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On 27/07/2012 at 0:38 AM, jhmonroy said:

Hi svl7, I have just installed a Clevo 680m 4Gb in an Alienware M17xR3, and it works really great (http://forum.techinferno.com/alienware-m18x/1860-incoming-clevo-680m-4gb-aw-m18x-r1-3.html#post23778).

I am puzzled that the vendor ID is 1028 (Dell), instead of 1558 (Clevo), Do you think it will be possible to flash it with the Dell Bios (I know Dell cards only have 2Gb, but I think the nvidia bios just check whatever memory you have)?, the idea of flashing it with dell bios it is to recover the 3Dvision in case Dell chooses to support it, or if in the future I buy a M17R4 motherboard.

Thank you very much in advance for your time. Julian

On 28/07/2012 at 0:10 AM, jhmonroy said:

Hi svl7, this is the (I think) Clevo 4GB 680m vBios, that says its vendor is dell (1028) when installed in an Alienware m17xR3

680m CLEVO 4GB-vendor 1028.zip

On 28/07/2012 at 0:27 AM, svl7 said:

That's the vbios which can be found on Clevo cards, and the subvendor ID is actually Nvidia. GPU-Z reads Dell?

On 28/07/2012 at 3:28 AM, jhmonroy said:

Svl7, not only Gpuz reads Dell, but it is in the information it passes to the sistem id; when I edited the drivers for making it work, I had to change 1558 (clevo) to Dell (1028), very strange indeed ...

On 28/07/2012 at 4:43 PM, svl7 said:

Yeah, no idea why it reads Dell as subvendor, it's not there in the vbios. I guess it's getting this information somewhere else, maybe from the sbios, no idea, kinda weird.

Yes, it's exactly this vbios (well, except for the subvendor ID... but apparently there's something weird going on with that anyway.)

Sorry I'm quoting an old message, but has anyone had this anomaly crop up again with their Clevo 680m 4GB? Did they/you go ahead regardless?

My Clevo 680m is reporting a subsystem ID of 1028 02A2 to device manager and GPU-Z, despite the running bios on this card when using nvflash -version reporting the subsystem ID is 10DE-0964. So strange.

Literally, nvflash will report to me that the subsystem ID does not match during a flash attempt, claiming that my current subsystem ID reports as: 10DE,11A0,1028,02A2 and that the svl7 bios is: 10DE,11A0,10DE,0964.

Yet if I create a backup of my current and stock vbios via nvflash (the same vbios reporting as 10DE 11A0 - 1028 02A2 to GPU-Z and Windows), and then attempt to flash that, it'll prompt there is a subsystem ID mismatch and again that the bios I am currently running reports as: 10DE,11A0,1028,02A2 and the one I am attempting to flash reports as: 10DE,11A0,10DE,0964.

Incredibly odd, and makes me reluctant to go ahead in fear of a brick. Just trying to see if anyone has seen this issue again recently. Where is the system getting that subsystem ID from, as it doesn't look like it's from the vbios itself.

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It's really quite simple to modify the inf for any given hardware ID. I'm suprised more people aren't fleunt with doing it by now in order to keep up-to-date with driver versions themselves.

Could the power supply be the issue here?

Why was it ever that people assume that 8GB was the max? I'm confuzzled. I've heard it murmered before.

Will this work for the original 150W PSU if it is not being detected within BIOS. As I have one spare, and don't mind messing it up if it does not work.

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