AMD FirePro M6100 overclocking vBIOS mod (+ 8***M and R9 M*** series)

I thought for whitelist issues they refuse to post at all? Mine posted for sure. I tried an HP bios as well, from the Zbook, since the W6170M is the M6100. I tried all the HP bios I can find. But I'm pretty sure they didn't work because, unfortunately, the Zbook is an embedded Display Port device. HP doesn't have an LVDS device that used the W6170M. That's why I believe I need a vbios mod. =(

 

IIRC W6170M has the same core config but different silicon, not allowing for cross flashing, but I'm probably wrong. Does an external display work? The M6100 worked fine in what I assume was LVDS in my AW 17 R1, and also seems to work with what seems to be eDP my P377SMA. I can't mod my VBIOS on either so I'm assuming I have a later revision M6100

 

Hm, I haven't been able to check that yet sadly, as I have no VGA/DisplayPort cable. Should I get one to check into that and then report back?

Also, I did cross-flash between them, and it resulted in no brick. I flashed back just fine. I can tell because I flashed, then dumped to check, then flashed back, and dumped again. Both flashes were successful. Although I guess it's hard to be sure if that was because the card was fine, or because of Enduro.

 

Yeah, you should, although does it not have HDMI? Weird. 8740W isn't compatible with Enduro/optimus IIRC it has no iGPU

Assuming you used ATI Flash? If so, DOS or windows? Where did you buy your card?

I'm only asking because I can't even flash mine, let alone brick it

 

Hello, I had posted this also in the M6600 owners thread.
I'd like a definitive answer if a Dell/Alienware AMD R9 M290x GPU green pcb works in the Precision M6600 without any additional software fan control or VBios mod or without disabling EC control via Dell Fan Control Utility.
From previous posts isn't clear if the fan spins or are totally dead with stock VBios since all successful installs reports the use of additional software fan control (Speedfan, HWinfo and TThrottle or have disabled EC control at each startup).

@dmgzd had very high GPU temperature exceeding 90°C at load and was forced to use additional fan control software. I suspect a bad contact with heatsink since I had similar issues with my Firepro M6100 before rearrange a precise contact with all surfaces, now it's max 80°C with @valuxin MM2_1188_1650 VBios mod using FurMark GPU stress test after 1 hour. Real games runs cooler.
@Ray Griffith is using an additional cooler under the laptop, but has reported also common temperatures of around 76°C without it but always used a TThrottle utility.
@hollywooddchi reported the fans will not spin without disabling EC control and using additional fan control software at each startup.

So the final question:
With stock VBios is the GPU fan totally dead and an additional software is always necessary or just needed to speed up fans rpms given the higher temperatures?

 

@Celadus
On M6600 and M4600 any AMD card that's differ from M5950 or M6100 won't be seen by BIOS as supported for temperature reading. That's why, in those cases, you'll need to use manual control.

 

@valuxin first a big thank you for your modded M6100 VBIOS, it's a great upgrate from stock.
Last question to be sure which path should I follow to try a GPU upgrade.

If the BIOS doesn't see unsupported GPU (likee AMD M290x or Firepro W7170m), is the Dell Fan Control Utility still necessary to disable EC control?
If not it should be easy to auto run at startup a fan control software to keep temperatures in check.

 

Recently I've been able to get a proper VGA converter and try out the Firepro M6100 device. My results are unfortunate, I get no video out at all with VGA. There's a possibility that I'm just using a bad VBIOS for that computer, so I will try the other ones by blind flashing. However it's certainly not looking great so far. Any ideas?

 

On my M6800 with a .33 revision card, when i flash it, is missing vbios info in flash window, force flash and reboot removes firepro settings, tried the new ati 2.84 flash tool as well and using command line admin priv.

EDIT.. Signed into onedrive trying v2 hopefully it goes good, flashing a .34 on .33

 

Seems no matter what i flash, card bios ver gets blanked out, uninstall drivers gets picked up as 8950m but upon install on 18.9 drivers amd settings will not show up, msi afterburner pics card up as 8950m but no control, flashing card is successful and everything but card will not function.

 

Welcome, did some testing on this gpu AMD M6100. Seems that max stable core clock for this card is 1100mhz. Dont go higher than 1100mhz. Author should delete every bios that has higher core clocks. Dont flash nothing higher or you get high risk of damaging your gpu

 

Unstable clocks dont lead to a dead GPU, voltage does.

Were you able to OC the memory at all?

 

Turning off switchable graphics allows the installation of the 8950 adrenalin driver, with switchable graphics on no go. Giving up completely on overclocking not really worth it. I dont really want to switch off switchable graphics because im usually browsing on top of gaming on the card. I would live to overclick and get more than 30 locked fps on shadow of the tomb raider, its smooth at 30+ mostly high on 1600x900.

 

For example setting clock to 1110mhz will randomly stop firestrike extreme but not normal firestrike. Max stable for both is 1100mhz. Hynix memory is underclocked, standard for this memory should be at least 1500mhz. So you have gpu that has almost maxed stable core clock but minimised memory clock.