HOW DO I UPDATE TO A Nvidia GTX 1070

[ShinYura]

Sorry lol i reread what i posted and it was a typo. The result of the 8 beeps was me switching over to discrete gpu from integrated

[Reciever]

19 minutes ago, ShinYura said:

Sorry lol i reread what i posted and it was a typo. The result of the 8 beeps was me switching over to discrete gpu from integrated

Yeah unless you have eDP PEG will not play nice is my understanding. 

 

The viking will need SG mode

[Maxware79]

10 hours ago, ShinYura said:

 

In my case yesterday I switched to discrete gpu and my system now only produces the 8 beeps and no video. Hope that the mobo is not totally done for? i have a 1070 in R2 

 

You can only run the 1070 in SG mode with the M18x R2 or 18. You cannot use the discrete GPU only as the 1070 MUST use the Intel graphics to piggyback off with an LVDS system. If you disable the Intel graphics then you will get the 8 beep error. Only the M17x R4 and 17 with the 120hz eDP display can run solely off the discrete graphics (PEG mode).

You will need to remove the 1070 to force the system to switch back to iGFX. Then go back to the unlocked BIOS and set it to SG mode. Then reinstall the 1070. 

[ShinYura]

20 hours ago, Maxware79 said:

 

You can only run the 1070 in SG mode with the M18x R2 or 18. You cannot use the discrete GPU only as the 1070 MUST use the Intel graphics to piggyback off with an LVDS system. If you disable the Intel graphics then you will get the 8 beep error. Only the M17x R4 and 17 with the 120hz eDP display can run solely off the discrete graphics (PEG mode).

You will need to remove the 1070 to force the system to switch back to iGFX. Then go back to the unlocked BIOS and set it to SG mode. Then reinstall the 1070. 

 

That's pretty simple I'll do that tonight thanks but here is what prompted the switch to discrete. I was trying to run Phantasy Star Online 2, game never gets past a black screen I could only hear intro playing (can skip) and then nothing. I then downgraded nvidia from 474.11 to 390.65 thinking its driver related. Ran PSO2 again, same thing. Then through running Devil May Cry 4s benchmark there it specified I was running under HD 4000 gpu. Is this normal? I was also getting 13fps average or something there in which doesn't seem right for a 2008 game up against a 1070. Was my laptop not running under the 1070? Time to go back into bios it seems

[Reciever]

12 minutes ago, ShinYura said:

 

That's pretty simple I'll do that tonight thanks but here is what prompted the switch to discrete. I was trying to run Phantasy Star Online 2, game never gets past a black screen I could only hear intro playing (can skip) and then nothing. I then downgraded nvidia from 474.11 to 390.65 thinking its driver related. Ran PSO2 again, same thing. Then through running Devil May Cry 4s benchmark there it specified I was running under HD 4000 gpu. Is this normal? I was also getting 13fps average or something there in which doesn't seem right for a 2008 game up against a 1070. Was my laptop not running under the 1070? Time to go back into bios it seems

You will need to try setting a Global rule in Nvidia control panel to use the dGPU

[ShinYura]

Thanks for the suggestions @Reciever  i followed through what @Maxware79 pointed out and a painless process got it up and running again. Then I went into igpx updated the intel driver then switched to sg mode where I tested 2 nvidia driver versions before 478.XX did the trick! XD time for some benchmarks. Also found NVcleainstall during this process through another thread and is a great tool for installing custom drivers, does all the work no need to modify drivers!

[Maxware79]

11 hours ago, ShinYura said:

Thanks for the suggestions @Reciever  i followed through what @Maxware79 pointed out and a painless process got it up and running again. Then I went into igpx updated the intel driver then switched to sg mode where I tested 2 nvidia driver versions before 478.XX did the trick! XD time for some benchmarks. Also found NVcleainstall during this process through another thread and is a great tool for installing custom drivers, does all the work no need to modify drivers!

 

Great job! I haven't tried NVcleaninstall yet but I've heard that it's pretty easy.