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hi,

M6600 will not work with Kepler cards IIRC. You are strictly limited with Fermi cards, or you can try "newer" AMD Firepro (M6000, M6000) that also work with M6600.

hi,

IIRC you need to be in legacy boot with legacy option rom enabled to get an image on external screen in PEG mode.

Just be careful if you have newer mxm card inside (pascal...), the card might not output in PEG with legacy mode enabled and you might end with 8 beeps and be forced to do a full nvram reset.

Hi fellas,
I got a few nvidia p106m (basically GTX 1060 with 4GB of VRAM on 128bit bus), like this one:

The card works flawlessly on msi GT60/70 but performances are low (Timespy of 2500 whereas I have 4300 on 1060 gtx 6GB).
Card is limited to 75W TDP, thus 1290Mhz on core (no boost on this one) with 0.75V Vcore voltage. I tried the afterburner voltage/freq (with CTRL+F) trick but it does not work on p106m. It's too bad as the 1060m can easily reach 1900mhz.
I wonder if you can mod the bios to allow core frequency overclocking?
Thanks a lot
Best regards

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Hi everyone,

Got the same problem here on MS-17621 whitebook (Fangbook).

Laptop starts, screen backlight turns on, but no image (on internal or external screen via HDMI or VGA out). Touchbar is responsive though (fan toggle, KB backlight toggle works...).

I also tried to flash an update system BIOS (via CH341A) but no joy.

Usually that method works, I have brought to life many laptops stuck on blank screen but nothing here.

If anyone has a suggestion, I'm all ears

8 hours ago, ascarib said:

if yours is Haswell you can just use SilentOption application to control fan

Hi,

Unfortunately no it does not work.

The lack of MXM card make the EC controller go haywire and the fan to spin at 100%.

The only way to sort this out is to ask Klem to provide a modified unlocked BIOS and set primary display to IGFX and to force IGP to be working. This way, the MXM port signal is bypassed and everything is working ok.

On 11/19/2019 at 7:56 AM, hyenguyen said:

 

update : I edited that Unlocked Bios by using AMIBCP, directly setting Primary Display to IGFX, and after reflashing, fan is normal, workround at 2000 rpm ! 

thanks for everything !

Hi mate,

I have exactly the same problem as you do, except my MXM port is broken so I cannot use any mxm card in my laptop.

After 50 or 60s fan goes full speed because there is no mxm card connected.
Any chance you can provide me your unlocked BIOS?

By the way is yours Ivy Bridge or Haswell GT70? Mine is haswell...

No TIM or thermal paste are meant for CPU and GPU without any distinction.

Try a little experiment: unhook your GPU heatsink and clean GPU core and the copper part of the HS. Apply a small amount of thermal paste on the GPU core and put back your HS. Then lift it off again and see if the thermal paste is applied on all the surface of the heatsink that should be touching the GPU core. If it is, then the contact is good. If not, use a copper shim like I do, and you'll see the difference.

No problem pal.

If you live in France, you can send me a private message, i'll send you one. I have spares, this will speed up the work...

Si tu habites en France, je peux t'en envoyer un, j'en ai au moins 10. Ca t'évitera d'attendre 15j!

it goes to 85-91 °c after just 30-60 seconds with Turbo Fan Speed and fps down to -50%, so i'm trying to find the real cause, what i found googling that's the gpu down the gpu-clock to 700mhz to prevent some damages on the card, so it's good but not for long time if always i lost 50% fps, so in this case i did it manually again , i changed the GPU and Memory Speed to the lower possible (gtx660m base clock 835MHz and boost 950.00 MHz) so i fixed the speed for -135Mhz using MSI Afterburner or Nvidia inspector, so the max speed now is 815mhz with boost, the temperature is now between 75-85° but it still very hot i think !

Hi! I had the same problem you currently have. You need a copper shim to make proper contact between the GPU core and the heatsink. 1 mm is enough. Try on ebay for "copper shim", you should easily find what you need. After the mod, during MSI kombustor burning test, the card stays under 75°C.

And btw no need for me to change the heatsink, the HS is actually an old one from my medion x6811 used with geforce gtx 460m. I just had to cut a small part of aluminium that prevented a good contact between the GPU core and the copper part of the HS (5min job). Just be aware that a copper shim was mandatory between the GPU core and the heatsink to make a proper contact, otherwise the GPU core temp would skyrocket.

Finally it worked.

Actually, you also need to disable the "secure boot" option in the bios of the laptop.

This would be the 3' of gtman

Stangely I had to mod the inf of the driver or it would not recognize the card...

Thanks for everything!

Merci à toi gtman pour ton tutoriel!

You're absolutely right, it's MS-1763.

Bios is E1763IMS.51B

EC is 1763EMS1 Ver5.11

Here is the screenshot of my desktop with the nvidia error, despite the fact that I rebooted with the override of driver signature and the driver is wqhl 350.12 (same gtman installed)

http://i19.servimg.com/u/f19/13/84/35/93/660m_g11.jpg

Looks like french people are struggling with 660m gtx and MSI laptops right?

I just update the EC to 5.17 (the one up to date) and still no joy...

I'm currently with the i7 720QM ^^

What exactly do you mean with heatsink? (sorry my english is a little bit buggy ^^), do you mean a cooling plate?

Okay and where can i buy the GTX 770M?

920XM is definitely a good upgrade compared to 720qm. I had one one a GX660 and with unlocked bios (and thottlestop) I ran rock stable @ 3.36Ghz on 4 core (140 x 24). So nearly twice as much as 1.73ghz of 720qm on 4 core.

At that time, CPU performance was as good as 3630qm.

Now, problem is to get a 920xm for a decent price. In my opinion, if you can get one for less than 150$/€, go for it. Otherwise, sell your gx660 and get a gt60/70 with Ivy / Haswell.

Plus the gx660 works with 970m gtx (end of 1st post):

The Official MSI GT60/70 970m/980m Upgrade Thread | NotebookReview

So a 920xm (150$) + 970m gtx (450$) = roughly 600$ (+40$ for 180w PSU if you don't have one already).

Big investment! A 2nd hand GT60 with 870m + 4700mq can be found for around 700$ so I let you be the judge of that.

Hi all,

I have exactly the same problem you had gtman.

My rig is a MSI GT70 (ms-16f4 chassis with haswell cpu) and my 660m gtx is alienware based (blue pcb).

I tried your method but I still have the code 37 under device managed for my 660m GTX (driver cannot load the driver of the card. The driver is either damaged or not working).

I am going to try the exact same driver as yours. But with every driver I tried, I had to use a modded inf file (found on laptopvideo2go). Without the inf file, the nvidia installer would not comply and got me an error (found no compatible device...).

Do you have an idea, I'm kinda lost here...?

Thanks