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On 7/21/2017 at 2:58 PM, chesterhalo said:

Hey I got the new beast 3 weeks ago and was not able to implement coz had exams.
It worked flawlessly when I followed the steps perfectly....enjoying the expierene so far. One more thing I have saved enough money to buy a gaming pc

I thought about spending 500 dollars and getting a i5 7400 and a gtx 1050 ti or
Thinking about getting a gtx 1060 3gb version which would be better though, any thoughts.

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Flawless? Lucky you, I couldn't solve the driver crashing.

On 5/30/2017 at 10:12 AM, misiozol said:

 

Have same issue but on gtx980 , tell me have u extended in any way hdmi data cable ? as well what PSU u have ?

No, I didn't do anything with the cable. PSU is Corsair SF450, new. If it was the cable, I would have to bump into it for something to happen, I think. But it happens even if I just listen to music from bed.

Hello, 
I managed to link GTX1060 via GDC adapter (into original wi-fi slot, it should be mPCIe 1.1). The latop is Clevo W150.
 
It is working on the 372.70 driver, but the driver crashes and recovers like once per hour under load. That is extra annoying since most of games and even some other programs then run in background and can't be reached again, or crash as well into some unexpected error. Now I have a clean install of win10 and win7, both have this same problem.
 
So I now have just two ideas what can be causing it: either some of the VRAM chips are unstable, but detection programs I tried were clean. Or maybe the card pushes data faster than mPCIe 1.1 can handle. Unfortunately, the laptop BIOS has pretty much no other settings than selecting a primary boot device, so that's not the way to find out. 
 
Or maybe it's something else and I hope you guys can help me. Best regards, Def.

On 5/1/2017 at 10:44 AM, themadscientist said:

 

You might want to try rechecking your driver version in Device Manager, and doing a driver rollback. Your symptoms indicate that Windows might be doing on-the-fly driver updates resulting in an Error 43.

That on-the-fly update is one of the problems I had on win10. I couldn't stop the system doing it. Any idea how to avoid this? I now run on win7, but I'd prefer win10. Another bad thing about current setup is driver crashing and recovering every hour. If you could help with these, I'd be really grateful.

1 minute ago, chesterhalo said:

I will post some pics of the egpu setup to you when I do it again in June. I hope that's fine for you.

It's not about me, it's about you. Why June though? I understand that you want to get a new GDC adapter, but I'm not sure if you actually need it. What makes you think that's the faulty component, if you also doubt your PSU? Unless there is something you didn't write here, I suggest to get PSU and GPU checked and try again.

Don't worry, it won't be easy. There is a ton of software errors and malfunctions you can meet later.

2 minutes ago, chesterhalo said:

Why i said that psu was not working was because the fan did not start, even though I grounded psu and gave all connections properly I will post pics for your reference. In the pic If you zoom in you will be able to see a green wire(pin 15) and black wire for grounding(pin 13 or 14). When you do that the psu starts working. Please message me if the pic was not clear.
 

Well, my PSU fan only works when it's under heavy load, which is never with just eGPU. I have only done this wiring once, which makes me no expert on troubleshooting. I would say that you should verify if your components work before any other action. Maybe you can use some other PC or PC maintenance shop to have your components checked.

On 5/1/2017 at 1:39 PM, chesterhalo said:

Hi So i tried the exp beast setup.
My specs/setup dell 3543 i5 5th gen dual core 8 gb ram nvidia 820m
I tried it on beast 8.4d using hdmi to mpcie which was given with the package.The setup did not even turn on even my psu was not working I did the connections properly.

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Hi. I would start investigating why is PSU not working. How can you tell if it's working? If you have everything wired right and laptop running, there is a green diod on GDC (at least on mine). You could also post the full spec, including eGPU and PSU.

Hello guys!

Moving from old topic, as I managed to get the setup working. Currently the setup is running with 372.70 driver on windows 7. The dGPU is disabled via device manager. 

https://www.techinferno.com/index.php?/forums/topic/11381-clevo-w150er-gtx-1060-trough-wifi-mpcie-detectedbut-not-working/#comment-158262

Parts: 

Clevo W150ER (XMG A502) - i7-3610QM, 8GB RAM, GT 650M,

GTX 1060 - EVGA 3GB SC single fan (for those who could also get fooled like I did, it has 0db mod, the fan is not working until it get's hot or forced by software),

GDC adapter,

Corsair SF450 PSU,

Access to wifi slot is very easy on this model. I only had to make a small hole for the cable. Setup 1.x or any mods weren't needed to get into current state. A funny note: while eGPU builds are limited by speed of connection, they are easy on temperature. The laptop is cooler (since it doesn't have to dump the heat from dGPU) and the eGPU sits on open place with its fan(s) unobstructed. 

Score:

Cinebench R15 - 77.49 FPS

Subjectively said it's doing a good job in all games I could barely run before. For example Planetside 2 runs 90+ fps even in big battles on medium settings.

Issues to solve: 

1. Sometimes the driver crashes and gets recovered within several seconds. When this happens, both internal and external monitors turn black for a brief moment. It's not a major problem, just annoying.

2. Windows 7 is a bit of issue. I wish I could run on win10. The reason I'm back on win7 is that I couldn't block win10 automatic updates to not download newer version of NVidia drivers. The setup could then run just several minutes before the driver updated and eGPU fell back into error code 43. 

Can anyone help with these?

Do you guys think that RAM upgrade to 16 GB is worth the money?

Update: I must have left something from old files, I got the driver installed after using DDU tool. Now GTX 1060 works for few minutes under 372.70 driver and then crashes back into code 43. What can I do about it?

EDIT: partially solved, moving to new topic

Update:

Hello, I have this code 43 for my GTX 1060. I tried the older driver, 372.70, but but this driver crashes on install with this: Could not create folder "C:\Windows\Temp\NVIDIA\ControlPanelInstallerTemp". I'm basically getting this error with every desktop driver version I'm trying to install for the 1060. Any idea?

Update: I must have left something from old files, I got the driver installed after using DDU tool. Now GTX 1060 works for few minutes under 372.70 driver and then crashes back into code 43.

Hello,

thanks for reply. But I think that the first issue is the cooling fan. On the other rigs I saw on youtube the fan works instantly, mine does not.

Hello guys, I wanted to give my older laptop a bit of kick. It's a W150ER (XMG A502) laptop with GT 650M. I got the GDC for mPCIe wifi slot, EVGA GTX 1060 and 450W Corsair PSU. But I need some help. 

1. With everything wired up, having green LED on GDC device the eGPU wasn't recognized in device manager. eGPU fan was just wiggling in roughly 2s intervals.

2. I tried to hotswap from wifi to GDC as described in troubleshoot post, that made the system load the GTX 1060. Fan got spinning few seconds after swap and then turned off.

Now what I got is the code 43 error and fans not spinning at all. Tried several ways that I found to overcome that, including installing older driver. During one of the installation attempts I actually got the external monitor loaded for few second before installation ended with error (still no fan spinning, even though the GTX 1060 got a bit warm).

After failing to install the driver, GTX 1060 disappears from Display adapters and is available after restart again with error.

Can anyone help me to get it working? What's with the fan? I'm kinda worried about it. Thank you very much!