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But essentially the card WAS working, only problem was it was not working with the MSI uefi ROM option, right?

Perhaps... In fact, the more I think about it - isn't it possible that what you did by shorting the two pins was bypassing the 7970M and booting with the on-die VGA, then - by removing the wires - making the 7970M visible to the bios, then flashing it? Did your screen work when you first booted? If so, I can only try it on the Dell, because the old MSI does not have a CPU with video (it's a Clarksfield).

wow! if this works in general, it will be a major finding! I'll try it when I have the time and mood to remove the 7970M and put it in the MSI. I'll report back here, though probably not before early next year thanks!

So I forgot - despite being told - that the original Dell 7970M was replaced with a new one with the 022 vbios and mistakenly tried to downflash. Now I have a brick and blind flashing on my Dell M6600 will not work. I will try later with an older MSI notebook, but assuming this does not work either... Any tricks or chances of success without changing the bios chip? (I do have the original image...)

Where "better" means moving more air or quieter / better sounding? I also would be interested in the second - especially for the GPU fan in my P150EM.

I don't think it's necessary; just advisable - to get the most of Intel's management of power and thermal issues.

No and no, unfortunately. And thanks for v04.

Hi, Prema. Is there any - locked - option in the P150EM bios to allow the laptop to boot on an external monitor? I would assume so, and find it hard to believe how many common and for some crucial options - e.g. hdd pw - Clevo leaves out.

Hi Prema! May I ask you to do for the 150EM bios what you did for the W110ER? Enable the HDD password options? Thanks! And thanks again! PS No hurry, though. Without your next release.

my understanding is that the latest dell bios is .021

any point updating the 7970m vbios from ver 017 to ver 021? any utility that can do that? thanks!

Have not tested it, but for proper calibration you would need a colorimeter (e.g., Spyder Colorimeters For Monitor Display Calibration and Software - Datacolor Imaging Solutions). What you can do, though, is search the web for an ICC profile for your type of monitor. It has to be the exact model and preferably on the exact same notebook. You can check notebookcheck's W520 review, if that's what you're looking to calibrate - when they test the nb display they almost always also provide a calibrated ICC profile. It will not be prefect, but might be much better than the Windows default.

But the M18xR2 is a monster. Most of the other machines have much less room for OC/OV, especially when they were not designed for the 680M (e.g., sticking the 680M in Clevos or workstations to replace the original card).

But the throttling problem is not just a function of the vbios, but also of the notebook's bios.

The crucial word being "MY" (in "for my money"). For MY money, I pick AMD, the 7970M/Enduro debacle and nVidia's current supremacy notwithstanding.

any significant changes between dell bios'es 015.017 - 021? is it worth upgrading stock to stock?