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    looking for a 8700M GT Slave vbios: can you help me?

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by @tomX, Sep 30, 2009.

  1. @tomX

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    Hello all!

    Like the title says it, I am looking for someone with a SLI of 8700M GT.

    I need the vbios of a Slave (as in SLI) 8700M GT card.

    If you have a M9750 it would be even better!

    I you have a SLI of 8700m GTs and just don't know how to obtain de bios but want to help me out, i'll let you know how it is done, and let me tell you it is quite simple!

    thanks in advance!

    @tomX
     
    @tomX, Sep 30, 2009
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    come on! nobody?

    The Moo? Ichime?
     
    @tomX, Oct 1, 2009
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    come on people... I m' sure one of you have the SLI setup...

    please bear in mind it take very little time to do...
     
    @tomX, Oct 5, 2009
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    Yes, i am aware of that website, but it doesn"t say what type of bios (Master/slave) they are...

    so i'm kind of stuck...
     
    @tomX, Oct 6, 2009
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    i think they are the same. not like ati.
     
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    haven't you (like me) read all over this forum that for some reason you need to put the daughter card and master card in specific locations for the m9750 to boot/work?

    and that swapping them would not work... or am I wrong?
     
    @tomX, Oct 6, 2009
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    any ideas Dondadah?
     
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    ii have a nvidia 8700m gt for a xps m1730 for sale.
     
    noreaster, Oct 7, 2009
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    Don't know if its compatible with m9750... what are the specifications? MXM ? ram?
     
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    sorry. I am so busy. I'm not on the forum as much. But in my whitebook. There was master/slave socket and the cards or master/slave. I know that you can use a master/master card. It will boot. And I know if you put a slave in the master slot, it won't boot. But I never used a master card in the slave port to see if it would boot.


    but with my sager np9262, my nvidia card (the 9800m gtx single card. I never had a second card in there.) was in the daugther card. It always booted up.(just food for thought)

    ati=(master/slave)
    nvidia=(parent/daugther)

    in your sitution I would just used a master bios in both. There's nothing to worry about. If anything, it would better parent/parent the to use parent/dauther.

    I haven't seen a sli laptop with two different bios. So I believe that's why you haven't gotten it already.
     
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    " I know that you can use a master/master card." => would mean master 1 in master port + master 2 in slave port right?

    " But I never used a master card in the slave port to see if it would boot." => ???

    your 2 sentences kind ok are akward...

    But will try though...
     
    @tomX, Oct 8, 2009
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