I have a Dell M6600 with an Intel i7-2760QM that seemed to have a failing GPU. Everything else works fine.
A user on a different forum posted that he was able to install a K3100m onto his M6600 with no issues.
I purchased a K3100m on eBay. It was listed as a Dell card:
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When trying to boot to my original miniSSD, the Windows 10 boot logo would show, but it wouldn't go anywhere from there. When I used a bootable USB drive with a Windows 7 installer loaded on it, it was also not progress from the boot logo. I learned that I could possibly install the Dell vBIOS on it to allow it to operate, so I used Rufus to create a bootable Windows 98 USB drive. This wasn't able to load.
I tried booting into Ubuntu from but received a notification that there was a problem with "acpi_tb_load_namespace" I don't remember the exact message. I tried booting directly to OpenSUSE. This warned me that there is an issue with my PnP-BIOS.
Is it possible that flashing a new vBIOS could resolve this issue, and can that even be done?
I'm trying to begin a major CAD project, which is why I purchased the laptop in the first place. Any help would be greatly appreciated.