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Attached is a bios made with time, effort, money, and love. This file is BUILD 285 (from M17xR3) ported to M18x! ***Alienware M17xR3 BIOS Version A26CS Changelog:*** -Updated CPU Microcode to latest available in 2026 -Updated Intel RST (RAID) OPROM to 12.9 which supports TRIM in RAID0 for SSDs -Updated Intel iGPU vBIOS to v2171 -Fixed PEG mode allowing Maxwell 2 (980M, 970M, M3000M, M4000M, M5000M) and Pascal (P5000, etc) to work (Turing is still not working in PEG eDP) -Fixed SG mode for Maxwell 2. Pascal and Turing work as well. Need amphere and ada testers! -Added BIOS overclocking support! You can overclock a 2920XM/2960XM in bios! Untested on QM but you can test for me. -Some other changes I might have forgotten. I am still trying to port 16GB memory support, UEFI support, and potential Above 4G DECODE Download Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16WRgMK4qCosFdiPED0PBV3QhXl36-tLY/view?usp=sharing Feel free to buy me a coffee or 12 pack of beer: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=XBHCLPNYCMDP2 I still have more plans to update these BIOS' but wanted to get some feedback at least since I don't have a inf amount of cards.
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Following my M17xR3 bios, I have decided to release this one early. Attached is a bios made with time, effort, money, and love. This file is BUILD 285 (from M17xR3) ported to M18x! ***Alienware M18xR1 BIOS Version A26CS Changelog:*** -Updated CPU Microcode to latest available in 2026 -Updated Intel RST (RAID) OPROM to 13.5 which supports TRIM in RAID0 for SSDs -Updated Intel iGPU vBIOS to v2171 -Fixed PEG mode allowing Maxwell 2 (980M, 970M, M3000M, M4000M, M5000M) and Pascal (P5000, etc) to work (Turing is still not working in PEG eDP) [NOTE: Pascal doesn't work on LVDS display so for now, this is only true for M17xR3. Pascal DOES work in SG.] -Fixed SG mode for Maxwell 2. Pascal and Turing work as well. Need amphere and ada testers! -Some other changes I might have forgotten. I am still trying to port 16GB memory support, UEFI support, and potential Above 4G DECODE Download Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-RfvaQ9otmHO9HjbiRn2nYnDiK_lxDlc/view?usp=sharing Feel free to buy me a coffee or 12 pack of beer: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=XBHCLPNYCMDP2 I still have more plans to update these BIOS' but wanted to get some feedback at least since I don't have a inf amount of cards.
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Try this M2000M vbios: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18D_VxdfP5vFDvV3QWdOqQ7v5JwK4SxtM/view?usp=sharing Also I made a post for M18xR1 bios and M17xR3 bios -
*Official Benchmark Thread* - Post it here or it didn't happen :D
tps3443 replied to Mr. Fox's topic in Desktop Hardware
Im not sure if I’ll keep them both yet. I may return one. I do like them though. Build quality of Zotac is pretty good. It feels dense and high quality. I have never owned a Zotac GPU before now. I’m going to research dual GPU’s a bit and see if there are any benefits. - Today
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Not the physical cable length but the actual tabs that connect over the mxm pins?
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I got a dell m2000m + Chinese Tesla m6 today. This is what happened: Stock: PEG 780m SLI, Uefi enabled SG mode - m2000m stuck at Alienware logo. - 780m stuck at logo 780m + Tesla m6 = screen has a “-“ at left upper corner and nothing happens PEG - m2000m + Tesla m6 = 8 beeps PEG - m2000m = 8 beeps any advice would be appreciated! -
There's always a solution for everything (unless we're talking about Nvidia vbios modding, it's impossible:/). You can do: Custom heatsinks, custom mxm holding, etc.
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for example, HP MXM cards dont fit due to a few mm of gpu holes dissalignment
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1- quadro rtx a4000 dont fit with the GPU holes. this laptop dont use a X bracket and it have the supports soldered into the motherboard, follows the original mxm 3.0 type B format. the gpu die its on the left 2 - for vram upgrade isnt necessary to find a VBIOS, you need to solder a double density vram modules and change a resistor strap to make them working
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Or get the Quadro RTX A4000 for 350€. 16GB VRAM, RTX 3070 level. It's a DP/HDMI/HDMI/DP card. RTX A3000 12GB is 250€ but it's low TDP. (no backlight mod adapter included on both) For the Turing RTX 3000, I don't think there are 12GB modded VBIOS for it.
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actually my best upgrade option is to buy a quadro rtx 3000 and make the 12gb vram mod. because i like a stable gpu with 8gb of vram or more. this is my only main system. isnt an auxiliary laptop so i need the most safe option to upgrade
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edp cable doesnt exist, it uses an eDP to LVDS converter internally, in theory you can quit it and modify some traces to make it eDP but its a high risk of making it
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It's actually better to get an RTX card to work internally. Please find the eDP cable for this laptop or make one by studying the schematics. It's just wires and connectors, no chips in the cables.
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my goal is to upgrade this gtx 1060 anyway, the goal is an RTX card. actually the monitor is being carried with the eDP output at 2560x1440 165Hz
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Older Aetina cards didn't need 4G decode enabled in the SBIOS. Anything Pascal and above aren't compatible with the LVDS output. It's eDP/DP for internal. Yes if you got your external monitor working with "eDP" on DP_D, it's a good sign that the card displays using the Display Port protocol. If I was you, I'll find the eDP cable for your laptop and then study the output pins of the cable and determine if it can do 1080p, 1440p, 3k, etc...
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or, using UEFI-CSM
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in fact, i get the MSI logo and all the bios image with the external monitor since it believes its the internal display
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It makes sense. It happened to me. Without 4G decode or without disabling the legacy OPROM (pure UEFI VBIOS), the GPU won't post and the laptop will throw an error and stay stuck in the pre-post. Aetina can sell individual but the price is very expensive and you need a SBIOS with 4G decode to use them. ZRT, X-VSION, ENBIK sells to individual, sadly their RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 have eDP in port D but it's disabled once the drivers are loaded. Only way is to override the EDID. Another way (which seems impossible from now), it's to find a VBIOS that has eDP enabled and doesn't disable once the drivers are loaded. The best cards without any issues are RTX 4070, RTX 3080, RTX A5000 (needs testing) and A5500 (needs testing) since they have eDP or DP in DP_D and they aren't disabled. Yes DP output works in eDP screen because the HPD data is in DisplayPort protocol.
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my msi gt60 is LVDS with optimus. the aetina gtx 1060 have DP/DP/HDMI/eDP. and the gt60 1.0 rev uses port C for HDMI and port D for DP output. in my case, the eDP is carrying my external 1440p monitor. a curious issue with this is, if i enable pure UEFI mode the bios detect as the integrated display my external monitor. and makes a bug in the iGPU that makes it give error 43 in windows. the only solution is to disconnect the external monitor before powering on the nb and connect it after.
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dont makes too much sense that video outputs depends of 4G Above decoding, what brands sell MXM cards for individual use? i sent request to PNY, Aetina and PCP and i dont receive any type of reply. at the moment only x-vsion and zrt replied me
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I love it when big tech companies suffereing from AGS (AI Glorification Syndrome) fail and lose gobs of money. Good job, Micro$lop. I hope it hurts more and causes more long-term damage than they are willing to admit.
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*Official Benchmark Thread* - Post it here or it didn't happen :D
Mr. Fox replied to Mr. Fox's topic in Desktop Hardware
@tps3443 since you just did a clean install, you might as well do it again. The latest release of Rufus nukes a ton of Micro$lop's bundled feces prior to installation. https://rufus.ie/en/ Changelog Version 4.14 (2026.04.30) Windows User Experience improvements: Add a Quality of Life option, to disable Teams, Outlook, Copilot and other Microsoft forced nuisances Add a Silent installation option, that automatically, and WITHOUT PROMPT, installs Windows on the first detected disk Add an option to copy SkuSiPolicy.p7b to the ESP on installation (please refer to KB5042562 for more info) Add tooltips for all the dialog options Add limited support for El-Torito UEFI image extraction (Mostly for Dell BIOS update ISOs) Improve error report when the user tries to use an image that resides on the target drive Improve the UEFI:NTFS partition label to make the install media more explicit during Windows Setup disk partitioning Improve support for Bazzite and other Fedora derivatives that don't follow EFI conventions Improve detection and exclusion of the new Bitdefender hidden VHDs Improve reporting of GRUB and Isolinux MBRs Fix potential errors during creation of Windows To Go media, due to the use of new versions of bcdboot Fix errors with local accounts that start or end with whitespaces -
Rufus update just rammed an ice pick into the gonads of the Winduhz 11 Cancer OS. But, it's still a piece of crap and smart people choose something better. https://rufus.ie/en/ Changelog Version 4.14 (2026.04.30) Windows User Experience improvements: Add a Quality of Life option, to disable Teams, Outlook, Copilot and other Microsoft forced nuisances Add a Silent installation option, that automatically, and WITHOUT PROMPT, installs Windows on the first detected disk Add an option to copy SkuSiPolicy.p7b to the ESP on installation (please refer to KB5042562 for more info) Add tooltips for all the dialog options Add limited support for El-Torito UEFI image extraction (Mostly for Dell BIOS update ISOs) Improve error report when the user tries to use an image that resides on the target drive Improve the UEFI:NTFS partition label to make the install media more explicit during Windows Setup disk partitioning Improve support for Bazzite and other Fedora derivatives that don't follow EFI conventions Improve detection and exclusion of the new Bitdefender hidden VHDs Improve reporting of GRUB and Isolinux MBRs Fix potential errors during creation of Windows To Go media, due to the use of new versions of bcdboot Fix errors with local accounts that start or end with whitespaces
