Khenglish

Your GPU's BGA solder joints are physically damaged. You can attempt oven baking to repair it, or get a replacement card.

If I remember right the 850m also uses DDR3. The 950m = 850m, and 860m = 960m. DDR3 vs GDDR3 MAY be interchangeable from a vBIOS perspective, but I'm not sure.

What do people think the odds are of Vega showing up in some sort of MXM format? It's hard to tell, but it seems to be offering GTX 1080 performance with similar power draw. If it did I'd immediately jump to AMD. Their MXM cards back when they were competitive were always far cheaper than Nvidia cards. The $1200+ price tag for the MXM 1080 and $900+ for the MXM 1070 are utter BS.

If it's beeping that means either your mxm slot is dirty or there is something wrong with the card. See if windows sees the card or not.

No the card works fine. The BIOS just doesn't recognize the device ID and thus says there's no card. It's communicating with the card fine.

That is normal. It means nothing.

Unfortunately the link I sent you by Donovan6000 is dead. I can do the module swap for you. Just send me whatever vBIOS you want to try.

AMD coming back in the GPU department would be amazing. Modding AMD vBIOS is a breeze. Power limits, clocks, voltages, and even memory timings is very easy to do. None of this inconsistent clocks crap that Pascal has. AMD vBIOS just works logically. I'm still skeptical on Zen. We still don't know how it will clock. IPC has been rumored to be at the Broadwell level for some time, which is good enough. The Ryzen 3.4GHz+ on an 8 core sounds competitive with Intel, but Intel's been sandbagging so hard for so long it's hard to compare stock clocks to how well a chip can actually clock. The big question is when the voltage is raised, does Zen reach the 5GHz clocks that have been leaked for Kaby Lake so far, or does it struggle to break 4GHz.

Did you try overclocking the CPU using the BIOS or Intel XTU? For sandy bridge CPUs like the 2920xm you need to restart to apply multiplier changes.

@Av.pavan4uWhat's your laptop? We can send you an image from someone else's system. It won't work quite right, but it will work. You can't just flash a downloaded BIOS as is to a system. NVRAM will not be set correctly.

Settings like these are stored in the NVRAM, which is a section of the bios. Changing hardware triggers resets in the NVRAM for the hardware that was changed. I find it very odd that raising voltages triggered a brick. I personally have bricked my p150em due to quirks in changing memory speeds. You should first pull a memory stick and boot. If that does not fix it, pull the cpu and try booting. Obviously it won't work without a cpu, but when you put the cpu back in the motherboard will read it as a hardware change and reset cpu settings.

If you have a hot air gun and can locate a source for replacement chips its definitely doable. Laptop motherboards are very good at shutting down when components fail to prevent additional damage. How do you know those chips failed?

It is bypassable but I can't remember how. There's no need to flash the BIOS anyway though. For Dell systems you need to modify your own ME FW dump or else the ME FW will be crippled. You can try modding it yourself and I can look over it. I can mod it but I have a lot of other stuff going on right now.

Are you saying that the picture is not of your motherboard and what you want to replace?

Is the GPU listed in the Device Manager under Display Adapters? If so, is it listed with any errors, or does it say "This device is working properly."? If there are no errors, can you right click the desktop and access the Nvidia or AMD control panel?

The purpose of the switches on the PE4C are to mimic the expresscard being plugged in after boot. Try switch combinations like 1-1, 1-2, 2-1, and 2-2.

When you right click the desktop is the Nvidia Control Panel option available?

When the gpu is listed in the device manager with no errors and the hdmi is plugged in is the tv listed in the windows display properties menu? You cannot manually enable it? Also when you right click the desktop do you have access to the amd control center?

What error number was listed in the device manager? Common error numbers are 10, 12, and 43.

1. You can, but that doesn't really help you and you may as well use the socket. 2. The jumper is present on the motherboard schematic, but pulled for actual production. In the motherboard schematic anything listed with a * means it was in design, but pulled for production. Also I found on NBR where Darcoder modded a P375SM for 40 pin eDP for 4K displays that you can break up the glue on the eDP cable at the motherboard connector, and pull out and replace the wires as needed. He cut the glue with a razor then pushed the pins out with a needle. This seems to be much better than my cut and resolder method.

If you can match the display interface and manage to fit the screen in the laptop it will work. If your laptop has a cable for 40-pin eDP then you have many screen options available. Be warned though, screens are tailored to fit particular laptop models. While the screen size may be the same none of the screw locations may line up with the laptop frame, and the LCD circuit board may be in a very inconvenient location for your particular model.

Apparently G-sync cards do have issues with non-g-sync laptops. michael.blast had a problem with one and is selling it:

I am not familiar with gta. But going back to cs:go which you mentioned earlier, your cpu should never prevent your fps from being under 60 at max settings.

Splitting a PSU line like that will just slightly reduce the efficiency of the PSU. It will not directly be a problem. Be careful with overclocking a 980 on just a 220W PSU. That card can draw well over 220W if the power limit is high enough.

CPU limiting depends on the game. That CPU will limit you some vs a faster CPU in some games, but getting a GTX 1060 will be a massive improvement. For your CPU getting a 1060 sounds like a good choice.