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They don't have multiplier setting in BIOS so cannot OC. I think older version of XTU and Windows 7 worked fo OC but I cannot find which version it was. TS does not allow OC either with M17xR3 & 2920/2960XM. It's a shame as even a 15" Dell Precision M4600 has XM support but our bigger badder M17xR3 cannot do XM CPU correctly. There is one person who got XM CPU OC but they never said how (On M17xR3)

Still alive. I also have not found a way to overclock 2920/2960XM in M17xR3. I do know there's a older BIOS here from m18x ported to M17x that should allow it but I would prefer getting it to work on original M17xR3 bios.

Hi all, I need help modifying 970m vBIOS to work in M17xR3. M17xR3 has no UEFI so it only works with legacy vBIOS. If newer card such as 970m with UEFI vBIOS is used, we get 8 beeps. I've been told by another person they had M5000M (980m Quadro) working in M17xR3/m18xR1 by modifying vBIOS and removing UEFI gop portion. I have tried this by removing UEFI gop and by removing ifr header and it still does 8 beep. Perhaps someone can help me modify it, maybe I am doing it wrong. here is the vBIOS : https://www.mediafire.com/file/gui9h0p06ws2pbi/970m_vBIOS.zip/file 970mstock = stock 970m vBIOS card came with 970mnogop = Removed uefi gop portion and padded file with FF 970mnogopnoifr = same as above but also removed ifr header to see if it helps only other option would be bios mod but that will probably be even harder. The original person claiming M5000M working has yet to respond to me. in theory this should work, when I had 8970m, I had same issue but VBE7 removes UEFI gop and the card worked for me. I do get a backlight on the screen but before posting it 8 beeps. maybe @Klem knows?

I look forward to your results. In the meantime I'm trying to get 9xx series GPUs working in M18xR1/M17xR3. Just need a gpu now to test.

I wonder if you can just change bios chip only and flash m18x r2 rom and see if that works?

You will need to modify drivers everytime since this isn't an official configuration. If the card comes with a dell vBIOS, I would leave it as is and see how it performs before flashing it.

You cannot flash M18x BIOS > M17x BIOS and vice versa.

You have an M18xR2 not Alienware 18, two different machines. You should get this BIOS: Also, much cheaper to buy here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-NVIDIA-GTX980M-Graphics-Card-8GB-GDDR5-256-Bit-MXM-3-0-GPU-Upgrade-/282591461768?hash=item41cbc38188:g:oHMAAOSwIjJZXvQ0 If I remember correctly, with the 980M , all you have to do is flash that BIOS. Turn off, swap cards and it should be good to go. I think the 7970m heatsink also works with 980M but don't remember.

There wouldn't be anyway to recover using blind flash recovery? I don't have a 900M gpu and I'm still waiting for my R1 to come back from HIDEvolution, otherwise I would try it. Do you still have your M18x? If you wanna send the files, I can try when I get the R1 back. As long as there's a chance to recover using blind flash recovery I wouldn't mind testing.

That's the system I remember people got it working in! M15x is pure legacy but works with 970m/980m, but M18xR1 cannot work with it. I still don't know why. It's been said by @Swick1981 and others that it's because of UEFI support but the M15x doesn't have any UEFI support, is older, but still works.

I have the same laptop as you. Do you have the 980M or are receiving it? The 980M works in full legacy mode thanks to @Swick1981 in the R2. The latest 1070 boots up and everything in the Dell Precision M6700 in full legacy mode as well. Going by this, I don't understand why the newer cards (980M, etc.) don't work in the R1. However, if you have the card, can you try testing this? Remove Card2, go into BIOS and enable Optimus mode. Then replace 580M with 980M and see what happens. Optimus mode fixes the whole LVDS > eDP problem but other than that I don't see why it doesn't work. Maybe @Swick1981 knows why it didn't work in the R2 in legacy mode before either and can explain/help us with the R1.

Is it something in Clevo's firmware (BIOS) or is this something in MSI AND Clevo's vBIOS on their new cards though? I think this was a new thing with Pascal cards and Maxwell didn't need anything like this, so it could just be with the newer Clevo and MSI pascal cards.

Well that clears a few things up.

I'll believe it when I see it.

Where did you hear this? I haven't heard anyone speak of such a rumor.