Dell M6700 gtx pascal card

[johnyespapa]

Good days Everyone! I have a question about upgrading my laptop gpu. i have seen the other topics here that the p106m works on m6600. the question is the p106m and ang gtx 1060 have the same architecture does it work on m6700 if im gonna upgrade it?

 

[Aaron44126]

Pascal GPUs won't boot on the M6700 unless they have a specific "engineering sample" vBIOS. We only have appropriate vBIOS for Quadro P3000, P4000, and P5000. (None for GeForce cards.) The behavior otherwise is that the laptop will just hang at the Dell logo boot screen and will not proceed to OS boot. (It's even worse than in the M6800 — in that system you'll just get an ACPI BSOD if you try to boot Windows, but booting Linux is possible.)

 

Because you can't even boot to Linux to flash the vBIOS in the M6700, you'd have to flash the vBIOS in another system or use a hardware flasher to get one of the Quadro Pascal GPUs to work in the M6700.

[johnyespapa]

i do have a hardware bios programmer. i did search about the engineering sample bios as they state that the p4000 needs engineering sample bios. i did search also the engineering sample bios for the gtx pascal card but no available yet in any forum.

[Nowan]

i wonder about that because when i was testing the p106m after restarting it after doing that trick the, laptop does boots to desktop even tho the screen is black i press random key on the keyboard and it play windows sounds. perhaps possibly could try tinker the vbios like how the 2 person did from macrumors user shawn09345 and colohgc did with p5200 same on the gtx 1060 from the p106m vbios since both are g106. 🤔

[johnyespapa]

that's my thoughts to since the p106m is same architecture to any pascal cards. if someone can give an engineering vbios i will tinker it so i can use it in the dell m6700

[Aaron44126]

vBIOS images are here. Again, only for P3000, P4000, and P5000.

 

[johnyespapa]

@Aaron44126 did someone try here a touring card in dell m6700 or m6800?

[Aaron44126]

Turing works fine. Finding one that uses the normal MXM form factor is quite a trick, though. I know that people have done heatsink mods to accommodate the Quadro Turing MXM cards from HP.

[johnyespapa]

@Aaron44126 Good Day Sir can i ask whats the latest driver does the k5000m support?

[Aaron44126]

2 hours ago, johnyespapa said:

@Aaron44126 Good Day Sir can i ask whats the latest driver does the k5000m support?

 

NVIDIA will answer that for you.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/

[johnyespapa]

@Aaron44126in installation it prompt not the dch driver but the standard one I've search it in advance nvidia driver no graphics driver displaying

 

[Aaron44126]

If the NVIDIA driver installer is requesting that you install a standard driver instead of DCH, that's because you already have a standard driver installed and it wants to upgrade to the same type. Remove the NVIDIA driver that is already installed (using DDU if you have to) and then install the DCH driver.