Kevus89

Hi valgear and others, I finally managed to connect and run my EGPU GTX960 through a PE4H-EC2C in express card slot of HP Dv7 3163 ef. Now I can play/work on my TV through the HDMI output of the EGPU. My config at the beginning: HP Pavilion Dv7 3163 ef 8 Gb Ram dgpu: GT320M egpu: GTX960 Win 7 x64 Several steps to get there: 1) The best you can get with these not optimus capable notebooks is your egpu on an external monitor. First step is to use "Display Drivers Uninstaller" to clean the Nvidia drivers of the dgpu. Windows has to run it as a standard vga device. 2) Install or upgrade to Win8.1 or Win10 (did not try other OS) instead the notebook is not able to use the dgpu as standard vga and the egpu at the same time. I guess you can avoid this if your card has unified drivers (saw drivers supporting 300 series to 700 series, not applicable to GTX960) 3) Follow Nando's instructions for DSDT override for Win8.1 or Win10, it will work in test mode Don't forget to run commands as administrator. I used an older version of IASL from 2012 because the newest version was resulting in less warnings more errors. Errors are a if (IGDS)/else outside of control methods creating syntax error all over the place and syntax errors on devices PLD. I had exactly the same errors as the ones solved by kizwan helping a dv6 user : http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/diy-egpu-experiences.418851/page-976 4) reboot and use setup 1.3 by Nando to hotplug properly the egpu, but you can also F8 to halt Windows loading and plug the egpu as your bios do not allows to plug it at startup. Did not try yet but setup 1.3 can be used to override DSDT on Win8.1 or Win10 without running in test mode (-set TESTSIGNING ON). With Win7 after DSDT override you need setup 1.3 to proceed 56.25 compaction on egpu, forcing none to 32 bits. Would have done that with a GTX660/670/680/690/750 TI... if I had known there was no unified drivers from 300 series to 900 series. 5) Install latest drivers for your EGPU from Nvidia website. 6) reboot, hotplug, run win 8.1/10, it is working. Hope this helps HP dv6-7 users, these laptops are poor candidate for EGPU (not optimus capable, no igpu, one express card slot PCIE x1.1, a BIOS which only purpose seems to choose boot order, whitelist of wifi pcie slot) as highlighted above but now at least I can land on planets at Elite Dangerous. Next step: use setup 1.3 to unwhitelist my WIFI PCIE slot and connect a second cable from PE4H to have 2x 1.1 PCIE.