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If A5500 works for you in eDP then maybe I will get one. It would be worth testing to see if they support eDP first without backlight cable. Who knows maybe XVSION listened to you? Would also be worth checking if it works in SG mode on M17xR4. Because my A4500 from Aetina didn't even show up at all in M18xR2 regardless of vbios I tested. It only showed up in AW18. Interesting there's still no blackwell cards

Technically I can make it in 3 days if I wanted to. Thing is, right now PEG is working on 980M & P5000 on my M17xR3 eDP panel, but SG is not working right for maxwell 2. This means 980M SLI will work but for SG there's stlll some issue. On my M18xR1, I ran RTX 5000 in primary slot using SG mode but it's limited to DX11. On dual PEG (M2000M primary + RTX 5000 secondary) it works on stock bios. Right now my bios would only benefit someone wanted to use maxwell 2 (gm204) based GPUs such as 980M, 970M, M5000M, M4000M, M3000M. Other than that it doesn't support any extra cards yet. I need to fix SG mode on my M17xR3 then M18xR1 should be able to run anything.

So the P3200 & p4200 bios that was made, the clocks don't go past 139mhz any more. The gp106 you gave me, memory is good, core clocks don't seem to go up anymore than stock

You are in our thoughts and prayers, brother. Get better fast.

How do you do that?

Fun times. Half the day in the hospital and need to stay here. At the hospital now. The doctors suspect drip(transient/mini stroke). Have to stay here and get blood thinners . Also have to do a CT scan tonight/night and then an MR tomorrow. Have to stay under observation and care. Bad lungs ain't enough 😥

I bought it on Aliexpress. Using the memory's thermal enclosure, the maximum allowed thickness is 1.5 mm, and this also prevents the use of a heatsink on the other memory module due to the fixed thermal pad. If you don't use the case, I believe it's possible to use a 3 mm thick heatsink.

Any hints for when this m18x r1 bios will be released? No rush ofc and I really appreciate your work.

Sounds like the heatsinks help. Where did you get those? Mine definitely warm up under combined loads. I think WoW puts more load on the CPU than other games.

I found the MUX switch schematics, it was in the M17X R4 schematics. The MUX doesn't require any backlight signals in the input. Maybe the screen directly communicates to the laptop about the backlight not being on.. The MUX is just a basic DisplayPort Mux which works in desktops and laptops. For the A4500. Yours is from Aetina which needs 4G decode to be enabled in the SBIOS, otherwise it won't post. They can potentially work in the newer HP and Clevo laptops if the 4G decode is present. X-Vsion sells very cheap A4500 and A5000 both are working without needing to have 4G decode to be enabled. The CEO showed me proof. The ReBar and 4G decode were disabled in the SBIOS on the GPU-Z screenshots. Same for the A5500, which is the one I bought. 7424 CUDA cores, DP in DP_D, 16GB VRAM, 115W VBIOS. I'll test it in the dirt cheap Alienware M17X R4 32GB GTX 680M I bought. I'll upgrade the screen and LCD cable to eDP one and use the backlight mod v2 cable. Sadly I didn't receive yet the LCD eDP cable nor the backlight mod v2 cables...

Actually R1 can do almost everything R2 can do upgrade wise. You can do up to 880M SLI dual cards. R2 can do 980M SLI. With my bios mod R1 can also do 980M SLI. R2 can run RTX 5000 in SG, even 3080. R1 can run RTX 5000 in SG too but due to some issue with drivers it's limited to DX11. If you put a sandy bridge CPU in R2, it has the same exact issue. My goal is to fix R1, M17xR3, M17xR4, AW17 R1 and AW18 bios. Because "back then" only the M18xR2 received a full bios mod. Ironically the AW18 can run more cards than all of them (A4500 didn't work in M18xR2 at all but did in AW18 with code 43). I may have found a solution to that too. The other mod I wanted to do is 16GB DDR3 support. But I can release a v1 with only added PEG support. I actually need testers with m18xR1 and maxwell 2 cards to do testing for me.

Interesting I knew this wasn’t gonna be a plug and play thing and I might have to mess around alittle. Funny how much issues the r1 has for upgrades compared to the r2

Yes, there is a certification issue, might be possible to bypass using OMGvflash by veil for turing cards, any newer cards will not work unfortunately. Pascal works. Even with a hardware flasher it will not work, card will refuse to boot and show error 43.

i modded my clevo rtx 3080 by this tool https://github.com/JadeRover/Nvidia-vBIOS-Clock-Power-Tweaker/releases/tag/v1.0.1 and try to flash it with NVFLASH but didn't work

can i flash it with nvflash ?

Excuse me, but could you please ask Buffermod how to update the BIOS? I've tried contacting them on X (Twitter), but I haven't received a reply.

I saw in the schematic of the R3 and R4 that there's a DP_A but it's not a regular video output. It's a wireless HD output from the DP MUX switch, it's going thru the DMC module, 05XHG5. Did anyone try the wireless HD in an external monitor?

It was one for sure. One of the first things I said when he texted me. Pretty brazen that the scammer even had the balls to call him and speak to him. When scammers get that comfortable and brazen a bullet or knife is the best cure for their filthy and worthless existence.

They keep trying.....sheesh. Glad @tps3443 didn't get zinged but $2500 for an Astral should be the first warning sign.....

This laptop doesn’t support UEFI, maybe that was the problem.

Did you try without GOP/UEFI partition of the GPU?

I tried M2000 - backlight on, black screen, M2200 - nothing at all.

Hello. Did you try M2000? M2200? 965M cards on it? They can work because the K2100M is Kepler 2 which is a newer structure and it isn't compatible with my Clevo X7200 in the master slot but the K2000M is...

no, 1394GUID not related to 64GB memory support. strongly recommended making backup of your original bios before flash this files, in case of anything goes wrong.

Does the 1394 ID update mean that it supports 64GB of memory? Or should I just run the "update bat" like a regular BIOS update?