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no. 3rd gen cpu won't work. there's no point anyways, 2960XM is faster than all the 3rd gen CPUs besides the 3820/3840/3920/3940XM series and even then the difference is barely anything. the 580m sli could be dying, removing them would allow the laptop to work on iGPU assuming there's no other damage.

Interesting, I flashed my m18xR2 using Linux over 10 years ago (EDID flashing). Perahaps I will look into this to see if I can figure out how to fix the black screen issue with edid flashing on whole AW lineup

If you don't want it, I can take it 😄 CPU generation is fine, even on sandy/ivy you can still use it fo rmany use cases. Note, because it is a desktop core, eDP backlight mod won't work either. Desktop cores do not have the eDP wired into the core. It can work as DP or in SG mode unless you do some hardware mod. I think it's a great idea to try this one, once you have finished repairing the R3, let me know and I will send you my updated bios and you can work from there.

Ah my mistake, although AW17 is also eligible for the same bios mod too

Probably a long shot but does anyone have a pair of RTX 3090 or 3090Ti they’d be willing to sell for a good price? wanna play around with nvlink 3090s next lol

If people are willing to test I can mod the m17xr4 bios using the same patch I did for m17xr3 which allows both variants of 980m to work including g-sync

Does anyone have the data sheet for Xvsion RTX 5090 MXM GPU? I keep asking them but they don’t provide it and I need it to make an x bracket and heatsink.

Where did you get this?

Good to know. I will see if there's a way to keep it visible with any cpu, although I do not know if not XM sandy bridge have turbo bin OC support like ivy bridge. The uploaded bios works up to Pascal on R3. My next version has Turing working too in eDP & SG. Still haven't figured out RTX 4090 in PEG. Also want to try and get 16GB DIMMs working too before releasing the next version. Other last change will be bios option per sata port to choose either sata3 or sata2 speed.

Guys, I remember someone here posting that the new 6xx drivers are not good. Can someone catch me up on why? I'm on 596.xx on both desktop & laptops. I finally got SLI working on 596.xx drivers using the same old patch for 446.xx drivers. SO now I am aiming for 616.xx drivers.

656W on load at 4.6Ghz 😅 now I know why the breaker trips when my wife uses the microwave in the kitchen and I'm benchmarking LOL

so my 1 1/2 year old son figured out how to open the magnetic side panel on my corsair 9000d. next he decided to pull out one of the hard tubing causing coolant to spill everywhere. nothing was damaged thankfully, but I did learn my pump only runs like 50% most of the time even with cpu on full load, causing high temps. I fixed that and well this is what happens next lol. 4.5Ghz on all cores W7-3465X. Yeah I probably should have kept my 2 RTX 3090s instead of selling them. Turns out they would have lasted awhile longer , but my RTX Titans are fun too. Still need to do the shunt mod. i forgot if it was @electrosoft who sent me a picture of the mod. I saw you were rocking an AMD system. It's unfortunate Intel didn't release the W790 platform with a sibling for a true HEDT successor for us "normal" people. I bought the motherboard for $949 on "sale" at the time. I was lucky to find someone selling a QS CPU for less than half of the $2899 MSRP for the CPU. 128GB RDIMMs before the rampocolypse for ~$700. Overall it came out a bit more than a i9-7980XE platform did back then but this platform screams Mr. Fox especially with the X unlocked CPUs. Nothing like overclocking +1.3Ghz on water pulling over 500w of power. 😂

M2000M primary + RTX 5000 secondary in PEG mode

I think I had a similar issue. Make sure you are on the latest BIOS first

Ironically I bought a RTX 5080 in early 2025 before all the AI hype but returned it because it felt weird going from 24GB RTX Titan SLI to RTX 5080. I was hoping to find a 5090 but at this rate I might as well wait for the 6090 😄