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Still strange, because 980m works even in m15x which has a bios even older than m18x r1.

Greetings. The gtx 675m sli worked well in R2, so there should be no problems in R1. The 675m is basically a renamed 580m, so should be well compatible with your system

PNY/Adlink Nvidia Quadro RTX 3000 does not work with Haswell generation Alienwares (17 R1 Ranger and 18 Viking) and if you want to do Ranger modifications you will have to look towards HP cards + modify the mxm connector + cooling system. A bit more info here:

Can you give me a link to the lot where you ordered the i7-4980HQ? I want to try my luck, but I can't find any offers on ebay or aliexpress.

As far as I know swapping a motherboard from r2 to r1 is possible, but you need a few things besides the board itself: GRP9C - the motherboard itself, YYFHR - Additional Reader Sub USB Board M9T51 - SATA Hard Drive Connector XVNKP - HDD Frame Bracket I think that's it. as far as I remember the only limitation is that there is no space for mSATA in the r1 case.

There is a compatibility issue between wwan cards and some mpcie slots. To avoid this, it is recommended to isolate usb3 pins on the modem, which include pins 23, 25, 31, 33. It is enough to seal them with a strip of scotch tape. Ideally this should be enough, but additional actions are possible in case of failure. On some modems like quectel this problem can be bypassed by software, but unfortunately on Sierra you need to act as described above.

@ssj92 Thanks for the reply. I will try to contact Aetina to see if they will agree to send me the card and if they will contact me at all.) Yes I have seen the new Ada Lovelace modules, but I'm afraid to imagine how much they cost and what problems they will have. If Ampere family bios are still somehow studied, these new ones will be full of surprises.

Can I ask you the price you bought it for back then? I understand it's just not sold on Ebay and can only be bought directly in the US. It's just that I'm in Europe and need to look for intermediaries). About the bios. According to my assumption for correct start of Vbios card there should be a response from system bios about 4g addressing support. Presence of ReBar module is secondary and is necessary for acceleration of work, but is not a prerequisite. Therefore 4G decoding is a problem in our case, because it is not provided in the bios itself (there are no such hidden options in the latest versions of bios for m17x r4, r5, m18x r2 - I checked). In general, for ivy bridge platform I've seen only one successful case of enabling this function - for desktop ASUS P8Z77-V PRO, but it uses their proprietary bios and there is just such a hidden option. In the case of our laptops we use another platform bios from Insyde and there is no such setting either for ivy bridge platform or for Haswell and I don't know anything about adding such support, it is necessary to have access directly to the documentation of this company. That's why I say that it is easier to modify the vbios of the card and remove this check that did not allow to start the laptop with native vbios, but at the same time with the bios from dell it started. Of course, so far these are my assumptions, but I want to check them in practice. At least it is possible to test the card in a desktop motherboard with the debug connector connected and see the error message. Just for fun, I checked - the "4G decoding" setting appears in the bios of the Alienware 17 R2. In earlier models, unfortunately, it just doesn't exist

Sorry for necroposting and bad English) Is it still possible to buy this card? I would like to do some experiments with my m17x r4 Judging by the behavior of A4500 with native vbios, the problem is that the submodule of this bios is waiting for confirmation from the system bios to enable the "4gb above" option and does not allow the card itself to start normally. That's why the author's laptop complained about the absence of the card in SG mode. You can try either to manually disable the blocking module in the bios of the video card, or ask the manufacturer (judging by the screenshots they met and at least responded). Unfortunately I don't see any possibility to modify system bios of Alienware m17x r4, r5 m18x r2, m18 r1 laptops - there are no necessary modules in our bios from Insyde.

Greetings. Could you please help me with the 970m video card on my m15x laptop. I need to modify the driver for windows 7 specifically 472.12. If it helps, here are the specs of my video card.