Capta1n_0bvious

Thank you for all your help. It looks like the Gen 2 link setting change wasn't necessary, and it has been working so far without having to use the whitelist mod. So, I figured out after lots of tinkering that Windows wouldn't let me disable driver signing when the BIOS was out of UEFI mode. This prevented the eGPU from being utilized even though it was still detected in Windows (because I modified the driver for Optimus use). Again, thanks for your advice.

Thank you for all the advice so far. Alright, so I got the flash drive going and the MBR mode chainloader test seemed to work, and now I believe I have the whitelist bypassed (it says successful anyway). However, now my video card is only detected as a PCIe version 1.1 instead of 2 so the link speed is 2.5. I have tried a few different combinations in Setup 1.3 but it claims to successfully set the port with the nvidia to Gen 2 link speed, but it still lists the card and slot as 1.1. I added the command to the startup file and ran on bootup. HWinfo and GPUz seem to list the card/bus as PCIe 2.0 for a short amount of time, but then jumps back down to version 1.1 after about 5 seconds. Slot is an EXP GDC Beast v8.0 Video card just pulled out of a desktop that is has been working fine with for years. Power supply from the same computer. I am hoping this is not indicative of a crappy slot. I suspect this dang laptop is on lockdown and preventing any changes. Any advice?

Unable to PM. The website gives some sort of error message. I am trying to use Setup 1.3 to bypass a whitelisted mPCIe slot and with any luck possibly increasing the slot to 2.0 x2 instead of 2.0 x1. I can set my BIOS to legacy and it does boot to Windows. I see you say that an MBR boot record is absolutely required to use Setup 1.3 though. So far I have gotten my GTS450 to be usable using Optimus (laptop LCD) when using the sleep mode hotswap trick but performance is a little lacking and I would like the ability to play around with it more without having to worry about hotswapping the wifi card.

Question regarding installation of Setup 1.30. Trying to install on a Lenovo u530. It has a main drive with 1TB set to GPT partition. I tried the instructions for conversion to MBR but it didn't seem to accept some of the Linux commands when I was running Fedora so it did not do the conversion. Anyway, I realized that the laptop also has a pathetic little 16gb SSD that is unpartitioned and unused. Could I install a copy of Fedora on this SSD and use MBR so I can use Setup 1.3 from this hard drive, but have a boot loader installed on here as well that I could select to boot into Windows as well? Would this allow Setup 1.3 to work it's magic for both OSes? Thanks for any help.