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I decided against this route. Will try to go towards X170 series instead. But glad to see you are happy. which display does yours have?

Where can these heatsinks be found? 🙂

Does the X170KM have unlocked bios? I know the SM has Prema Mod

Make sure you are on unlocked bios. Go to bios and look for video configuration. Change from PEG to SG. Then try again

Can GTX 980 + Heatsink from P870DM fit and work inside a P870DM3?

I could also use the following parts for p870dm instead: 4k 60hz lcd panel or full assembly

I may be getting my P870DM back from my friend. He had flashed the dsanke bios a long time ago and messed up the audio board. We had flashed it back to my Prema Mod but of course audio board is shot. he unfortunately threw away the audio board and ribbon cables. I am looking to see if anyone has a P870DM for parts or anyone knows where to buy these parts:

Price drop. no one need this?

I’ve owned P570WM, P870DM, P870DM3. main difference between P870DM3 vs P870TM is that TM supports RTX 20 series and 8/9th gen CPUs officially. P870DM3 requires bios mod and I believe heatsink mod to use rtx 20 series.

Price: $120 Shipped each SOLD Condition: Used Warranty: N/A Reason for sale: I bought the new V3 (Rev 10.0) for Alienware laptops that fix power drain [Doesn't affect Clevo/MSI systems] Payment: Paypal Shipping: I'll cover shipping to US48 International shipping: Possibly Handling time: 2 Business Days Feedback: https://www.heatware.com/u/73221/to https://www.ebay.com/fdbk/feedback_profile/ssj92?filter=feedback_page:All I think I paid $180 each for these when I first got them in 2021 or 2020 (forgot which year). These allow you to run a NVMe SSD in your MXM slot. They will run at full PCIe 3.0 X4 speed. One SSD any size from 2242 to 2280. I have personally used SK Hynix 1TB & Samsung 980 Pro 1TB. Others have used various other brands, 2TB models as well. NOTE: FOR ALIENWARE SYSTEMS, these cards will drain power and add SSD hours even when laptop is off. On M18xR2 this isn't too much of an issue since the battery is easy to remove, not so much on aw18. CLEVO users: Works and tested in P570WM & P870DM series. NO POWER DRAIN issue on Clevo systems. For Clevo, these cards are identical to V3 Rev 10.0. The newer cards were made to fix power drain in Alienware systems. MSI users: No one has complained about power drain so for now it should not drain power. YOUR BIOS MUST SUPPORT NVMe DRIVES! I HAVE BIOS FOR M18XR2 AND AW18 POSTED IN AW CLUB. P870DM natively works with NVMe drives. P570WM will require latest Prema Mod from Prema. ANY other system with MXM slot can use this as long as BIOS supports NVMe. if you have any questions please ask. These are the only two I have and will probably not be getting more so once these are gone, you can only get them from alibaba etc. I am in US. Ignore the tape on 2nd card in pic, it will be gone when I ship it.

Has anyone tried making an offer to get it for less? I am tempted to throw an offer and see what happens. For those asking about raptor card. I have two going on sale soon here in fs section. They work in basically any Clevo that has dual mxm slots and supports NVMe. All P870DM will work with it, even P570WM will work with latest Prema mod.

Ended up buying an open box unit from zTecPC

The black aliexpress one is easiest to buy and price isn't too bad. it should work with a4500?

Do you have link to Chinese ebay listing for that green card? I will ask my Chinese friend to see if they can order for me. i also found this “v1.3” looks similar to aliexpress version, it should work? https://www.ebay.com/itm/115574944707?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=_LxgfDnLRKa&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=ZgSh7VW9Rem&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

The computers I am testing with support GP106 mxm card because they also do video output through integrated graphics. I wonder if in this case I should try flashing A4500 as RTX 3070Ti from Alienware vBIOS? I will also test card in Clevo P870DM as well. I cannot find any mxm pcie x16 cards on eBay, only the x1 model.

All 18s are LVDS. I was told by someone that even in Optimus the MXM card needs either LVDS support OR eDP support in order to work in Optimus mode. Might make sense since this is the first MXM card without eDP support that I’ve tried.

So when I flash the HP/Dell vBIOS it posts fine because vBIOS has eDP definition but core is not wired? That’s why it has code 43 error? or I still need to modify original vBIOS for eDP definition because HP/Dell vBIOS is too different?

Battery is fine. It’s from my M4800 which works perfectly fine with battery. It’s most likely motherboard , either way I sold the M4600.

Now that gpu-z is updated for a4500, my gpu-z looks exactly like this pic. So does it mean it has desktop core? Or it's because no eDP support?

Only 660m & 680m will give you 3D in this laptop. Only official cards that shipped with the laptop will allow internal 3d support. Any GPU not originally shipped with laptop will not allow you to use 3d. I keep my 560m for M17xR3 if I decide to go back to 3D but with my 880m there is no 3d support.

It’s better just to buy an R2

Here is where I am confused. Why does stock vBIOS not post in laptop but the Dell/HP vBIOS posts and even let’s me install driver (but get stuck at code 43)

Alienware M18xR2 Alienware 17 R1 Alienware 18 R1 My friend has my old Clevo P870DM, I will see if we can test it in there It's an embedded card made to work on those super small embedded computers these companies sell. They all worked (up until RTX 3000) in our laptops. The only difference is, RTX 3000 has eDP support and all older cards. A4500 is the first to remove eDP support. So this may be why. Not yet. Still have this to try and also have this to try: https://egpu.io/forums/pc-setup/fix-dsdt-override-to-correct-error-12/#step1 I put RTX 3000 back for now, but as ideas come back I'll try more. Also contacted Aetina to see if I can send it back for a refund or swap it with a RTX 5000 since my heatsink is already made at this point.

Unfortunately I am running out of things to try. Tried removing internal panel and output to hdmi or miniDP but get 8 beeps (Dell/HP vBIOS) or 6 beeps (stock vbios) Also tried in secondary slot but same exact issues. I searched for "4G Decod" but it doesn't find anything in BIOS. I think it means this BIOS doesn't have it and I have no idea how to add it manually. They also mentioned "Above 4GB MMIO BIOS assignment" can be another option but again, no idea where to even start for this. I've attached the bios ifr txt file that has all the options, and I don't see anything for these. setup IFR.txt

Hi, would you be able to send me this vBIOS that can force display on? I am having issues with my A4500 posting with stock vBIOS. HP/Dell vBIOS posts but causes code 43 error. I would like to see if stock vBIOS with display force on fixes the no post issue.