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2 hours ago, Khenglish said:

I think the P150SM has the 780m heatink. The P150SM-A would have the 980m heatsink.

 

The 780m heatsink is a single piece with one radiator. The 980m heatsink is two separate heatsinks with two radiators.

The original one that came out for the 680m/7970m was also broken into two, yet many people consider it shitty, in part because of the gap between the radiators, and leads to higher temps.

What's the difference then?

2 hours ago, Khenglish said:

You want option 1  for the 980m heatsink. The 780m heatsink has poor memory cooling.

Thanks so much @Khenglish!

The heatsink would be for a GTX 1060, but I read a post from you saying that this one has "the best" cooling.
I should go for it then, right? (Cooler means longer lasting GPU)

So it's normal that the end piece is divided? (At least it appears to be from the photos).

PS: What do you mean with poor memory cooling? Would this be a relevant problem for the 1060?

5 hours ago, hharcore said:

To me they look almost identical to stock ones .

Both are stock, but they have changed the design over time. The ones I have for example, are less efficient and make the card 10° hotter.

I'm looking to upgrade the heatsink in my p170em as I have the shitty version that first came out. I posted this in NBR but didn't get many replies. Hoping maybe @Khenglish, or anyone, can help.

I found the following two heat sinks. Now I don't know which one is "the best"...

Option 1 - Supposedly from a 980m that I found on Ebay. I'm afarid because it seems the end part seems to be 2 pieces.




Option 2, from a 780m. It's a from a laptop seller in Germany:

Thanks for any help

During the course of my ongoing upgrade to the GTX 1060, I found out that it runs a lil bit too hot (80-85°) compared to the temps reported by @Billy2789 (65-70's°). After much repasting and screw adjustment I could barely do a dent to the temps. 

Eventually I noticed that Billy and I have different heat sinks: I have the old 2-piece heat sink that first came out for the P170EM and he had an early P170SM version meant for the 780m. Some research shows these provide 10-15° cooler temps.

Further reading led to @Khenglish suggesting a 980m heatsink, as these have slightly better temps than the 780m one.

I'm asking around on European websites, but would apprecciate pointers on what I should ask for - Currently I'm asking for a P170SM heat sink for the 980m. Is this correct? Also, what would be an appropiate price, as I have seen numbers vary between 60 USD to 95 USD??? Heat sinks for other cards are valued much cheaper (around 35 USD).

Perhaps a recommended shop in Europe?

All pointers are appreciated.

@Ferrouswogg Fixed the BIOS problem. Now my problem is that I can't download your file. My account may be too new

"The page you are trying to access is not available for your account." is the error message I get.

OMG you both are geniuses. Removing the GPU for one restart cycle fixed everything. I'm writing from the affected computer now

Love you 1000 times!

34 minutes ago, Khenglish said:

Prema's BIOS runs the memory at T1 instead of T2 if you have 3 or 4 memory sticks. This could cause instability, particularly if you have over 16GB of memory. If you do pull a memory stick or 2 and it should be stable.

 

Other than that, I have only seen freezes on boot if non-usb drives are plugged into the USB ports. Ex. the laptop treats an external keyboard as a bootable device and freezes.

 

If the above fail, Prema's v2 Bios may have problems with the 1060. Switch the 1060 out to reflash, or just pull the card and reflash with no card.

 

If your computer is responsive at all the flash was fine. I strongly suspect you are having a compatibility issue as described above.

I have only two RAM sticks equaling 16GB.

How can I reflash if it gets stuck? Could you explain more in detail :)? Also wouldn't the lack of a GPU thermal signal lead to a shutdown?

1 minute ago, Scerate said:

Well i'm out of clues now, seems like a weird bug, i would risk the recovery myself.

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I tried, but after the first start up (still holding Fn+B, without monitor, only LEDS), the restart sends again to the splash screen, not the recovery menu as I read it is supposed to u_u

36 minutes ago, Scerate said:

Hmm, so after even let it "POST" for 5-10mins it stays i guess

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Yes, I left it a couple hours on the splash screen, no changes.

1 minute ago, Scerate said:

As stupid as it may sound now, but are you able to pop in your old GPU?

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I left in Europe, as I was going to sell it. I'm currently in Mexico for 3 months.

5 minutes ago, Scerate said:

Is there maybe standing something like "Detecting USB Devices"? When in text mode?

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No

28 minutes ago, Scerate said:

Hmm well yeah then i'm out of ideas sadly. The only thing which you already mentioned is maybe reflash via Recovery method, but for me it's still weird it just hangs there at the splash screen, when starting up the notebook and the splash screen appears can you press "Tab" ? Normally text only bios should show

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Pressed Tab, changed into text bios, pressed F2, says Entering Setup. Hangs in there :/

6 minutes ago, Scerate said:

Hmm i only know then about the hold "Fn + D" and Power on while still holding trick to force reset CMOS but i dunno if it works on the P170EM, give it a shot

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Computer wont turn on doing that. 

No changes after that u_u

19 minutes ago, Scerate said:

Ok, try removing your SSD(s) and Harddisk(s) from the Notebook and try again, if it gets further then, if not try removing your ram sticks, start it up once without sticks and reinstall 1 stick, with the HDDs still outside.

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No changes u_u

4 minutes ago, Scerate said:

First and foremost What Notebook are you using?

So you can move around in bios? First thing just reset Bios to defaults in BIOs theni would check if the boot order is set correctly, check if UEFI is set or the other way around. If the BIOS is using UEFI by default und u were using a non-uefi OS then you can't boot ofc.
Sefondly are USB devices attached right now?

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Forgot to add that, it's a P170EM.

Can't do any of those things. The computer is stuck in the splash screen, and not moving forward - When I press F2 it only selects the option but that's it.

12 hours ago, Ferrouswogg said:

Ah!!!! crud!!! Windows 10 duh edit 1 for you just to make sure

 

Windows 10 driver inf version 381.78 if you have clevo

 

extract and drop it in the display folder

 

sorry about that

 

nvcvi.zip

Thanks so much for the effort, I would love to try it, but unfortunately while trying to troubleshoot what was wrong, I fucked up my computer by bricking the BIOS.... I'll post a new thread about that (it depresses me so much...)

15 hours ago, Ferrouswogg said:

first did you properly mod the driver??

I believe disable driver signing enforcement

I believe frame rate cap tweak which stops that problem!

and you might need bios & possible vbios update @prema @svl7 @klem

 

1.- That's why I'm writing. I don't know if I did or not. I changed all 11A0.7102 entries into 1C60.7102 (11A0 was the 680m card that was originally built for the EM series). This is what the user at NBR did for his windows 7 machine and it worked. I also tried using the modded nv_dispi file from Laptopvideo2go. No avail.

2.- I did disable driver signing enforcement.

3.- I have Prema bios. No @Prema VBios for 1060 exists.

I recently got a cheap MSI GTX 1060 for my P170EM (yay!). I followed steps presented by user over at NBR but currently I'm stuck i nthe drivers installation step.

I don't really get the grasp of how to properly modify the INI files of the drivers. After several tries I managed to install the drivers on Safe Mode, but that didn't work once I got into Normal Mode.

The user at NBR has it up and running on the same machine using Windows 7, and has kindly shared his INI file for some old drivers. But before I give up and format the computer and roll back to windows 7, I would like to know if any of you know how I can install the drivers in Windows 10.

@Prema has also one up and running as I have a read on a P150EM, so I just need to find out what I am doing wrong....