Alienware 17 R1(Haswell) - Tesla M6 upgrade issue

[Maks0098]

Hello everyone, I want to install a working Tesla M6 in my 17 R1. But it refuses to be displayed in the BIOS even, I think that I need to try to flash a modified VBIOS for 980M.

This:https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/244249/244249.

 

But I can't do it with nvflash on the laptop where it starts. It gives an error of some kind of incompatible PCI id Device. It seems that I need to flash it with a programmer. But I can't do this because of the low-profile BIOS chip on the video card. My Ch341a programmer with a clip can't hook on - I don't want to unsolder the chip. I have a question, maybe there are some other programmers that can flash this chip without removing it?

here is a photo of the BIOS chip for comparison with the 980M

[panda_zzz]

Tesla M6 should be detected in the bios without problems, at least in my m17x r4 it was fine. However, it can only work in optimus mode because the native bios has no video outputs.
As for re-flashing vbios for this card - it doesn't work, even with the chip itself unsoldered. at least I read about it once, but unfortunately I couldn't find the link quickly.

[Maks0098]

20 hours ago, panda_zzz said:

Tesla M6 should be detected in the bios without problems, at least in my m17x r4 it was fine. However, it can only work in optimus mode because the native bios has no video outputs.
As for re-flashing vbios for this card - it doesn't work, even with the chip itself unsoldered. at least I read about it once, but unfortunately I couldn't find the link quickly.

Regarding the fact that it does not have video outputs and only SG mode will work - of course I know, it worked for me on my M18x R2, but on the 17 R1 it refuses. The question is, why can't vbios be flashed? I flashed it using nvflash with some certificates when I overclocked it. Why then won’t it be possible to reflash it? I can’t simply attach it with a clip, I can’t reach the contacts. I think that the chip is reflashable with 99% probability, since we reflashed it with Nvflash and everything worked.

[panda_zzz]

5 hours ago, Maks0098 said:

Regarding the fact that it does not have video outputs and only SG mode will work - of course I know, it worked for me on my M18x R2, but on the 17 R1 it refuses. The question is, why can't vbios be flashed? I flashed it using nvflash with some certificates when I overclocked it. Why then won’t it be possible to reflash it? I can’t simply attach it with a clip, I can’t reach the contacts. I think that the chip is reflashable with 99% probability, since we reflashed it with Nvflash and everything worked.

Well, if you managed to flash it with nvflash then no problem - take for warranty version of the program with bypass protection against flashing and flash it on a laptop that sees the video card.
as far as I know this is the latest vbios for it:
https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/225011/225011
earlier versions are not desirable