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Yeah, basically. It refuses to boot with lid closed and being turned on via dock power button when a thunderbolt or display port output is hooked up to an external screen - however boots up fine in this scenario with only VGA connected. Always boots up fine though with thunderbolt, display port and VGA connected and lid being open 🙂. I presume I can't run dgpu mode only (or hybrid graphics disabled, as the setting is called in bios) anyway, therfore I won't try 😜, as this would end up in a black screen also. Whether I have the setting on automatic or hybrid graphics enabled does not make a difference with this behaviour.

That's odd, so the laptop refuses to boot in your scenario ? But it does in the same scenario + VGA ? You are running dGPU mode or Hybrid graphics ?

I first heard this song as a kid and LOVED the Bass. Later learnt it was a Rickenbacker Bass and I've always liked the sound. The movie was good also I think (it's been a long time since I saw it) - Reality Bites. The Knack - My Sharona

On the way for early 1 months vaccation outside Africa - Canary Island. Me and my lovely wife leave Norway today🙂 Finally we can have some warm and heating sun after many months in the cold and the dark here home in the North. But I will follow my good friends on the forum. I will use an phone and an tablet. So @Reciever bear with me. Not easy posting with the tiny trash. So please merge posts into one if needed. But I'll try my best. Double up. Nice with native 12V-2*6 cables. Can't beat double the stupidity on one single cable.

Just checked out that link, but it's for the p3200/p4200 which I already have. Can't seem to find the unique p5200 version. Is that website a viable place for parts? How would I even be able to get it shipped out to CONUS?

Someone at oc.net said the same. It works normal for me. If you tried it more than once and it does nothing it may be something Windows is blocking for some reason, or maybe a BIOS setting. Hard to know. It works for me on the B850MPOWER, Strix and Apex.

Thanks JadeRover for expanding in more precise detail. Of course I was aware of the MUX business when I wrote "don't know how this works exactly". What I meant was that e.g. I am not aware of the lanes bottleneck. What I understood thus far is that the igpu in the zbook 17 G1/2 can't drive a 10-bit panel. One rather curious thing I found with this RTX3000 version of mine (presumed as ADLINK as I mentioned, bought in 04/2025) is that you cannot switch on the laptop on the docking station with the lid closed and any display port or thunderbolt port output connected to an external screen, maybe also VGA, not sure atm. - no matter directly on the laptop, or on the dock - because this will cause the UEFI/Bios to lock up, or "fail to post" for a lack of a better expression. It does post just fine however connected to dock and nothing connected, or when switching it on with external outputs connected and the lid open. Probably some handshake going awry somewhere... I think I could easily solve this be removing the lid switch magnet from the display bezel, but for the moment I am not too bothered by this to actually test out this theory... Edit: curiousity got the better of me, I checked and it works with lid closed and VGA only hooked up.

That is the correct, Zbook 17 g1 uses a mux switch between dGPU and iGPU that goes to the eDP connector on the motherboard. Then that eDP signal is converted to LVDS and fed to the panel, they probably did this as 17.3 inch eDP panels were rare in 2013, they used off the shelf LVDS ones instead. HOWEVER, iGPU has only 2 lanes of eDP (you can see that on the schematic) and the dGPU has the full 4. When you have a DC screen it needs 4 lanes of eDP, all other stock screens require only 2. So with a stock screen BIOS will give you option for Hybrid graphics enable/disable. When DC screen is plugged in, BIOS sees this and immediately disables hybrid graphic option and forces display through dGPU = no display if you don't have a dGPU installer or the dGPU you installed has no eDP OR it has DP (display port) but wit no backligh control pins = Black screen. HP RTX3000 does have eDP on the correct port, DP_D so this card should work on the zbook 17 g1. I will test this soon as I have HP RTX3000 andzbook 17 g2. Also here is an even cheaper RTX3000 (close to France in Europe) : Nvidia Quadro RTX3000 6 Go GDDR6 N19E-Q1-KD-A1 (HP ZBOOK 17 G6) | eBay 90 euros

Sorry for the tripple post, I managed to fumble my way through the captcha on a Russian forum and came across a tool that allows you to unlock the XMG bios options at boot, its locked again after rebooting but your settings stay saved! Each time you need to change a setting just pop the USB stick in, spam F7 at boot until the options come up and select the drive, it'll hang for a minute whilst it runs the script and then throw you into your BIOS options with all settings unlocked. To unlock voltage control in ThrottleStop I needed to disable VM-X, VT-D, CFG Lock and overclocking lock. Absolutely no idea why this laptop in particular is such a pain. Good news though, after updating to the XMG 1.07.09 bios and 1.07.04 EC from the Pc Specialist 1.07.01 Bios/EC its considerably more stable, I'm only on an 11900F so I'm limited to the stock speeds but it means I can now hold a -85mV core and -70mV cache undervolt @4.7ghz all core clocks, I've not tried pushing the undervolt further because at minimum fan speeds I can chill at 35c GPU/CPU and during CPU stress testing it holds 70c until the turbo timer kicks in where it'll drop to 62c. Roughly translated guide for this tool is below, I hope its okay to share this here, as always with these tools proceed at your own risk. Srep_X170KM-G.zip

For me, it just adds the context menu item, but does not actually do anything?

Hello. You're sure it's an eDP variant and not a LVDS one? If it's eDP. Please switch to iGPU and see if the Nvidia is detected as switchable graphics. If it's detected then it works. Test HDMI and DP output if the Nvidia driver is present and see if any of these external output work with your Nvidia GPU. Maybe for the internal eDP display, you have to switch to UEFI in the BIOS settings and disable Legacy OPROM too. The M6800 eDP is compatible with Quadro M5000M, RTX 3000, 4000, 5000 and even RTX 4070, 4080 MXM with some backlight mods. Yes the automatic fan control works.

Hello to everyone, I have a Dell Precision M6800 2016 LA-9782P i7-4810MQ Nvidia Quadro K3100M. I have an M5000M from my old Precision 7710. When I apply the M5000M, system is not seeing it. Without heatsink mods. Is it normal? It's heating, but not showing anything. Thanks for anyone who helps

Well that is a lot.... Not sure on this pc but I can tell you delidding an IHS is not usually a problem. Unless the cpu die is injured or possibly traces on cpu. (I delid ps3 cell's and it can be a bit tricky. To glue the IHS back on use thermal gasket maker (as in for car engines)). I would check your cpu die. Clean all the thermal grease off and carefully look. Anything look odd? chips, strange discolouration?

Yes, I was talking about that case. It was a hint, unfortunately black screen and not posting could lead almost any hardware issue. Maybe it is time to start replacing components for testing.

damn i saw that vid, felt really sorry for Roman, he definitely didnt deserve this....especially after doing all that due diligence! these market conditions really suck atm. been using winaero tweaker for quite a while now, love that they keep adding this kinda stuff!

I love grabbing hidden gems during these sales; it’s a nice way to try stuff I missed before. I usually check reviews first so I don’t end up with a dud.

But not sure about the pro. It has a different keyboard. But likely too new to already have many with problems. Just 2 years now.

https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/153759825 | https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_fire_strike/submissions/5988575 Not to bad for the cute little guy.

Well, now this is a nice new feature added to the latest update of Winaero Tweaker. Does the same thing as the script I have been adding to the right-click menu. Just check the box and it's ready to use. Very awesome.

Whilst doing more reading and research I came a cross this repo of Clevo Bios' from the various manufacturers as well as a bunch of tools, I'm not sure yet what Obsidian is but I've seen a few posts about it, more reading required. https://mega.nz/folder/OUQwGYKJ#4WGeTY-TPJ8knGfey8szgQ

It had been charging just fine previously. I could plug it in, juice up, and then use it unplugged for hours. Then last week I was using it unplugged and the battery died -- not unusual and has never caused a long term issue before. I fetched the adapter and when I plugged it in the current problem began. On the UX461F, there's an indicator light for when you charge it. This has always functioned properly in the past. There's also an indicator light for when you turn power on; this light stays on as long as the device is powered on. The new behavior is as follows: While unplugged, no lights or power at all While plugged in, power light turns on inside of battery light. I am also extremely confident it's not powering on. Not only is the display dead, but the UX461F is both loud and hot when it runs (this laptop has notoriety for getting hot) The behavior SHOULD be: plugging it in causes the battery light to light up power light only turns on if you power it on (it should not be triggered by the charger afaik) The following DID NOT WORK: Holding down power for 10, 20, 60, 90 or however the hell many seconds different troubleshooting guides say leaving it plugged in for multiple days and "waiting it out" popping the battery combinations of battery pop/power hold down that are supposed to "reset power management" Is there anything else I can try? I have a hard time believing it just bricked; it was running perfectly fine seconds before this started happening. No slowdowns or anything. It wasn't even hot like it often is. It was having a good day if anything. I also struggle to believe it could be the battery when it still had had high survival recently. In the off chance it's helpful, here's the model spec page: https://www.asus.com/us/laptops/for-home/zenbook/asus-zenbook-flip-14-ux461/techspec/

Great, dunno know whether HP RTX3000 would run in the 17 G1 though with a 3rd party DC. The thing is, the standard, non-DC Zbook uses an LVDS screen, and also the DC is LVDS I believe. I don't know how this works exactly, but apparently the igpu puts out the video signal through the display cable, which connects onto this board, and it is then converted to LVDS via this board below the screen. HP for ZBook 17 G1, 17 G2, LVDS Board (PN: 741282-001, LS-9374P) - 2630138 The ZBook DC screen converts edp to LVDS too with an internal controller board behind the panel. Dunno why, it's just a weird design to me. Edit: apparently it would run: