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The drive officially supports 2x 9.5 or 3x 7mm HDD / SSD. You don't need to buy anything else, just install the new drive and off you go.

exactly - if you try to enable UEFI on discrete cards you get an error about a missing MXM GOP driver. can you flash the clevo vbios onto the dell cards ? Any implications ?

It's not some dell pricing conspiracy, it's a new requirement from Microsoft for Windows 8 product certification

that is the unmodified stock Dell A08 bios as verified with the md5 hash on the Dell site

I think that both A07 and A08 contained updates to the EC, when coming from A03. I flashed from A03 (stock) to A07 (stock) and then A08 (stock) without issue so far. Here's hoping we can get an updated OROM in A08. What version did you flash that killed your machine xxstd?

Something definitely changed between A07 and A08. A07 flashed within windows as per all previous BIOS flashes. A08 Insyde flasher showed up for about a second in windows, computer reboots and then it flashes itself. Updated the EC as well.

That Windows 8 Quickboot option is not in the A08 version. The UEFI stuff remains, however.