NEED HELP DESPERATELY - 6990m to 780m doesn't work

Hello dear forum,
I recently bought 780m from here http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/fs-nvidia-gtx-780m.772071/ to replace it with my 6990m.

What exactly do I have to do? The computer keeps beeing even if i set it to PEG and disable Internal graphic device and disable sound?

I am willing to pay a small fee over paypal for anyone that can help me get this fixed!

Please add me on skype: patrik.kogoj and help me out, otherwise I don't know what to do

 

I got A12 unlocked but this happened
-first when i still had 6990m in comp I disabled sound card + switchable graphivs in bios (under 2nd advanced tab) so I didnt even have PEG option left
-then i installed 780m and it booted into Windows but I couldnt install nVidia drivers as it said that there is no graphic card nor did bios recognize it
-then i returned bios to defaults and restarted.... and it started BEEPing madly
-Then i switched GPU to 6990, disabled sound card and disabled internal graphic device and switched to PEG and its still beeping...

- now im trying putting 6990m back in and disabling whole 2nd advanced tab under switchable graphic card option so I wont have the PEG option left

-update for last step: it works again, disabled sound driver in 1st advanced tab and internal graphic device in 2nd advanced menu + i disabled switchable graphics function so the PEG option doesnt show anymore and my NVIDIA GPU isnt showing in 1st bios tab where all the devices are listed (6990m shows as ATI GPU)

 

Is it the fact that its MSI gpu and i got Alienware (clevo)?

How can I flash it if I cant even get to Windows

 

Which version Of Windows are you running? If you run windows 8/8.1 you must remember to disable driver signing in order to install the modifyed NVIDIA driver.

 

I am running windows 7

 

Now im back in windows
-downloaded drivers 347.52 + modded ini and the installation still says there is no GPU

 

Did you uninstall ALL of the original drivers for ur old card before installing your new card into your laptop?
Also, what psu do you have.

 

Did you follow the correct installation process to put the modded ini file in the right folder before trying to install?

 

Yes now im trying to manually configure the ini as i found another guide

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...460m-to-780m-questions-concerns.722670/page-2

check out the comment by j95, he posted a picture of the pad placement for the card and really good instructions on how to install the card. this is what i followed to get mine working. read it over and make sure you didnt miss anything. especially the link he provided on getting the sound working. really important.

where did you get your driver and modded ini? try this one by j95 at the top of the page. it worked for me
http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...60m-to-780m-questions-concerns.722670/page-10

 

plus you never told me if you uninstalled ALL of your original drivers before installing the nvidia card.

 

I modded the ini manually and now the installation starts, but it seems stuck at 5%

I will try again with clean install but I had no software on anyway

 

MSI GPU probably won't work. DON'T BUY MSI GPU FOR ALIENWARE. Return the cards and buy dell ones. We had a lot of threads like this and issues are caused by msi gpu.

 

if you do do a clean install, be sure to read this otherwise your sound wont work. i had to put my old card back in, install the sound driver, put my new card in and install the video drivers.

780m GTX - M17xR3 integrated soundcard working again! NO MORE USB SOUNDCARD!

 

isnt there a way to flash it into one or something like that?

 

id agree with this, if its an option. return it and get a dell one. iv had alot of problems with mine and i have already had to send it back because it had a defect. hopfully the give me a refund. with that said though, i believe it would work fine in my pc if it hadn't had a defect

 

Installation after modification is stuck at like 5%

 

If there is any chance to make it work Id be glad to know
I really can't be bothered to return it, I ordered it from here anyway -> http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/fs-nvidia-gtx-780m.772071/

 

there is a way to flash it to a different vbios but i dont think that is really the issue in the end. in fact, it ran at a lower temp and more stable with the msi vbios then a custom vbios or the dell one on my pc. but that isnt your problem right now. being msi has nothing to do with the driver not installing

 

BIOS doesnt recognize GPU (it says not detected)
DEVICE MANAGER shows a yellow triangle next to PCI device

 

thats because you dont have drivers installed. did you try the driver and modded ini i sent you. can you walk me through your process of how you are trying to install your driver. just want to make sure your are in fact doing it correctly

 

I did everything in bios -> but a little different (i couldnt leave the PEG option on otherwise it would BEEP)

 

I left SPECIAL FEATURES in BIOS DISABLED (so i dont see that optio nwith primary display [PEG] ) and on 1st screen you can see that the GPU is not detected

 

installer failed after 25 minutes after it was stuck at 5%

 

can you walk me through your process of how you are trying to install your driver.

 

the special features option you have to disable is different then mine though. mine runs fine with it enabled and peg

 

What if I try to flash vbios on 780m so the bios will recognize it? Its probably true that MSI is ****ing things up

When i finally got into windows, I downloaded drivers and manually edited ini because otherwise drivers didnt even start because they couldnt find a GPU
Now they find it but they are stuck at 5%

 

you can try changing the vbios if thats what u want to do. i can tell you that on mine, i did not have to do that. it worked on the stock vbios. i think your problem lies where you have to disable the special features to get it to boot to windows. i think you need to figure out why it isnt letting you boot with peg.

 

did u have msi gpu? Cause mine is from MSI gpu and not alienware (clevo)

 

yes mine was msi. the only difference is i had a gtx 460m in mine stock.

 

could you show me your settings in bios when u installed this?

 

@Buredober... I have sent unlocked VBIOS to you to flash.. Flash that (make backup of your original vBIOS incase you have to flash it back) and GPU should be recognised and drivers install properly! @j95 any ideas too? Your the original guru about this

 

God I would kill for it to work, been working on it for past 8 hours

 

i sent the card back in to be repaired so i dont have a card in my pc. so it wont load up the bios screen to show u. i can tell you tho, it looks exactly like yours, except with the special features enabled.

 

i think the issue lies in the fact that you are going from an amd card to an nvidia card. there must be an extra step needed to be taken. hopfully j95 will chime in because if anyone knows it will be him

 

hmm.... you may need a driver installed before you can flash it? ur pc isnt going to recognize any piece of hardware before there in a driver installed telling it what the piece of hardware is.

 

but i cant install driver unless I flash it? ;(

 

i keep telling you. you DO NOT need to flash it to make it work. the problem is somewhere else

 

Did i buy broken card?

 

that is always possible... if it were me i would reinstall your old card and do a windows reformat and clean install. then you will at least know you dont have conflicting drivers causing the problem.

heres a quick idea tho. if you switch your special features in ur bios back to enable, can you start your pc in safe mode and try installing the video driver in safe mode

 

Drivers have nothing to do with BIOS detection. If the GPU is not detected in the BIOS with PEG enabled then the GPU is either no good or incompatible. You definitely cannot flash the vBIOS if it does not show up in the BIOS.

I have never owned one and I am not an expert on M17xR3/R4, so you could be trying to use the wrong settings. If it is set to Optimus mode and boots without beeping and no GPU is visible in the BIOS then that is further indication the GPU is messed up or incompatible. In Optimus mode it may boot from the Intel HD Graphics without beeping, but until the GPU shows up in the BIOS you "cannot pass GO and cannot collect $200" with your GPU upgrade. First order of business is booting without beeping and being visible in the BIOS.

I don't think I have ever seen a good example of an MSI GPU installed in an Alienware laptop. Clevo GPUs almost always work without a hitch.

 

yea what he said glad someone smarter than me could chime in

 

Cant boot it if I enable PEG

 

Now I cant get into BIOS

What to do

 

If you cannot boot with PEG enabled, then I would say the GPU is either no good or it is incompatible. My best guess is incompatible, but you would need an MSI notebook to confirm whether or not the GPU is no good. I'd return it for a refund or an exchange for a Dell or Clevo 780M.

Edit: LOL... rapid fire posting.

If you cannot get into the BIOS, pull the GPU and let it boot from Intel iGPU. I would give up on trying to get the MSI GPU to work at this point. There seems to be a problem of either incompatibility or bad GPU.

 

i dont beleive it not compatible unless the fact that his came with a amd gpu stock makes a difference from mine with a nvidia stock?

 

What the Alienware laptop had before (AMD versus NVIDIA) makes no difference. If the vBIOS on the MSI GPU is not compatible, then the GPU itself will be incompatible for all intents and purposes until one can find a way to flash it. No BIOS detection means no flashing. Flashing with a Dell or Clevo vBIOS might make it compatible, but that is just a guess. It also might make matters worse if the vBIOS flashing soft-bricks the GPU and makes it to where it cannot be returned. Doing that could render the GPU unbootable in any machine and require removal of the chip, manually programming and re-soldering.

The MSI vBIOS may be a UEFI/GOP only vBIOS. If you have an M17xR3 (my guess since you had 6990M) this may be the problem due to lack of UEFI/GOP support in the older BIOS. I know nothing about MSI laptops, so I have no idea what kind of BIOS/vBIOS arrangement they have. If you read up in the Kepler vBIOS mod thread at Tech|Inferno, you will see posts suggesting that MSI are kind of out there and different compared to Alienware and Clevo. ASUS and MSI are both proprietary with respect to their laptop video cards.

Best option here is to get a known compatible Dell or Clevo 780M and not cause any harm to what might still be a usable GPU installed in a compatible MSI notebook.

 

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thanks for all the info guys
Im going to ask seller to refund me the money as the deal was that i was interested in buying it if it worked on M17x R3, hopefully (

 

But my msi 780m installed and ran just fine on my 17r3...