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    Upgrade my dell precision M4600 with nVidia quadro K2100M

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by flavio13, Feb 21, 2014.

  1. flavio13

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    Hello everyone,

    I recently bought an Nvidia K2100m thinking that I could upgrade my dell precision M4600 but I'm having problems, I installed the new Gpu Card but at the power on of pc BIOS not started, can you help? I tried to install the latest firmware BIOS A16 but without success, I just get a black screen.

    Thank you.
     
    flavio13, Feb 21, 2014
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  2. Krane

    Krane Notebook Prophet

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    You may want to consider having this moved to the Dell or 4600 Precision section. You'll likely stand a better chance of getting a quicker response there.
     
    Krane, Feb 21, 2014
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    I know that the m4700 doesn't work too well with the K2100M (lots of missing features).
    There's a decent chance your machine may be fully incompatible.
    Did you have optimus enabled or disabled prior to sticking the card in? Have you tried removing the card, switching that setting, and trying again?
     
    sangemaru, Feb 21, 2014
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    What is optimus? where can I enable or disable it? which settings I can try to change?
     
    flavio13, Feb 21, 2014
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    Auto switching from combo to discrete GPU. Due to my display I don't get that economy setting, but I believe this is configured in the BIOS.
     
    Krane, Feb 24, 2014
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    I haven't this option!!! :-((((((
     
    flavio13, Feb 27, 2014
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