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    Need help with slave graphic card

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by laptopdude101, Dec 12, 2009.

  1. laptopdude101

    laptopdude101 Notebook Enthusiast

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    yo guys whats up i am stuck. casue im about to buy a graphic card i just found out it was a slave one but the thing is 1 only have 1 slot in my laptop for graphic cards. im putting this in my alienware whitch is mxm compaitble and everythin but since this is slave will i be able to use it?
    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...#ht_567wt_1165

    this is the card will i be able to use it?

    thanks guys
     
    laptopdude101, Dec 12, 2009
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    a person helped me out in the other fotum and told me to come here for help
     
    laptopdude101, Dec 12, 2009
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    First off, which laptop do you have? Secondly, what graphics card is it and what MXM type is it? (The link's broken so I have to ask here)

    The laptop will NOT boot with a slave card. You CAN flash it to a master card, but you'd have to do a 'blind flash'-basically, flashing it without using a display, relying purely on accuracy on the keyboard. I'm not even sure if you can do that though.
     
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    my laptop is an alieanware m5700i-r2 and this blind flash thing how do you do it and is there a posiblity it can destroy the car if i do it? i checked the mxm type measured etc... and it is the same type but the only thing that im woried about is making it my main card
     
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    your link doesn't work man :)
     
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    What graphics card is it? I'm not sure what MXM slot the M5700 r2 has, but the card has to be the same MXM type.

    I don't think you can destroy the card through blind flashing it but I'm not sure.
     
    EviLCorsaiR, Dec 12, 2009
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    laptopdude101, Dec 12, 2009
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    yah its the same mxm slot i checked
     
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    I'm not an expert on GPU flashing. Wait until someone more knowledgeable come on and ask them.

    And I'm definetely not sure if it'll work with your laptop.
     
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    alrite thanks for your help and for those who a re more experienced can u help me please
     
    laptopdude101, Dec 12, 2009
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    you ned someone to send you the 3870 gpu bios and you need a flash drive too :)
     
    Speedy Gonzalez, Dec 12, 2009
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    awesome thanks witcher4360 for the bios and helpinme out so rite now i need a usb drive to put the the bios in and then what else?
     
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    and whitch bios do i use the master one or the other one

    thanks
     
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    you need to make the drive bootable before you trow the bios in there zfactor explains real good how to do it and you need to put ATI flash in the drive too with the bios here is how to make your drive bootable http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=246530 and here is how you flash with ATIflash http://www.notebookforums.com/thread230061.html
     
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    I can explain you how to blind flash BIOS on ur USB Floppy make AUTOEXEC.bat (you can make it in notepad - just save in .bat extension) with this command :

    mode con codepage prepare=((866) ega3.cpi)
    mode con codepage select=866
    keyb uk,,keyboard.sys
    atiflash.exe -p -f 0 yourBIOS.bin

    Now you can blind flash ur GPU BIOS.

    P.S. don't forget save your original BIOS. You can do it with flashrom -s 0 my_bios.rom command
     
    Borbital, Dec 12, 2009
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    alrite thanks bros
     
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    The_Moo™ Here we go again.....

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    you will need to make a DOS jump drive

    PM a member named Zfactor
     
    The_Moo™, Dec 12, 2009
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    Hmm...not too sure about this. Right now I'm using a slave gtx 280m (M17x) as my primary without having to jump through any hoops. All I did was swap heat sinks and it booted normally. Edit: Granted I have a different model than OP has, that might be the reason why.
     
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    You shouldndt be booted
     
    The_Moo™, Dec 12, 2009
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