Maks0098
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This is not the first time I have flashed BIOS and EC chips, so I recognize them simply by their location on the board.)
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on the right you can see the file that I read from that chip. And on the left is the EC firmware, which I found specifically for P7**TM version 1.07.16 the files are the same, one might say (I didn’t review them completely, because I still understood that the one I took could have been broken) and the same size
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The EC chip has the marking 25q80dvsig I read it, saved what was on it and wrote a new firmware
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I can't find a photo to show. But I still have the marking: mx25l6473f I'll be taking the laptop apart again later - I can take a photo
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it's just that I've seen other people have this problem when they had the wrong BIOS. but maybe that's not the issue. for now I want to be sure that I have the right BIOS and EC flashed, and then I'll look for another reason. Which BIOS should I flash from this site and should I flash the EC again with some other firmware? and the battery charges and then the indicator lights up green, by the way
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I flashed it using a programmer. Or what do you mean?
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Alienware m18x R2 with no bootable drive in BIOS.
Maks0098 replied to Busta Bloodnut's topic in Alienware 18 and M18x
You need to enable UEFI for Windows 8 and higher. Legacy Windows 10 does not support. change it to UEFI and you don’t have to turn off CSM for now if everything starts up ok for you. Because on my second M18x R2 with M6100 it does not detect a video card without CSM, but an M3000M with CSM. -
Regarding the speed of mSATA and SATA - Sata is indeed faster, since it uses SATA 3 speed, when mSATA uses SATA 2 speed. 600 and 300 MB/s, respectively. this applies to our Alienware M17x/M18x and 17/18. Other laptops - I don’t know how, maybe they use full SATA 3 speed.
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I don't think it's worth it. It's better to use the two separately. The only option where this may be appropriate is if you need to load one game or file larger than one SSD, and you have a second one. Then you can do Raid 0 and you will have enough memory. In terms of speed, it won’t affect games, etc., it will affect if you constantly transfer between different SSDs or etc., where the speed of the second storage will be above 500 MB/s. But raid is unnecessary, more wear and tear occurs on both SSDs. And there is a greater chance that one of them will break. And it will be impossible to restore the data later.
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and the BIOS that I flashed was from Dsanke. Maybe I flashed the wrong BIOS, because I have an i7-8086K and GTX 1080? Maybe I should try to buy a new i5-7400 or something similar to check if the processor might be the issue? and does this laptop support i3-7100, i3-6100? so that I don't spend money on i5 which is more expensive and I won't use it later
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I reflashed it using ch341a with a clip, just in case
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When the charger is turned on, the indicators light up yellow. When the power button is pressed, the power indicator flashes green twice and that's it. I tried to reflash the main BIOS chip, I took out the CMOS battery, after that the laptop when I pressed the power button - the keyboard backlight started to light up, the fans started in turn, and then the backlight turned off and the fans rotated at 100% and the power indicator blinked orange. I also tried to reflash the EC, nothing helps. I also changed the video card to a known working one. First after power failure and first start - the above happens, and subsequent starts only the green power indicator blinks twice and that's it. Could the problem be in the video card power cable? Or is the problem somewhere in the motherboard or matrix?
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Have you ever noticed your keyboard heating up?
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@SWarnock,you can flash your video card with the BIOS from the iMac, I flashed my P4000 so that it was more powerful. I can send you the file. for your card, the frequencies will already be 1657 MHz and the power limit will be increased from 75 watts to 100 watts (this can be changed using Mobile Pascal TDP bios tweaker). So you will get a more powerful card without extra charge, I have been using mine for a long time, so it seems safe and other users also use it without problems. the power will be at the level of the GTX 1060 mobile.
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Ray Tracing on M18xR2 - RTX 3000 MXM Upgrade!
Maks0098 replied to ssj92's topic in Alienware 18 and M18x
you had to use PEG, SG can't work with two cards (without some complicated manipulations). You had to put in the main slot a card that works in PEG and in the second slot RTX, as you did, but you had to enable PEG.
