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Nope. I just called them directly. They report that the card had the correct vBIOS for HM and therefore didn't reflash.. That isn't the way I troubleshoot when I'm at work, but hey at least they didn't charge me for it.

I'm still checking with Malibal about the reflash. The boot behavior is the same. At power on: After three beeps:

They recommended that I use vBIOS in this *link*. I do not have positive confirmation from them, but I believe that is what they also used to attempt to get the card to work on my system. Here is also a *link* showing my current BIOS information.

Follow Up: I got ahold of Malibal who sold me the laptop 4 years and 3 weeks ago and they, if I shipped it to them, agreed to flash the card and try to get it working on my P170HM. However, what they determined was that my motherboard revision (V3.3) would not allow me to use the 680M at all, ever. I had heard about there being some restriction about certain machines only being able to use AMD card or Nvidia cards, but nothing like this. Malibal suggested that I would have needed V3.5 and suggested to look for another solution like the HD7970M or a GTX 5xxM GPU. Obviously, I was disappointed that I was going to double my GPU performance and support crazy textures with 4 gigs of VRAM. Anyway, I'm curious to know if I can get a second opinion or if anyone out there has the same motherboard revision and the same problem upgrading.

What would be the minimum system requirements be to use another laptop to flash the correct vBIOS on the video card? I really don't know any other Clevo users or even people with older MSI or Alienware devices. I've been attempting to work the company that built my laptop, but they are reluctant to bother with it. They're saying that if the BIOS won't even load, the card must be dead. I know that the card may in fact be dead; however, I have no way to confirm.

If this is already been addressed, please point me to the thread. I bought a P170HM from Malibal at the end of 2011. The AMD 6990M finally started crapping out in February. I "baked" it and got it going again until October. The last time, I had to bake it twice to get it going again. I decided to go for it and upgrade the GPU and CPU. I picked up a 2960XM and a GTX 680M on ebay and installed them this week. CPU's working like a champ, but when I attempt to boot up with the 680M installed, I get: 1. The American Megatrends Logo 2. 1 short beep followed by 2 more short beeps about a minute apart from each other 3. A blinking cursor in the top left corner. I've checked with the seller and advised that he'd only used the 680M in Sager laptops. So I don't think that he's got some Alienware or MSI vbios on it. I assume the problem has to do with migrating from AMD to Nvidia. If that's the case, what can I do to get the card to work? I'm fully backed up and prepared to reformat or do a fresh installation of Windows or reflash the bios. I am currently on the most current/final bios for P170HM.