Strigae Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 (edited) The way I installed the audio driver was: Installed M17xR3 6970m driver. Updated to the current amd driver. Now that the graphics are set I removed the audio driver. Remember tick on "Delete the driver software for this device". After that I used the device manager to update the driver from the dell package here: C:\dell\drivers\R291070\Packages\Drivers\WDM\HDMI\W764a (the post editor doesn't show this space, which shouldn't be there -.- : "HDMI\ W764a") Then restarted the pc and it worked. Thats the same way I had to do with the 5870. For some reason it didn't want to install correctly through installer. Edited April 27, 2011 by Strigae 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svl7 Posted April 28, 2011 Author Share Posted April 28, 2011 Ok thanks, I'm gonna give this a try! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strigae Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Finally I had some time testing my 6970m in a "real world environment" for this class of laptops.I've noticed a few things.First. It is likely to shutdown the system. Which is my main issue here. Secondly the temperatures can get way high depending on the load. "way high" is of course my definition of it. It is well around the 85-90 celsius.The shutdowns I think are because of the power draw. Atleast coupled with a 920xm (not even overclocked). Undervolting helps but does not eliminate the issue.This was tested with Borderlands and Alien vs Predator (DX11) with screen resolution of 1080p and maxed settings, including shadows. I used the M17x power brick and going to try out the original M15x one later.Tests:- Stock (no vbios changes) - it will shutdown after about 10-20 min in either game.- Undervolted to 1.0v from stock (gradually) - shutdown will appear but only in 3-4 hours long gaming sessions.- Undervolted below 1.0v - the drivers will stop responding and restartingFrom my knowledge it only happens with graphically intense games.All 6970m versions (dell, sapphire, clevo). I read on notebookreview that benchmarking and overclocking could trigger this.Any comments on this matter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svl7 Posted June 17, 2011 Author Share Posted June 17, 2011 Hey Strigae, nice to see you again!Hmmm, I haven't experienced such issues so far, but I haven't played a lot of games recently... ATM I have my 3d clocks at 0.95V and so far it seems to work. I've also done a lot of benching and never had a shutdown because of the power, only because of driver crashes.But I've really never experienced shutdowns while gaming so far... most testing I've done was just after I put the card in my system and I haven't noticed problems when testing the card with BO Zombie, some Crysis 2, Portal 2 and MoH. This was all on stock 3d voltage... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strigae Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 (edited) HmmI tried the original M15x psu a shortwhile yesterday. It doesn't have the issues when using stock vbios, so far.Which one do you use? I hear people wanting to get themselves the M17x one.I wouldn't recommend that for the Dell 6970m card.If you have both psu's, maybe you can try it out with your card? Edited June 17, 2011 by Strigae Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svl7 Posted June 17, 2011 Author Share Posted June 17, 2011 I only have the stock M15x PSU, 19.5V; 7.7A -> 150W. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strigae Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 From my limited testing it seems like the 240W psu is a no go. Atleast for my configuration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svl7 Posted June 17, 2011 Author Share Posted June 17, 2011 Ok, that's very interesting. It has been reported that you can't use 240W just because you plug a 240W PSU in the M15x, but I'd expect at least the same performance. Your config is very similar to my system, except for the 4GB additional RAM... how much power does a RAM stick need? Don't think this makes a huge difference... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strigae Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 When I had 5870, both psu's worked flawless. For some reason I'm thinking its the motherboard/mxm socket.I remember when I first got the M15x it had GTX 260M and it would freeze occasionally. Heeh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svl7 Posted June 17, 2011 Author Share Posted June 17, 2011 I got my M15x with the 260m as well... it started to freeze regularly after a while. Then I got the card replaced by Dell, one week without freezes and then it started again... Dell didn't want to replace the card again without examinig my system. I didn't want to send my system to Dell since I needed it, so I just bought a 5850m. No problems anymore since then, also no random freezes with the 6970m... so I think the freezes weren't caused by the MXM connector/mobo, but by the 260m. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strigae Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 Yea I agree that the 260M's were a bit bad. Ok this is interesting. Shutdown now happened with the 150W psu aswell. With stock vbios its on the same level as undervolted + 240W. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svl7 Posted June 18, 2011 Author Share Posted June 18, 2011 Did you get your card directly from Dell? What's your vbios version (GPU-Z)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strigae Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 013.010.000.009.039462 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svl7 Posted June 22, 2011 Author Share Posted June 22, 2011 Hmm, this seems fine. That's actually the vbios of the M17x r3.I don't really know what's causing these shutdowns... my system works pretty fine. Though I haven't played games for a while now.Your temps seem to be fine... Have you ever measured the approximate power draw of your system? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strigae Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 No I haven't as I'm never overclocking. :>It's a lot closer to being stable compared to my first gaming session with this card.Now I just need to test it with 150W + undervolted.Since my tests roughly showed the following:240W + stock = ~15m240W + 1.0v = ~3-4h+240W + 0.95v = freeze150W + stock = ~3-4h+150W + 1.0v = ???150W + 0.95v = freezeFrom that I estimate a stable system from the last combination. I can be wrong tho.We will see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krazar Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 It's been a while since somebody pass through here but I give it a try.Hey Strigae,It appears I have the same reboot problem as you right now. I plan to buy a 240w psu to solve my power issues.I must undervolt/clock my card to avoid those reboot too. Did you solve it ?Thanks hi svl7 :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mw86 Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 It's been a while since somebody pass through here but I give it a try.Hey Strigae,It appears I have the same reboot problem as you right now. I plan to buy a 240w psu to solve my power issues.I must undervolt/clock my card to avoid those reboot too. Did you solve it ?Thanks hi svl7 :-)Try this Krazar when you want to get someones attention so when they sign in you are sure they know you wanted to say something to them. Try @svl7 and @Strigae that should let them both know you mentioned them Krazar... its a forum feature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krazar Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 Hey, Thanks for the tip! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strigae Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 Sorry, haven't been around here much.What i did was to undervolt the card to 1.05v and use the original psu i got with my M15x.The shutdowns still happened with 1.05v and a 240 psu for me./strigae 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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