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    Raising The Power Limit On My MSI GTX 1060 MXM Module

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Clamibot, Oct 3, 2017.

  1. Clamibot

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    Hey everyone, so I used Coolane's Mobile Pascal TDP Tweaker to raise the power limit of my Alien's 1060 from 78 watts to 120 watts so I can get the same framerate in all games as my similar spec desktop does.

    The problem is that when I try flashing the modded vbios using NVFlash, it gives me an error message: Screenshot (36).png

    I've used NVFlash before to unlock my GT755m's on my Lenovo Y510P before and never got this message. Am I doing something wrong?
     
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    You cannot use NVflash, need a physical programmer.

    If you've at least read coolane's thread you should know :v
     
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    But why not? I thought he said there needed to be a version of NVFlash that supported flashing pascal vbioses before we could use NVFlash to flash them. The newest version of NVFlash supports this as far as I understand.
     
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    I believe you could only use Nvflash to flash the original/ signed/ non-modified vbios.
     
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    Ah ok, thank you for the clarificaton.
     
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    Update: It seems I can't use nvflash to backup my vbios either. Any command results in this error:
    ERROR: Unable to start service (0x0000001F)
    Detailed :A device attached to the system is not functioning.
     
    Clamibot, Oct 5, 2017
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