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Thank you @ssj92 I removed the 572 driver and installed 419 and it correctly swapped to the p4000 for benchmarking and games. Graphics score in firestrike went from 5615 to 12310 which is a significant improvement. CPU should be arriving today so I will rerun with that. @kela-slk could you explain how you overclocked your 3740qm in the bios? I was under the impression that you had to have an XM chip to overclock in the M17xr4. In the bios there is a setting for PowerXpress Setting - should that be set to Full dGPU PowerOff Dynamic Scheme? Also has anyone found updated fans that are compatible than the originals, seems like there might have been some advancements made since the laptop was released. The RAM is also DDR3 1333 - would it make much of a difference to upgrade that as well? Thanks again for your assistance and feedback.

Well since I've not gotten any replies yet, perhaps I need to provide some additional information. The bios is flashed to A15+ unlocked, The BIOS on the Quadro card is 86.04.50.40.FE. I tried the non quadro driver 572.83 but that didn't make any difference. Processor is a 2760qm for now, I have a 3840qm on the way. Hoping to get this working before I have to return it and try for a 1070 or another card. Essentially optimus isn't working, wish I could have the system set to PEG.

Glad to see there is a new forum for laptop owners, I used to rely on NBR quite a bit in the past before it got shut down. I recently saw that mxm gpu prices had dropped and while i don't use my M17xR4 as a primary I wanted to keep it going and the 780m I was using no longer could keep up. I was able to get a quadro p4000 and based off posts this should be a significant upgrade. I have it installed, bios set to sg, and I was able to install with a modified quadro driver. Thing is that when I launch a game or benchmark it is using the intel graphics, 3dmark couldn't even run. I'm using a 1080p 60hz screen from my old m17xr3 which only has one connector so not sure if that's part of my issue. The nvidia driver settings for 3d also doesn't show preferred gpu for applications, do I need to reinstall drivers using the geforce vs quadro / rtx? Any help that could be provided would be greatly appreciated.