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  1. Maxware79
    If the power drain doesn't work then your issue is probably on the motherboard and it possibly isn't fixable, unless you are good at locating board level repairs.
  2. Maxware79
    Yeah they were some of the 'good old days'. Thanks for the kind words.
  3. Maxware79
    Took longer than expected to finish but here we are.
  4. Maxware79
    Sounds like you've done it right and that's the way I do it. I always add the hardware ID line to each OS group in the .inf. For newer drivers there are two groups, one for Win10 and one for Win11 (which tends to be quite short). In the older days there were 3 long groups which was more confusing (7, 9 and 10). Some people these days use NVCleanInstall and apparently that works pretty well. A GPU without a driver is just running on very basic performance. Sometimes adding the driver brings out the issues that the card actually has. It's possible that the driver isn't the problem but it's just something in the card that only shows once the driver is installed. I hope not though. It will be interesting when you swap to the quadro. I'm no electrical engineer but maybe there is a bad resistor or another surface mount device that is faulty that is bringing the PCIe speeds down when more more is being sent through the card. I have no basis for saying this, pure uneducated speculation.
  5. Maxware79
    Happy to help if I can. Good luck, fingers crossed.
  6. Maxware79
    If you have a spare SSD, I'd install Win10 on that. Pull out your Win11 SSD and keep that aside just in case it still doesn't fix the problem so you can throw it back in later.
  7. Maxware79
    Those screenshots were pre-Win11 and I sold the 1070 a few years ago. Interesting that you're getting the correct speeds before the driver installation. That definitely points to it being a driver thing or possibly the Windows 11 incompatibility. Win11 really isn't optimised for these older systems, even though it can run on them. That could be your issue but I've never tried 11 on my older systems.
  8. Maxware79
    I had saved an old screenshot on my work PC so that was helpful. This is what I was getting
  9. Maxware79
    No other settings that I know about. If it's the standard format 1070 then you may want to look at flashing a Dell/Alienware vBIOS but that is completely up to you. I'll see if I can find the version I was using but it's probably burried in the NBR archives. EDIT; You're actually on the same vBIOS that I was on so that can't be it.
  10. Maxware79
    Make sure that your chipset drivers are installed/up to date.
  11. Maxware79
    That's surprising, I really thought that would be the issue. I doubt it's a driver thing but you never know, maybe try a few older versions. Did you get the MSI 1070? Looks like the vBIOS is an MSI one
  12. Maxware79
    Sounds like you could be experiencing the standard power throttling issue that most (if not all) of us had. I'm not sure of the cause but it's easy to correct, although you pretty much have to do this fix every time you want to use the card to it's full potential. Restart the system and go into the BIOS. Switch the video mode to iGX and reboot. Go straight back into the BIOS and switch back to SG mode. When you reboot again your 1070 should be at full power. I'm guessing that it's a problem due to the LVDS display and having to piggyback off the Intel graphics. I don't believe this was an issue in the Alienware 17 with the 120hz eDP display. I believe you could also get it to work properly by putting the laptop to sleep and then waking it up. Never tried it this way though
  13. Maxware79
    Yeah that doesn't sound promising for the card unfortunately.
  14. Maxware79
    Are you running an HP vBIOS? Could be worth looking at switching over to a Dell one. You never know, could help. Or can't you flash vBIOS on these RTX cards?
  15. Maxware79
    Have you tried other driver versions? Maybe got back a few and see what happens. Apparently some Windows updates can cause this error as well but they should have been patched by now. Last resort (before assuming the card is bad) is to do a fresh Windows install.
  16. Maxware79
    I've never tried the V3 so I couldn't say. I believe that @ssj92 has tried it though so maybe he can shine some light on it.
  17. Maxware79
    The Ranger heatsink is slightly different than the M17x R4. One is slightly longer than the other but I can't remember which way it goes. I have tried it and I know that one fits in both but the other doesn't. My gut says that the Ranger one is the one that fits in both because I remember someone posting on NBR that they used Cicichen's Ranger heatsink in their R4. I have both at home so I can check but I won't be home until Friday morning. I also once posted images of both heatsinks side by side, either on this forum or on NBR.
  18. Maxware79
    The P5000 is similar to the 1070 but with more vRAM so there is no reason why it wouldn't work just like the P4000 or GeForce cards. @Xeper8x8 recently bought one of the copper heatsinks and didn't go through with the upgrade so he may be wanting to sell it.
  19. Maxware79
    I believe the boards have the identical layout. You may have an issue with the keyboard though. While they are also identical, it's compatible one way not just quite 100% the other way. Can't remember which way it was though.
  20. Maxware79
    They do look remarkably similar but there are a few very small differences with some connectors and the PCB that may make it hard or impossible. Check out along the bottom edge.
  21. Maxware79
    You don't need a custom BIOS but you will need to use a modified display driver to get the 770M to work properly. @ssj92 has made a video on how to use NVCleanInstall to do this
  22. Maxware79
    As far as I know, you should be able to use the same Crossfire cable from your 6990's, I have way more experience with Nvidia cards though. There shouldn't be any reason to change your heatsinks either. I am just pulling apart an AW 18 with dual R9 M290X's. The M290x is exactly the same as the 8970M but it depends what driver version an vBIOS it has.
  23. Maxware79
    I have plenty of M18x parts if you need, including batteries in decent condition (~75-80% health). Most countries won't allow Li-Ion batteries to be imported via the mail though, unless they are inside of a laptop. I'm in Australia. I would suggest the 780M over the 880M, mainly due to the 880M's having a higher failure rate and running hotter. The AMD R9 M290x (8970M) is also a good option and doesn't require modified display drivers. You'd need the AMD Crossfire cable as well though. You will definitely need to learn how to modify your drivers for the Nvidia cards. It isn't that hard once you learn. I believe you will need the unlocked BIOS for the 780M/880M though. Some people also report that they lose the integrated HD audio as this usually needs to be disabled to get the 780M or 880M to work. Sometimes you can re-enable it after the upgrade and it works fine but sometimes it never comes back.
  24. Maxware79
    Loaded instantly for me just now. Not sure what the issue was earlier, seems all good now thanks.
  25. Maxware79
    @Reciever I'm getting a host time out error trying to open the Archive. Is this just me or have we lost connection to it?
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