ATI HD 7970M ON ASUS G73Jh

yup, let us know how it goes. i'll try to chime in when i can.

 

I have to run to the home depot. The stock screws on the heatsink will not work. I'm going to go pickup some other ones.

 

I had the problem. Just do what i did, usemachine screws, they will be long but just cut them. Make sure you smooth out the edge of the machine screw otherwise the nut won't go in. I had no issues the way I did it.

 

Whats is the problem with the stock screws? The x bracket is made to use it with thin/large screws?

 

The stock screws were too short. I felt uncomfortable putting excessive force on one corner as I could of cracked the chip. So, a MUCH MUCH easier and safer solution, grab some thin machine screws, cut them a tad bit, then use the nut to hold the heatsink on the video card, applied equal pressure to all corners until it was tightly on there. I made sure not to do it too tightly as you can bend the card up a little. Didn't need to use the back plate.

Look at where the number 2 and 3 are. You can clearly see the machine screw and nuts.

 

Ok so after running to home depot and lowes I found the right ones 4-40 bolts and nuts.

 

Yeah like I said its so much easier. Just make sure you apply enough pressure. I turn it until I could no longer turn it (without using excessive force). Make sure you look at the card side ways in front of a light and make sure you applied enough pressure to where its touching the ram and gpu, if you see a gap you need more pressure. You got the idea I don't think I need to explain it.

If you have questions just let me know.

This whole mod took me a few hours, I had to go through trial and error. You may not go through the same thing

 

Stuff is in motion. The phobia needed to be doubled up for the GPU sink for it to work. It also wasn't sticky enough to hold the coppers to where they needed to be. Here are a few pics so far.







I"m also using some 3/8 4x40 bolts and washers. You can see they are just long enough to reach without having to cut it. I'm going to continue adhering the coppers and then reply before I tear apart the G73. I'll have my Nexus 7 in case anything.

I have some thermal adhesive coming so when it gets here I will need to redo all the coppers

 

Alright, final image before I tear her down. Everything is covered and so here's to hoping. I'm going to clean up my work area and then get to it.

 

Are you using thermal tape? I used thermal adhesive, it helped a lot lower the temps on the vrms. Everything else I am still using tape. I would add a heatsink between the 2 capacitors (grey squares), I used thermal tape just to see if it lowers the temps (and it does).
Your missing 2 spots that need heatsinks. You need to cut it up to make them small enough to fit in the small spaces. Your missing one i the lower left next to the copper heat sink and another on the top right also next to the copper heatsink.

 

Can you draw on my image and tell me where I'm missing?

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Few minor things.

The top right heatsink, your using it to cover the 2 grey capacitor and the black small ic chip next to it. I think its a bad idea to use 1 copper heatsink because they are not even, the black ic chip is slight taller. I would cut a copper and dedicate one to it. Thats what I did.

Same thing with the small copper heatsink you have on the bottom left. Your covering 2 chips but one is taller then the other.

If you look at my picture, I had to make separate small heat sinks for them.

 

It works without the flash!!!!!

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The red area are not evenly flat, I used separate heatsinks for them. The green you have to be careful. The little resistor is higher then the vrm's, they will elevate the heatsink causing a gap between the heatsink and the vrm's. To solve this I trimmed down the corner of the heatsink to where there was a space for the resistor.

 

Sounds good. I'll take it easy until I get my thermal paste. Well I'm typing to you on my 7970M G73JH. Funny thing is HWinfo says its a Dell. When I ordered it they tried to flash the Alienware VBIOS on it. Should I go ahead and flash the 7970M Vbios?



Also my SSD just arrived. I"m going to be busy!

 

your video is set to private so we can't see it >,<

 

It does look as if the machine is on life support now though =/

 

Life support? :-(

Video is public.

F9Z I did everything you said. I cut them and trimmed the corner. Thanks for looking out.

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New picture? I wanna see. I'll upload my version 2 mod lol. Not yet final but its a working progress.

 

I'm installing a flash fresh version of Windows. It will have to wait!

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if it's working i wouldn't reflash, do some more testing and do some stress tests, gaming, and some overclocking and see what's stable. if you run into troubles then i would reflash, or if it really bothers you that it says dell i guess you could flash lol

 

I've already flashed with your file. I Ann overheating since when I try to furmark I get to 71 and I shut down. I'm doing a fresh install now

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look into this Vbios Patcher - releases & changelog

you may be able to adjust clocks and voltages, this may help you with heating issues

also, what's your idle?

 

I put one in the middle too, it does get hot and it helped with stability

 

Furmark takes me to 96''c which is normal. Regular gaming takes me to 70''C and idle is about 50''C
If its shutting down, it may be the vrm's as I was having that issue. Once I added thermal adhesive paste, it no longer bsod or shut down on me.

Run 3dmark and see if it crashes. If it does not, then your having the same issue i was having prior to using adhesive paste

 

I don't have enough posts to download that post. I'll try and get some more in

I paid the $5 to be able to download it.
thanks

IDLE is 300/532
Max is 850/1200

 

keep in mind that patcher is still like in beta form, i haven't personally used it but from that forum they have done some testing with undervolting which worked well with their cards.

 

Great job Cuban!
Try to use something to cool your VRMs for testing it with furmark

 

Guess I'll have to read and see what they were doing over there. I'm trying to install everything fresh and so now I'm installing guild wars two. It's going to take a bit. I may not be able to get to testing tonight, but I'll try.

 

glad to hear it's working for the most part

 

Well now I've run into issues. Whenever I install catalyst and the drivers My screen turns blue but the computer continues as if nothing is wrong.

 

@cuban
Did the card work without any flash?

 

Yes it did, but I flashed Haxs file anyway because GPUZ was saying Dell. AFter that I updated to 12.10 and I've had issues ever since. I"m going to try 12.11 beta when it finishes and see what happens.

Any other ideas?

 

Did you already do a cleaning install of windows?
That blue escreen was like a Bsod or another thing?

 

Its is a clean install. The screen was flickering for a bit, then it went to a blue screen with vertical lines. It works fine now with the standard VGA Driver.

 

Hey cleiton, you should send him the bios I sent you. Don't know if its any different but worth a try



Bottom right blue heatsink almost came off because of the heat. I'm going to ad adhesive and copper tomorrow to it. DOn't think I will add adhesive to the middle part, its good as it is. I won't have to worry about heatsinks falling off smaller areas since I will be adding adhesive to a much larger copper heatsinks on them.
As you can see, my temps reaches 91''c after about 30 minutes. And it runs perfectly. Before it would crash but once I added the extra copper and adhesive, problem solved. Overclocked it a little to 900mhz. Got like 300+ points more in 3dmark11

 

I already put the link here
This is a link from Dropbox
But I will do it again
https://www.dropbox.com/s/h702yvqqeisyejs/7970M.zip

 

Oh yeah forgot.

Hey don't know if you guys have this problem but my AC Adapter sparks sometimes. What do you guys think?

 

So I'm done trying for the night. I keep getting BSODs now. Maybe I killed the card, but I doubt it add it works in safe mode. I'll see what I can figure out tomorrow. If not at least I have a new ssd. Our I can always just order the sager

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DOn't get why your getting BSOD, did you use the bios provided by cleiton? Use conventional HDD just to rule out ssd problems

 

Well back at it this morning. Going to install just the Wi-Fi driver and the video driver and see what's doing.

Ok sui with just the Windows updates, Intel 6200 driver and catalyst 12.10 it BSODs. I'm guessing my card is done. I'm not smart enough in this dirty of thing to be able to figure it out. Going to get some sleep and decide what to do in the morning.

Might just part out the ole girl. Unless someone can think of a better solution that I haven't tried.

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You still havent answer my question, did you use the vbios that cleiton provided? If you are not, then I suggest you use it as I am using it on mine. 2, after installing tge vbios, install 12.11 drivers.

It only happens as you try to install the drivers right? If it was hardware, you would be having issues even before you even attempted to install the drivers. If the video card was damaged then you would have artifacts, immediate shut downs and also BSOD.

The fact that your only getting it after your installing the drivers mean it might be your v bios.

It's 4am right now, going to bed. I'll help you out some more tomorrow.

 

Yes, I am using the VBIOS that was provided. I pulled the card and put the old one back in. I"ll wait for you today, and I"ll reinstall if you have a good Idea. WHen I tried to open up the VBIOS in the VBIOS patcher I was getting errors.

Here is a quick video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QF1XpgdNj6g

 

Hey guys! Now in my GF's house
Cuban! My 5850 had the same problem after a put some pressure and after it I got bsod after I installed the driver but it worked well without it
So Cuban I think that the coopers after close the note could put more pressure to the card and damaged it
Hope not

 

So you're saying you applied pressure to the card after it was installed and damaged it? I have the card out now and looked it over. It looks good. I've repasted it and I guess we will see what happens if I decide to reinstall it.

The one thing that caused all of this was running MSI kombustor. I was stressing the card and when it got to 71C the computer shut down. Since then I've had issues. Maybe it is dead.

 

The card is dead boys. I went to throw it back in and I got virtical lines across the screen. The fan stayed off as well.

Oh well. Time to look for a new Sager!!!!

 

does the card do virtical lines after you get into the windows environment? did you backup the original vbios that came with the card? i would try another go at flashing.

 

I'm pretty sure the card is dead. I went to reinstall it and as soon as the PC tried to boot up I got scrolling white lines on a black screen. The fan didn't kick on like the CPU one did. I think it dead.

I think I was stupid with msi kombuster and burned up the card.

 

I might try one more go when I get home. The wife and I are at lunch.

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OK so here is the plan. I"m going to go one last time to see if I can get this card to work. I'll reflash the 7970M.ROM after I flash the stock clevo. I think I'm going to lose the ability to see after that, so I"ll be blindflashing the 7970M.

We will see what happens!