Torai

too bad I already got my M6600 in hand, and the R3 is sold ...

No worries... I'll wait for your confirmation

Guys, thank you very much for all your help: svl7, kune, devillucifer. Especially kune !! Cant believe you spent a lot of time helping me modding the driver for me. I really appreciate it ! The 8.85 from Dell I tried yesterday and it did recognize my video card, but shows up as ati 6900M series. I didnt know about the "hybrid driver" at that time so I just uninstalled it. However, I am really really in a hurry (I'll be out of town in a couple of days for quite a while) and I bought a M6600 today with Quadro 3000M because kune told me 10-bit colors wont work. Later today devillucifer told me 10-bit color does work. Im kinda confused especially when I couldnt get the driver installed successfully. Very sorry kune, I wish I had enough time to try the flash again, but.... however it's still useful for many other people who might need the professional card someday So I decided not to take risk anymore (who knows what will happen the next time I flash ) plus I think it is not a good idea to use flashed BIOS and modded driver in long-term so I bought the M6600 with quadro 3000M w/ Optimus (the king of transformers ). I can still return it but only if someone can confirm that 10-bit color is supported and its ok to use flashed video card in long-term once successfully modded. Anyone thinks that I should return the M6600 and give the 6970M another try ?

Thank you all very much for the helpful post. I am using M17x R3 with 6970M and now I want to flash it to 8900m to be able to use OpenGL in catalyst pro for 10-bit color support and other photo editing work. I've follow exactly all the steps in your guide. However, no matter what catalyst firepro package I use, it wont detect my card. I have tried at least 6 different ATI FirePro package I also tried modding the driver, no luck. Could someone please give me a link to download the EXACT Catalyst FirePro package that you used ? I checked the VBios after flashing and now subsytem ID shows 04A4, does that mean I dont have to mod the driver anymore ? I even tried the driver mod step but change PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_6720&SUBSYS_04BA1028 to PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_6720&SUBSYS_04A41028 but still no luck. I guess I do not have the proper Catalyst FirePro package Is there any chance that my card is brick ? I dont know how to check that Please help me !! Thank you !!! This is my current GPU info: in BIOS: Error: