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Hello, thank you very much for the information.I have this bios file: M18x_R2_A11_Maxwell_Legacy_Improved.rar

Is this the right file?

So there's nothing else to do? just set up the bios? but it must be configured before installing the 1060 gtx with my gtx 780? Or the 1060 is detecting before bios setting?

Hi, sorry I am French and my English is very limited, I recopy your text to elicit a reaction because I do not understand how the 1060 can work? Because as you said it is not compatible with the screen, sorry to have done like that, and for my translation ....

My configuration :   Alienware M18xR2

Type de Bios    Insyde EFI

Version du Bios    A11

Type de Bios    Insyde (05/17/2013)

SMBIOS Version    2.7

Chipset: Intel i855GM/PM    Non  (Intel Panther Point HM77, Intel Ivy Bridge)

Type de processeur    Mobile QuadCore Intel Core i7-3740QM, 3500 MHz (35 x 100)

Carte vidéo    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M  (4 Go) x2 sli

On 16/05/2017 at 7:30 PM, aaronloveweed said:

But yes, as Mr Fox said and I have also confirmed with one of my friend who works as an engineer in Nvidia who was also involved in the architecture of Pascal, the screens used on the 18 are Legacy a.k.a LVDS. Pascal only supports eDP type of screens.

So even if you somehow managed to fit the card and cool it well, or even feed enough power, it won't work. Either the 18 would reject the card or nothing would appear on the screen, thereby making this upgrade useless or a waste ???????

The new NVIDIA and AMD cards do not support notebooks with LVDS display panels. Only eDP panels are supported. This is no upgrade path beyond Maxwell.????