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    GTX 980M SVL7 BIOS ISSUE ALIENWARE 17 R1

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Baqir, Jun 27, 2020.

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    HELLO guys so i flashed the vbios svl7 for gtx 980m 8gb i even raised voltage to 37.5mv as it was crashes in 3dmark at the start so after the voltage change it worked great so i kept doing benchmarking the results were almost the game the gpu works fine in cod war zone and in any other game excpet the CSGO the gpu just goes to 0% load in gpu z but i can still hear the sound of the games but the game is stuck/frozen

    i wonder if it has something to do with the drivers 451.48
     
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    Probably blown MOSFET on the card
     
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    Works fine with stock bios.
     
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    The MOSFET cannot handle the higher voltage if it crashes or black screens at a higher voltage. Not a driver problem if it works stock VBIOS
     
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    the problem is fixed by increasing volt to +50mv
     
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    What is the asic score for you GPU? That’s pretty abysmal to have to increase voltage to run svl7 vbios
     
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    By asic you mean Benchmarking score its 3100+
     
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    Pardon me it's 74.6%
     
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    Odd. I have the same clocks running at 1.00V at 67%. I don’t have an explanation for your results
     
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    Could it be my psu?
     
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    No. Higher voltage makes mite drain on PSU and would trip it.
     
    Raidriar, Jun 28, 2020
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