MelWell749

What happens is 'chainload Win7' searches for the first instance of /bootmgr on your partitions. In your case, it finds it on your Recovery partition first before your Win7 installation. So easiest solution is to use 'chainload MBR' instead which is how the system boots. Or, if you want to go the more painful route use Chainloader->grub4dos.Prompt to query your partitions to find where your Win7 resides on then use Chainloader->!Edit config to manually set the partition for 'chainload Win7' to use.

NOTE: since your system lacks a iGPU, it's not going to get x1.Opt pci-e compression nor internal LCD mode. Not a good DIY eGPU candidate system.

No no I realize that now that I might have been a little hasty in buying a DIY setup =). I just want to see if I can get at least some performance out of it but maybe thats not possible?. Right now I can allocate 128mb of pci space to it in setup 1.x but it runs like crap and is outperformed by my dGPU.

If i try to deprioritize my dGPU i can allocate 512mb of space but when i try to chainload it just gives me a blank prompt until i reset. And I cant remember what I did but i managed to allocate 512mb of space and boot up in 256 colors which i think is the "iGPU" taking over. Should i be looking at buying a suitable laptop instead or is there something i can do here?

When I try to chainload win7 it starts up my Sony Vaio Rescue kit and wants to recover windows 7. Any thoughts on that?

My Computer :

Sony vaio VPCF13M1E

Intel i5 560M

dGPU : Nvidia Geforce 425m

eGPU : Nvidia Geforce GTX 460 v2

4gb RAM

You may try these steps to prevent BSOD, it works for me:

Those are steps in Lenovo E420 & GTX460. It might work with your laptop. You may also try to set the eGPU PCIe link to G1 speed before running compaction.

Ok ill go ahead and do that. WIll post back with results. Thanks!

Oh god i've been at this for a long time now!

I got a GTX 460 v2 running on PE4L on a sony vaio notebook with intel i5 560M processor.

If it doesnt recognize the card i set it to sleepmode and then power it on which gives me error 12. So then i restart my computer and everything shows up fine and i can use the card BUT it's laggy as hell. It's even performing worse than my dGPU (Geforce 425M) so i figured it was a allocation problem so i installed setup 1.x which can allocate 512mb to the card but when i try to chainload it after that it just gives me a black screen and when i turn off the GPU at the black screen i get a BSOD. What can be done? Oh and my USB port stopped working and i dont get what the pci.bat explanation thing is in the troubleshooting. Any help at all would be appreciated! Thanks