naightmehr
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Alienware m17x R4 gtx1070 upgrade Successfull
naightmehr replied to handale30's topic in Alienware M17x / AW 17
Very epic my dude. I'm rocking the exact same build with the added addition of replacing the black layout for the nebula red one. I also have a 3 copper heatsink for the cpu, paired with the m14x fan and liquid metal my cpu runs at 4.5 ghz. Unfortunately after 1-5 minutes it clocks down to 3.9~4.0, even though the temps are between the 80-85 which is perfectly acceptable. I have no clue why your gpu fan doesn't work properly though. The only explanation that I can think of is because you might need the unlocked bios for that, which I have. -
Put your laptop to hibernate and wake it up
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Yeah sorry unfortunately I do not have enough information to give you a concrete answer.. I don't think it'll recognize the gpu until you can load it's uefi drivers and get it properly installed, I mean bios isn't that important as long as windows detecs the gpu.
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If your system is partitioned with MBR then yes
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In the unlocked bios set video options to "SG", check if windows detecs the graphics card. You might find a clue here,
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During this process the video option was set to PEG or auto, there's a good chance it switched to your intel gpu while updating the drivers.
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Non persistent voltage leads on MB
naightmehr replied to FirebirdTA01's topic in Alienware M17x / AW 17
I don't think the heatsink you mentioned will work, the R5 has a slightly different dimention, a 4th pipe won't fit on top. I don't know what the experience is from other users but the heatsink I bought from taobao gave me a 12 degrees drop compared to the stock heatsink (tested with mx-4 thermal paste) after that I applied the thermal grizzly liquid metal which gave another 15 degrees drop. -
Non persistent voltage leads on MB
naightmehr replied to FirebirdTA01's topic in Alienware M17x / AW 17
Sounds like a lot of effort with a lot of risk. Personally I bought this heatsink from taobao through yoybuy. The heatsink with the m14x fan mod and liquid metal from thermal grizzly keeps the temps easily below 85 degrees with a 4.5 overclock on all 4 cores. -
Sounds like your video card or motherboard died, bit difficult to test that since you got the 3D screen and the intel gpu doesn't work with that. I think your best guess is buying a cheap videocard, e.g. gtx 675m, gtx765m and test if those work.
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I believe that it was said before that without legacy turned on windows 7 won't work, I believe you need to use windows 8.1 or 10 if you want to run full uefi.
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Give the A11 unlocked bios a try and set the video option to PEG rather than trying to use FN+F7.
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M17x R4 - Trying to upgrade with Clevo 980m
naightmehr replied to Skyl3r's topic in Alienware M17x / AW 17
I'm starting to question if this might be a bug in the latest nvidia drivers. https://we.tl/b4Hlxff1y5 I uploaded nvidia driver 397.64 in a zip archive, modded the inf with your ID's, give that a try. -
M17x R4 - Trying to upgrade with Clevo 980m
naightmehr replied to Skyl3r's topic in Alienware M17x / AW 17
Weird, I'm afraid I can't help you any further then, if I had a gtx980m myself I could've tried some things :-/ -
M17x R4 - Trying to upgrade with Clevo 980m
naightmehr replied to Skyl3r's topic in Alienware M17x / AW 17
What if you use DDU to uninstall the driver and then right-click on the gtx980m and select update driver and then use the browse driver menu to refer to the nvidia driver? -
M17x R4 - Trying to upgrade with Clevo 980m
naightmehr replied to Skyl3r's topic in Alienware M17x / AW 17
Yeah I can't figure it out, I just installed the newest drivers for my gtx1070 and those work fine after I modded the inf with my specific codes. I followed the same proces with your code, so give this inf another try https://www29.zippyshare.com/v/vhqkg80s/file.html If it doesn't work this time then I got no clue what might be the issue
