JohnMT

On 2/7/2023 at 11:24 PM, TheSin said:

Removing MXM GPU will lead to beeping and emergency shutdown after a minute or two. The problem is in firmware of EC controller, which periodically requests temperature of discrete GPU. If MXM card is not installed, EC can't get data from SMBus thermal sensor and enables 'emergency mode'. To fix this problem you need to flash a specially patched BIOS. This BIOS is based on the latest Eurocom one, if you prefer Sager BIOS - please PM me with your firmware, I'll apply patch to it.

Sorry to jump into a month old thread, but would that BIOS work for a Sager NP9170 that came with an AMD card instead of an NVidia?  Been having a lot of trouble with the radeon 8970m.  First one died (or so I thought), so I got a replacement but it's having the same issues.   I can use the laptop with the integrated graphics but as soon as anything in Windows fires up the Radeon it's got about 30-40 seconds before it either beeps like crazy or just turns off, even if the radeon was only in use for 1 second.   It seems to act like even if the radeon isn't in use anymore the temp is still rising (slowly) then its overheating & shuts it all down, even if the radeon isn't in use and the temp is fine.

If that bios will work so I can just remove the radeon entirely for a while until I can figure out why my laptop is thinking the GPU is overheating when it's not,  that'd be awesome.