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    675m woes please help

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by shane905, Nov 18, 2015.

  1. shane905

    shane905 Notebook Enthusiast

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    17x R4 675m 3630QM
    Okay so I posted a possible workaround for crashing nvidia cards, but now i'm noticing a different problem. So after almost a whole day of it being stable it seemed to crash again, but this time the computer was still playing the sound from my system, as in I could still talk to my friend on skype. The keyboard was unresponsive though which is the strangest thing. I've also noticed that my graphics card is running over volted at .92. It was running stable at .87 right after I reinstalled my drivers but after it crashed is when it kept being over volted. I have never reflashed a .92 vBios. I've tried reflashing the vBios several times but every time I check in Nvidia Inspector it's still .92 Any help would be appreciated.

    EDIT: Okay so I noted if I overclock my card with nvidia inspector and then apply it, my voltage drops to .87 any insight?
     
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  2. MickyD1234

    MickyD1234 Notebook Prophet

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    Hi. That is the weirdest thing! I do recall from a long time ago another instance of a 675m getting stuck like that.

    The default voltage comes from the vbios table but can be changed via software. I'm guessing the activating of Inspector is putting in the correct default. Do you have anything autorunning that monitors the card and could be messing with it?

    Anyhoo, I can tell you the the .92v will kill a 675m almost every time. I've had three of then burn out and one was during a driver bug that was causing boost (that should not work on a 675m) to overvolt to 0.92v.

    They fail in many different ways and often you can mess with drivers and settings to limp them along. Best bet is to replace with a better card. The 680m is a great card and I have mine running a 1.05v/+200mhz and it is way faster than a 675m. It is also a plug and play replacement in the R4 so very little messing around.

    Of course if you want to make a project of it I've seen a lot of R4's running a 980m :).

    Good luck.
     
  3. GodlikeRU

    GodlikeRU Notebook Deity

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    675M is renamed old Fermi 580M. It won't stand such a voltage and will get burned.