M17X R4 GTX970M DRIVER ISSUE

I recently decided to overhaul my R4 with a Clevo 970m 6gb and upgrade my screen resolution. I followed several tutorials about the upgrade and everything went great installed windows 10 pure UEFI. device manager shows the 970 as a Microsoft basic display adapter an even with modded inf nvidia drivers will not install. I guess im lost and dont know where to go from here ive been thru millions of threads and maybe im missing something, but i need help please.

 

You are lucky guy. Don't know if you mind but that driver fail saved your display from being destroyed. Revert to windows 8 until bug is fixed. Go to alienware main forum and read windows 10 warning thread

 

I was under the impression that the edid issue was only on the 80 series cards?

 

It was not, people with GTX 970m also had their displays affected by edid corruption.

 

First question is: are you 60Hz or 120Hz LCD ?

• If you are 60Hz, look at this excellent thread of woodzstack. Regarding to the risk of bricking your LCD, I think you can fully get rid of it if you follow their advices. Regarding to the driver, I am not adamant but you can start with the 552.84 modded. See also that recent feedbacks discussing about bricking.
  
• If you are 120Hz (like I am) you can follow this other thread (quite long) but with detailed explanations and tricks regarding drivers. As far as I know you didn't risk a bricking of the LCD in that configuration.

Good luck... the 970M rocks when you come from a 675M so it worth some efforts

 

LVDS 120Hz are affected too.

 

Ok so i just reinstalled 8.1 and have tried the eurocom drivers with no success but i found laptopvideo2go has their modded inf when you add the hardware id and it gets to the installation then fails to load the driver or anything else.

 

And a fhd 60hz

 

Sorry im working off my phone right now. Thank you for the link but unfortunately ive already followed that one step by step as well as a couple other ones. Im not sure it it has something to do with my vbios. Its weird that the eurocom drivers arent working even the one with the matching hardware id.

 

Not mine God.
I had quite an extensive test of many drivers (at least 4 / 5) modded for most of them so I got my heavy burden of drivers failures but they never bricked my LCD (I can recall a series of white screens / black screens at a stroboscopic speed that make me very scared of it however). I am BIOS A011 (not more unlocked) and with also a stock vBIOS. I am not having EVGA precision installed. And I don't have any overclocking tuning by that time.
And really I haven't seen many bricking threads talking about 120Hz. But I let more experienced voices on that forum to confirm or not that point.

Take your time and follow all the advices regarding the DSE and the good drivers. Look at the threads I pointed to you (even if in 8.1 they can be useful). When you have tried this and if you are still stuck don't hesitate to create a conversation / PM with some of us like MickyD1234 and Woodzstack they are great and responsive.

I did that way and it worked for me but not without a little bit of time ...

 

If the driver fails to install with a modded inf, you need to disable driver signature enforcement - restart the PC holding shift, then click troubleshoot, advanced options, startup settings and restart. Then choose 7 - disable driver signature enforcement.

Link to MS article on W8 advanced startup:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-8/windows-startup-settings-safe-mode

 

Well i started from scratch again following ever step to the t, And success she lives and the drivers worked. I'm currently benchmarking but so far i'm thinking im going to have to buy 2 more for my 18 this card rocks. Thanks everyone for the links and the warning on windows 10.