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Of course, its not something I would recommend to the laymen. Just something I have been fondly passively following for the past couple of years. Mods are always exciting when you are watching someone else suffer the ups and downs. When I was modding the Alienware 17 R1 my friends thought I was nuts taking a Dremel to my laptop and "making" my own heatsinks and there were definitely plenty of times I was questioning whether or not I was tempting fate! lol Like an idiot I did it anyways. The Red Devil 7900 XTX effectively is that new scratch to that "itch". Heck I have been semi debating picking up a DDR3 based system just to see how it performs under games of this era. I have enough hardware though so I really shouldnt. https://www.ebay.com/itm/406231132612?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D777008%26algo%3DPERSONAL.TOPIC%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20250417133222%26meid%3D3b5d9c1dce2a42bca896f1dd563e6c62%26pid%3D102727%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26mehot%3Dnone%26itm%3D406231132612%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D4375194%26algv%3DWatchlistVariantWithPSItemDR_BP%26brand%3DASUS&_trksid=p4375194.c102727.m162921 If they accepted 300 might be a fun deal, looks like a lot of cleanup though. As for the politics, lets steer it back away from that. Feel free to discuss the issue itself but lets leave the politicians off the thread. Feel free to continue via PM :)

Hello experts, I am experiencing a severe Firmware Deadlock on my Clevo NH50_70RC (rebranded as Casper Excalibur G770). After an installation attempt of CachyOS (Arch-based), the system has become stuck in a boot hang state. The Issue: Logo Hang: When any drive (SSD/HDD) containing Linux partitions is connected, the system hangs indefinitely at the manufacturer logo. I cannot access BIOS (F2) or the Boot Menu (F7) in this state. The Cause: It appears the InsydeH2O firmware is panicking while parsing the UEFI boot entries or the GPT partition table of the Linux drives. Current State: I can only boot into a USB installer if I physically remove all internal drives. However, hot-swapping them back in once the OS is loaded does not trigger a rescan at the controller level, leaving the drives invisible and preventing any wipe/recovery attempts. Technical Assets & Verified Specs: I have obtained a Full 16MB SPI Dump and verified the following specs from the BIOS Main menu: Chassis / Project Name: Clevo NH50_70RC BIOS Version: 1.07.03 (Insyde Corp. 5.23.04) KBC/EC Version: 1.07.03 ME FW Version: 12.0.38.1430 Processor: Intel Core i7-9750H Secure Boot Status: Currently Disabled Dump Details: Includes Flash Descriptor, Intel ME region ($FPT at 0x2000), and the BIOS region with $VSS signatures. My Request: Unlock Advanced/Chipset Menus: I need access to the hidden “Advanced” and “Power” tabs to modify SATA/VMD modes and potentially bypass this boot hang. NVRAM Cleanup: I suspect the NVRAM ($VSS region) is cluttered with invalid boot entries causing the EFI parser to hang. I need the NVRAM region in this dump to be cleaned or reset to factory defaults. SPI Dump Link: SPI Dump (Google Drive) VirusTotal Scan: VirusTotal Scan I have the means to flash this back if I can get the system stable or via an external programmer if necessary. Any help from the BIOS modding community would be greatly appreciated. Although this is a modding request for unlocking and NVRAM cleaning, the ultimate goal is to resolve a storage-induced firmware hang that prevents any drive recovery on this machine. Best regards, HISATO

Thanks for this, I got mixed up and meant VMX. BIOS Update went well! Everything working as it should, I did think that the "wait 5seconds before the splashscreen" might get shorter, my first gen i3 with an ancient SSD still boots faster because it takes so long to get to the splash screen lol. Right so this laptop was pre-loaded with a fresh restore of Win11 Home. I've done everything possible to disable virtualisation. Regedit, group policy (had to enable GPEDIT and download the newest polices to add to this version of windows, followed countless guides and quite literally out of things to try, I've even had the screen at boot asking to confirm whether I want to disable virtualisation and its still enabled which means to access to undervolting. Doing my head in tbh. I'm loathe to do a clean install with Win11 Pro due to all the photo editing software I've got installed plus my games but unless someone can suggest something it might be my only choice, unless I downgrade from XMG's 1.07.09 to the stock Clevo 1.07.08 but from what I gather their BIOS / EC is the best out there for stability and general usage. I've seen a few posts on how to unlock the XMG BIOS but they all list warnings and "dont do this unless you truly understand what you're doing" which I definitely do not.

CM's Premium custom cables. Sure. And no thanks.

That why its a mod and its not easy to pull off, a lot of time and money but its cool to see other people doing this to fight back against NVIDIA. Sadly AMD refuses to take advantage of NVIDIA's mistakes to make themselves a good option. Speaking of the RTX3000 series there are rumors that NVIDIA is bringing back RTX 3060 GPUs https://www.notebookcheck.net/GeForce-RTX-3060-re-launch-Nvidia-preparing-to-bring-back-5-year-old-gaming-GPU-later-this-month-claims-report.1245823.0.html This is stupid, why politicians from both parties always create terrible solutions that wont change anything especially when kids are very tech savvy. Plus this bill is useless especially when Parents buy PCs for their kids they register the account (MS Account) or whatever under the parent's name and age, It would be more scary if they have to verify the age of the user through a webcam every time you wanna login. Just another excuse for the government to take more money out of regular people pockets. Also the media is nothing but propaganda and ragebait same with social media.

@Kastner, I guess you're talking about the situation when laptop self-restarts with short fan blasts about 3-5 times, when for example RAM configuration changes, right? If yes, it usually happens 3-5 times or so, not permanently stuck. Given the update and info in the previous post above, are you sure the situation you describe could have a relation to my situation?

Updates & details: 1. I now recall what exactly was happening 1 year ago. Before I make the operation of CMOS replacement / BIOS reset + changing of RAM, I could boot into BIOS. However, the situation was still very unhealthy. After ~5 minutes or so of being powered on and BIOS screen on, the fans were suddenly starting to blast at maximal speeds, and the right lamp indicating power was blinking orange instead of glowing green! And after a minute or two, the laptop was shutting down by itself. If i remember correctly, Fn+1 was not functioning + only the right 3rd of the KB was glowing green - from power-on until self-shutdown. And after the operation, the laptop stopped being able to boot into BIOS and was having black unlit screen. With the fans and orange-blinking power lamp remaining the same. Fn+1 was not functioning. Please disregard the info about the "changed behavior" in the first post, and consider that it stayed the same since then and until today. 2. Posting this with a 4-5 days delay, been powering on the laptop >30 times and logging the behavior. Attempt 1: 00:00-10:00: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. Fn+1 was functioning, and the standard weak blue KB led was glowing together with the KB's right third glowing green. 10:00-11.30: fans were blasting, the power lamp was blinking orange every ~1.5 seconds instead of glowing green despite the laptop being still powered on! 11.30: self-shutdown. Attempt 2: 00:00-01:25: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. Fn+1 was NOT functioning, only the right third of the was glowing (green). 01:25: self-restart accompanied with short fan blast 01:30-07:30: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. Fn+1 was NOT functioning, only the right third of the was glowing (green). 07:30-12:00: fans were blasting, the power lamp was blinking orange every ~1.5 seconds instead of glowing green despite the laptop being still powered on! 12:00: self-shutdown. Attempt 3-4: 00:00-07:00: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. Fn+1 was NOT functioning, only the right third of the was glowing (green). 07:00-11:00: fans were blasting, the power lamp was blinking orange every ~1.5 seconds instead of glowing green despite the laptop being still powered on! 11:00: self-shutdown. Attempt 5: 00:00-07:30: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. Fn+1 was NOT functioning, only the right third of the was glowing (green). 07:30-12:00: fans were blasting, the power lamp was blinking orange every ~1.5 seconds instead of glowing green despite the laptop being still powered on! 12:00: self-shutdown. Attempt 6: 00:00-01:25: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. Fn+1 was NOT functioning, only the right third of the was glowing (green). 01:25: self-restart accompanied with short fan blast. 01:30-07:00: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. Fn+1 was NOT functioning, only the right third of the was glowing (green). 07:00-11:00: fans were blasting, the power lamp was blinking orange every ~1.5 seconds instead of glowing green despite the laptop being still powered on! 11:00: self-shutdown. Attempt 7-9: 00:00-07:00: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. Fn+1 was NOT functioning, only the right third of the was glowing (green). 07:00-11:00: fans were blasting, the power lamp was blinking orange every ~1.5 seconds instead of glowing green despite the laptop being still powered on! 11:00: self-shutdown. Attempt 10: 00:00-07:00: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. 07:00-09:00: fans were blasting, the power lamp was blinking orange every ~1.5 seconds instead of glowing green despite the laptop being still powered on! 09:00: self-shutdown. Attempt 11: 00:00-01:25: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. 01:25: self-restart accompanied with short fan blast. 01:30-04:15: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. 04:15-05:15: fans were blasting, the power lamp was blinking orange every ~1.5 seconds instead of glowing green despite the laptop being still powered on! 05:15: self-shutdown. Attempt 12: 00:00-01:25: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. 01:25: self-restart accompanied with short fan blast. 01:30-08:30: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. 08:30-09:30: fans were blasting, the power lamp was blinking orange every ~1.5 seconds instead of glowing green despite the laptop being still powered on! 09:30: self-shutdown. Attempt 13-15: 00:00-01:25: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. 01:25: self-restart accompanied with short fan blast. 01:30-07:00: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. 07:00-11:00: fans were blasting, the power lamp was blinking orange every ~1.5 seconds instead of glowing green despite the laptop being still powered on! 11:00: self-shutdown. Attempt 16: 00:00-01:25: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. 01:25: self-restart accompanied with short fan blast. 01:30-07:00: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. 07:00-09:30: fans were blasting, the power lamp was blinking orange every ~1.5 seconds instead of glowing green despite the laptop being still powered on! 09:30: self-shutdown. Attempt 17: 00:00-09:30: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. 09:30-10:30: fans were blasting, the power lamp was blinking orange every ~1.5 seconds instead of glowing green despite the laptop being still powered on! 10:30: self-shutdown. Attempt 18-19: 00:00-01:25: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. 01:25: self-restart accompanied with short fan blast. 01:30-07:00: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. 07:00-11:00: fans were blasting, the power lamp was blinking orange every ~1.5 seconds instead of glowing green despite the laptop being still powered on! 11:00: self-shutdown. Attempt 20: 00:00-01:25: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. 01:25: self-restart accompanied with short fan blast. 01:30-25:30: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. Fn+1 was functioning, and the standard weak blue KB led was glowing together with the KB's right third glowing green. 25:30-27:00: fans were blasting, the power lamp was blinking orange every ~1.5 seconds instead of glowing green despite the laptop being still powered on! 27:00: self-shutdown. Attempt 21: 00:00:00-00:00:0000:05: restart with very short fan blast. 00:00:05-00:01:25: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. Fn+1 was functioning, and the standard weak blue KB led was glowing together with the KB's right third glowing green. 00:01:25: self-restart accompanied with short fan blast. 00:01:30-03:00:00+: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. Fn+1 was functioning, and the standard weak blue KB led was glowing together with the KB's right third glowing green. 03:00:00+-03:00:00+: fans were blasting, the power lamp was blinking orange every ~1.5 seconds instead of glowing green despite the laptop being still powered on! 03:00:00+: self-shutdown. -> had go to sleep lol. PC was off when I woke up. Attempt 22: 00:00-01:25: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. Fn+1 was NOT functioning, only the right third of the was glowing (green). 01:25: self-restart accompanied with short fan blast. 01:30-07:45: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. Fn+1 was NOT functioning, only the right third of the was glowing (green). 07:45-12:15: fans were blasting, the power lamp was blinking orange every ~1.5 seconds instead of glowing green despite the laptop being still powered on! 12:15: self-shutdown. Attempt 23: 00:00-01:25: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. 01:25: self-restart accompanied with short fan blast. 01:30-04:45: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. 04:45-05:45: fans were blasting, the power lamp was blinking orange every ~1.5 seconds instead of glowing green despite the laptop being still powered on! 05:45: self-shutdown. Attempt 24: 00:00-05:45: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. Fn+1 was functioning, and the standard weak blue KB led was glowing together with the KB's right third glowing green. But sometimes it was stuck in fan-blasting mode and ignoring Fn+1 for a short while. ~05:00-05:45: Fn+1 stopped functioning. 05:45-07:00: fans were blasting, the power lamp was blinking orange every ~1.5 seconds instead of glowing green despite the laptop being still powered on! 07:00: self-shutdown. Attempt 25: 00:00-01:25: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. Fn+1 was functioning, and the standard weak blue KB led was glowing together with the KB's right third glowing green. 01:25: self-restart accompanied with short fan blast. 01:30-29:30: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. Fn+1 was functioning, and the standard weak blue KB led was glowing together with the KB's right third glowing green. 29:30-30:45: fans were blasting, the power lamp was blinking orange every ~1.5 seconds instead of glowing green despite the laptop being still powered on! 30:45: self-shutdown. Attempt 26: 00:00:00-3:00:00+: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. Fn+1 was functioning, and the standard weak blue KB led was glowing together with the KB's right third glowing green. -> aborted, had to leave. Attempt 27: 00:00:00-00:01:25: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. 00:01:25: self-restart accompanied with short fan blast. 00:01:30-24:28:00: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. Fn+1 was functioning, and the standard weak blue KB led was glowing together with the KB's right third glowing green. 24:28:00-24:29:00: fans were blasting, the power lamp was blinking orange every ~1.5 seconds instead of glowing green despite the laptop being still powered on! 24:29:00: self-shutdown. Attempt 28: 00:00:00-06:31:15: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. Fn+1 was functioning, and the standard weak blue KB led was glowing together with the KB's right third glowing green. 06:31:15-06:32:15: fans were blasting, the power lamp was blinking orange every ~1.5 seconds instead of glowing green despite the laptop being still powered on! 06:32:15: self-shutdown. Attempt 29: 00:00:00-00:01:25: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. 00:01:25: self-restart accompanied with short fan blast. 0:01:30-26:00:00+: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. Fn+1 was functioning, and the standard weak blue KB led was glowing together with the KB's right third glowing green. 26:00:00+-26:00:00+: fans were blasting, the power lamp was blinking orange every ~1.5 seconds instead of glowing green despite the laptop being still powered on! 26:00:00+: self-shutdown. -> had go to sleep lol. PC was off when I woke up. Attempt 30: 00:00-04:30: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. 04:30-05:30: fans were blasting, the power lamp was blinking orange every ~1.5 seconds instead of glowing green despite the laptop being still powered on! 05:30: self-shutdown. Attempt 31: 00:00-01:25: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. 01:25: self-restart accompanied with short fan blast. 01:30-10:45: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. 10:45-11:45: fans were blasting, the power lamp was blinking orange every ~1.5 seconds instead of glowing green despite the laptop being still powered on! 11:45: self-shutdown. Attempt 32: 00:00-01:25: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. 01:25: self-restart accompanied with short fan blast. 01:30-07:45: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. 07:45-09:00: fans were blasting, the power lamp was blinking orange every ~1.5 seconds instead of glowing green despite the laptop being still powered on! 09:00: self-shutdown. Attempt 33: 00:00-01:25: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. 01:25: self-restart accompanied with short fan blast. 01:30-03:45: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. 03:45-04:45: fans were blasting, the power lamp was blinking orange every ~1.5 seconds instead of glowing green despite the laptop being still powered on! 04:45: self-shutdown. Attempt 34: 00:00:00-25:38:00: silent idle with black screen, power-on lamp glowing green. Fn+1 was functioning, and the standard weak blue KB led was glowing together with the KB's right third glowing green. 25:38:00-25:39:00: fans were blasting, the power lamp was blinking orange every ~1.5 seconds instead of glowing green despite the laptop being still powered on! 25:39:00: self-shutdown.

Silicon lottery vs paying a buttload for basically the same card..... That lightning is gimped with that poor stock voltage and it's a poor sample. Even applying the extra voltage in AB can't save it. All that extra wattage can't save it. Clearly MSI isn't binning too much. Lightning for sale over on the OC forums with a nice, healthy 1.105v voltage cap and a good clocker and even then.......~$6600 USD (toss on a 15-20% tariff on top of that). The Lightning display causing erratic and lower 1% lows is the icing on the cake..... Insane. Two distributors screwing him over two different ways...... trump admin approach to Anthropic is disgusting. Basically using strong arm mafia tactics because they won't let their AI tools run automated and unchecked in battlefield situations or for enhanced surveillance. Hey you won't let us do what we want so we're going to label you a "supply chain risk," potentially catastrophically hurting your business because agreed upon restrictions you won't lift for us.....wow....just wow.... As for Nvidia, the golden rule is in full effect atm. Nvidia is the performance top dog with all the gold....or at least 94% of it. Dominating in every aspect from Steam to AI and more. Someone needs to make a better product to even have a chance of unseating them anytime soon and it isn't the current generation. AMD needs to have their next gen cards (10900xt? 10090xt?) match the consistent rumors and really bring the heat or Nvidia will just continue to dominate. 9070xt is a damn good card for what it is, but it runs hot and heavy for what it brings compared to the 5070ti. Node shrink is definitely needed along with architecture advancements but AMD has really caught up in many areas at serious speeds.

Hi yes you can under volt on XMG 1.07.09RTR bios, I have undervolt it with Throttlestop. VT-D can also be disable on UEFI BIOS MENU. If it doesn’t work for you, you can always downgrade with your Bios update file. good luck.

It is primarily sponsored by 3 libtarded Demoncraps and 1 worthless RINO, all from the cuckoo leftist Denver, CO. So, no it's not the "US" as the foreigner-written article states. It is a boisterous minority. Things are not great anywhere, but mainstream media is unreliable no matter where you live. We all need to be cautious about believing "news" about one country written by outsiders or distributed as part of the orchestrated narrative. It leads to being mislead and misinformed. Hell, we cannot even believe the "news" when it is local because most of it is just bald-faced lies or distortions and plays on emotion. The narrative is almost never accurate because it's part of an agenda to deceive, misinform or mislead gullible sheeple into drinking the Kool-Aid and believing the lies. The states run by idiots (WA, OR, CA, CO, NY, IL, MN) want to do all sorts in idiotic stuff that sane human beings living everywhere else do not want anything to do with. https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-051

Strategy doesn'tmatter if the money running out. But the waste of money on AI could continue if the government continues to subsidize the tech for mass surveillance. Money for AI is running out: OpenAI and Oracle cancel expansion of Texas data center for Artificial Intelligence The billions of dollars that have been put on the table are sometimes not enough. Just a year ago, money for Artificial Intelligence seemed inexhaustible, when tech giants, sovereign wealth funds, and banks... Going blind into the future.... One in four CEOs say AI is a bubble but will continue investing One in five CEOs also expect job cuts this year

To take advantage of that 250W CPU limit, I'm afraid even liquid cooling won't be enough. Perhaps LM + liquid cooling would be possible for short/medium duration loads, but the heatsink has aluminum parts, and caution is needed in choosing the solution for its application...

Good luck. "The Land of the Free". Soon almost gone. You always get what you ask for. It's for a reason etc Microsoft want that you only can sign in into your pc with an M$ account. Also why some states will ban Linux as your preferred OS. Forced on you by the current government. Sad! Same also happens from the different US States policy. Freedom will vanish and be something forgotten from the past. And China lead the way.... The free world will just follow after the bell sheep (China). Yupp, AI have its advantage. Government will use it to keep the citizens under their thumb. Exactly as China have done the last two decades. AI company Anthropic sues Trump administration for ban Anthropic is at odds with the Trump administration, which wants to use AI technology for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons systems. The case is now going to court. Anthropic Sues Pentagon, Argues Blacklisting Violates Free Speech The San Francisco company wants a US district court to intervene and lift the 'supply chain risk' designation, which bans those working with the Pentagon from working with Anthropic Microsoft CEO jokes with Jensen Huang that NVIDIA wouldn't exist without gaming NVIDIA addresses the memory crisis: “I think the fact that everything is scarce is fantastic for us; when things are scarce, you choose the best.”

Nothing in red or in purple. The hotspot limit is 105C for the RTX 4080 I have.

I have no idea what that means :-). I actually have a rtx3000 in my primary zbook 17. I think it's Adlink

I will soon get a G1/G2 not sure, blindly bought it for 40 euros, seller had no info at all. On g1 schematic it has eDP on DP_D One day when I have time I while write a complete guide on zbook 15/17 that have MXM slot (g1 -> g6)

u checked hotspot temps? when just one part is in the red area, will throttle... even when average GPU temp still is fine, same for VRMs, when they getting to hot, they cap the powerlimit

It could maybe be a driver issue because I didn't have any thermal throttle on the graph. Because I couldn't even edit anything in the Nvidia control panel, I probably did a bad installation thru NVCLEANSTALL. But anyway this heatsink isn't suitable for the RTX 150W. Even for the 135W ones... But the M6800 heatsink sounds more promising because it has a little bit more of endurance and I have the ones with the bad heatpipes! Edit: Cicichen didn't answer today for the new heatsink, this person told me that the new heatpipes are made and they need to get soldered. Which means the M6800 heatsink will finally fit.

Does the G1 support eDP on DP_D? You can drop an RTX 4000 or RTX 5000 from HP. I dropped an RTX 5000 HP for the Dell precision M6700 eDP 120Hz edition.

I eventually put it in my second zbook 17 g1, which is currently running a crappy K610M. I'll probably drop the M4000M into this one, and maybe sell the 8760w with k3100m inside.

Actually the pinout of 8760w motherboard eDP connector is not compatible with zbook eDP Motherboard connector. 8760w has eDP and LVDS on the same connector wheras Zbook had only eDP on the connector. pluggin zbook display cable on 8760w will short out LVDS and cause no boot at best and motherboard damage at worst. Therefore you can only salvage the display from the Zbook 17 g2. You will need to source the DreamColor cables + board made specifically for the 8760w.

The display is the same : LP173WF3-SLB3 also same as the ones ending in SBL1/SBL2/SBL4. They use an eDP cable going to a converter that converts the 40 pin eDP int 50 pin LVDS that then breaks out into 2 cables that plug into the display. Motherboard eDP connector -> (eDP cable) -> eDP to LVDS converter board -> (2x lcd cables) -> LCD 50 + 10 pin LVDS input What is sure to work is get a non working dreamcolor motherboard cable + board + LCD cable from 8760w and use the lcd you salvaged from the zbook.

The issue sounds like thermal constraints since power fluctuates, if it was a steady 100w on the m6700 you would now that you are power limited by the MXM slot. I'm guessing CPU is around 20-40% utilization so that isn't a bottleneck, same for PCIe speeds, both should be at 16x3.0

Ok thx

The GPU was at 80-90W during heaven in the M6700, with a max of 120W. M6800 was at 115-125W during the heaven benchmark, with a max of 150W.