HP Elitebook 8570W - is it still good ? Hardware modifications

[SuperMG]

6 minutes ago, Daedalus said:

cool, was considering M5000M vs 980M upgrade for my machine hence the ask as i have LVDS. i mean id love a 10 series, but without DC (or equivalent) i'm stuck. 

Hello. I do have a few Maxwell MXM if you want. GTX 970M and 980M. Compatible with LVDS and eDP. One is a Clevo and one is a Dell.

[Daedalus]

Cool will reach out to you via PM. 
has anyone found any links/suppliers for the cable to allow the Dreamcolour IPS screens to work with the mobo? I know guitarg was working on one. 

[erikmiskolin]

On 2/26/2026 at 6:24 PM, Will said:

Are you using the latest driver? And what about the brightness adjustment, is it stuck to the max or can you adjust it normally?

I am using driver 426.5 the brightness control works even with the shortcut keys fn+f9,fn+f10

[Vladka76]

9 hours ago, Daedalus said:

has anyone found any links/suppliers for the cable to allow the Dreamcolour IPS screens to work with the mobo? I know guitarg was working on one.

I recently found something:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/145765636591
This cable theoretically (as it seems to me, may be wrong) connects the motherboard and the original display for the DreamColor on 8760w, 8770w - LP173WF3-SLBx ("x" may be 4, 3 or 2). All is perfect (S-IPS, matte, exotic 10-bit color depth), but connection type of this display is 50-pin LVDS. 😀 Moreover, he is relatively old and difficult to find in new condition.
The main disadvantage of this option is that installing this display and cable does not improve the laptop's compatibility with fundamentally newer video cards. A much more promising option would be an eDP 30-pin cable (for FHD displays), which respected @GuitarG is working on...

[SuperMG]

1 hour ago, Vladka76 said:

I recently found something:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/145765636591
This cable theoretically (as it seems to me, may be wrong) connects the motherboard and the original display for the DreamColor on 8760w, 8770w - LP173WF3-SLBx ("x" may be 4, 3 or 2). All is perfect (S-IPS, matte, exotic 10-bit color depth), but connection type of this display is 50-pin LVDS. 😀 Moreover, he is relatively old and difficult to find in new condition.
The main disadvantage of this option is that installing this display and cable does not improve the laptop's compatibility with fundamentally newer video cards. A much more promising option would be an eDP 30-pin cable (for FHD displays), which respected @GuitarG is working on...

But the Quadro Pascal such as P5000 and P5200 will work on Dreamcolor. I got the RTX 3000 from HP to work with the Dreamcolor in PEG of the M6700 and the P3000 did display in PEG but ACPI error due to the VBIOS.