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On 8/2/2016 at 11:18 AM, djcgeez2189 said:

get a load of this horse crap....

 

http://www.ghacks.net/2016/07/28/windows-10-version-1607-driver-signing-changes/

 

its official windows took the plunge... down the drain..... 

 

so pretty much anyone that upgrades their laptops will no longer be able to update windows 10 and are stuck on build 1511, because of the new driver signing rules newer updated will not install and fail with a error code, Error 0x80240031 which is the code for incompatible hardware. apparently this new build 1607 known as the anniversary update is changing the way windows handles driver signing to "protect" users aka force them to purchase new systems instead of upgrading.. what a pile of shit.. i knew microshaft was shiesty but damn....  havent felt so middle fingered in a while..... guess i will just run windows 7 as long as i can and move on from pc gaming. if they dont want me here then i will move on. im not going to feed their greed.

Beware of the update.

I just updated my R2 with 980m SLI and I can't play any game. Video games and videos run slow.  Nvidia control pannel crashes and I'm not able to change any settings.

Quick update on my experience:

Been using newest 364.72 drivers and have had no issues, BSODS, crashes, and 0 THROTTLING for about a month now.

Thanks @J95 again for making it possible

On 4/18/2016 at 7:07 PM, ArcticSoldier said:

i would like to also know if win10 is still bricking m18xR2

its time to format and would like to try out the win10 free upgrade

As I stated above. I'm currently running Win 10 and newest drivers using 980m SLI and have no problems whatsoever. Not one BSOD and crash. EVERYTHING works.

Let me know if you need any help getting yours to work.

On 7/22/2015 at 9:37 AM, Breascull said:

I've buyed an Core i7-5820k last Christmas.

This CPU isn't fully occupied at any time. Is there any chance to get more out from the 6 native cores ? I thought sometimes i played GTA V the CPU wants to sleep. It was horrible. I've read something about "unpark CPU". What especially means that ?

Thanks for your advice.

Have you fixed your problem? I've read somewhere that Win10 fixed some of those issues. I'm running a 5930k and have no problems on win10.

I'm rocking 980m SLI and it's almost as fast as my desktop with running on two 980gtx

On 9/27/2015 at 5:43 PM, SkylineLvr said:

What issues have you heard? Only issues I know of is that it won't work with Windows 7, gotta have Windows 8. Other than that, it's working just fine.

Just to follow up on your post. I am running dual 980m on my mx18r2 and so far so good. 0 problems on windows 10. 

I installed Win10 about a week ago and no problems so far. I am on drivers 364.72 and have 0 problems. No throttling and so far my LCD is safe.

M18r2 with dual 980m

On 3/3/2016 at 3:19 AM, bassistas said:

Hello guys, I just upgraded my M18x r2 with one 980m (coming from 7970m crossfire). Except some problems I have with the drivers I am satisfied with the performance. Do you think it is worth it to add another 980m later for SLI? I was thinking maybe I should sell this laptop and get the newer AW 18 with proper 980m support. whats your opinion?

Totally worth it with the new drivers. I'm running SLI and 0 problems.

@haXBOXpro

I just upgraded to win 10 using J95's modded drivers.  These ones to be exact.  GeForce 364.72 Win10  and  nv_dispi.inf_v364.72_Win10_PEG_Dedicated.zip

The way I did it was:

-Uninstall gpu drivers via device manager and disabled

-flashed prema v2 bios

-upgraded via windows update

-installed  GeForce 364.72 Win10  and  nv_dispi.inf_v364.72_Win10_PEG_Dedicated.zip

You can find detailed instructions from J95 here (last post):

https://www.techinferno.com/index.php?/forums/topic/4906-alienware-aftermarket-upgrades-driver-support-modded-inf/&page=46

Everything worked great at that point, but I wanted to start with a clean install, so I went ahead and formatted via USB win10 installation.  

Installed all the drivers from the Dell support site for win8.1 and  reinstalled GPU drivers mentioned above.

I've played a few games for 20+ minutes and have 0 throttling. 

Hope it works for you!

Specs:

Alienware M18x R2

GPU: 980m SLI

CPU: 3920xm

RAM: 32gb

SSD: Sandisk Extreme Pro

@J95

Thanks for your reply. 

I wen't ahead and upgrade to windows 10 via windows update and tried to install again and it worked! I played a few games and had no throttling!

I formatted this morning and did a clean install and everything has worked so far. All drivers installed, I've gotten no crashes, no BSOD and more importantly NO THROTTLING. I played a few rounds of Bf4, DoTA2, and some GTAv and my fps stayed consistent at all times...

For anyone interested I installed  GeForce 364.72 Win10  and  nv_dispi.inf_v364.72_Win10_PEG_Dedicated.zip

and my specs:

Alienware M18x R2

GPU: 980m SLI

CPU: 3920xm

RAM: 32gb

SSD: Sandisk Extreme Pro

J95, thank you so much! Check your paypal, I will buy you a beer. You deserve it

******Edit******

Where is the donate button?

Hello all!

Fresh meat <------

I've been using driver 353 with minimal throttling, but just a few days ago the mouse started freezing  every 2 seconds on cold boot. I checked event viewer and it showed the culprit was the Nvidia driver. Before finding out the reason, I did try several ways to fix the problem, such as reinstalling touchpad drivers, disabling the power saving feature on the usb hub root.

As mentioned above everything happened on cold boot. After a few restarts the problem was gone. 

Again, after checking event viewer I noticed the nvidia driver was the problem all along.

I decided to uninstall doing the following method (per J95's post):

-Booted into safe mode using DDU

-Did following command in CMD

bcdedit /set {default} bootmenupolicy legacy

-used DDU to clean drivers and shut down

-F8 did nothing to try to disabled driver signature

-Booted into desktop and used advance startup to disable driver siganture

-Booted back into desktop and extracted drivers 365.72 leaving only the folders J95 instruted to leave in his post

-Replaced files  nv_dispi.inf_v364.72_Win7_8.1_PEG_Dedicated.zip

-Ran setup and driver failed

-Repeated and same problem

I did flash Premas V2's vBios before trying to upgrade drivers.

Specs:

Alienware M18x R2

GPU: 980m SLI

CPU: 3920xm

RAM: 32gb

SSD: Sandisk Extreme Pro

Thanks in advance!