inukai Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Hello everyone. I have a PowerPro R 12:17-680 (MS 1762 is what it says in the BIOS so I assume that's what it really is.) My troubles started a few months ago when I was in a game and my laptop just shut off. I tried to turn it on but it acted like something was shorted out. When I hit the power button the lights would come on for a second and then go off again. During my basic troubleshooting I removed my GPU and my laptop turned on and booted up running on the integrated graphics. When it loaded into an operating system (Ubuntu or Windows 7) the fan would kick on 100% like I had hit the TurboFan button. I delt with this until I decided to look at what these cards went for online. I got a good deal on a 780M and noted that my heatsink should be sufficient for it. When I put the new card in my laptop it booted without any loud fans but when I loaded Windows the resolution was set to 640x480 and the color depth was very low (almost looked like 256 or 16-bit). Ubuntu still loaded at a full 1920x1080 but neither OS would install the drivers properly. Windows wouldn't detect the card and Ubuntu stuck itself to a 640x480 resolution with no way to change the res. I did a little bit more research and someone with a similar problem was suggested to flash the vBios with an MSI one. I did (after backing up my stock one) and Windows finally detected my card. However when I rebooted my computer after doing a clean install of the video card drivers Windows hung at login. I think there's a problem with GeForce Experience so I'm going to try to uninstall it but if anyone else could give some advice that would be great. Thanks for the help EDIT: This is what GPU-z says when I boot without a driver and let it install before rebooting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unregistered User Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 What size power brick ya got. Sounding like a lack of power to me.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inukai Posted August 26, 2014 Author Share Posted August 26, 2014 I didn't think the 780 would take that much more power than the 680. The transformer is a 19.5V 9.2A. For what it's worth, the computer will boot and run very sluggishly if I disable all of the startup applications in msconfig. Also I got the wifi working, the drivers just got screwed up somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inukai Posted August 27, 2014 Author Share Posted August 27, 2014 I have the 180W version. 19.5v and 9.2a. I tried installing an older driver and now I'm getting STOP 0x116 errors shortly after logging in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unregistered User Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 Just checked both GTX680M and GTX780M are rated 100wat cards. Was the card Clevo or Dell before you flashed it to MSI?.Also which MSI vbios did you flash the stock or modded one from here?I know this might seems a dumb ask but its process of elimination. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inukai Posted August 27, 2014 Author Share Posted August 27, 2014 I don't know if it was Clevo or Dell. I know it was a green card if that tells you anything, I know sometimes different brands have different colors. I'm using the MSI vBIOS from techpowerup Video Bios Collection | techPowerUp I've only just hit 5 posts so I haven't been able to try any downloads from here yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unregistered User Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 do you still have the original bios? i can find out what card it was from that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inukai Posted August 27, 2014 Author Share Posted August 27, 2014 I do on a flash drive at home, I'll upload it in a few hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unregistered User Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 OK np I will check once link is up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inukai Posted August 29, 2014 Author Share Posted August 29, 2014 I've actually fixed the problem by flashing the16f3 51x BIOS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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