frank99 Posted Saturday at 01:05 AM Share Posted Saturday at 01:05 AM Hello everyone. My name is Frank. I found my father's old laptop (m17xr4) rusting in a box. I cleaned it up and got it to work again. That gave me joy and i decided to upgrade it. At first, i replaced the hdd drive with a ssd one. The gpu was next. I ordered gtx1070 from ebay and after two months of long wait, it finally arrived. I put it on but i am getting the 8 beeps. Now i am back to the gtx 675m (working normally). Do i need to make extra changes before i install the 1070 or did i get scammed? It started as a fun project but now i dont know.. haha. extra info: i am using the original 60hz lcd panel, windows 10, bios A09 Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssj92 Posted Saturday at 07:49 AM Share Posted Saturday at 07:49 AM Install the unlocked bios. Go to bios and change the video to SG if it isn’t already. In Optimus mode the 1070 should work Alienware m18 : Intel Core i9 13900HX @ 5.0Ghz | nVidia GeForce RTX 4090 | K1675 | 2x1TB SSDs Alienware Area-51M : Intel Core i9-9900K @ 5.3Ghz | nVidia GeForce RTX 2080 | AX210 | Samsung 970 Evo+ Alienware M18x R2 : Intel Core i7 3920XM @ 4.7Ghz | nVidia GeForce RTX 3080 | AX210 | Samsung 980 PRO Alienware 18 : Intel Core i7 4930MX @ 4.5Ghz | nVidia Quadro RTX 5000 | AX210 | Samsung 980 NVMe More Laps: M14x | M14xR2 | M15x (980m) | M17xR2 (RTX 3000) | M17xR3 (WX 7100) | M18xR1 (RTX 5000) BEAST Server: Intel Xeon W7-3465X 28 P-Cores | 2x nVidia RTX Titan | 128GB RDIMM | Intel Optane P5800X CS Studios YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/CSStudiosYT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank99 Posted Saturday at 02:32 PM Author Share Posted Saturday at 02:32 PM i am trying to update from bios a09 to a15 but i cant (the a15 unlocked bios says that i have to install the original first). i have a dead battery so i am trying the usb method. I don't know what i am doing wrong, i simply cannot do it. I am stuck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rengsey R. H. Jr. Posted Saturday at 07:29 PM Share Posted Saturday at 07:29 PM 4 hours ago, frank99 said: i am trying to update from bios a09 to a15 but i cant (the a15 unlocked bios says that i have to install the original first). i have a dead battery so i am trying the usb method. I don't know what i am doing wrong, i simply cannot do it. I am stuck Make a bootable usb via Rufus , throw the bios on it. Boot the USB stick with the bios execute the commands PRR2.exe then fpt.exe -f m17xr4.bin -bios Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank99 Posted Saturday at 10:13 PM Author Share Posted Saturday at 10:13 PM I am trying to install the original bios first. That is what the instructions from the unlocked version say. I keep getting “test.” instead of proceeding when i try to update Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sliderfra Posted 21 hours ago Share Posted 21 hours ago 14 hours ago, frank99 said: I am trying to install the original bios first. That is what the instructions from the unlocked version say. I keep getting “test.” instead of proceeding when i try to update you need a .bat file to flash it IIRC Dell bios won't install if you have a dead battery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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