Hi mate, wonderful machine!
You still need to edit your topic and put a price tag on it. It's mandatory here.
Better choose a high one to keep margins for negociations 🙂
hi,
there's a BIOS crisis recovery method that works well on m17x r3 / r4 or m18x r1 / r2.
It only requires USB thumbdrive.
CH341a also works, but requires disassembly of the laptop.
maybe the guy who sold you the laptop left both cable plugged but anyway, there's only ONE plug on the back of the screen (LVDS or EDP) so the other video cable was left unplugged in the back of the screen lid.
ALL AW17 rangers have both LVDS & EDP connectors on the motherboards. For edp options, you have either the 30pin (60hz) or the 40pin (120hz+ or 3D). For LVDS, it's 40pin 60hz (NOT compatible with edp screen).
I've got 3060 RTX 12GB in my Viking, which is basically A3000 consumer version. Card works ok although plagued by throttling due to Haswell chipset limitations (happens also on AW17 and MSI GT60/70 Haswell). Card does not throttle at all on m17x R4, M18X r2 nor MSI GT60/70 Ivy Bridge.
Same behaviour happens with quadro RTX 3000 PNY and RTX 4070 from x-vsion
Hi, best is to stick with MASTER MXM slot as you'll be able to use it with SG mode (needs modded BIOS though). Then you may use any mxm nvidia card up to RTX 4000 gen. Be aware that throttle is reported with AW18 with some GPUs (PNY Quadro RTX 3000, Geforce RTX 3060, RTX 4070...). Pascal GPU do not throttle, nor does Quadro RTX 3000 from HP (not standard MXM).
If you need parts for AW18 I may have heatsinks (primary & secondary I think)
Hi,
Flashing bios is quite easy, there's a good tutorial here on the forum.
You'll definitely need modded BIOS if you want to install 1070 GTX in the future, as a fixed SG mode is mandatory for that one (no edp screen in AW18 unfortunately).
Original BIOS is default in PEG mode, which will result in 8 beep error and blank screen.