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    HELP!! Alienware m14x r2 gt650m Vbios

    Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by RAM-on, Mar 4, 2021.

  1. RAM-on

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    @Sesme Hello
    I have a m14x r2, two years ago by accident the water fell and I had to change the motherboard.

    But the nvidia card of the new motherboard does not work, it has the windows error 43.
    I have tried everything and my last hope is to reflash the Vbios.
    Someone could help me by providing the file?, no logo can be found anywhere
     
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    The only one I could find for a 2gb GT 650M was this Lenovo one. Couldn't say how well it work work on yours so flash it at your own risk. If you do flash, make sure you save your old vBIOS.

    https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/223547/223547

    Also make sure that the system BIOS is up to date, just in case
     
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    Just thinking.....I could pull the vBIOS from my M14x
     
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    @Maxware79 thank for aswer
    when i try to backup de old bios, i got the messange "BIOS reading not supported for this device" in gpu-z and "no Rom find in eepron" in NVFlash, y try to reflash whith lenobo driver, but doesen´t work,
    If you could help me by backing up your own Vbios with gpu-z I would really appreciate it.
     
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    I'll try and do it after work tonight.
     
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    Thanks in advance.
    I really appreciate it very much.
     
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    No good. You can’t mess with the vBIOS on these integrated GPU’s. The graphic BIOS is part of the system bios.
    Check your system BIOS version and upgrade if required. I upgrade one version at a time just to be safe.


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    what I feared.
    I have tried several versions, A8, A10, A14, A15, A16, but the problem persists, the video memory size also appears as unknown, I will continue investigating,
    thank you very much for your help.
     
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    My guess is there’s a fault on that board.


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    I have physically checked the motherboard but apparently everything is fine, I have been with this problem for 3 years I think it will be something from the hardware maybe a Vram issue.
    Thanks for the help, now i goin to sleep it's 1:45 am here in México.
     
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    No problem. Good luck


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