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I previously had the 680M and was able to successfully overclock the vbios to whatever I wanted. With BIOS tweaker 2 and the 980m, the GPU throttles any time I overclock and flash the VBIOS. The software overclocking works fine, I just have always preferred a VBIOS overclock. I must not be doing something right. I would be willing to pay somebody a reasonable amount of money that could bake in overclock to my VBIOS!!!

Does anybody on here know of a matte ips screen that would be compatible with my Alienware 17 R1??? The IPS displays on the R2 have a different connector. I love my laptop, have a 980m, 3 1TB Samsung 850 EVO SSD's in RAID 0, 16 GB DDR3 RAM, I7 4710MQ!!! The only thing I dislike about it are the poor viewing angles with the matte 1920x1080P TN screen it has. Can't go with glossy because I can't control the lighting when I'm at work, the reflections are very annoying!!! I would GREATLY appreciate if anybody knew of a compatible matte ips display that would work on my Alienware!

So how come nobody has made a 980m vbios with "baked in" overclocks??? Is it not possible to do??? The 980m is capable of so much more than the unlocked rev 0 bios! If we were able to overclock the vbios we wouldn't have to worry about stupid NVIDIA disabling overclocking!!!

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Hello everyone,

Im having a bit of a problem.

TL;DR - Pressed fn+f5 to switch Optimus settings and now windows 8 crashes right after boot-up.

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Im going home to visit some family this weekend and decided to bring my AW17 r1 along for some movie watching in the train.

I boot it up in the train, turn off the lights and press fn+f5 to reboot without the dGPU to extend the battery life.

And this is where it gets problematic.

It will boot into Windows fine, but after a couple of seconds it gets to a start up-process which apparently after the Optimus-switch makes the PC crash.. Mouse and keyboard input stops working although it does kinda look like it's doing something and hasn't crashed completely, but I can't access it.

The biggest problem is that the freezing occurs before I get a chance to press fn+f5 again, and I'm now stuck in a loop where I can't boot up.

I might add that I'm running it pretty heavily overclocked with modified driver and vbios.

I can get it to boot up in safe mode just fine and I have tried fiddling with power settings since I figured that might be the problem, it still doesn't work when I tried to boot up normally, and since the fn+ shortcuts aren't available in safe mode it doesn't really help me much, and I can't find anywhere in the OS(or BIOS) where I can turn off Optimus.

I hope anyone is able to help or this is gonna be a loooong train ride.

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I had the exact same problem with my Alienware 17 r1 with 980m and modified driver/vbios. Graphics switching only works with Windows 8 or 8.1 in uefi mode. To get it to boot I had to remove the 980m and start it like that. Then reinstalled Win 8.1 uefi.

Prema is the fucking man!

Has anybody figured out why the 980m overclock vbios won't work with Maxwell 2 Bios tweaker? I've seen a few people ask the question without any kind of answer.

I'll mess with it tomorrow. I saw a report that M II BT worked on mobile but regular MBT did not.

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Thanks!

Search for Maxwell ii bios tweaker 1.36

Sounds like 1.31 wasn't totally compatible.

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That's what I tried. Version 1.36!

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It would be nice if prema or svl7 would make an unlocked vbios for me with a 1202 core clock and a 2805 memory clock! Please please please!

Will it open an untouched ROM? Should be able to set everything yourself if you know what you're doing. Otherwise if you ask nicely Prema or svl7 might help you.

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It opens my factory rom and allows me to adjust the clock speeds, but when I flash it windows disables the 980m saying it detected a problem.

That's what I read. I haven't tried it personally.

Maxwell Bios tweaker + Maxwell compatible Nvflash + No limits modded Bios - Guru3D.com Forums

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Maxwell II Bios tweaker is what I used. It won't open the unlocked 980m vbios rom file.

My Card is running on stock voltage (Because of what Prema told recently I guess I won`t tweak voltage.) with the following values 1126 base / 1278 boost and 2885 vRam written directly into the vBios. I never had any crash with those settings.

Best regards

phila

P.S.: Should`nt we have an extra thread for this questions as it deems me to be slightly OT?!

How did you modify the clocks on your vbios? I tried Maxwell Bios Editor 1.36 and it won't open the unlocked vbios!

Since nvidia locked the maxwell for oc'ing thru software.. Is it possible if svl7 or Johnkiss or anybody from the moderator to add (on the first pate) to tweak the core and memory speed? say for 970m and 980m

vbios tweaks for 970m :

- 970m_oc1st (135mhz core, 300 mem)

- 970m_oc2nd(150mhz core, 300 mem)

- 970m_ocxxxxx

- 970m_ocxxxxx

vbios tweaks for 980m :

- 980m_oc1st (xxxmhz core, 400 mem)

- 980m_oc2nd(xxxmhz core, 500 mem)

- 980m_ocxxxxx

- 980m_ocxxxxx

That would be pretty awesome! Never been a fan of software overclocking. If they did that we could have the latest drivers and have significant overclock!

Thanks for the work on the vbios svl7. My Alienware 17 980m with stock clocks is hitting 8700 on Firestrike up from 7900 before flashing the vbios!!!

Please disregard my last post. I figured it out. Does anybody know of a maxwell bios tweaker version that will allow me to edit the 980m vbios? I tried version 1.36 and it doesn't work with this vbios. Thanks for any help!

Can anybody please help me!? Whenever I try to flash with mnvflash it is telling me I/O Error: Cannot open file: 980MOC.rom.

I backed up my current vbios and was able to flash it, did this just to see if it worked. Whenever I try to flash the overclock vbios I get the I/O error message every time.

You don't run it from the nvflash file. You should open an elevated command prompt then type in the commands. In my case: c:\nvflash\nvflash.exe -6 c:\nvflash\XXXXX.rom where XXXX is the vbios file name located in the nvflash folder.

Pic to help you out:

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PS: Don't forget to disable the display driver in the device manager before running the above command.

Damn, thanks alot for the help!

I am running an Alienware 17 R5, 8 gb GTX 980m, windows 7. The card works fine, was just looking to overclock. I cannot get mnvflash to do anything. When I try to open it and hit enter, it automatically closes when I try to type any commands. What am I doing wrong!? About to rip my hair out here!