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    Issues with K4100M Upgrade in Precision m6700

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by flodotz, Jul 4, 2016.

  1. flodotz

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    Hi together :)

    I've been posting this to Techinferno Forum already yesterday, but there seems to be a lot more activity here on Notebookreview, so I thought I'd give it a try here ;)

    As the title says I'm having a little Issue after upgrading my m6700's graphics card from the K3000M to the newer K4100M:

    Everything seems to work properly, but under load (i.e. 3D applications) it produces crashes / system instability after ~5-20 seconds.
    When I reduce the chip- and memory-clocks in MSI Afterburner as far as possible, it takes a bit longer until it crashes, but eventually it always does after a minute or so.
    When running on battery power (and thus even further reduced clocks) everything runs stable for arbitrarily long times.

    This sounds like a thermal problem to me. However, the reported GPU temperature never exceeded 65°C, which I think is OK.
    I guess the memory chips are not temperature monitored seperately, are they? So maybe I should replace the memory thermal pads by new ones?

    What I've already tried/checked/looked at:

    - Uninstalled previous drivers with "Display Driver Uninstaller"
    - Latest Nvidia Drivers can be installed properly (and also tried a few older versions)
    - Notebook BIOS is up to date
    - Tried three different Video-BIOS versions
    - Graphics card is not recognized by Notebook BIOS properly ("Unknown video card")
    - Graphics card is recognized under Windows, though (Device-manager / Nvidia control-panel / GPU-Z and so on)
    - Sometimes after a crash the system recovers and a pop-up says that the nvidia graphics driver crashed and was restarted
    - Of course, I'm using the large 240 Watt Power supply

    Ok, that's about everything I remember to be relevant at the moment.

    I'd appreciate any kind of help :) ... If you need further Information, just let me know, and I'll try to deliver it.

    Thank you, Florian :)
     
    flodotz, Jul 4, 2016
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