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3 hours ago, Maxware79 said:

The system will hold residual power in the capacitors after you unplug the power adapter so you really need to do a power drain before touching anything on the motherboard. It's possible you gave the system a small static shock.

Also, I've had the dreaded 7 beep error which turned out to be a bad CMOS battery. I've had countless 5 beep errors from the CMOS battery but only once have I got a 7 beep from one. It was on the Alienware 18. I was going to do some repairs on it but it ended up being shelved for quite some time. When I finally got to it, I got the 7 beep error and it made no sense. I remove the RAM and got the RAM beep error and then I removed the CMOS battery and got the 5 beep error. To get past the 5 beep error you just need to do a hard shutdown and then power it on again straight away so I did this without the CMOS battery installed and it powered on perfectly. When I put the battery back in, I got the 7 beeps again. I replaced the CMOS battery and the system worked great. 

In 12-13 years messing with these systems, this is the first time I've ever come across it. Have you tried a brand new wired CMOS battery? There's a slim chance this could work. 

My guess is you gave the board a shock though. 

I removed the CMOS battery to get the 5 beeps but it didn't do the beeps. Same for the ram, I never got the 2 beeps.

I bought a new motherboard for 188€. I'll resell the laptop. Do you guys know if Optimus works with only one GPU in slot 2? Because I don't have the first slot cooler.

I didn't see any sparks when connecting the sata ribon cable. I actually had a rough time to install it tho.

2 hours ago, Haku Frey Hellsing said:

Wow. i was wondering to get MXM 4070 from alibaba and make it fit to clevo maybe later change die to 4080 or even more if they gonna go cheaper nice idea to that direct power definetly gonna hel since MXM 40 have no power connector. RTX 40 

Hello. You meant from PELADN? They have 0 in stock.

I killed two Alienwares.

One was a M17X R4 because of swapping MXM cards and I used a defective FirePro card that made the video controller die (no display on iGFX and MXM). So it's understandable.

But for the M18X R2? A SATA cable? Really? The fact that my Wi-Fi card and the SSD and HDD are still working, it's insane. (Because they were all next to the sata connector). Yesterday before the PC dies, I was testing some dead AMD MXM cards. 3 of them, 2 are dead and 1 artifacts but the pc didn't die when testing them. Then the next day I try the RTX 3080 MXM I got from repair, card is detected. Then I plugged the sata cable and here we gooo... (By the way the PSU was off and no battery connected into the laptop)

By the way all of theses cards I mentioned (expect the firepro) were tested into a Clevo X7200. The Clevo didn't die. So Alienware is low quality?

9 hours ago, Rengsey R. H. Jr. said:

Have you tried to blind flash with original bios via USB method? 

Fans kicks in for 5 seconds then system powers off. When I put usb in another port (instead of eSATA) it doesn't shutdown, fans kick in but no beeps or restarts.

It's not a bios problem because the laptop remembers the RGB theme I applied too (the flashed bios also had the green theme)

6 hours ago, Naberius said:

It definitely _sounds_ like motherboard. I'm dealing with something similar on my m17x r4 where it powers up to 7 beeps. That said, if I press the power button again (prior to or during the 7 beeps) it dismisses whatever exception was preventing post and just... posts as normal... worth testing for the sake of it but they're very different laptops...

I don't have the 7 beeps now it's random. I now get the "shutdowns after 2-3 seconds of being powered on"

46 minutes ago, Rengsey R. H. Jr. said:

The only option left is to “ blind flash “ the motherboard and hopefully it wakes up. 

I already did that because I flashed my old working BIOS with CH341A and it didn't work...

Hello, some updates.

My SSD and HDD are working fine after the incident. I still have no idea how these got spared but the motherboard didn't.

I also had a smart plug plugged in. Now the smart plug can't close its circuit. I click on the power button, won't shutdown...

So did the PSU destroy my computer? The smart plug works but you can't shutdown it anymore, I don't hear the CLICK noise when it switches off/on. But the PSU was working fine.

I shutdown the laptop, I remove the PSU cable then I plugged the sata cable, I plug back the power... and everything went bad.

I tested the PSU on a Dell M6700 and it works, maybe from now... Laptop didn't commit suicide when I unplugged the PSU.

32 minutes ago, Rengsey R. H. Jr. said:

That’s some weird stuff there. I have never heard that it would mess up the system. 

 

Most likely the mobo is fried. 

Hello you sure? 

I tried everything I did. No display, just 7 beeps or just shutdowns 2 seconds later after powering it up...

There's no way a simple SATA cable that can power 3 HDD/SSD fried the northbridge or PCH...

The laptop keeps shutting down 2 seconds after I power it. The LEDs light up.

I "tested" the NVIDIA RTX 3080 MXM on my Clevo X7200. It was detected on the BIOS, I rebooted again, it was still detected and the laptop started to do the 2 beeps noise on the bios screen because I had 0 cooling on the GPU itself,

it was a test to see if the GPU was in cause but no. I put back the Nvidia P5200 GPU and the X7200 still works...

I maybe think the sata cable rekt the alienware's motherboard?

Hello.

My M18X R2 laptop was working fine. I got back my MXM card from X-Vsion. It booted and was detected on the bios as NVIDIA GFX but I forgot to connect the storage cable in order to boot to windows and test.

After inserting the cable. The pc did 5 beeps (CMOS?), I restarted it and it did 7 beeps. How is that even possible? I removed the MXM GPU, still the same thing. I reset the CMOS but I still have the same issue.

I removed the RAM, still 7 beeps or... It powers then shutdowns 2 seconds later... I removed the CPU, same 7 beeps. I replaced the CPU, same 7 beeps.

I flashed by old bios backup to the Winbond bios chip, still the same issue. I never got the 5 beeps ever again.

I tried holding the D button to get to the screen diagnostic test but it never happened.

I removed the cmos battery and power it on again, it just powers on and shutdowns 2 seconds later, I heard no "5 beeps"

By the way all of the LEDs are working when I start the computer... Rarely tho, the LEDs are off when doing the 7 beeps...

So you're telling me a SATA cable destroyed my laptop?

RESOLVED: Just buy a new motherboard at this point. If your computer doesn't do the right amount of beep when you remove the RAM (2 beeps) and CMOS (5 beeps) but instead does 7 beeps. Even does 7 beeps when you replace the CPU? The motherboard is toasted. Probably a PCH/Chipset problem. I maybe did toast the part where it controls the storage (northbridge?)

From myself: It happened because of a silent short-circuit between the SATA port and SATA cable. Although the SATA cable works on my new motherboard...

On 3/31/2025 at 7:08 AM, ssj92 said:

This is the same issue I have in Alienware M18xR1 as well. When using M2000M primary and RTX 5000 as secondary I get 60w TDP limit on RTX 5000.

 

but in SG mode I can hit full 90W of card. 
 

still haven’t figured out where the issue is unfortunately 

Hello. Did you manage to fix it?

I remember I did get the full TDP consumptions.

Let me explain how. The master GPU had no drivers, no default Nvidia drivers, just Microsoft basic. It allowed my slave card to run at a max of 127W. I need drivers on my master GPU so I can run at 1080p 😕

Let me know what do you think about my experiment. 

3 hours ago, DreDre2022 said:

Where are you located?

Hello. Let's go in private message 

Hello. Been 10 days chatting with them and now they tell me it's sold out 😕

If someone here has a P570WM, I can give you 1100 USD for it (barebones). So if you need some money or want to feed your family, come and send me an offer.

12 minutes ago, Rengsey R. H. Jr. said:

Any link to their cards?

Hello. It's on Alibaba but the sales team told me quickly that they have 0 MXM cards available.

9 hours ago, panda_zzz said:

Any proof? Plus, they don't have the mhm modules on their official website.

 

can I get a link to confirm that the m6800 was able to boot with this memory?

 

I think there is a difference here plus do not forget that clevo x7200 is built on a desktop chipset, which is not typical for ordinary laptops including m4800|m6800.

I think I need an Eurocom BIOS to get the module recognised. On eBay I bought that Crucial DDR3L 1600MHz 2Rx8 module for 25€. Originally, they cost between 50-80€...

For proof, it says on their Alibaba page that they have more than 20 years of experience and all of their MXM cards are out of stock uh

45 minutes ago, nforce4max said:

Someone here got 16gb modules working on an M6800 however the real issue is the cost as very few are going to pay around $200 a module just to hit 64gb.

I found one for 25€ lol. I got one on hand. It's detected on HWINFO but the bios won't take it. (Clevo X7200)

32 minutes ago, panda_zzz said:

No they are older than the other two companies and comparing the 4060 design of zrt it is in my opinion much better.

Peladn is here since 20 years ago too

7 minutes ago, panda_zzz said:

This is a lottery game with the Chinese. if you are ready to lose the price of the card you can try, but no one will give you any guarantees even ghostly as in the case of x-vsion or zrt.

Isn't ZRT also a noname

37 minutes ago, panda_zzz said:

No, I didn't see any mxm modules on their website.

It's on Alibaba actually. They sell RTX 4060, 4070 all 60W 

On 4/13/2025 at 8:28 PM, ssj92 said:

Ask them for barebones (without CPU & GPU heatsinks only)

The sales team are sleeping. One answer every 12 hours insane. How do people get jobs but can't do them properly. I don't even think there's a lot of people who are mailing them, I'm probably the only one right now for sure. 

I mean I answer them as soon as I get their mail but they ghost me for 12 hours until I get an answer. It's just a generic looking answer. I told them 4 times to send me pictures and they don't even do that lmao

17 minutes ago, panda_zzz said:

on m17x r4 4060m works well, on m4800 I didn't even try because the consumption of more than 100w is obviously too much for the latter. I tried all video bios with reduced tdp for 4060, but apparently they need 4g decoding which is not available on these laptops. maybe on 7520 the card would work like that.

Hello okay. Do you have any experiences on PELADN MXM GPUs? They also sell RTX Ampere for a cheaper price.

If so, possible for you to dump the vBios and upload it?

@panda_zzzHello. Did you manage to get your RTX 4060 MXM to work on your Dell Precision M4800 and on your M17X R4?

I found another manufacturer called PELADN. They make cheaper RTX 4060 and 4070 MXM cards.

On 11/12/2024 at 1:13 PM, BanksDev88 said:

My old GTX 1070 have better specs, than that RTX 3060 in TechPowerUp

Any updates on the RTX 3080?

Alternative: Peladn RTX 3080M ?

Edit: What about the MXM Type A RTX 4060, would that work for us or RTX 5000M Ada?

Hey. Did you guys test any PELADN cards? @ssj92. They are much cheaper than X VISION

1 hour ago, ssj92 said:

Ask them for barebones (without CPU & GPU heatsinks only)

I do but they do make NPC responses.

I told them 900-1000 USD with shipping, barebones, with heatsinks only.

@Clyde 

@ssj92 

Hello got some news from Eurocom. 1850 USD for a P570WM..

Xeon E5 2670

16GB RAM

GTX 675M

750GB HDD 

What the heck is that pricing...