M17xR3 Ultimate BIOS! 2026 Edition!

[Z_money12]

13 minutes ago, ssj92 said:

that's weird, I have that issue on M15x with 980m but never had that issue on M17xR3 using 980m/m3000m. 

 

try a driver older than the 550.xx series

Okay so I tested with an hdmi cable on another screen and it outputs a screen after the driver is installed just for some reason on the laptops screen it stays black. I have been trying to use ChatGPT to help me and it claims it is the internal LVDS output

[ssj92]

1 hour ago, Z_money12 said:

Okay so I tested with an hdmi cable on another screen and it outputs a screen after the driver is installed just for some reason on the laptops screen it stays black. I have been trying to use ChatGPT to help me and it claims it is the internal LVDS output

did you try an older driver? it most likely is a edid issue , I haven't tried recently on my m15x to try my fix. 

[Z_money12]

1 hour ago, ssj92 said:

did you try an older driver? it most likely is a edid issue , I haven't tried recently on my m15x to try my fix. 

So I was able to get it to work when I enabled SG

[Z_money12]

See now the problem with it being on SG mode is that games will try to launch with the intel gpu

[ssj92]

SG mode isn't a fix , I would try older drivers in PEG, it should work. 

 

As for the Intel GPU issue, you need to do the registry mod to make the nvidia gpu the render gpu. I'll see if I have my instructions posted here somewhere 

[Z_money12]

16 hours ago, ssj92 said:

SG mode isn't a fix , I would try older drivers in PEG, it should work. 

 

As for the Intel GPU issue, you need to do the registry mod to make the nvidia gpu the render gpu. I'll see if I have my instructions posted here somewhere 

Yes if you could tell me how to do the registry mod 

[Durabat]

@ssj92, you're a legend, brother! I'll get this bios on my R3 the next time I dust it off. I really appreciate you guys still tinkering with these old rigs. They aren't nearly as powerful as modern hardware, but they're a ton of fun.

[ssj92]

37 minutes ago, Durabat said:

@ssj92, you're a legend, brother! I'll get this bios on my R3 the next time I dust it off. I really appreciate you guys still tinkering with these old rigs. They aren't nearly as powerful as modern hardware, but they're a ton of fun.

wait until you see v2 when it's released. 

 

Up to RTX 5000 working in legacy mode.

Pure uefi support added

16gb dimm support (not fully done, need testers with 16gb sticks, boots to bios but doesn't boot windows with my sticks).

 

I am still working on above 4g decoding and rtx 4090 support.

 

  

22 hours ago, Z_money12 said:

Yes if you could tell me how to do the registry mod 

Dual PEG reg edit

 

1. Win + R 
2. Regedit
3. Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}

 

1. There should be a couple of folders such as 0000, 0001, etc. Check each folder which GPU it corresponds to 
2. Create a new DWORD key inside the folder for your high performance GPU , name it EnableMsHybrid and set value to 1. Ex: EnableMsHybrid=1
3. Create a new DWORD key inside the folder for your power saving GPU , name it EnableMsHybrid and value is 2. Ex: EnableMsHybrid=2
4. Reboot.

 

Next Regedit: 

 

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\DirectX\UserGpuPreferences

 

create a new string value which name is “DirectXUserGlobalSettings”, and set its value to “HighPerfAdapter=xxx” where XXX stands for hardware ID’s VEN&DEV&SUBSYS of your graphics card, which can be found in device manager.

In the case of my 7800 XT "HighPerfAdapter=1002&747E&78011EAE" while device manager displays "PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_747E&SUBSYS_78011EAE&REV_C8"

 

Reboot

 

 

Now right click desktop and choose display settings. Then graphics settings. Add your app and choose high performance GPU for it 

 

 

Tesla specific addition:

 

 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318},

find where your tesla card is, change “AdapterType” value to “1” and “FeatureScore” value from “cf” to “d1”,

create a new dword key which name is “GridLicensedFeatures”, and set its value to “7”. Disable then enable tesla in the device manager.

This step changs the gefore driver into grid driver，and the tesla is in wddm mode now.