980m 8 beeps

I got my 980m from woodzstack and installed it and all worked perfectly. Full uefi discrete install. Played about an hour of gta 5 and temps were 63 degrees. Then after I shutoff the computer, an hour later came back and got 8 beeps, lcd failure. Swapped back in my old 770m and still 8 beeps. Swapped back in 980m, 8 beeps. So it can't be the video card. In the meantime I change nothing else at all. I'm honestly stumped. Thinking either my bios magically got screwed up somehow, the lcd cable burnt out, or the lcd is dead. Anyone have any ideas?


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You didn't specify which model you have. I would suggest clearing the CMOS. If you have M17x R4, simply pull out the CMOS battery and do a power drain. If you have an Alienware 17, you will have to do the RAM hotswap trick to clear NVRAM and restore default settings. I know this behavior happened on the M17x R4 if you left non-turbo flex support enabled, it would cause this to happen sometimes.

 

Yeah I have the 17 ranger, I'll try to do that. I tried to pull the battery and cmos but pulling the cmos battery seems impossible without taking out the entire motherboard. For the ram method, I just pull the ram and and try to boot, then when it restarts put a stick in right. I don't have to remove anything else do i?


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Is there's any way to remove the cmos battery without having to completely remove the motherboard. Because having to remove the motherboard just to reset the bios is the stupidest engineering I've ever seen in a computer


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what OS and drivers?

 

Sounds like Windows 10 (or NVIDIA drivers for Windows 10) may have killed your LCD as well.

 

Windows 10 pro clean install and latest 353.62 with inf mod from j95 off techno inferno


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still wondering if older drivers will be ok for the time being.

 

Wow, another one gone. You will have to standby until the cause is determined.

 

Yeah I really want to find out what happened so that I don't burn out another screen


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One guy has AW17 Ranger and here is what he did:
He has 8 beeps and laptop can't boot due to inability to POST with that monitor. Take out keyboard, disconnect LVDS cable, connect to eDP port (he is situated somewhere beneath). Connect HDMI cable to TV and notebook and boot. In this case BIOS should turn on discrete GPU and send information through HDMI. Now set Optimus Mode, ensure that BIOS is in UEFI mode (if not then enable it), reconnect cable back to LVDS and boot (questionable). Then you can test it.

In case you can't boot with HDMI and disconnected LVDS then you have to reset BIOS settings prior to doing this. So disconnect CMOS battery and press power button for 30 sec, ensure that display cable is in eDP port and NOT in the upper port and HDMI is connected, boot with 5 beeps and then boot again.

After laptop is in UEFI and you booted from HDMI you can try to install drivers and test cards. Internal display should also be working and continue working when you disconnect HDMI.

It doesn't fully fix laptop anyways.

 

Thanks but I already figured out that the latest nvidia drivers burnt out my display. Ordered a new one off laptopscreen.com and will be coming on Monday. If i put the computer back together with the new screen and it still doesn't post then that won't be good. Lots of people have had their screens burnt out due to the latest Nvidia catastrophe, but I haven't seen anyone replace their screen yet from what I've seen in the thread. Hopefully it's only the screens that were affected


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More like it rewritten EDID firmware of your display so panel itself is not burnt but OKay.

 

Well essentially useless without rewriting the edid firmware. Yes you are correct


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i'm still waiting for my cable

 

Feel your pain, really wish I opted for the overnight shipping for an extra 10 bucks for my screen.


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at least my CPU and GPU fans will be cooler with new fans that I have coming in. will have to look into other options if it doesn't change by next friday.

 

Which fans did you order? Are they better than the standard ones


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In regards to Windows 10+nvidia drivers burning the displays: after you get 8 beeps, if you remove NVidia card physically, can you get the laptop to POST? And boot into Windows after changing the settings in BIOS?

 

it should default to the intel GPU if you're not using the 120hz panel.

 

8 beeps = 8 seconds to evacuate! RUN!

 

In regards to Windows 10+nvidia drivers burning the displays: after you get 8 beeps, if you remove NVidia card physically, can you get the laptop to POST? And boot into Windows after changing the settings in BIOS?

Could someone with a corrupted firmware display (by nvidia driver) answer here please?

 

I think it's possible if you have the 60Hz display. 120z screens are hardwired to the discrete GPU, so no iGPU.

 

I know the answer to that question now: no, you have to be in UEFI (legacy off) to be able to boot into windows. Laptop still does not post with a removed nvidia card as the screen firmware is not correct. I tried it myself on R4.

 

Just to let you guys know this isn't limited to AW, It happened to my Sager laptop NP9377SM-A

 

Hi have you system recovered already? Mind to share what is the status now?

 

Yeah I replaced the screen and all is good now. I figured that if I had to replace the screen anyway might as well upgrade to the 120hz screen, so I got the 120hz panel and cable. Still works fine with 980m and win 8.1. Waiting till they figure out how to safely install win 10, simply because I checked on laptopscreen and they went from 100 plus panels in stock when I ordered a replacement 2 months ago to less than 10 now. Don't want to risk another screen because if this win10 issue isn't fixed pretty soon there will be a shortage of panels


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what laptop do you have?

 

Alienware 17 r1 2013


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man they are low on 3d screens....better not install 10.

 

May I ask what the Dell part number for the 120hz panel is please? Can I reuse the cables and other components of the dead lcd (bezels, IR emitter, Wifi antennae) and only swap in the new panel itself? Thanks

 

If you already had the 120hz screen you just replace the panel. If you had the 60hz screen you have to get the 120hz panel and the 120hz screen cable which is different than the normal lvds cable. The cable is the difficult part to get


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