SuperMG

I wasn't able to get the external HDMI/DP on the M18X R2/R3 to work with dGPU. I can with the Alienware M17X R4/R5 and Dell Precision M6700/M6800 to make the HDMI/DP to work with dGPU. For the cooling, custom heatsinks exist so the better argument doesn't apply now... I had many issues with Alienware laptops (dirty, replacing a lot of motherboards, bad charging ICs, bad speakers) but I had 0 issues with Precisions at the moment, smooth, better IO, better MXM support. The TDP bug affects Haswell, even on MSI GT laptops. For HP I have no info. The TDP bug only happens on XVSION, ZRT, AETINA, PNY cards but not for the HP RTX ones...

Ollie's temperature are good. I already recommended him that. Alienware does 8 beeps maybe it's the mux switches from the eDP line... Just get a red covet M6700 or M6800 they dust off these Alienware... Yes I do not have any TDP bug (no 40-55W fluctuating) with the 150W 4080 besides the thermal throttle in FurMark but that's easy to fix with a new 4 heatpipes GPU heatsink.

This is the better version if you're planning to use 150W cards (with PTM7950) + better designed CPU heatsink like the Alienware 17 R1 Ranger design, so better overclocking for the CPU right? Mine will arrive this week, maybe on Friday? It means I'll have a spare "130W" 3 heatpipes that has one badly curved heatpipe. If someone wants it, I can list it for 45€ and then you can modify the heatpipes if you want. @DynamiteZergI sell them on ebay. This is version 1. It allows backlight enable and makes the internal display work again. The newer RTX cards don't have the backlight pins connected from the core.

The seller needs to use GPU-Z and extract from there. He can do it for the 4080 too. It'll generate a download link from techpowerup Because ZRT and other people ignored me for 5 months. I've been trying to get their VBIOSes for 5 months... I just hope the images you got are indeed the right GPU and not the x-vsion one. Do you have the VBIOS version number or a GPU-Z screenshot? For myself I need the 4080 150W VBIOS and 4090 150W VBIOS. But if the seller could dump 135W Max-Q versions why not, everyone will be happy.

IT'S ZRT OMG. Please GET THE VBIOSES!! I want to flash on 4080 and 4090 so we can avoid the EDID override method!! Same design as ZRT 100%, not x-vsion, the BIOS chip is in a different place

Hello... I already made the tests. Precision M6800 eDP with RTX 4080, 4070 works so 4090 will work too but you need the backlight mod cable that I'm selling. You also need to set the BIOS to UEFI and Legacy OPROM to disabled. You also need a custom powerful 4 heatpipes heatsink from Cicichen. I REALLY HOPE, YOU BOUGHT THE ZRT CARD! Please confirm!!! We need the VBIOS of the ZRT card! Thank you. X-vsion Vbios is bad and needs EDID override in the OS. Please man ask the seller if he has RTX 4080 135W/150W and 4090 135W/150W VBIOSes please... They have good eDP support for the Windows drivers. Only the 4060, 4070 from X-VSION have good eDP support the 4080/4090 nope

Hello... I found something in the ACPI Editor, ACPI module. I see lots of MXM3 mentions, they look like methods but to what? No mention of any Kepler 600M GPUIDs, just Fermi ones... Then how the Kepler 600M work on this laptop??? But 700M doesn't work. Here's the Acpi dump: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ffPxcysB8wjxv-PTIBFJWwVbrp7ZtOqg/view?usp=drivesdk WM0 = MXM slot 1? WM1 = MXM slot 2? Found method Device(MXM3) which has most Nvidia 200M to 500M GPUIds and some other conditions as well. No 600M IDs. EDIT: I tried to edit the ACPI by REPLACING the GPUIDs and ADDING FORCED RETURNS to some METHODS but THE PHOENIX SECURECORE ASL TOOL DOESN'T WORK!!! "Unable to write Temp files"... Edit 2: ACPI only WORKS after the laptop posts, so let's not check that yet. I asked help on winraid and bios-mods. The mods see the posts because they do some egocentric "edits" in my post but they don't send any help, so avoid these places if you seek for help. No one will help me anyway, sad ending for today...

No. We tried the HP RTX 3000 with 120Hz 3D in UEFI and legacy, not work. Tested in 2 different Alienware laptops. Maybe we did something wrong? I don't know. Only the M6700 and M6800 can accept HP RTX 3000/5000 with LEGACY BIOS and UEFI BIOS. Newer Ampère and Ada cards need UEFI and Legacy OPROM disabled to work and display in the Internal screen. Got +240FPS in heaven benchmark with the M6800 eDP, RTX 4080 MXM and a bad heatsink.

Hello. X-VSION only sells 80W variants. I bought the 130W one and got the 80W one instead so that's janky and the performance was worse than an RTX 3000... Just get an RTX 3070 MXM, it's better than the A3000 80W or... Wait till you have money to get the 3080 115W.

Hello some news. I don't know but I think there's no GPUID whitelists, because I couldn't find IDs for any Kepler 1 GPUs. I could only find IDs for 200M, 400M and 500M Fermi GPUs and the dumped file wasn't a whitelist either. Or maybe the whitelist is hidden and I can't find? So I think the only way, it's to remove the GPU checks during the POST. Because maybe the BIOS throws some "errors" for the GPU so that's why the laptop doesn't post. I have no idea on how to to this sadly... As mentioned before, the Clevo X8100 (2010) and the Clevo M980NU (2009) are both using the same Phoenix SecureCore bioses from the same era! But these two laptops support up to a GTX 980M, so anything related to Maxwell and Kepler 2 will work flawlessly... So they just ignore the GPU checks and boot. Just like the Clevo P775 for example. Edit: I made the VGA errors set to IGNORE but.... The laptop doesn't boot with the Maxwell card in the master slot... Edit 2: set to ignore during post: VGA ERRORS POST CHECKSUM ERRORS CMOS ERRORS OTHER ERRORS It doesn't work!! GTX 485M, K3000M work and display but not the 970M and M5000M. Yes my Maxwell cards work without the UEFI image.

This is the 3 heatpipes version, I got the 4 heatpipes version + a new CPU heatsink. Had to pay extra 95USD on top of the 100 I paid initially for the badly made, first edition 3 heatpipes one.

RTX 5000 (HP) is like between 650-1000€. RTX 3080 (X-VSION, DP in DP_D): 550-600€ + need backlight mod cable (++€) + need custom M6800 GPU heatsink (++€)

Hello. Yes the first version have very bad curves. There's a fixed one, the new 4 heatpipes GPU heatsink and 2 heatpipes Alienware 17 R1 Ranger style CPU heatpipes for the M6800. He finished it. I'll get it in 10 days.

Hello here are the files I extracted from the chips, I needed to disassemble everything. Random chip that's probably the KBC, not an EC (MX25L512E, U44): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1si8vA-aMM6DynJNbjdEk2OcA8I06v3aE/view?usp=drivesdk BIOS (F25L16PA, U45): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CPea1hd4nSIi4TAWSp7sILjDmHuhZhEN/view There's also a U48 chip, 512kbit too but I can't seem to read it... I would pay someone who succeeded into removing the whitelist or removing/updating something that's limiting the Kepler 700M/800M and 900M GPUs in the master slot. Edit: I removed the GOP/UEFI image from the GTX 970M 6GB VBIOS, it was successful because GPU-Z reports it as a non-UEFI Vbios (tested in slave slot). However in the master slot, it doesn't work. Laptop doesn't post and stays on. No backlight, just stays on with idle fans. I sense some fan control on the CPU side so that's strange. I even edited the Vbios GPUID to a corresponding Fermi one. No success... First the computer powers on, waiting 2-3s then does one blink for the HDD status (like with Fermi and Kepler 600M). Now the computer stays on, fans at idle. I tried to force boot with HDMI only but no luck. Even someone got the 980M to boot with the X8100 (mobile socket, 2009-2010) what; https://www.computerbase.de/forum/threads/clevo-x8100-mit-gtx-980m-keine-hdmi-bildausgabe.1801599/ Someone got the 980M to boot with the M980NU (mobile socket, core 2 45nm, 2009): https://www.nbrchive.net/xfa/hardware-components-and-aftermarket-upgrades.27/CLEVO X8100 SAGER NP8120 GTX-680M Graphics card upgrade/ @poprostujakub Why can't the X7200 do the same?

The GPUs are detected with Intel Optimus on? These GPUs should work 100% with your laptop in PEG. One more thing: Clear the CMOS battery by unplugging it. Or, try to switch from LEGACY to UEFI with no Legacy OPROM and see the results with the M5000M.

Did you clear the CMOS? Did you backup your old bios? Flash through USB CH314A flasher and see if it does the same thing.

Did you change anything on the BIOS in terms of settings? Because your sounds like a dead motherboard or a corrupted BIOS.

Hello, I see you know how to edit some BIOS. I have a laptop and I don't know if it has a whitelist. It's for GPU MXM upgrade, clevo X7200 from 2010.

Well no one knows yet. It could be a BIOS/EC issue actually. The M15X works with Fermi cards all the way up to Maxwell cards in LVDS. The X7200 laptop could boot even if it can't detect the GPU's temperature sensor. For example, I tried with an AMD card. It displays and boots. Then, after 10 seconds, the laptop started to beep and went into panic mode. At the end the laptop shutdown because of the temperature sensor of the GPU. The slave slot of the X7200, I had no issues with the EC fan controls for the 970M, 980M and Quadro K3100M, no panic, no beeps, fan works.

The M15X is from 2010, uses the same first gen core i technology (45nm and 32nm) as the X7200 and it's able to use the GTX 980M or Quadro M5000M as the master card without any Intel Optimus. The M15X didn't have UEFI too, it's full LEGACY. So why can't the Clevo X7200 do the same? I'm sure there's a whitelist. A GPU whitelist that was updated when the Kepler 600 series were out. Presumably they added the whitelist because of the newer version from Clevo that was coming out, the P570WM. The P570WM LVDS could allow up to a GTX 980M and the P570WM3 could allow up to an RTX Ada in eDP. Which means that the P570WM doesn't have a whitelist for sure. How can we remove the whitelist? with a BIOS editor?

Hello. I've been intrigued a lot about why anything above GTX 680M Kepler won't work on this LVDS X7200 laptop? For example Quadro K3100M, GTX 780M, 880M, 970M, 980M won't work in the master slot, despite having the same LVDS port for the internal screen. These cards do support legacy and legacy oprom. Even I got a GTX 970M, 980M and Quadro P5200 to work in the slave slot! With Legacy and UEFI VBIOSes. The BIOS recognized them as the 2nd NVIDIA GPU. Even the RTX 4070 MXM was detected!! So my point is... There's maybe a whitelist of GPUIDs for the master slot. But some could say that the GTX 700M to 900M needs some partial support for UEFI in order to work and display... Even though these generations support both legacy and UEFI. It's not about the LVDS port. It's about the BIOS. Is there a way to remove the GPU whitelist from that Phoenix BIOS? So we can add a GTX 980M as the best card in terms of LVDS compatibility? I see that the Alienware M17X R3 and M18X R1 could support up to an GTX 780M and GTX 880M for the master slot. Even the 1st gen core i M15X can support up to a GTX 980M... Any bios modders? Prema? Svl7? Baked? Here's the BIOS that was taken from the SOP8 F25L16PA chip: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CPea1hd4nSIi4TAWSp7sILjDmHuhZhEN/view I PAY 80€ FOR SUCCESSFUL BIOS MOD!!!

Hello. You're sure it's an eDP variant and not a LVDS one? If it's eDP. Please switch to iGPU and see if the Nvidia is detected as switchable graphics. If it's detected then it works. Test HDMI and DP output if the Nvidia driver is present and see if any of these external output work with your Nvidia GPU. Maybe for the internal eDP display, you have to switch to UEFI in the BIOS settings and disable Legacy OPROM too. The M6800 eDP is compatible with Quadro M5000M, RTX 3000, 4000, 5000 and even RTX 4070, 4080 MXM with some backlight mods. Yes the automatic fan control works.

I got the HP RTX 3000 to work in DC with the Dell M6700.

Hello. This GPU doesn't have backlight pins set. So even if your laptop supports eDP on DP_D, your screen will stay black. There is a dirt cheap RTX 3000 for 99€ on ebay, it's the HP variant with the backlight pins.

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