Nvidia GTX 770m question

Hello everyone. I'm having a lot of problems with this new video card i bought. Its the nvidia GTX 770m for my Alienware m17x r3 laptop. I've been trying to find solutions for hours and haven't had any luck. I'm stuck on the alienware logo screen with the red loading bar. It just freezes and the fans go off. I've gone back and put in the old AMD graphics card and everything works fine. I've started up the laptop without any graphics card installed and it runs fine. I ran driver sweeper to get rid of any AMD drivers and that isnt working either. Can anyone help me with my problem? Or is this a lost cause? I still have some time to return the item and get my money back. But i'd love to get this card up and running. Thank you for your time.

 

Seems like a DOA card to me. Is it a DELL version of the card?

 

Hi, I do recall seeing another person trying a 770m in an R3 (could have been an R4?) that gave up trying to get it to work. Does not make any sense since other non-approved NV cards can be made to work like a 680m in the R3 but, it could even be some subtle difference in the MXM standard introduced with the 7xx cards, really don't know - sorry.

Have you got an unlocked bios and set it to disable the iGPU? If it bricks then putting back the AMD card should allow you to put the bios back to default (or removing the coin cell should do it as well.)

Good luck.

 

It sounds to me like you've missed out the step where you have to disable your onboard Intel Graphics before plugging in your 770M and turning the laptop on. Have you done that? As MickyD says you need an unlocked BIOS to disable the intel graphics (unlocked A12 BIOS with SATA tweak: [M17x R3] - BIOS A12 'unlocked' & 'SATA tweak'). There are guides and procedures on these forums that have covered the necessary steps, e.g. 680M in M17xR3. There is also an issue where you lose sound when installing a 7xx series card in an M17xR3, but there is a workaround procedure for this that's not too complicated - I can't remember the specifics, but again it's contained within the forums here somewhere (involves disabling sound before installing the 770M, and then re-enabling sound afterwards - something like that, but google it because I can't remember the exact procedure - sound will then work).

 

I had a quick try a while back and got the same issue/error as the OP above. For some reason it doesn't seem that the 770M is plug and play on the M17x R3 system.

If may just require a different vbios though. Mine was a Dell card so perhaps a Clevo version or a different vbios might make it work.
To my knowledge I haven't seen anyone whom has successfully upgraded their M17x R3 to a GTX 770M GPU though.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/ali...rading-nvidia-gtx-770m-alienware-m17x-r3.html

Cheers.

 

Yes, looks like there's something peculiar going on with the 770M not being compatible with the R3. Very strange given that the 780M works!

 

Yup the 780M was plug and play. Works great in the R3 system.

Cheers.

 

The 770M and 780M are different cores and have behaved very differently between other brands models.

 

so if u want to upgrade to 770m, u NEED the dell version of the card..
im still in doubt, if i would upgrade my r4 to a 770m, reading all this doesnt make it easier to be honest