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45 minutes ago, SuperMG said:

Hello some news!

 

The manufacturing has started!

 

I'll get the samples maybe this week, but I'm not sure.

 

Here are some pictures on how the backlight mod should work:

 

 

Here is how it should sit on the top side of the MXM card

 

 

This mod will work on any Turing to Ada MXM cards that are lacking the 3 backlight panel pins and also the ones who have eDP or DP on port D!

 

You'll finally have a display on your internal screen!

now this is interesting. Wonder if it'll help me run some cards on M17xR3 lol 

On 9/7/2025 at 4:06 AM, zerokool said:

 

 

I'm actually after the a14+ bios I can't find it any where 

Someone posted A14+ for AW18 on the NBR forums but I don't seem to have it saved. 

I wonder if @Reciever may have a copy? But he also had the Ranger 17 R1 not the 18 so maybe not. 

On 9/4/2025 at 4:41 PM, Jerryzago said:

Here is a galley I have with BIOS settings. I have included a firestrike result and a GPUz screenshot.

 

https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/141209928?

 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/qgvUHAMnNTbnqgqJ6

 

 

Feel free to ask me for a specific photo.

Weird I matched all settings but still no dGPU showing up in IGFX mode

maybe it’s because I’m on a12. I know there was a A14+ made on NBR forums but I never saved it 

On 8/31/2025 at 1:15 AM, Jerryzago said:

That is what it is supposed to do for the 17 R1. Even with the unlocked BIOS the dGPU is there, regardless the option in the advanced menu.

 

If I select dGPU or SG, It results in 8 beeps.

I think we need to see more settings from your bios such as the pcie settings as well. Might be useful to post a bunch of pics from your bios (relevant ones of course).

AW17 R1/AW18 use the same platform so they should behave almost identically with LVDS display 

On 8/21/2025 at 1:11 PM, Jerryzago said:

I have an Alienware 17 r1 with a 4710qm and a PNY RTX 3000. It doesn't throttle.  I initially didn't have throttle and I manage to recreate and get rid of it by messing with the advanced settings (unlocked bios) regarding the PEG GPU. Optimus is enabled. Have a look at my post here in the Alienware 17 section with the title "Alienware 17 R1 Fan issue".

 

https://notebooktalk.net/topic/2350-alienware-17-r1-fan-issue/?do=findComment&comment=51211

Tried this in AW 18 but doesn’t work. When you select iGFX it turns off dGPU. 

19 hours ago, Jerryzago said:

I have an Alienware 17 r1 with a 4710qm and a PNY RTX 3000. It doesn't throttle.  I initially didn't have throttle and I manage to recreate and get rid of it by messing with the advanced settings (unlocked bios) regarding the PEG GPU. Optimus is enabled. Have a look at my post here in the Alienware 17 section with the title "Alienware 17 R1 Fan issue".

 

https://notebooktalk.net/topic/2350-alienware-17-r1-fan-issue/?do=findComment&comment=51211

I’ll try this later but it doesn’t make sense. 
 

you’re saying in iGPU only mode the dGPU shows up with that dynamic scheme option? 

On 8/19/2025 at 10:48 AM, zerokool said:

My old p4000 was 100 watt ( oc bios ) and never throttled . So hmmm unless Pascal isn't the cards that drop to 55watt 

I don’t remember about pascal but for sure RTX 2000 series and newer throttle 

On 8/13/2025 at 3:16 PM, 2CPU said:

BTW the 5080 works just fine. I actually screwed up my Win10 by trying to use the "HackFlags" and had to reinstall windows since I did not realize the boot hang was exactly due to that flag.

 

I wish I had bought the eight pin Y-cable first since it is required to get the 5080 to turn on with the default Alienware Gfx Amplifier power supply.

 

 

Once the Y cable is installed such that all three of the power adapter is filled the card just comes up as “Microsoft Basic Display Adapter”. Just installed the latest Nvidia driver which updated both 2080/5080. However when I installed AWCC the program does not give me a logo with the amplifier. 

 

The 3dmark scores jump up like crazy when comparing 2080 vs the 5080. I just recently bought Guardians of the Galaxy and Indiana Jones which both run Ultra settings so the 2080 would of totally fallen on its face. Timespy results are neatly 20k

So 5080 was plug n play?

On 8/14/2025 at 4:50 AM, SuperMG said:

For the Alienware 18 R1, Any new cards will power throttle to 55W if the card is rated more than 80W of TDP. Even if you do a resistor mod, it won't work.

I'm still curious if anyone with stock 980m SLI or 970m SLI motherboard has tested newer GPUS. 

It's a shame we can't use these newer cards in the haswell laptops 

On 8/14/2025 at 5:21 AM, zerokool said:

The 4980hq has better ipc do to the 128mb l4 cache the igpu is also as fast as a gt 740 . So at least for the os elements it will feel smoother and more responsive . The only thing is if you plan to use more then two ram  slots I think you need to have single rank dimms similar to the QTJ1 on the clevo p870

I would be surprised if you can "feel" the "IPC" difference between a 4930MX/4940MX vs 4980HQ. A 4930MX OC to 4.3Ghz without any additional voltage. It can hit 4.5Ghz easily. 

4980HQ is nice for Optimus since it has the extra cache but won't make a significant difference. 

I'd rather have OC 4930MX with 1866-2133Mhz RAM (32GB) vs 4980HQ with 16gb ram.

Take it from someone who owns 10 laptops from Core 2 Quad to Ultra 9 275HX. 😁

5 hours ago, SuperMG3 said:

Did you take the original VBIOS and only edit the max TDP target thru the Pascal tdp editor software? Did the software generate a correct md5 hash after saving the rom?

 

There's a 160W vbios file on techpowerup for my P5200 but I'm scared to break the solder of the vbios chip.

Yes and it caused code 43. 

Modified vBIOS gave me code 43 unfortunately so idk if I did it correctly 

Yeah something about TDP issues with newer cards, so doesn't matter which GPU you use. Only other way to test is either increase the tdp to like 150w and see if it works or decrease it to like 90w. 

11 hours ago, Durabat said:

I assume I bought the same heatsink off ebay. Did you use the standard x bracket or source a different one? The x bracket I have with the original 100w Nvidia heatsink will need to be modified where it's a different offset with the 3080. Shouldn't be hard to do that, but just making sure. I think I have everything to fully upgrade my M18X R2 this weekend. It's going from entry level 3610QM and 660M to 3920XM and 3080. 

I use x-bracket from 680m I think or some 100w nvidia card. 

19 hours ago, SuperMG3 said:

Hello. RTX 4090 MXM works on the second slot as a renderer.

 

I designed a new heatsink that can support the new offset and also support 150W of heat. It's still under development.

 

The Ada cards are very hot compared to let's say Pascal for example. An Ada card at 115W is more hot than a Pascal at 115W for some reasons.

Can I haz one as well after it's done lol

Do you have a extra oem heatsink for slot 2? I think both slots are the same but I want to play with 880M SLI on this platform but don't have 2nd heatsink 

2 minutes ago, SuperMG3 said:

On the internet, that's what I've heard. Some get Pascal support with very early beta vbios on LVDS.

 

Yes my RTX 4070 doesn't have eDP then. Despite the seller telling it has by email. He even said that the 4060 doesn't have eDP but it says "eDP on port D" on the specifications and no eDP mentions for the 4070's specifications...

Do you have a link? From my understanding all pascal cards do not support lvds (hardware level) at all unless you use optimus. In that case, it doesn't count as lvds since igpu outputs the display.

20 hours ago, Just1tree said:

Thank you @ssj92! Was this documented somewhere and I overlooked it, or just your personal experience. Either way I appreciate your help. 

I started getting BSOD in windows 10 and after months of troubleshooting, realized it was the gpu scheduling feature. 

So you're telling me Pascal with the older engineering vBIOS works on LVDS? Because for me it only works using optimus not direct gpu mode. 

And yes..gpu needs to have the physical lanes attached to display out. The block diagram with display outs only shows the vbios config and not the hardware itself. 

This is why cards like HP RTX work in eDP but ADLink etc do not from what I've seen. 

Turn off GPU hardware scheduling if it's on in settings app. 

2 hours ago, SuperMG3 said:

Bios from ZRT? I'll receive the 4090 X-Vsion in a week. Are the DP_ from the VBIOS or are they hardcoded to the hardware ?

It;s a mix of the two. Normally vbios alone can change the output. 

7 minutes ago, SuperMG3 said:

4070 is probably DP_D. What about the HP 8770W/8570W/Zbook G2 at? Are they DP_C too?

 

I tried the 4080 too on my Clevo eDP, it didn't work for the internal display. On Alienware it does the 8 beeps

I don't know about HP. 

You can also try 4090 in P570WM. There's a extra vbios uploaded here (150w) model that you can try on your 4090 too to see if it boots. 

4 hours ago, SuperMG3 said:

I'll not run it on Alienware. It'll go on Clevo p570, had no issues with 4080 115W power limited thru Nvidia inspector.

 

The 4090 I got is a 115W one and doesn't have any capacitors lying around the x-bracket's zone. 

 

The 4070 I have, doesn't have eDP. It doesn't work on M17X R4 and Clevo P570wm eDP displays. 4080/4090 have the connector present on the Nvidia control panel but they don't have eDP.

Have you actually tried to run 4080/4090 though? Each gpu is different and vbios is different. a vbios alone makes the difference of gpu working or not. 

I tried Aetina GTX 1080 in P570WM but it was too long. I'm running 880M right now and have a P4200 that needs bios chip soldered to use that. 

5 hours ago, janepa said:

I found actually some informations about edp output on  4090/4080 . If ianybody interesting about it.

Maybe it could be help.

MM4090B6-16G.pdf 274.13 kB · 1 download

I think M17xR4 needs DP_C to be eDP not DP_D. This is why it's not working (speculations of course) 

15 hours ago, ichime said:

It shows both GPUs, but the bios allows you to change the primary GPU; intel, discrete (the MXM module), hybrid or auto (hybrid mode controlled by the OS). I have it on Auto.

Okay so it's probably working due to intel optimus. I assume discrete mode won't work. In m17xR4 it does not 

11 hours ago, ichime said:

I think it’s eDP, it’s a 4K touchscreen 

Does device manager show intel igpu or only nvidia gpu?

On 7/7/2025 at 9:26 PM, ichime said:

Looks like I’m gonna hold on to it for a while…it does work! (after cutting and soldering a makeshift heatsink) Just have to work out a couple of issues but it’s pretty much a plug and play deal with the Zbook G5. I’ll make a thread about it later this week if I have time.

 

Now I gotta offload this Quadro RTX 5000…

eDP display or lvds with nvidia optimus?