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Another episode of "trying to do things that weren't meant to be done"...I was wrong about it switching back to SG, it stayed on PEG. I tried a few more things today and will just summarize from the beginning here:I have an Alienware M17x R3 with an AMD HD6870M. I got a Dell R9 M290X to replace the 6870. BIOS was set to PEG upon starting procedure.1) Swapped thermal solution to new card & installed new card2) Powered on, got black screen3) Powered off, removed CMOS battery4) Powered back on, got black screen & 8 beeps5) Powered off & on a few times, same results6) CTRL+ALT+DEL, rebooted, same results7) Removed new GPU8) Booted fine with no discrete GPU9) Checked BIOS, was still set to PEG10) Set BIOS to SG11) Reinstalled new GPU12) New GPU shows in BIOS - ATI GFX13) New GPU shows in Device Manager - AMD Radeon HD8970M14) Intel GFX driver had a bang - Code 31 could not load drivers15) Rebooted, same results16) I'm using the Dell Intel driver - 8.15.10.2342 (it's old, but it allowed me to use HDMI-In with the old card)17) Rebooted, now both cards have bangs18) New card's driver says Code 12 cannot find enough free resources19) Tried to auto update drivers, same results20) Uninstalled both devices from Device Manager21) Rebooted22) Both showed up under Other Devices with no drivers23) Reloaded drivers, Intel driver works, but same results with AMD driver34) Had read somewhere that the integrated audio might interfere with some of these cards, so I tried disabling the onboad audio in BIOS, same results35) Listed devices by connection in Device Manager, saw that AMD High Definition Audio Bus was on same controller, so tried uninstalling that, same results after reboot36) Enabled show hidden devices in Device Manager, saw old 6800 series driver still there, but showing disconnected37) Uninstalled old card's driver, rebooted, same results38) Ran GPU-Z, shows vBIOS 015.046.000.014.04557939) GPU-Z did not show any sensor data40) Ran HWInfo, shows GPU fan at 35%, but I have not seen the fan come on at all38) Set back to PEG in BIOS39) No black screen this time, was able to see the OpROM screen for RAID controller40) Right after that, got corruption/artifacts on the screen (several vertical blue lines with some scrambled looking text)Suspect the artifacts/corruption might be due to heat, since the fan does not seem to be working. Will let it cool off and try again later.Here's some info on the resource usage shown in Device Manager:HD8970M - PCI bus 1, device 0, function 0I/O - 0000000000006000-00000000000060FFMemory - 00000000A0000000-00000000AFFFFFFF & 00000000C8400000-00000000C843FFFFIRQ - (PCI) 0x00000007
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Hi,
I just got a Dell r9 m290x card for my m17x r3. I'm using the stock A12 BIOS. Had PEG set in the BIOS and on boot had a black screen. I cleared CMOS, most likely reverted back to SG and on boot had a black screen with 8 beeps.
I've seen people on here report that it is working for them. Do I need to use a different vBIOS? Or maybe the unlocked A12 BIOS with some settings changed?
Any help would be appreciated Thanks.
Alienware m17x r3 with Dell r9 m290x(HD8970m)
in Alienware M17x / AW 17
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