannot detect any AMD CPU on this Computer"

?

how do you enable overdrive without a amd cpu? I thought it only works with this?

You're sure it was a Dell card? I'd assume that they simply flashed it with the Dell vbios.

Yes, I am. Also confirmed by the technician:

"Hi Jan,

I’ve been informed that your card has been replaced and has shipped out today! We were able to get you a Dell card for your replacement as well, so you should have full HDMI functionality on it."

Eurocom is a Clevo reseller, they use the same cards as Clevo.

And regarding any vbios promises of eurocom... "they" say a lot, but they never deliver. Trust me. Eurocom is just a reseller, nothing more.

the second card I got from them was a Dell card. So sometimes they sell dell cards as well. Just chance what you get.

Hello everybody.

I'm using an Alienware M17xR4 with the 7970m.

On Win7 I could overclock without problems, but since I'm using Win8, it doesn't work anymore.

When I over- or underclock just 1 MHz the screen starts to flicker. I tried a lot with modifying the driver, but nothing seems to work.

So I decide to try the way by modding the BIOS.

Are there any other configurations online ? Or just the ones in the startpost.

By software, I had overclocked my card till 948/1550 without problems. Is it possible to create a bios with this values ?

Hi Nemesis.

You could use the vbios patcher tool to create your own vbios file. Quite easy, even for noobs.

http://forum.techinferno.com/vbios-patcher/1767-vbios-patcher-releases-changelog.html

hi svl7 i flash my 7970m card with bad vbios and now my m15x unable to boot i just able to see black screen. can you help me to fix this my 7970m vbios? how much does it cost? thank you

you need to do a flash blind. Your screen is black but you're still able to type commands. So shake your head and remember the steps you've done before

copy a working vbios.rom on your usb drive from a different computer.

Stick in your usb drive to the M15x, boot from it and type the atiflash commands. After approx 15-20secs reboot. Hopefully your screen lights up again.

Good luck!

All done so far. Still waiting for the gpu water block. After that has arrived I'm ready to fit everything

Had a bit more custom work to do as I thought but a test run with just the cpu was just amazing. All working so far ))

Cyborg R.A.T. 7 @ 3200dpi

also a beta mod is available which should stop throttling:

AMD Catalyst 12.9 Beta 9.001 – 7900 MOD – BenchmarK3D

Hi, thanks for your suggestion, but it freezes trying to do that, even in safe modshe, so o I don't think it is a drivers problem. Bios

more info:

some times it shows lines of different colors when freezing, and if I turn it on several times in a short period of time it freezes in less time and finally it doesn't even show the alien Bios screen and the scroll and caps leds blink while the num led stays on.

according to Dell's table either your gpu or your mobo is fucked.

Alienware

lost the overview a bit. Have you flashed your gpu again? Do you have the latest bios? I don't think it's the psu because when I had my 150w fitted the laptop just turned off with no prompt.

So what I'd do is flashing your vbios again, checking your mobo bios, if not up to date, do update it.

If you got the chance to use a 240w psu try it, but I recon it's not the psu.

also, you can try the newest beta driver of the 7970m:

AMD Catalyst 12.9 Beta 9.001 – 7900 MOD – BenchmarK3D

are any of your caps lock, scroll lights flashing ? have you done any overclocking on your hardware? What exactly have you done when this did happen?

are you able to see the alien head bios screen or is it just a black screen from the beginning on you press your power button? How do you check the temps when your screen is black? You're able to boot in safe mode?

yo, that should actually work with svl7's patcher. get a new backup of your vbios and try or upload it again.

Could someone maybe look at my Bios if (s)he have time please cause i think it's default voltage is 1.0v and yeah it gets a bit annoying that i have to change the voltage via Software everytime :/

Here it is

Thanks

file is corrupt. downloaded it twice.

Thats how 12.8 is working for me. Dirt games just froze on me lkke Witcher and Skyrim. I dont know why I have issues and others don't. They are completely stock and have been for months the 7970m.

Im guessing StamatisX your M17x R2 is not having any problems on 7970m? I mean i know you had to add more power but besides that. I get a red glow type screen sometimes and audio screech and must power down the screen has random red txt. I havent found a driver that runs my cards stock in my games yet. I left 12.8 on since its not like i have a stable one to refer back to.

Have you already tried the driver from eurocom? I use that one for a while now and works perfectly.

http://downloads.eurocom.com/support/drivers/zip/Alienware/HD7970M/AMD7970.zip

Have you checked your battery? If my battery is not fitted I can't start the laptop. May be that one is fucked. Check it by pressing the small button on it in the middle. Keep pressing it for 3secs to check the wear leveling. Alternatively use a different one if you have.

So let me move that to here. Would become off topic in the BF3 server thread and would get blamed by Michael

GPU or CPU overheating? And yeah it does look great on a 55". I use my panasonic 55" plasma in 3d with it + nvision.

oops, sry @Brian, missed your post. The gpu is overheating straight after launching BF3 or even 3dmark. cpu is stable on 80°c. I'll wait for the liquid cooling now, that should kill the heat

Won't play on that big sceen anyway because it's facing the living room/sofa and my laptop is placed in the dinette. So I would have to carry the tv from the living room to the dinette just for playing. Also I can't sit in front of the tv in the living room because the lowboard where it's standing on is too high. Maybe when the liquid cooling is working propperly I will give it a shot again.

@Jahnsinn Okay well my 7970m dont seem to be stable for gaming but in try the clocks it can do and volts plus seeing SVL7's work... Cant you use lower volts than that? I never needed mkre han 1.075v for a range like that. Id consider dropping vram by 50mhz so thats 200mhz less quad pumped... So if you do that you could probably use stock volts or even the 1.075v but I think stock volts should get you there. If there is a post you mentioned what testing youve done twith your 7970m I missed it so sorry for the questions and suggestions if you already went through all that.

Well yeah, I could try using lower clocks but as mentioned above there's no rushing doing that. Clocks are stable and as long as they are on the laptop screening I won't change it again. I guess I changed them 50 times or more with several custom clocks till I got stable clocks. The strange thing is the stock clocks and voltage lead to throttling. 0.975v and 1.100v@900/1300 are the only ones which don't throttle. Long time I had a flash with these clocks even in 2d mode with amazing increasement in 3d mode. But the cpu was throttling down due to too less power supply.

I will play a bit with that again when the liquid cooling is running. so plenty of time now

Thats cool about 3d but why the overheat? Are you overclocked or something? Last i knew stock they dont get over 75c and thats abnormally high... That gpu i thought will shutdown at 105c maybe that is different in the M15x does yours shut down at 80-85c or something i may have read of that, cant remember. Is that why you were adding liquid cooling?

yeah, the laptop shuts down at 85°C. I currently have the 900/1300@1100v flash. When the TV is connected the card idles at 400/1300 clocks. Temps are around 65°c. So as soon as I start a 3d application clocks get to 900/1300 and the temps jump extremely high, ~80°c, then the clocks throttle down again to 400/1300 and shortly after that the system shuts down.

Actually that wasn't one of the reasons I go for the liquid cooling but now it is^^

I'm actually just curious if it's working. I guess I got too much spare time