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  1. Its no physical defect. This mod fucks up the mainboard for shure. Be aware using it on newer 3630qm models.
  2. @krendel. I don´t know how long it should be. I removed about 0,5mm. If you remove to much, it shouldn´t be a problem, because the mounting screws have springs wich should compesate height difference.
  3. @Olehkh I was thinking the same after i reassebled the notebook Are working on the brick problem at the moment? It would be nice to find out, what leads to brick. I think we all want a safe method to flash the mod, without chance of brick!
  4. Some news from my new Mainboard, its off topic, but should help everyone with termal issues: I tried some gaming and the Notebook always shut down after few seconds. I checked the temperature and saw that it climbed up to 95°C and then shut down. I dissasembled the Notebook and saw the mess... The repair guy didn´t apply any thermal greas!!Such a stupid idiot! I applied some of my good silver thermal grease and could now play games more than a few seconds But at this point i noticed, that my temperatures where still climbing up to 80-90°C on GPU. I dissasembled again and checked the GPU. I saw that the grease wasn´t even on the cooler, on one side it was much thiker, so something was wrong with the cooler mounting. At first i though that the thermal pads from the video memory where pushing the cooler to much up. So i squeezed them and checked again with new grease. Issue was still the same. Then i checked the mounting points from the GPU cooler and found the issue: The GPU Cooler has 3 mounting points, one of them is soldered to the mainboard (i think its point with #5). And this mounting point is higher than the other 2! So i could screw the cooler tight as i can, but it never would sit evenly on the GPU and causing overheat or high temps... I solved the problem. It sounds gross but works: I took a Dremel with a grinding pad and removed about 0,5mm Material from the mountin point. Then applied new grease and checked the fitment. The cooler sits now absolutely tight on the GPU and my temps dropped to 60°C on full load (overclocked to 970mhz) and 40-50°C at idle. The fan is now most time off when im browsing the internet or just reading files. The mounting points on this Motherboard are total fail!!! But now its win ;-))
  5. I think i will wait till we know what caused the brick. I really can´t risk brick it again. It would be hard to explain Dell, that it bricked again with same symptoms :-D
  6. @gebiter recovery works, i just tried it with oem A12 bios. Can i load the Mod Bios from USB just for testing? I don´t want to flash it yet, because I´m not shure what will happen... Maybe recovery just works, because my mainboard is now ok. And it also could have been working on my old Mainboard, but i never testet it before brick. So its hard to say...
  7. My mainboard got fixed today. The new one has no W8 Key on it ! Its a refurbished board... also the new PSU came. voltage still drops to 1012mv and oc over 950mhz is not possible. If i could raise the voltage, it could maybe help. But i don´t want to flash bios mod again and brick my notebook! @Olehkh do you need a dump from my bios? The new mainboard was A10, i flashed today A12 without problem
  8. 1. Formated a 1GB USB Stick as FAT 2. Extracted BIOS.CAP and DOSFLASH.exe from 7720A12.EXE 3. copied BIOS.CAP + DOSFLASH.exe to USB Stick 4. Put USB stick into first USB PORT (directly beside the audio out) 5. Press and hold END Button then plug in power suppy plug into Notebook and release END Button 6. Notebook turns on, Fan is running at full speed and USB stick lights only 1 time up 7. Nothing more happens, screen stays black and fan spinning at 100%
  9. @gebiter i tried the method from your message many times. It doesn´t work. My 7720 came with A11 bios and the Windows 8 key is integrated into the bios. I updated on the first day to A12. It worked flawless. The older versions of 7720 didn´t have the key integrated into the bios, so here´s maybe the issue... When somebody gets a new mainboard on this notebook, he also gets now a Windows 8 DVD with a key (i have read this somewhere...). On the replacement mainboard the key isn´t stored anymore on the Mainboard, thats the reason why you get a DVD + Key. The russians are thinking that here´s maybe the problem for bricks on the new models...
  10. @Olehkh What do you mean with "vidnvyty" ? I tried the bios directly from Dell (extracted A12 Bios.cap) like you described in your instruction. Didn´t work... I also tried a bios wich an another user uploaded long time ago on bios-mods.com. Same issue... still bricked. Whats the trick with this Notebook to get it recovered??!?! I can´t believe that its fully bricked, because bios was working till power loss. And it seems that the Notebook tries to read from USB, because the LED on the USB Stick flickers one time if i power on through plug and "end" button trick.
  11. Can somebody with newer 17re SE and i7 3630qm dump his bios with this toolkit: http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/9856-Universal-BIOS-Backup-Toolkit Please upload the cap file, this would maybe help recover my bios!!! I have an idea...
  12. I will get a new Mainboard from Dell. The bios mod is dead for me. Since nobody has an explanation for the brick problem, i wouldn´t recommend flashing it to newer models. The fact is, the notebooks get bricked after complete power loss. If you don´t remove battery it will run without problems. But this is no solution... I think if you remove the power supply and battery, something gets erased from the memory, maybe the UEFI Bios is alsways loaded into RAM for fast boot or something like that (i´m no expert, i just try to explain this behaviour). And after power loss it has to be loaded again into memory, thats where the brick occures?? Is the checksum from Mod bios and OEM the same? Maybe its different and gets checked when its loaded to memory after power loss? And this leads to brick? Although its strange that the bios recovery doesn´t work... maybe its different on our inspiron than on other dell notebooks. I saw my usb stick only light up one time, then nothing happens. It seems that the notebook is checking for files on the usb stick, but can´t/don´t want to read it because something is wrong. Maybe the BIOS.CAP has to be named different? I really don´t know whats wrong here.
  13. my NB was on A12, i flashed russian mod A12 from the link and followed instrucions. Flash went fine. And NB bootet without problems. I disconnected and reconnected PSU, boot was fine. Then testet to remove battery and disconnect PSU. After reconneting PSU, brick! So to me it only happens after complete power loss. Its strange that nobody knows the reason for this... But like i said before, i wouldn´t recomment to use bios mod on newer 7720 notebooks.
  14. Ok guys, DON´T FLASH THE BIOS MOD ON NEWER 7720 Notebooks!!! I flashed it and got bricked, like the other people. Bios was running fine, till i removed the battery and unpluged the power! So to me it means, that dell has changes something on the mainboard. People with old 3610qm doesn´t have problems with the mod. Newer models with 3630qm (like mine) get bricked. Recovery doesn´t work. So i have to contact dell :-(
  15. I'm also from Germany. The PSU is called "PA-9e". Its the OEM PSU from Alienware M17x. Just search on eBay, I bought a refurbished unit for 28€. Please wait till I verify that the plug fits to our 17r SE. AFAIK you have the i7 3610qm. Can you please check your GPU Voltage on load? I hope so much that this fixes the voltage drop problem and I can oc to 1200mhz
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