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    GTX 880M Upgrade in Dell Precision M6700

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Dustin Sklavos, Dec 30, 2014.

  1. Dustin Sklavos

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    "Just because you can doesn't mean you should."

    I've been scouring different driver modification forums trying to figure out exactly how to make this happen and have had no luck; I can get past the compatibility check but the graphics driver installation always fails. When trying to manually install the graphics driver in Device Manager, it gives me this error:

    "The hash for the file is not present in the specified catalog file. The file is likely corrupt or the victim of tampering."

    I'm using 347.09 and a modified INF from LaptopVideo2Go.

    Relevant information:
    Dell Precision M6700 (i7-3920XM, BIOS A11)
    GeForce GTX 880M 8GB GDDR5 MXM (MSI), TechPowerUp info here
    Hardware ID in Windows: VEN_10DE&DEV_1198&SUBSYS_053F1028&REV_A1
    Windows 8 64-bit (not yet upgraded to 8.1, wanting a solution before spending time making the upgrade in case I have to reformat)
    Note that this is using the RGB-backlit IPS panel and eDP internally instead of LVDS.

    Interestingly, GPU-Z lists the revision as A2.

    Not looking for someone to do the heavy lifting for me necessarily, just tell me what I need to modify to get this bad boy up and running. Help is greatly appreciated.
     
    Dustin Sklavos, Dec 30, 2014
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    Instead of just using the inf, download the whole driver release from laptopvidoe2go forum, disable driver signature check thingie if needed.

    If it boot into windows, there is 0 reason why it wont work.

    Edit: it really sound like driver signature check~
     
    baii, Dec 30, 2014
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  3. Dustin Sklavos

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    Just tried disabling the driver signature check. It started installing the graphics driver and then failed again, just like it had the previous times.
     
    Dustin Sklavos, Dec 30, 2014
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    I would grab a new download from laptopvdieo2go.

    Sent from my 306SH
     
    baii, Dec 30, 2014
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  5. Dustin Sklavos

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    Did that. :( Actually using that package.
     
    Dustin Sklavos, Dec 30, 2014
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    TomJGX I HATE BGA!

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    Dustin, try Mr Fox's Desktop driver mod...

    Download the desktop 344.75 driver from here: NVIDIA DRIVERS GeForce Game Ready Driver WHQL
    Extract the driver and replace the inf file with: http://forum.notebookreview.com/att...780m-880m-980m-mobile-gpus-display.driver.zip

    See if it works for you this way.. Otherwise, you'll have to mod your own notebook driver, again I'd suggest 344.75: NVIDIA DRIVERS GeForce Game Ready Driver WHQL
    Mod the INF: Hardware id of yours is : 053F1028, replace one of the GTX880M ID's with 053F.1028 at the end in the inf file and it should install..
     
    TomJGX, Dec 31, 2014
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  8. Dustin Sklavos

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    Modding notebook drivers with the hardware ID wasn't working. Mr Fox's desktop driver mod seemed to do the trick. Will have to study exactly how he did it so that I can replicate it with driver updates, but it worked.
     
    Dustin Sklavos, Jan 2, 2015
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    TomJGX I HATE BGA!

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    Dustin, it might be worth Pming Mr Fox and asking him about the method.. Also it appears that he will be doing this for quite a while so you might not even need to do the modding :)
     
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