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Project: Unlocked BIOS Area-51m Series
2CPU replied to ssj92's topic in Alienware 13 / 15 / 17 / 51m (2015-2020)
1.3.2 was only popular to keep the higher 200W on the 2080. I personally do not care since I run the AGA. I ran my M15x from 2009 (I forget, I think two sticks banged together) -> 680M (2014) -> 980M(2018) and even got Occulus Rift running on it (such great memories Xmas work week VR stuff w coworkers). So that's 17 years on only two Alienware laptops....not bad. Area 51m "upgradability" was a total knife in the back. Zero drop-in....not even 2080 Super but the 2080 worked for me through Cyperpunk, BG3 & Alyx so I didn't suffer. Only recently with 2025+ titles did I dust off the AGA and throw in a 5080 to continue being fine. I heard from Amir that 1.7.3 has more forgiving RAM speed settings vs. 1.9.3 -
Project: Unlocked BIOS Area-51m Series
2CPU replied to ssj92's topic in Alienware 13 / 15 / 17 / 51m (2015-2020)
I had 1.3.2 on my system but updated to 1.7.3 and then 1.9.3 I think I can recovery flash back to 1.3.2 without bricking the system. When i tried from way later BIOS (you can only go back to 1.12.X) I had to swap out the CPU due to eFuses being blown by the security updates -
Would you also need to adjust the VBIOS to know that it has changed?
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Screen swap for my Area51m
2CPU replied to DDAY3493's topic in Alienware 13 / 15 / 17 / 51m (2015-2020)
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It somewhat is incompatible as the AGA link from cold boot is often poor. I have to "reboot" the AGA once inside windows to get a stable link.
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Oh cool. What version you going to base it upon?
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Amir.s found the next needed piece of the work around. Disable D3 cold transition on the 5 series GPUs in the AGA. Now the laptop will not crash in suspend. Set nACPI D3Cold Support = Disabled Current value: 0x425 = 01 Update to 0.
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The cold boot BIOS choice of AGA PCIe settings are still not optimal. But since now the system does not reset overnight in suspend that is OK. I just do the unplug/plug of the AGA cable once in Windows and settings are fine. Without the suspend crash I can have those settings preserved in the OS for as long as I do not need to reset.
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Yes, removing the D3 cold transition has kept the system from resetting with suspend.
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I think your D3 Cold disable has stopped the sudden resets during suspend. I will monitor and report back.
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Tried the force speed settings with no change. 0x993 = 03 0x997 = 03 0x99B = 00 The link quality only improved with power cycling the whole AGA only after booted to windows. I do like where you are going with the debug. To me there are better dB settings for the PCIe Gen3 lanes assigned at Win10 vs BIOS cold boot. If I can query them somehow via windows and then hard code them for every boot I would be golden.
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Thank you for the suggestions. I set 0x425 = 00 with no changes in poor link status on cold boot. Perhaps it will maintain the link when laptop is suspended overnight which would be a huge improvement. I hate having to set all my programs up yet again every day.
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Regarding the performance testing, I have the 2080 enabled and set dedicated to PhysX. Then a soft disable (in device manager) of the internal GPU. I have it documented my cold boot AGA+5080 in the AGA thread linked at bottom: I would really appreciate some help as I got a second AGA but same issue. So it appears a 5080 when used in AGA issue.
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I tried disabling them before and did not notice a change (at least in Steel Nomad) bechmarks. I am having an issue where the 5080 in the AGA does not sync up properly. I have to disable the card and unplug the AGA and plug back in once booted to windows. So i need 2080 enabled so the laptop screen works.
