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pixma21

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  1. goodday mr.fox.. maybe im very late with this , but i really want to recover my old m18x r1, and i having 8beeps, no screen activities. i tried to fix it by removing my gpu, cleaning it , repasted and heated it, i also tried to start it up without the Dgpu, but still problem persist. i did blind flash it and i think the flash was successful because it restarted but still got 8 beeps. i remember before it happened i getting total screen freeze that makes me hard restatrt it by pressing the power botton to 10sec untill it restart untill such time this 8beeps no post comes along the way... i wanted to recover it because it has sentimental value to me..
  2. sir.. im having problem with my alienware m18x .. my laptop doesnt boot with my 8970m gpu.. then i did remove my dedicated GPU an hour ago.. an mg laptop boots like nothing happened and like brandnew.. does it mean that my GPU finally gaved up..?? im not yet ready to change mg parts, since i dont have yet funds for upgrade.. .. alright ... - - - Updated - - - sir.. im having problem with my alienware m18x .. my laptop doesnt boot with my 8970m gpu.. then i did remove my dedicated GPU an hour ago.. an mg laptop boots like nothing happened and like brandnew.. does it mean that my GPU finally gaved up..?? im not yet ready to change mg parts, since i dont have yet funds for upgrade.. .. alright ... - - - Updated - - - sir.. im having problem with my alienware m18x .. my laptop doesnt boot with my 8970m gpu.. then i did remove my dedicated GPU an hour ago.. an mg laptop boots like nothing happened and like brandnew.. does it mean that my GPU finally gaved up..?? im not yet ready to change mg parts, since i dont have yet funds for upgrade.. .. alright ...
  3. well hellow guys.^.^ Its me pixma.. and I'm back with another problem^.^ well this is what happened..in the past days I did play dota 2 just for a minute when my m18x display suddenly goes crazy. it hungs up with black display. so I did restart my unit. after I did notice Its booting but with blank black display. I can't see anything but a massive black screen.. can somebody suggest what should I do. before ill crack it open as a last option , thanks^.^ miss you sir mw^.^
  4. thank you so much for support and helping me sir.>.. soon .. ill be going to dispose this r1 mobo, daughter board, hdd caddy and cable, and 8970m with heatsink on it.> and invest it to my future build.>.. this will me a beast soon, ill be adding 2x m9t 2tera samsung hdd in raid 0 config for storage , 240gb ssd games and application..... and msata perhaps for OS.> i did also downloaded win 8.1 pro alienware ,,. ""Windows 8.1 Alienware 2015 [TeamOs-hkrg]" .. but the problem i cant run it.. it has winreducer81.wccf instead of setup.exe on standard windows..im trying to figure out how can i install it, i did use bootable drive but seems it doesnt work..?
  5. goodday sir.. according to my friend .. without 8970m graphics card will sure boot to bios.. according to him "the m18x r1 mobo doesnt support 8970, it is hard coded to mobo..." .. which he said the reason while i cant boot to bios.. he said, the only solution we got is to reflash the 8970m to 7970m which kinda a big trouble cant the 8970m wont let to be reflash back to 7970m ..( a huge pain.) we will try another alternative and let him do it.. great.> gtx 970m sli and 3940xm @ 4.5ghz would be so a great partner and deliver about 50% more than gtx 980m . .... but will 330watts will work nicely with gtx 970m sli (150watts) and i7 3940xm oc to 4.5hz..?
  6. thanks sir.. .. im thinking getting gtx 970m against gtx 980m because of there price deference ........... but will gtx 970m 6gb gddr5 sli will surely works on m18x r2 motherboard..?
  7. thanks for the support and information that you've sahredd sir.. i've been thinking to buy m18x r2 motherboard, daughterboard with cable, 2 nvidia heatsink, right fan, r2 hdd cable and caddy, 2 gtx 970m with 6gb gddr5... after 6 months.. will gtx 980m will work on m18x r2 motherboard..? i read some having problem on gtx 980m sli by mrfox..? i do need also modified driver and modified vbios to flash. ive been thinking it will be along and interesting process.. bu for now ill be trying to solve this problem with my friend ..? he got m17x with 7970m but fix the flash.... once again thank you so much sir.. ill keep intouch for further thoughts and reports..
  8. sir.. what i did a while ago.. i did uninstall the 8970m at the device manager, uninstall the msi afterburner, uninstall amd driver, and made need bootable vbios via instruction of sir svl7.. restart the unit.. ad shutdown the unit.. remove the hdd.. insert the flashdrive with 7970m vbios.. and finish the flashing.. i dont know what i have missed.. i got only 1 7970m.. but still i cant solve the problem..
  9. after uninstalling and scanning for new hardware.. i notice 8970m is still the brand,, heres the report image after re installing the amd driver .. i did finish also flashing my 7970m.. and seems nothing happened. - - - Updated - - - after uninstalling and scanning for new hardware.. i notice 8970m is still the brand,, heres the report image after re installing the amd driver .. i did finish also flashing my 7970m.. and seems nothing happened.
  10. yes sir.. i did remove my 2 hdd.. an it boot to win98 it think.. and i did enter some codes.. as instructed guide by sir svl7.. the last part said.. "flash already programmed".. but it didnt restart or shut down afterward. so i did manually shut it down.. i got only single 7970m.. the think i havent done yet is to uninstall the 8970m drivers and re scan for new hardware.. ive been thinking to format it to clean instead ....
  11. ... problem still persist sir.. i notice device manager detects 8970m and never been change.. i try to fully clean install my m18x to windows 8.1 alienware os... coz ive been thinking some 8970m drivers are still register in it.. i dont dont have any idea what will happen next.. hope finally will solve....
  12. thanks you so much sir.. things are going to be excited .. but i got another problem.. i lost the lock pin of hdd ribbon cable.. i will still look for it and ill going to inform you sir.... hoping for the best
  13. sir .. im done.. halfway.. im kinda confuse ... im done entering the commands 1.atiflash -s 0 vbios.rom 2.)atiflash -cf vbios.rom 3.)atiflash -p 0 vbios.rom----one after anotherafter that says "flash already programmed".. do i need to shut it down.. because svl7 said restrat if prompted/ or it said it need to restart .. im well confuse.. i did another problem,, i did alo=so lost the lockpin from hdd ribbon cable... i can put it agian.. but main to solveis the bios.. my m18x is still on standby, and waiting for your advice....
  14. aye sir.. i did follow the instruction i got from this page http://forum.techinferno.com/amd-video-cards/1738-%5Bguide%5D-amd-vbios-flashing.html#post21467 by sir svl7.. and now im trying to remove the hdd . and hope it will work.. ill report back after sir. thanks ..
  15. Flashing procedure: Once you've prepared your USB drive, put ATIflash to the root of the drive, same with the VBIOS file you want to flash. NOTE:DOS has a limit of 8 characters per file name (not counting the extension). So make sure to rename your files appropriately before putting them on the USB drive. Reboot your system, go to the boot manager and choose to boot from the USB drive. As soon as you see the command line you're ready to go, write dir and hit enter to display all the files on the USB drive. Display all adapters, ATIflash will enumerate them. Remember the numbers of the devices you want to flash. atiflash -i Save a copy of your original VBIOS to the USB drive, "i" is the number of the adapter you checked before, if you only have one GPU it's going to be "0". "Filename" is going to be the name of the file, don't forget to add an extension (.rom). Keep in mind that there's a limit of 8 characters for a file name in DOS. atiflash -s i filename.rom Verify the integrity of the VBIOS you want to flash by calculating its checksum. Of course you need to know the correct checksum in advance. If the checksums don't match -> don't flash. atiflash -cf vbiosfile For example if the file you want to flash is called "modVbios.rom" the command for displaying the checksum would be "atiflash -cf modVbios.rom". Flash your VBIOS to the desired adapter "i". atiflash -p i vbiosfile E.g. "atiflash -p 0 modVbios.rom" flashes the file modVbios.rom to adapter 0. DON'T do anything with the system during the flash procedure. Restart the system when asked to do so and remove your USB drive. Pro tip: Set USB as the first boot priority in the BIOS before flashing a VBIOS, in some cases it can really simplify things in case of a bad flash, i.e. if you have to do a "blind flash". Using ATIflash: This will display a list of all valid atiflash commands, the associated parameters and explanations about how to use them: atiflash -h sir.. what will happen if we flash the mismatch vbios .. my card is actually 7970m.. we the accidentally flash it with 8970m vbios .. would it find mismatch.? or in case it will,, can we proceed proceed..?
  16. sir i got the stock vbios .. well another problem came in.. how can i set to boot my flashdrive with stockrom, that i cant enter and set it into the bios ..? any idea sir..?
  17. but sir.. how can i know i downloaded the right vbios for my 7970m..? i did saw some from this link Video Bios Collection | techPowerUp..
  18. wahaha..XD... we got same slow internet .... sir, will sir svl7 modded 7970m vbios will also let me to enter the bios ..? or only the dell stock 7970m will let me and fix the problem..XD ive thinking to reflash once if sir svl7 7970m modded vbios will let me to enter the bios..XD...
  19. sir.. i did think something ... does vbios and bios are connected..? i remember we flash my 7970m with 8970m vbios thats why it became 8970m.. would it be hinder the bios ..?? ive been thinking reflash my 7970m with its stock vbios if it does really hinder..? it might be a wise and wild guess i think.?
  20. problem still at large sir.. kinda having out of luck in this situation .. but ill inform you as soon ill will find solution and fix this problem.... thanks again sir...
  21. i did recently did the blind bios recovery.. follow the instruction posted by sir brian.. my m18x beep for almost 30seconds and reboot twice.. but still problem persist.. ill the stock bios from dell.. i hope i will soon fix.. if it will not then ill will perhaps proceed to windows 8.1 pro installation .. thanks for support .. godbless me in my dilemma ..XD
  22. sir.. problem still persist .. i notice.. on booting , and pressing f2 button continuously, suppose it should display the bios but rather it display like this ,, ? ive been thinking that something on my board is damage.? can it be just the bios .? can it be recover.? because i can still boot to windows, the only problem im facing is the bios ...?...
  23. do you have safe bios a05 link for m18x r1 sir..? kinda dont trust other site...
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