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    few questions about GTX770M upgraded

    Discussion in 'Alienware M15x' started by kiba208, Jul 28, 2013.

  1. kiba208

    kiba208 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I bought a GTX770M from eBay. ALIENWARE M17x/M18x; NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770M;3GB DDR5; MXM 3.0b.

    Then I replaced GTX770M to my laptop MSI GT60 ONC that came with GTX 670M;3GB DDR5; MXM 3.0b.
    It can be play some games that using Unreal Engine 3 with got some kernel driver error
    but Windows 8 recovered it successfully and enter through in-game automatically. (without bypass trick)

    http://i1176.photobucket.com/albums/x334/kiba208/recoveredsuccessfully.jpg

    So, the other games I must use bypass trick to enter game;
    enter any games first it will get an error popup and don't close popup then enter games I want.

    But for all methods still got stuttering graphics when load textures cause sometime fps dropped.
    I think it incompatible with IvyBridge.

    In the worst case, I got BSOD messages like "VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE (nvkflt.sys)"

    http://i1176.photobucket.com/albums/x334/kiba208/BSODVIDEO_TDR_FAILURE.jpg

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    I inspected vbios GTX770M with Kepler BIOS Tweaker v1.25. It came with vbios vendor NVIDIA 10DE. (why not Alienware?)
    Then, I got vbios GTX770M from MSI GT60 2OC user and flash it result as above I explained.
    Now, I'm using Forceware 326.29.

    So I have some Questions.
    - Could it be better if I flash vbios with own vendor Alienware?
    - Did IvyBridge fully support GTX770M?

    Anyone help me, or send me an Alienware GTX770M vbios please.
     
    kiba208, Jul 28, 2013
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  2. [GMT]Demolisher

    [GMT]Demolisher Notebook Enthusiast

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    slv7 has posted a modified inf file on techinferno:
    and Jack Johnson also posted his vbios on the same thread.

    675MX to a 770M? - Page 2

    hope this helps
     
    [GMT]Demolisher, Jul 28, 2013
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  3. kiba208

    kiba208 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thank you very much
     
    kiba208, Jul 28, 2013
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  4. djan84

    djan84 Notebook Consultant

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    The card you bought is Eurocom. So it's kinda like a generic card, it's not a Dell (Alienware product). This is why you don't have alienware vbios. So I don't recommend flashing Alienware vbios, probably wouldn't make any difference. CPU (in your case Ivybridge) doesn't need to support graphics cards. Your MXM slot and bios are the ones that matter.
     
    djan84, Aug 2, 2013
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  5. kiba208

    kiba208 Notebook Enthusiast

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    You sure it doesn't support ivybridge?
    So, I'll sell this one and get a new 680m instead.
     
    kiba208, Aug 5, 2013
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    Mr Pras Hardware and systems

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  7. Alienware-L_Porras

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    I believe what djan84 tried to say was that what matters when upgrading the card is not the CPU but the MXM slot and BIOS.
     
    Alienware-L_Porras, Feb 28, 2014
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