jand2340 Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Hello all I have a alienware 17 that I purchased in December. It came with a 860m which I promptly switched with a 970m 6gb that I bought through HID. I have messed with downloading different drivers and modding the inf which Im not sure if Im doing right but, I am running DDU and disabling driver enforcement on win 8.1 pro and the driver actually installs, but when it reboots I can only get as far as AIDA64 dectecting and waking the gpus on boot and the screen will freeze. Im at a total loss here on whats going on. Id really like to be able to overclock my card. here is my hardware info PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_13D8&SUBSYS_05AA1028&REV_A1 PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_13D8&SUBSYS_05AA1028 PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_13D8&CC_030000 PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_13D8&CC_0300 Any help is greatly appreciated!! Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khenglish Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 If the driver installs then you did the .inf mod correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jand2340 Posted February 22, 2015 Author Share Posted February 22, 2015 ok if the driver installed correctly then why am i getting the system hangs then?? It makes it about 50% through the boot up and then just hangs?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder Brian Posted February 22, 2015 Founder Share Posted February 22, 2015 @J95 does this quite a bit so he may be able to help you out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J95 Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 @jand2340 don't edit nvdmi.inf/Dell, sections including this parameter/setting "NvSupportMSHybrid = 1" should be avoided. Instead edit nv_dispi.inf, using desktop 980/970 entries.Run DDU 'Clean and Shutdown' then disable driver signing. GeForce 347.52 WHQLModded nv_dispi.inf v347.52_AW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jand2340 Posted February 22, 2015 Author Share Posted February 22, 2015 ok i tried what you said j95 and im still having boot issues and black screens. maybe I dont have a full understanding of what I need to replace in the .inf file. and i am just editing the nv_dispi.inf file only Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J95 Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 ok i tried what you said j95 and im still having boot issues and black screens. maybe I dont have a full understanding of what I need to replace in the .inf file. and i am just editing the nv_dispi.inf file onlyThe .inf I linked above is already modded, use it as future reference. Again, extract downloaded driver (stock INFs), this time use Modded nv_dispi.inf v347.52_AW remember to disable driver signing before installing drivers. BIOS settings -> Boot options -> set UEFI -> "Load Legacy Option Rom" Disabled -> "Secure Boot" Disabled...? http://forum.techinferno.com/alienware/8113-going-test-clevo-980m-alienware-m17x-r4-m18x-r2-aw17-102.html#post119029 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jand2340 Posted February 22, 2015 Author Share Posted February 22, 2015 so replace the whole nv_dispi.inf file with your modded one? and as always I disabled driver signing before installing and load legacy option and secure boot are disabled. Last time I did replace the entire nv_dispi.inf file with the modded one and that just gave me a blank screen when aida64 extreme was loading on the boot. sorry to be a PITA ive never messed with driver modding- - - Updated - - -just out of curiosity could my aida64 extreme that I have running at boot be causing any of these issues?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J95 Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 so replace the whole nv_dispi.inf file with your modded one? and as always I disabled driver signing before installing and load legacy option and secure boot are disabled. Last time I did replace the entire nv_dispi.inf file with the modded one and that just gave me a blank screen when aida64 extreme was loading on the boot. sorry to be a PITA ive never messed with driver modding- - - Updated - - -just out of curiosity could my aida64 extreme that I have running at boot be causing any of these issues??Yep, overwrite. Extract v347.52 to avoid previously modded INFs, only use nv_dispi.inf above.Disable 'Aida64 Extreme', NV Optimus Intel drivers should be installed first or use Dedicated mode. GPU switching you need to install AW OSD from here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jand2340 Posted February 24, 2015 Author Share Posted February 24, 2015 sorry for the late reply j95 I had to work out of town. I did EXACTLY as you said and I still have freezing issues at boot.. Im at a total loss!!guess im stuck with the drivers that HID provides for this 970m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J95 Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 sorry for the late reply j95 I had to work out of town. I did EXACTLY as you said and I still have freezing issues at boot.. Im at a total loss!!guess im stuck with the drivers that HID provides for this 970m @jand2340 here you go,Run DDU, under options uncheck 'AMD Audio Bus' (bug) & disable driver signingGeForce Hotfix driver 347.71GeForce 347.71 HFOptimus AW -> Display.Driver foldernvcvi_v347.71_AW_Optimus_GTX_980M_970M.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jand2340 Posted February 28, 2015 Author Share Posted February 28, 2015 Thank you soooo much J95 for the reply. Im out of town till sunday but ill try this sunday evening and let you know.THANKS!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chitolocz Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 @jand2340 don't edit nvdmi.inf/Dell, sections including this parameter/setting "NvSupportMSHybrid = 1" should be avoided. Instead edit nv_dispi.inf, using desktop 980/970 entries.Run DDU 'Clean and Shutdown' then disable driver signing. GeForce 347.52 WHQLModded nv_dispi.inf v347.52_AWIf I installed my gtx 970m on my m15x with modified nvdmi.inf instead of nv_dispi.inf could that cause performance issues? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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