Lee James Wood

I'm looking for the same. have the cards, just not the systems to test them in. One brave buyer purchased a MSI 1070N and will test it this week. I offered him some cash back if he shared his experience, and this also gives him the best chance to try things the community can suggest.

Can't remember the last time you said anything nice about them as a company to be honest...

find your hardware ID.. since it's Alienware / DELL it will end with 1028 but should start with like 0551 or 055A etc... you can find this on the properties of the videocard in the device panel, and going to where you can scroll down to hardware ID's Secondarily if you are going to install a non-WHQL tested driver/signed driver, you need to disable DSE (you can google disable DSE) it lasts a single boot. That's when you install the driver. However - first make sure your in a dedicated mode, don;t know why you needed the unlocked bios for the laptop, but that is irrelevant. Maybe still good to have though. latest bios should have allowed you to hit the Fn+F5 key (if it's F5, I forget) to switch the graphics... essentially to be on the dedicated card only, is what you need. In bios you would have needed to be set to UEFI and NOT have any legacy options enabled. once those options are disabled, (DSE, and your in a UEFI compliant boot) everything is digital, you should be able to use a custom modified driver. Easy as Pi. Now, if you have "installed" it and it is not strong, then i suspect your on the HD intel graphics. Check nvidia control panel to make sure your using the nvidia gpu and not auto.. and infact, check to see in device manager if there is a HD Intel , if there is, then windows will screw up and always try and force you to use the HD Intel, it gets only worse with each windows version too, in windows 10 it's really screwed up, anyways - if you are in full dedicated mode (PEG, UEFI compliant, DSE disabled...) there shouldn't be any issues. Though - each driver now becomes a hit or miss. Once we have the hardware ID, we can mod you a driver or check if things are the way they should be to be on the same page etc..

Hey there, have you abandoned hope or received help yet ? I will help you, regardless. I need to know, for purposes of helping you, what version of windows are you using?

When installing, select option to custom install. Then just install the driver and the phsyx or whatever. see if that works. I never install the geforce bloatware or the hd driver thingy https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jtkjy4kp05cau8l/AAA9JJPPLuFZ6R7h0mthQW-Ua?dl=0 go to install, but then custom, and select only what you want to install. I think everything is there.

install all your windows updates and hardware before installing the graphics driver on a fresh install. go to custom installation : and just install the driver, and the physx forget about the HD sound driver for the HMDI unless you use external 7.1 through the HDMI or something. (Isn't that what it does?)

I don't know the situation, but a lot of the stuff on this forum is uploaded elsewhere, when something is public it's public. However, if its specifically mentioned or directly between two people, that's different. I am willing to pay for the service. I had a customer once or twice ONLY purchase, because I could provide a Prema vbios(which by the way was openly shared, not something private) Which I did. But then I send a few dollars Prema's way, as thanks. On the home page there is a donation link, it's like buying someone a beer for their work. People do it for me all the tie, what goes around comes around. how about this, if we all pitch in and show him our support with a few donations, just to give him a nudge, nothing you can not afford kind of deal. Maybe he will come around.

I don't know, it might be it might not be. I would speculate close to 980 MXM desktop ASIC being used for 1080 MXM though. There would be NO performance loss, and all they would need to do really is replace a few things, and the components that differ. If they go with 1080M though then I suspect it to be a K5100-like Silicon / ASIC with 1080M GPU for similarity purposes. I say this because they showed/demo'd some darker/blacker cards in a dual configuration for some vehicle demo powered by nvidia cards, and the rumour was it was 1080M cards based on the model numbers. I didn't look into it mind you. So who really knows.

We added CLU thermal pasting, delidding, and unlocked bios to further overclock the system. Plus higher grade ASIC parts and silicon Lottery-like selected CPU and GPU's. Can't beat that.

I was told my supplier would have them in September.

Amazing ! very good job!

check windows for updates, check all other hardware, like AWCC and the likes, check your bios and any EC/firmware's. then triple check you disabled DSE, and are running the setup as Admin. Maybe try various windows 8/windows 10 64bit drivers. If you can use DDU or remove all video card entries in registry too, and run CCleaner could help. Maybe you need a specific driver made just for you. Maybe your hardware ID changes or something changes half way during install. Could be windows has already installed it's own version of what driver you need, and then it blocked yours. You restart your laptop and then some random driver is there. maybe it installed but didn't update the registry properly because it turned out you didn't have admin rights on this login (seriously, windows 10 has random issues like this, when it is running updates) Just make sure you disabled DSE each and every time you install. It should prompt you to "install anyways" as a warning every time. if it doesn't, then you know it is going to fail or only 'pretend" it's installing.

You are most welcome my friend. Spread the word ! If anyone wants higher then usual quality MXM cards, I'm your guy ! ( On a side note, if anyone has noticed, there are less and less vendors selling broken used videocards for outrageous prices. It was a long term goal of mine, and what originally prompted me to sell so low and to NBR and T|I members - forums and selling sites all over back in the day had so many sellers for broken cards, no one knew how to get them working , people were pawning off their troubles to other people etc.. there was just a bad experience for people wanting to upgrade a MXM 3.0b card, but nowadays, it's not so bad. Most the cards are good, safe, and you don't hear nightmare stories 5 x a week like you used to about people being ripped off and being sold crappy stolen cards from china and stuff anymore. I really feel, I helped contribute to this brighter future for people like us, and I want everyone to know, I could not have even helped a bit - if it wasn't for NBR and TechInferno and my supplier/ partners at Eurocom.)

seems to work for me. Weird. wait... you have a SINGLE post... that's why.

Anything special to get this to work ?

Is the 770M the best card that will work in the MS-16F2 ? Does anyone know if the 970M will work ?

the newer drivers are mysterious to me too. Many people just claiming their laptop is broken or the videocard, because nothing they try seems to work. Great job nvidia, screwing us over, lol.

Install the OSD and HD Intel graphics. Then Hit Fn+F5, that should stick you in dedicated mode, thats when you would want to do the windows 10 installation, or disable DSE and use a modified driver to install the 980M. Check your hardware ID in device manager to see whats what.. it should even have changed it's ID. (I think it does that, right, when you switch ..like 05AA to 05AE sometimes etc...)

Win10 TP driver. Install AW OSD then switch to dedicated mode and disable driver signing before installing drivers. Uninstall drivers using DDU. Under Options, uncheck "AMD Audio BUS" (bug) then select "Clean and Shutdown" option . Extract NV v347.52 (stock INFs) copy/overwrite nvlddmkm.sy_, nvapi64.dl_, nvapi.dl_. Optimus, use nvcvi.inf instead. http://forum.techinferno.com/nvidia/9065-unlocking-overclocking-maxwell-900m-series.html nvcvi.inf_v347.52_Optimus_AW_OCing_MOD.zip nv_dispiwu.inf_v349.65_Win10TP_AW_GTX_980M_970M_880M_780M_680M.zip Does this still work ? Will this get/have windows 10 work with the 900M series ? Anything different for newer driverS?

I am wondering if someone modified a bios/firmware to make these work too.. anyone know ?

Doesn't your card just work, as is, already with nVidia drivers?

People quote all these vendors when in the market place here, I've had the videocard up for sale for almost a year for less. Those who found it got it for cheaper.

You can use a dremel kit to just gring off what you need to remove, its easy, theres no way you are going to screw it up, because this is where it touches the solonoid/capacitors near the RAM its not on the GPU die, so the area only really needs to make normal contact with the thermal pad and videocard to be fine. You can see the area in this video for instance: Hope that helps you. Its really cheaper to buy a dremel and do it yourself, then buy the heatsink, plus no heatsinks are ever new unless they come with the laptop, and sometimes you will get one thats bent and doesn't fit properly or just the wrong one... (I hear stories, I do !)

You can use both my 970M and 980M in the M15X, heat is not as much an issue as one would think, these cards run cool, if they get too hot, try and check your thermal pasting job. Also, it does help to use a higher power adapter, otherwise the card might not have enough power at maximum load.

|Huh?| You need help installing the 660M drivers ? They should be on DELL's website, as per usual. Anyways - Latest nVidia drivers like 355.xx cause issues for older legacy monitors like HP LP3065 which is a 100% DVI-D monitor only. And i've seen reports lately that Windows 10 and nVidia driver can even burn out a monitor the same way as was originally reported on "Fox's" AW18's. Just thought to add that. If your using 980 Ti the latest drivers have like no Legacy support, or a lot less support I should say. nVidia is telling people to upgrade their firmwares on things like their LCD's and monitors etc.. which to me is lame and not fair.