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  1. Will
    Can you reupload the pictures, please? The links are broken
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    Oh, that's what I thought, so it's nothing critical. Thank you for answering me, your topic about the 8570w is a great inspiration to me! And indeed, they are great laptops.
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    UPDATE #1: I've started buying the necessary parts for the refurbishment/upgrade project. I'll be purchasing most of the parts from China, from sites like Taobao, Xianyu, etc. The first parts I bought were: • 240W GaN AC Adapter (DP/N 0YR68) • NVIDIA Heatsink + Fans (DP/N 0YJNJK) • Memory RAM Cover (DP/N AM1DJ000300) As soon as the parts arrived, I installed the heatsink + fans, put in some RAM sticks and an SSD that I already had, and tried to turn the laptop on. To my surprise, it booted, but I immediately noticed that the screen was defective. Aside from the screen, everything works perfectly: speakers, touchpad, USB ports, fingerprint reader, RAM slots, etc. However, when I took the motherboard out to clean it, I had an unpleasant surprise: a component was knocked off, and even worse, apparently the pads were also ripped off: Taking a look at the boardview, this is what I got: This is where I ask you guys for help, does anyone know exactly what this component does? I tested the motherboard's SATA port and it's working perfectly, full speed. I don't have the necessary skills, but I'm thinking of trying to repair it someday. Anyway, I bought a Dell Precision 7720 motherboard with Xeon E3-1535M v6 (I had originally ordered a motherboard with Xeon E3-1575M v5 because of its 128MB L4 cache, but the seller told me it was out of stock, so they offered me the 1535M v6) on Aliexpress and I'm waiting for it to arrive. Just out of curiosity, before I installed the heatsink, I took the opportunity to install a Clevo GTX 670MX with faulty VRAM chips that I had lying around to see if the Precision would recognize it — and yes, it did, and I was able to install the drivers normally on Windows 10. Here are the pictures:
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    Ever since I found out about mobile workstations, I've always wanted to have a Dell Precision 7720, both because of its design, which I personally think is really cool (especially its internal layout), and because its the last Precision with an MXM slot before Dell switched to the DGFF format starting with the 7XX30 series. Then one day, while browsing OLX, I was lucky enough to find a Dell Precision 7710 for a low price. The laptop was listed as "for parts" and untested, and its specifications weren’t provided, but from the pictures in the listing, it was clear that many parts were missing, such as the heatsink + fans, keyboard, RAM, SSD, AC adapter, etc. Even so, I thought it was a good deal, so I bought it. Here are the pictures from the seller: I believe this will be a very interesting project, so in this thread I will post the progress of my journey in refurbishing/upgrading this amazing machine.
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    Thank you guys, appreciate it
  6. Will
    @GuitarG Hey, I recently got an EliteBook 8560w for cheap. Sorry to bother you, but would you mind answering a few questions please? 1 - Do you know if it's possible to run a quad-core processor on a dual-core motherboard (P/N 684318-001)? Would it work normally? 2 - Do you know if it's possible to swap the 8560w motherboard with the one from the 8570w? I previously swapped the motherboard of a 8760w with the one from a 8770w and everything worked fine, so I’m guessing it might be possible with the 8560w too. 3 - Is it true that the display will not have a back light until the driver is installed with maxwell cards? Im planning to maybe get a M2200.
  7. Will
    Hello guys, do you know where can i find that RTX 4000 110W vBIOS for Precision 7740 please?
  8. Will
    Do you think that would also be valid/possible for 8760w/8770w? I mean this customized LCD cable for EDP screens
  9. Will
    Did your 8770w have a DreamColor screen? I'm asking this because I can't adjust the screen brightness of my 8770w neither with an M3000M nor with an M4000M, and i have a 1600x900 non DreamColor screen. The brightness level is stuck both in Windows and Linux. Maybe with a DreamColor screen I could adjust the screen brightness?
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    Does anyone know who is the manufacturer (like ADLINK, Zotac) or where this GTX 1070 MXM came from? I mean, which notebook/system did it originally come from? I'm really curious about it since this is the most easily found GTX 1070 MXM model currently. I've always seen people recommending the oddly shaped MSI's GTX 1070. Does anyone know how this standard form factor GTX 1070 compares to the MSI's 1070 in terms of power limit/TDP/VRM? Thanks.
  11. Will
    Thanks. I appreciate if you can send some photos later
  12. Will
    Hey bro, could you please tell me how you retrofitted the ZBook G2 fingerprint reader into the 8570w?
  13. Will
    Hello, guys. I'm willing to pick up either a ZBook 17 G5 or a ZBook 17 G6 as they were the last notebooks released with MXM support, but I couldn't find anything about upgrading or downgrading their graphics card. About the ZBook 17 G5, I would like to put a GTX 1070 on it, has anyone tested it? I think it would work since originally the G5 came with Pascal GPUs, but I'm afraid of having some type of whitelist in the BIOS. And about the ZBook 17 G6, has anyone tested if GPUs from older architectures work? Like Pascal and Maxwell 2.0
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