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Alienware 18 GTX980M upgade (HDMI not working)
ssj92 replied to Steve-Austin's topic in Components & Upgrades
Flash the 980M vBIOS from alienware 18 driver site -
Interesting, I also had that BSOD in M6600. Perhaps I should have looked deeper to see someone else experienced it. For me it was with RTX 3000. I always go the bsod. Currently I am running P4000 in M6600 and it works 99% of the time. 1% of the time, the whole PC freezes. I am confident it is due to the P4000 for some reason.
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That's Pascal and as far as I know, they're not signing them. Mac OS and Windows are different. From my understanding, no one can sign vbios anymore on 2000+ series. vBIOS is encrypted for the most parts. Small things like clocks can be changed still
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All vbios now go through nvidia ever since rtx 2000 series and must be signed by them. Only they have the tools needed to modify vbios.
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I think you underestimate how much help I tried to get regarding it. They couldn't give me any modified vbios. vBIOS is made only from nvidia. nVidia has to modify it. The only reason we have rtx 4090/3080 mxm vbios honestly is probably because it's a leaked vbios for development
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Not DOA, flashing vbios from soldered a4500 gpus made pc boot but always got code 43 because of vbios mismatch
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RTX 3000 and RTX 5000 (Turing) works fine and does not "force" above 4g decod check like the newer cards. RTX 4080/4090 also do not force the check. The professional cards starting with A4500 (amphere) have this check. I checked in multiple laptops even eDP and they all have no post. Who knows maybe blackwell doesn't have test. I took the risk back then to buy $2,500 card so this time I will sit back and wait
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If this card is like the A4500 I tested long time ago it will not work. It requires above 4g decoding in bios and resizable bar. We need ZRT/XVSION to release rtx 5090 version which does not require these.
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Okay so I can bridge the two points on resistor as well? Do you know where it may be located on AW 18 R1 (M18xR3)? That system has the issue with throttle. For M18xR2 it has been good. M18xR1 only has throttle when doing dual PEG method.
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If I understand correctly, solder a wire from pin 27 to bottom part of resistor? This works for both mxm slots or only slot 1?
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I saw you joined the AW club which has unlocked bios. Try flashing A11 stock first, then flash A11 unlocked. There's readme file. For A15 same thing, first flash a15 stock then a15 unlocked.
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Upgrading M18X R2. Trying to Choose a GPU & Heatsink
ssj92 replied to baldfish's topic in Alienware 18 and M18x
M18xR1 can only use cards newer than 8XXM series in slot 2 while using a older card in slot 1 to allow it to boot. This is a BIOS issue that we have not solved yet. I'm running Quadro M2000M in primary slot with OG heatsink and in slot 2 I have a RTX 5000 in slot 2 with a custom heatsink -
Do you have location on motherboard picture for m18x r1?
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I'm restoring a AW17 R1, I will see after unlocking bios if those settings work on it
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Is the resistor on the motherboard or MXM card?
