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Yeah, that would be a bit less definitive 😅

Any sort of advice is still much appreciated so thank you for taking time to answer 🙂 Yeah, cutting the wire is sort of a last resort at this point!

A little update 🙂 We have tried several MSI vBIOS versions by now. Installing them did solve an issue with GPU frequencies being stuck at 139 MHz but GPU fan still won't kick in. Once it's temperature hits 91°C it starts throttling. Is there a chance that we are missing something in unlocked A12 BIOS? It has all sorts of tweaks and settings yet we can't see anything fans-related in there. Could it be that we simply can't find them or they are really missing? Since fans are supposed to be controlled by motherboard's multicontroller chip we assumed that we probably messes up with BIOS somehow but reinstalling it didn't help as well.

Thanks everyone for your advices! Yeah, SG mode is activated in Bios, so card doesn't heat up that much while just in Windows Desktop indeed. Was able to find this MSI vBios for GTX 1070 Mobile at techpowerup: https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/206876/206876 Should we try this one or are there other versions? And can also give this RDP protocol a go :)

Hello there! Apologies if asking this in a wrong section or on a wrong forum (if thats the case, feel free to recommend us where we should ask for advice instead 😃 ). So we are a bit stuck with upgrading Alienware 18 2013 version (R3 Viking, if I am not mistaken) with a GTX 1070. Great source of guideness has been NotebookReview Forums, but unfortunately it was shot down. Our main issue right now is that GPU fan will not start no matter how hot Graphic Card gets. We are using unlocked A12 Bios and didn't find any fan related settings in there. Graphic Card that we are upgrading to is Nvidia GTX1070 MXM 3.0b from Zotac manufacturer I think (uploaded a photo). Regarding vBios we tried an original Zotac version and a version thats for Dell laptops with the same results. Furthermore when using Dell vBios GPU won't go above 139 MHz for some reason. Any kind of help or advice would be much appreciated. If I should have provided some extra info, please let me know :) Alienware 18 A12 Unlocked.zip