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I just got a 980m and got the Prema V2 vbios installed and everything is working great.  I was playing Division and my temps started to creep up a bit.  I was at 90c and the fan was barely going so I installed HWinfo and got the temps under control. With the fan running with hwinfo the temps got back down to 75-80c. I imaging thermal paste needs some settle time as well. I just got it running yesterday.

I was just wondering what the max RPM for the gpu fan is?  I've been using 5000 rpm as a top and it rarely gets going that fast but I don't want to wreck something either.

Recommendations for custom GPU fan speeds?

Update: I dug out my old CoolerMaster laptop cooler.  It has three fans powered by a usb port and pushes right into the three fan ports on the bottom of the laptop.  It's dropped the in use temp down to 70c. These cheesy laptop coolers do make a difference.

BREAKTHROUGH!

I had the wrong Section number.

When I put in %NVIDIA_DEV.13D7.0550.1028% = Section227, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_13D7&SUBSYS_05501028

I used the section from a different card not the 13d7.

The section should be 115 116 0r 117. I just entered all three.

%NVIDIA_DEV.13D7.0550.1028% = Section115, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_13D7&SUBSYS_05501028 

%NVIDIA_DEV.13D7.0550.1028% = Section116, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_13D7&SUBSYS_05501028 

%NVIDIA_DEV.13D7.0550.1028% = Section117, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_13D7&SUBSYS_05501028 

and the driver installed.

Now to see how well it does on some Division.

12 minutes ago, Lee James Wood said:

When installing, select option to custom install. Then just install the driver and the phsyx or whatever. see if that works. I never install the geforce bloatware or the hd driver thingy

 

I'm trying to install 368.38.  I''ve deleted everything from the install package but the folders specified.  The option don't show physx.  Just hd audio and driver.

The hd audio driver never gets a chance to try to install. The display driver fails and the install process stops.

If I only check display driver it does the same thing.

2 minutes ago, Lee James Wood said:

install all your windows updates and hardware before installing the graphics driver on a fresh install. 

Windows is up to date.  No more downloads when I check for updates.

I still don't have download rights so I tried to edit the driver myself.

Im on an Alienware m18x r2.

I'm on stock bios A12. I'm on windows 10 home on uefi with secure boot turned off.

CPU Z sees the card fine and the fan is running.

Following the guide at http://null-bin.blogspot.ca/2015/08/how-to-modify-nvidia-notebook-driver.html

I edited the nvdmi.inf for dell/alienware

My hardware id is:

PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_13D7&SUBSYS_05501028&REV_A1

So i put

 %NVIDIA_DEV.13D7.0550.1028% = Section227, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_13D7&SUBSYS_05501028 

in the right place and added 

NVIDIA_DEV.13D7.0550.1028 = "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M"

to the [strings] section

I turned off driver signing.

Deleted all the folders except the ones listed in this post.

Ran setup as admin.

The red unsigned driver windows popped up and I said install anyway.

Then almost immediately the install fails.  It says HD Audio not installed and driver install failed.

Can someone please help me please.  

I ran my stock m18x r2 for months on WIN10 with the factory 675m. Once I get download rights I'll try to get  woodzstack666's 980m working.

It sounds like afterburner and evga overclocking  is what's killing lcd panels.  Am I reading this right?

On 4/6/2016 at 11:15 PM, Gor3 said:

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'm jut trying to get his going.  Bought the card off  woodzstack666.  I had no idea what I was getting into. 

I just put the card in and tried to boot it up.  I got 8 beeps and nearly shit a brick.  All the post said dead lcd. I thought it killed my lcd panel.

Talked to woozstacks66 and he walk me off the ledge.  I took the card our and my pc booted just fine.

I just have to reinstall windows now.  I don't have enough posts to download the unlocked bios. Don't have enough posts to download the display drivers.

Sooo... Looks like I'M PLYING GAMES ON MY INTEL 3000 until I have download rights.

I don't thini I would have bought the card if I had realized it was going to be this complicated.

On 4/2/2016 at 1:07 AM, Gor3 said:

@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

 

 

Thanks for the info.  I need to get my posts up to download the inf file and use my new gpu.

Thank you for all your work. I need to get my posts up so I can download and use these files.

Sorry to bump this topic.  I just spent $1000 on a 980m and would like to use it on my m18x r2.  I need to post 5 times apparently so I can download the needed files.