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The blue PCB gtx 1070s have known issues, these card were specifically produced for clevo's. The black PCB 1070s should work properly. Some experience throttling which can be solved by setting your machine to hibernate and waking it back up.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/164899268286?hash=item2664c326be:g:AgUAAOSwZohguzrt

 

That being said, I've done this upgrade around 4 years ago. Back then the upgrade was worth putting the effort in but nowadays I would recommended purchasing a new laptop. 

The process of upgrading to a 1070 isn't just inserting the card and plugging a 120hz 3d panel in. 

 

Let me sum up all the steps for you:

• You would need to edit the case, since the 1070 would hit a part and it would short circuit (I recommend taking the whole laptop apart, if you accidentally hit your motherboard during this process, you're back to square one)
• The 2 mxm sliders on the left and right would have to be removed since the card is thicker than the HD7970m
• A 3D panel is required
• You would need to mod your bios to a custom A11 version that allows you to set your videotype to GPU only
• You need to mod the heatsink for it to properly fit on the 1070, if you mount the heatsink as is and screw it in place, you'll destroy your 1070

 

Every step has a risk and requires time. Taking the costs of a 1070, 3D panel and possibly the tool necessary to mod your casing, in my personal opinion it wouldn't be worth it in the end. 

But in case you really want to, I can answer all your questions and show you pictures of the complete process.

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

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.

If your system is partitioned with MBR then yes

In the unlocked bios set video options to "SG", check if windows detecs the graphics card.

 

You might find a clue here, 

 

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.

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.

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.

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.

Give the A11 unlocked bios a try and set the video option to PEG rather than trying to use FN+F7.

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.

Weird, I'm afraid I can't help you any further then, if I had a gtx980m myself I could've tried some things :-/

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?

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

Where did you get driver 352.84 from? Mind sending me the inf so I can check what section it uses in there to recognise your gpu? Rather weird how an older driver installs just fine when the proces of modifying our own inf should've been been done correctly.

Another possibility that just hit me is that you might have to flash the vbios, not sure about this though. But the vbios might be specifically meant for clevo only and therefor conflict on a DELL laptop

Maybe this post will help

 

My mistake then, guess the gtx980m has a UEFI vbios. I can't really think of anything right now honestly, the strings look correct, you got testmode on and since you can get into windows the bios settings should be correct so it's not a bios-related issue.

 

I guess you can try to use an other section instead of section160, maybe try section 154. What you might also need to replace is section153 and section154

 

%NVIDIA_DEV.13D7.0580.1028% = Section153, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_13D7&SUBSYS_05801028 

 

%NVIDIA_DEV.13D7.0580.1028% = Section154, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_13D7&SUBSYS_05801028 

 

NVIDIA_DEV.13D7.0580.1028 = "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M"

 

Try using these strings, if that doesn't work then I'm completely out of ideas.

Yeah that's correct, try installing the drivers now with testmode on, if that doesn't work with FULL UEFI, try legacy.

Yeah those are the correct BIOS settings, now turn testsigning on using this guide https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/install/the-testsigning-boot-configuration-option

 

And try to install the drivers again

 

Oh a realisation just hit me, the gtx980m might have a legacy vbios since that's the last card which still supports legacy, so if this doesn't work you can try setting the bios to legacy instead of uefi.

Did it properly save the strings in the nvdmi? Because by default you can only read it and not save, so be sure to take ownership over the nvdmi.inf

And you modified the inf for the lastest drivers which is 398.36?

 

Also try using testmode instead of turning driver enforcement off, driver enforcement turns back on the moment you reboot your system so that's very unreliable

 

And did you modify the correct inf being the nvdmi.inf?

I quickly modified the inf with the correct strings, try if that works https://www79.zippyshare.com/v/NCgbpgSZ/file.html

Replace the existing section 160 line with the modified one, you can't have two section160's

 

And you need to add this line under the "GPU strings" 

NVIDIA_DEV.13D7.0551.1028 = "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M"

Section24 applies for the specific guy I responded to, section24 being the gtx765. 

 

PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_13D7&SUBSYS_05511028 if this is your ID then we can split those numbers up into 3 groups

 

GPU CODE

Laptop model code

Laptop manufacturer code

 

Now I just downloaded the latest drivers for the gtx980m to use as an example, if you use CTRL+F you want to look for this string

 

NVIDIA_DEV.13D7.0709.1028 = "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M" <- this one has the 13D7 ID which is your gpu and it has the 1028 ID which means it's DELL, you only got to change the 0709 to 0551 

 

Now we will use CTRL+F on the code from that string being NVIDIA_DEV.13D7.0709.1028

 

Then we find this section %NVIDIA_DEV.13D7.0709.1028% = Section160, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_13D7&SUBSYS_07091028 

 

Now we only need to change the laptop model code to yours: 

 

%NVIDIA_DEV.13D7.0551.1028% = Section160, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_13D7&SUBSYS_05511028 

 

NVIDIA_DEV.13D7.0551.1028 = "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

 

^ these 2 strings are the ones you need to paste in your inf.

 

Keep in mind though every time you download a new version of the nvidia drivers the section changes but once you know the proces it's pretty easy to mod it yourself