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  1. Assessing the situation prior to taking a risk is part of the decision making process. I got it working, no soldering needed bub. Using a 120w/10a, PE4L 2.1b, and a GTX 750Ti. Power requirements met. Yeah, your reading the "air" incorrectly.
  2. I'm avoiding damaging any original parts. I have found and purchased the correct 120w power supply, but due to the nature of the current video card requiring 6 pin, I purchased a 750ti. Now it can be considered portable with just the video card/PE4L/120w PSU. I am building a small form factor to house just the card and pe4l. Easy enough for me to just throw it in my bag on travel.
  3. Congratulations on being slightly snarky about this, did you happen to check whether it is a 5.5x2.1 or 2.5 inner diameter connector? Oh! it doesn't list it. The PE4L 2.1b requires a 5.5x2.5mm connector, which I found out about yesterday with thorough digging. Literally 2 days to find out, but thanks for your response.
  4. I have a working PE4L 2.1b/430w PSU/HD7770 setup currently, but I am trying to slim down in order to build a smaller case to house the card and adapter alone. Was wondering what 120w 10a 12v power supplies are out there that work with the PE4L 2.1 that I can use. I've check the original manufacturer site for details with no luck. I've also check the pre purchase FAQ here to see if I could get any hints as to what to buy, but no avail. I don't want to order a bunch of adapters just to find out that they don't specifically work with the PE4L. Anyone have any ideas or links to point me in the right direction? PS I don't necessarily want to build out or strip a 220w Dell brick if i don't have to.
  5. Is the PE4H 2.4b able to do e2c2 and pm3n adapters at the same time? I can get them to detect seperately on port one just fine. But any combination of both, whichever is on the first port is the only one detected.
  6. I purchased two Type C to Type C Mini Hdmi 1m cables from cables for less, and they currently work on x1, the post your referencing is for an older version laptop. Can the same be said for the E6530? Furthermore, I'm not comfortable doing a bios mod to a E6530, meant for a E6430 (Unless the 6530 is referenced somewhere in the post that I didn't catch). If I could return the product I would go for the PE4C, like you have suggested.
  7. Perfect, the fact that it's fulfilled by amazon too means it will get to me fairly quick, going to try the x2 setup with both cables. I have recently found out that I do have an extra slot that can be used.
  8. I own a pe4h + e2c2 kit, which I have working with my Dell Latitude E6530 via DSDT/Setup 1.3 running a EVGA SC 750Ti GTX paired with an EVGA 430W 80 plus PS. I am looking to expand the throughput by slotting another connection for x2 to my mPCIe (pm3n?)slot. For the life of me I cannot find a store or site that just sells the cable with mPCIe adapter. Anyone happen to have any clues? Also, will I possibly run into any issues running x2, without dramatically changing startup with setup 1.30? Hopefully someone has an answer for me.
  9. Ok, that seems to have helped, with the switching the speed to Gen 1. I did boot several times to test whether or not the TOLUD would change on me. It stays at 3.24, and that is with booting plugged in or not. I am currently typing this 10 minutes into booting up into windows with no driver fails or errors. I have set the eGPU in 36-bit space and this is with DSDT /w TESTSIGNING ON. I will continue to test with next bootup, with the same variable settings to see if it's continually successful. Followup: I have been able to recreate the environment for the 36-bit allocation. All is needed to be done in this case with a Dell Latitude E6530, with no dGPU, is to allot the Large Memory to windows using the DSDT override method, along with the addition of the Setup 1.x. Environment variables used are mainly manual, I have yet to create a startup.bat. I have set in manual mode, the PCIe slot to Gen 1(Will not work, or glitches in Gen 2), moved the eGPU via compaction to 36-bit space and no change to iGPU. Once set, make sure you have selected MBR Chainload, not MBR2. I have not been able to get mbr2 to work. I test run chainload into windows 8.1 and it works flawlessly as far as I can tell. I have also run 3dmark, and Heaven Benchmark multiple times with no issues. I will end up in the long run, taking the recommmendation to run the PE4C 2.1 as it supports Gen 2 speeds over Gen 1. I usually travel 60-70% of the year and would like to put this into a not so hard to figure out enclosure fit for a suitcase, anyone have any ideas on this?
  10. Hello everyone! I am in desperate need of some assistance! I have just recently purchased (without properly researching my specific laptop) a EVGA 430W (80 Plus), EVGA SC GTX 750Ti, and lastly a PE4H E2C2 2.4b to use in conjunction with my Latitude E6530. The laptop has a i5-3210, running with no dGPU (Intel HD4000) and 8gb of ram. After receiving the parts, I quickly referenced the material from this forum about the experiences and guides in order to get this to work. I've only seen several searched post of folks either asking if the E6530 would work, and specifically another post where an E6530 was used and worked, but that one had an i7 with a dGPU. Throughout my testing, I have not seen anything on the forums that caught my eye in relation to the issues I am having getting this to work. Furthermore, it is getting quite frustrating. I began by connecting everything as instructed by guides for different setups, Graphics Card on adapter, adapter powered by 430w power supply, mini HDMI to EC plugged. I had initially not setup the delay switch to see what it would do on bootup. The video card starts spinning once the switch is placed in 2-3, and all lights are responsive. Through inserting the EC while windows is booted, it begins the driver detection and installs a Microsoft Display Adapter. I then installed the drivers supplied on the disc from the manufacturer, install goes well and finalizes (Card is detected by nVidia driver install). After install is complete it ask for a reboot, I reboot. On reboot, the laptop pushes video through the 750Ti and displays on monitor. I am thinking this is a good thing, not really. I fully boot into windows and it gives me an error 12. All the previous threads I have read on "error 12" suggested I perform a few preliminary steps before I do the DSDT method. I try thos steps to no avail, so I revert to doing the DSDT method, showing the proper "Large Memory" in Device Manager. This is where it gets tricky. First few bootup attempts, it would flip both screens as if initializing and just black screen to windows, with nothing showing up on both screens. Sometimes it would get into windows, with both screens on and monitor displaying the 750Ti. It is not consistent, however, hen i do finally get it to log into windows and run for a bit, after a while if a sound get played it will glitch out and both displays will o to a black screen. So I'm thinking to myself it could be a memory address issue or something. The thing is before it glitched out that 1 out of few times it booted in, I played Elder Scrolls Online for almost 4 hours thinking I was in the clear. I clearly was not, so I came to the conclusion that the Setup 1.3 would assist it getting the right variables loading before windows started for stability. This is where i don't know exactly if i am following the guides correctly or if I am doing anything right, due to no specific guides for my laptop + eGPU setup. Seems like it "can" work, but I I just don't know. I've also tried several compactions setups, but I don't know if it's working? Can someone guide me in the right direction to get it working, I'd greatly appreciate it.
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