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It's time to let go of NBR and NBT. There is almost nothing of interest left for me in here and i rarely post something. I don't tinker around with my laptops anymore, because it's just not needed anymore for my daily use. Wishing you all the best. (the account will be deleted soon, i am very thoroughly with these topics)

[PLEASE WORK WITH CAUTION] ⚠️ HIGH CURRENT IS STORAGE ON CAPACITORS Hello everyone (Sorry for my poor English) This is just a small walkthrough of how I fixed an issue with the EUROCOM 780W AC ADAPTER when it was not supplying power to the laptop and showed only 0.0V on the display. It was really frustrating and confusing why it didn’t have any power. This problem it didn’t appear right away, it did start happening slowly, some days it was just fine supplying 20v and some days I had to turn it off for few minutes and then turn it on back and it was fine until the problem became so persistent that it was not supplying power at all, just showed 0.0V. At first I thought it was a ground issue, I used to have a Clevo P775TM where the Ac Adapter wouldn’t work if wasn't grounded. Next I thought it was an ID pin issue, but on these laptops or on my case (CLEVO X170KM) they don’t seem to have an ID pin, I had measured every pin on the connector and there isn’t any ID pin, just + and - as far as I know. So next was to open the AC ADAPTER itself. first I headed for the MOSFETS, I thought something was not switching there or some IC chip was not sending the signal. Checked every single mosfet that I saw was hotter than usual thinking could have gotten shorted. None of them was faulty, next I checked all the coils and they were fine, not blow up or with lower capacitance. So last it lead me to the resistors, as I know for some experience the resistors helps to measure if voltage is passing (Sensor Resistors) or also to regulate voltage, pull down. I headed to the resistors that is connected directly to the output. On my view these resistors were the one doing part of the heavy lifting so I went ahead and measured them out of the board, (while soldered into the board there was not proper reading). For my surprise there were more than 4 resistors with low ohms, not too big of a difference but it already crossed the ratio limit. -5k is a lot and some around -10k, I believe the IC power controller it was stopping the AC ADAPTER to output that low voltage. (You can see 6x 1206 resistors on the upper part of the picture - those were fine - and 6x 1206 more at the middle, 4 having low resistance.) After replacing one resistor the “9103” =910K ohms (dimension= 1206 for reference) with 1M ohms resistor (the closest I had at hand) the AC ADAPTER supplied 20.1v and it was working normally, not problem whatsoever. If you have this issue please replace the resistors with the same capacity, don’t do like I did, is a bit higher but I intend to replace it with right resistance when I get them. [PLEASE WORK WITH CAUTION ⚠️ HIGH CURRENT IS STORAGE ON CAPACITORS.] All the best.

Yes exactly, you can purchase my 4070 8gb for 470€.

Pls help. I put back the Xeon 1680 v2. Multiplier overclocking works, I can set to 40x and 41x. All cores boost to 41x but TSBench sometimes it's stable, no error and sometimes 2728822829292 errors then BSOD. I managed to run Heaven benchmark 4.0 1080p Ultra and I got 299FPS average with 4090 130W and CPU at 41x. I'm stuck at max 1.276V for the CPU. Why can't I go further? I don't think the extra voltage option works. At 0 or at 30 or at 80, same max voltage in CPU-z and Throttlestop Pls someone? You have same laptop and unlocked CPU? Post your BIOS screenshots please and CPU-z too

Stick with 150W. If you go higher then you will burn this card after short time. If you want full potential then focus on using MSI Afterburner and editing voltage/clock curve. You want to make flat line with lowest stable voltage for highest core clock. For examle you set core clock 1800mhz at 1v and everything "on right side" you set the same. Making flat line. This will force your laptop to use 1v for highest clock. You can set different clock value for different voltage but dont go higher than 2000mhz to extend your gpus life. This way you will reach its max performance. When testing you will get plenty freezes so be carefull and then lower clocks or rise slightly voltage and test again 😎 you have to find sweet spot for your gpu. Maximizing performance and keeping your card under 85-90 degrees.

Prices are pretty high, starting at 1700$ for A2000 8GB and going up. Not for average enthusiast 😞

Yo ,The problem is that my GTX 1080 never exceeds approximately 150W, even under heavy gaming loads. I believe this GPU may support a 200W power limit, as used in some MSI GT75 configurations. I'm looking for an original or compatible MSI GTX 1080 MXM 200W VBIOS that could allow my GPU to reach its intended power limit. If anyone owns an MSI GT75 8RG with a 200W GTX 1080 MXM, or has the correct VBIOS file, I would really appreciate your help. Thank you in advance!

I already sold the laptop. It requires soldering which isn't interesting. Could break the laptop + MXM card. By the way 10/20 series cards from Clevo don't work in the X170KM-G in PEG. It was already tested. I already made an adapter to bring back backlight to the embedded RTX cards. Soldered less of course.

Hi Mattalienware, Electro Master on YouTube has an informative and instructional video on how to modify GPU inf files and how to insert them into GPU drivers by circumventing Microsoft settings to custom install unsupported modified inf files as part of GPU upgrade in Windows.

Hey, my friend, take a look at this! I found it on a Chinese forum. I think it might help you resume your previous experiments, and it also comes with the relevant circuit diagrams. https://tieba.baidu.com/p/7508082050?share=9105&fr=sharewise&see_lz=0&share_from=post&sfc=copy&client_type=2&client_version=22.11.1.0&st=1793981119&is_video=false&unique=D4E2D641E0E53F2B6AF4453CE987EE2F

Unfortunately, nothing has come up yet. Zorin 18 was also a bust. Microsoft has the most proprietary hardware setup on the market, so it's running Windows 11 atm. Without any issues, because i am used to the Surface series through my workplace.

P4000 has 8gb and P5200 has 16gb. So my guess is that you use the same vbios for your card but someone maybe made some small changes inside your original vbios. To make it work you can ONLY flash vbios from the same gpu model as you have. It can be from different manufacturer but it has to be the same model. For example Dell P4000 vbios flashed to MSI P4000. P5200 vbios flashed to P4000 = error 43

But if that is true then why can I run a P5200 vbios? Why would a P4000 moded to P5200 not work?

CPU-Z fixed their messed up v3 validation garbage. https://valid.cpuid.com/s3apu5dq Glad I complained. Using XOC mode helped and they changed the drive recognition error in CPU-Z from WARN to INFO. https://community.hwbot.org/topic/247206-sneak-peek-at-cpu-z-300-validator-v3/page/3/#findComment-721287 Their detection on other things is still broken. Both of these are disabled on my systems. Code Integrity:Enabled| Fast Startup:Enabled

Not a bad made phrase coming from an oldie from Norway🙂 I try learn something new everyday. I thought it fitted very well together.

I love Metallica's music. I had a chance to see them this week at the Sphere while in Las Vegas for other business, but I chose not to. Nobody's music is good enough to be worth the price of a $500 ticket. Period. Sad but True.

The literal definition is an illegitimate child, typically an unplanned and unwanted pregnancy, conceived as a result of a deliberate act of sexual indiscretion between unwed individuals or a non-consensual act (rape). That also fits. The part that does not fit is the fact that a bastard is usually an innocent party whose unintended conception resulted from poor judgment or a criminal act. But, being a bastard might account for them being scummy and possibly for them being greedy if they chose not to rise above those circumstances. I think it is obvious to all of us that being scummy and greedy was an exercise of free will and a deliberate decision.

Scummy greedy bastards.... The phrase you used, "scummy greedy bastards," is a highly derogatory insult used to describe people or organizations perceived as thoroughly dishonest, intensely selfish, and corrupt. Here is the breakdown of what each word means in this context: Scummy: Low-class, worthless, or morally corrupt. It compares someone to "scum" (the dirty layer of waste that forms on top of stagnant water). Greedy: Having an excessive, selfish desire for wealth, power, or food far beyond what is needed. Bastards: A harsh slang term used to describe unpleasant, despicable, or highly disliked people.

I'm having trouble finding a spare bottom cover for my clevo x580, one of the heatsink ssds broke off you see and it would help me alot if someone managed to have one on sale.

Didnt know that memory on Pascal cards can go that high. Your oc is insane 😅 will test 2ghz on my mx230 🙃

This will not work because its hardware locked. There is protection made on board somewhere around chipset. Device id has to be the same in vbios. This is each time checked. If its different then you will get error 43. No crossflashing 😉

No I didnt find out. Propably there is like in desktop gpus ..... clock/voltage curve. I sold this card and also my old laptop so no more testing on P4000 😉 ps. good work on making your own Clock tweaker 😎

Hello, I just gave up. It doesn't work because the MXM slot doesn't fully power the standard MXM cards. You either need to take the power from the external power connector and inject it into your MXM power pins slot. Be careful with the 5V, 12V and GND. It's very risky and no one tried it because you could damage your GPU and motherboard. They cost a lot of money in parts... The fact that the Clevo RTX Ampere work in P870TM, P775TM is wild. Because P870 and P775 work with standard cards. No, it's not about a VBIOS problem. I tested a standard RTX 3080 MXM, same Ampere generation card and I get the same issues as on P3000, RTX 5000, RTX 4070, 4080 and 4090, no display. I also suspect something else, maybe there's one pin in the RSVD section that checks if the card is a valid Clevo RTX Ampere or not. Maybe I'm wrong.

Hi! I recently acquired an X170KM-G myself, and I'm also interested in installing a standard MXM GPU. Clevo's proprietary MXM cards are simply too expensive. How has your research been progressing? Have you made any further progress? Have you ever tried the standard industrial MXM RTX 3080 card from Aetina International? It has a separate power connector that needs to be adapted to a 9-pin connector. I think it could be a good candidate for testing whether the compatibility issue is related to the power supply. However, we would first need to modify or make a custom power cable for it. At this point, your forum thread seems to be the only detailed information I've been able to find worldwide about this particular compatibility issue with the X170KM-G. I'd really appreciate it if you could share any further findings or progress. Thanks!