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Okay that is interesting, yes I think I will try this, P3000 is the quivalent. Also I should mention I have a device ID 1C20 1060MXM, I tried flashing a 1C60 1060MXM but nvflashK didn't allow. I'll try with my flasher. Thanks !

Actually I think I do have eDP lanes ! Here on good old NBR, Stricker1234 got a zotac 1070 into his eDP alienware with no mux switch (so his 1070 was driving eDP) Alienware 17 R5 GTX 1070 MXM 3.1B | Page 1 | NotebookReview | NBRCHIVE Here is a pic of the Zotac 1070 The pcb is identical to my zotac 1060 MXM (pic below), especially near the resistor + capacitors next to the display outputs. The only change is the different GPU die. I just neeed to figure out vBIOS eDP enabling. Heck my Zbook BIOS might be the problem if it's incompatible, I need to dig deeper.

Hi, nice job ! Enjoy the card =D I myself have a Zbook 17 g3. You can mod the power conn to make it think that it is connected to a 200w HP PSU. I did it on mine, I have a 180W dell psu, cut off the conn, soldered a HP blue pin conn only to + and - of my dell charger. Do not connect the ID pin to anything if you are putting resistors inside the laptop. Finally inside the laptop I soldered a 100K resistor between Charger + and ID pin of the charger, everything fit in when I closed the cover. You could also have the resistor inside the charging cable, instead of inside of the laptop. That way the laptop recognises genuine chargers correctly. I think the MXM slot is limited to 100 - 110w (? basing myself off the P5200 that is limited to 110w in the G5 Zbook). You might need to solder 2 jumper wires (thick ones to deliver AMPS) between ground and + of your laptops main power rail and the MXM board main power rail. This should bypass the MXM slot power limitation, however not sure how the laptop will react as it has a current resistor on the main power rail and seing 250+ watts being pulled might trigger an overcurrent protection. Good luck !

Hi, I am also having similar problems, altough with a much older GPU, the 1060 MXM. It's a zotac card that was in a mini PC so no eDP output on the original vBIOS. I am trying to run it on a Zbook 17 g3 that has a 30pin 60Hz 1080p eDP diplay. I flashed mine with a clevo 1060 vBIOS that should support eDP (probably port DP_D as it is the kinda standard). This is a screenshot of the block diagram of this clevo, as you can see the GTX 1060 is connected to a mux that then connects to the panel, just like on my Zbook 17 g3. Even in NVIDIA control panel it shows that the card has 4 display outs, including the square connector (laptop display) however, when putting my laptop in discrete graphics mod in the BIOS, I get no picture on the internal diplay. The external HDMI works. This is an internet screenshot, but I see this rectangular connector on my Nvidia control panel. I'm suspecting the no output on the internal eDP could be due to UEFI but I've changed the settings many times and no cigar.

Hi guys, TLDR: Does anyone have a vBIOS that supports eDP output for a ZOTAC GTX 1060 MXM that has device ID 1C20 (as opposed to many MXM 1060s having device ID 1C60) ? This would be for a zotac zbox magnus card that I have cutdown to fit inside my HP Zbook 17 g3, this card originally has no eDP out but does have HDMI and DP out. Thanks Long version : So I have a Zbook 17 g3 that originally had a M1000M, I swapped in a 1060 MXM that I got for 100 euros just about, this 1060 is a long version that was inside a zotac zbox magnus en1060. I cut it down to make it fit inside my Zbook + modded heatsink (see pics). The card works in hybrid (optimus) graphics that is set in the bios, stress testing it, it sometimes hits the 78w power limit, however I can see that it is held back by the HD530 graphics that are in my i7-6820HQ. 1060 utilization not always reaching 100% even when CPU is at around 30% The Zbook 17 g3 has an option in the bios to set discrete graphics mode, however doing this caused black screen with backlight + no HDMI output, I then read somewhere this could be due to UEFI not being set, I then changed boot mode to UEFI and now I have black screen no backlight but HDMI out works. I can still flash vBIOS from WINDOWS to the card : I put the M1000M back inside and go into the bios and set hybrid graphics, I swap in the 1060 in again so that I can flash a vBIOS with nvFlash... It's a pretty big pain. Right now I have tried a few mobile 1060 bioses on techpowerups but no luck getting eDP out. I have read on french forums that ZOTAC cards need an eDP bios but for the life of me I can't find it. Some point towards an MSI 1060 MXM Bios however it has device ID 1C60 (possibly g-sync related???) and my 1060 has device ID 1C20. I flashed this 1C60 bios to my card but it is now bricked, I need to unbrick it with my programmer. So if anyone can help me out on getting an eDP output from these ZOTAC pascal MXMs that would be awesome 😄 Worse comes to worse, if it's impossible I can still re-enable optimus and use the card like that. Cheers

Hi, well it all depends. First if you can get your hands on the service tag of the m6700 you can, after jumping through some hoops, get access to the specs of the model you inputed. Scrolling down you'll find parts for the screen. The ips is FHD premium color or dream color. And that's the only option. Anything else is TN. However if you have the 120hz 1080p 3D screen that is the only one that has an edp screen side connector. It's 40 pin 4 lane one meaning with the cable for the 120hz screen anything up to 4k is possible, including 1440p 120hz or 1080p 165hz,etc.. All other screens : 1080p 60hz TN and 900p TN have a 40 pin LVDS connector. The very odd config is if you have the 1080 ips screen (I have it) basically you have a 40 pin edp cable going from the motherboard to a converter board on the chin of the display. This converts the 40 pin edp to 50 pin lvds that is used by the ips display. However gpus will see the screen as an edp one because the gpu has to output edp to the screen. The sad part is that dell uses a non standard edp connector on the ips display converter. Meaning if you want to upgrade to a more recent ips edp display the only solution is to get the 120hz cable. Hope this helps!

Hi guys, So I found a guy in France, were I live, selling a quadro p4000 mxm card (I think a Dell one but not sure). He is selling it for parts and says he is not sure what the issue is as he used it on his desktop with a riser and it suddenly made his PC refuse to power on. He wants 45 euros for it but I'm pretty sure I can get it down to like 35/40 euros. The idea is that I buy it, and attempt to repair it to try to put it in my precision m6700. I know a good bit about laptop motherboard repairs, I have already bought dead motherboards in hopes of fixing them, and I have already witnessed an i7-4700hq surviving a high side mosfet short. I also have access to good quality tools : a good hot air gun + microscope. I am assuming that there is a short on this quadro, either a capacitor or a mosfet (seing as his pc refuses to power on at all). I have read up of people just replacing mosfets on mxm cards, especially 980m's and that they started working again no problem even though the GPU die was exposed to 19v. So for people who have attempted to repair mxm cards : in your opinion is it worth the risk, what is the average sucess rate ? What components give out more often? Vram, Dies, VRM, Capacitors ? Also just thinking of it now, if it's a mosfet short, since the guy was using it in a desktop it was 12v and not 19v meaning higher chance that the gpu die survied ? Anyways, hope someone has info on repairing these mxm GPUs. Thanks

@ssj92 Looking at your service tag, the stock screen has this part number : 93F76. Then, on parts people it points to this lcd : N173HGE-L11 And finally panelook confirms it's an lvds one, 40 pins, so you'll need to use optimus to get a modern card working

@Aaron44126 Okay thanks, and do you know of a way to make a non supported/unknown gpu work on the internal display and without optimus? Does it have something to do with the bios or vbios maybe? Seing as for some cards a special bios must be flashed. I have a ch341a and I have dabbled in bios editing+flashing before so it wouldn't be an issue for me to do it again

Hi, if you don't have a multimeter, maybe go see a local tech repair shop. If they are professional and good at their job, they should have a diagnostic fee (probably 10-20 dollars/euros/ or equivalent) they can look and see if it is an easy problem such as a shorted capacitor (best case scenario and possibly a common fault as the computer is old) and they can quote you the price to repair motherboard (could be cheaper than buying a new one). If you have a multimeter and some electrical knowledge (and are willing to invest a little time) I would recommend doing basic checks such as removing motherboard from laptop and try to power it on with nothing else connected, check for shorted power in cable, shorted main power rail, shorted mosfet, no 3.3v on power button, piece of metal fallen on the motherboard, water damage... A ressource you can look at is this beginners guide by Louis Rossmann. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PkeO_lC5WTPScSV3ZzEEjVuDWeQtL2eHK6jEcf7axA0/mobilepresent?slide=id.gb813305ed3_143_1167 it's a bit basic and childish at times but it gets the point across. Other laptop repair resources are on the internet and can teach you basic tests. Keep in mind the fault can be as simple as disconnected ribbon cable, small piece of corrosion, dead charger, etc... I resurrected a "totally dead motherboard for parts" ThinkPad l430 that just had a screw touching power button ribbon cable on the keyboard that prevented it from turning on.

Hellos Andreas, It looks like they sent you the wrong cable, I have a srgb cable (for the IPS display, basically the cable we have carries the 40 pin edp signal to an interposer board at the bottom of the display bezel, this interposer than converts the 40 pin edp into 50 pin lvds + power cable for the dream color IPS lvds display). The 2 ends of this cable are this horizontal connector that you show in your picture. The cable we have is in the first Pic (notice the RGB-MB sticker + yellow eDP sticker ) The cable you need is this 2nd one (notice the 3D sticker + the yellow eDP sticker also) part number is 6VCJW, so the seller must have messed up Finally the cable you don't want! This 3rd lvds one (notice the HD+/FHD sticker as well as the white lvds sticker near the motherboard connector) Good luck!

Hi guys, Just to start off I want to say I really appreciate all the messages on this forum, I always wanted a laptop with an mxm slot and my dream has recently come true when I got an m6700 for a very good price with a k3000m. This forum as well as the nbrchive.net has been very useful for my research on it and it is incredible that such knowledge still exists. Anyways, I've been really happy with the m6700 I got as it has the IPS 10bit color display + delta fans + dual heatsink. A real monster! Some fixes had to be made but all in all it's running perfectly. I do a bit of gaming but nothing fancy, some e-sports and older story based games (gta 4 + 5 as well as CoD). I overcloked the k3000m to 1ghz and that made a good difference, the games I play are playable at 1080p low settings but performance tends to dip sometimes, I would like the experience to be better. I'm planning to upgrade the gpu, my budget is around 50 euros and this is where I need some advice : I found a M2000m for 40 euros locally and I think it is a reasonable price for a ~960m equivalent, especially if I can sell the k3000m OC for around the same price (they sell for around 45 euros 2nd hand in France) - Will the mxm A card be compatible with the mxm B cooler? - Since I have an edp display with no Optimus available, if the gpu is "unrecognized" will I get a black display (saw that as an issue for m4700) ? - an m3000m is available for 60 euros on AliExpress, is it worth going out and getting it as it is ~970m equivalent? Also on a side note I can't get the 10bit colors to work, when I select it in the Nvidia panel and hit apply, the screen flashes twice but then the setting gets reversed to 8 bit, I am on drivers 397. Thanks,