ruboj

indeed, the underhand tricks that Intel played in the past might have been a factor but given their current condition and with AMD now having attractive processor options, this situation may be changing sooner rather than later. and it seems to be finally happening. according to this blog post on Dell's site: https://www.dell.com/en-us/blog/dell-transforms-ai-pc-portfolio-for-anywhere-productivity/ the Pro Max series will feature both Ryzen and Threadripper processors, though it isn't clear whether this applies to the mobile workstations.

do not understand why ryzen processors are still not a common offering in mobile workstations. it is exciting though, to see 18" laptops making an appearance in the mobile workstation segment.

i came across this workaround a while back on a long forgotten forum. it had to do with usb compatibility issues between the M6800 and the MC7455. covering up those pins enabled the card to work normally.

you could try cutting a thin strip of electrical tape and covering the contacts indicated in the image. make sure to cover the contacts on both sides of the card.

this is useful information, Thank you for sharing it with us.

it is good to know that Turing cards work with the M6800, i have some questions on the process you used to achieve this: - which panel does your laptop support LVDS or eDP ? - which heatsink(AMD or Nvidia) did you modify in order for the RTX 3000 to fit ? - do you have any pictures of the modifications that you made to the heatsink and if so can you please share them with us ? - did you have to do anything special with the VBIOS in order to make it work with the M6800 ? - what driver modifications did you do so that they could install on Windows ? Thank you for your post as it encourages us to refresh our veteran M6800's with newer hardware.