The Official MSI GT60/70 970m/980m Upgrade Thread

just finished modifying the heat sink

 

Make sure you set your boot mode to AHCI or RAID whatever you had before

 

i put now raid before i not remember

 

I discovered laptop and new 980M work fine (GPU only goes up to 270MHz) till I plug in the charger, but after that, anything 3D will cause my laptop to freeze. I'll try to find a better charger, but if that doesn't help, I guess it could be the GPU or Motherboard :/

I can't find any similar problems in this thread, anybody heared something simillar?

 

Looks like your 980m is not fed with enough voltage when it kicks to 3D mode... That's strange behaviour. Makes me remember I had same issue 10 years ago (or so) with a 9700m gt MXM on a FSC Pi1556... Car would work nicely on 2d mode but as soon as 3d mode was enabled, it froze the whole laptop. Fortunately at the time, it was easier to fix. You should try to save your vbios with GPUZ and try to see the voltage given to the card in 3d mode with maxwell bios tweaker.
It can only be helpful to solve your issue.

Edit: just a silly question... Did you remove all trace of your existing nvidia driver BEFORE installing the new card?? If not, that could be the source of your problem. REMOVE ALL NVIDIA DRIVER then use drive fusion to wipe anything "nvidia related" and after that install a new driver, with custom ini file if needed (go to laptopvideo2go).

 

I did a clean install, reset EC and BIOS.
The part about voltage, I had 880M MSI working in my laptop, so I'd think the 980M BIOS would benefit raising the voltage, at this stage I'm 99% sure it's the card not laptop.
The 980M is CLEVO.

I'll ask the seller if he's OK with me tinckering with the BIOS

 

Any update?

 

I tested another 880M in my laptop and it worked, so I guess it's the card, can't be 100% sure thou.
I didn't try other BIOSes on my card because the seller didn't answer my question if he'd permit that.

I also tried 240W PSU and replacing my 4930MX with 4700MQ, always same result.

Returning the card this week

 

Looks like your 980m is defective...

 

I concur with what johnbb said.

 

hi everyone
i just updated my card gtx 980m but i cant use gtx 980m in gaming everything install ok but when i open game its use intel gpu

 

1. Was the system plugged in?
2. How did you determine that the game was using IGD instead of PEG?

 

because its show always intel 4000

 

every time when i run game its show intel hd 4000

 

i try everything clean install windows also change everything in nvidia control panel but cant run game with 980m

 

card detected well no problem driver install without modifying

 

yes system plugged

 

That's normal because your system uses Optimus technology. Is your game playable? You can also turn on fps on your game to verify.

 

i cant run 3d score or games is not playable its always run on intel gráfices

 

right now i am installing windows 7 lets if its work

 

gpu activity always show 0

 

You can enable an additional icon in the notification area to see which graphics card is being used:

1. Click Start and then Control Panel. Select Classic View from the left side of the window.
2. Double-click NVIDIA Control Panel.
3. Click View and next Display GPU Activity Icon in Notification Area.
4. Click the new icon in the notification area. A pop-up will show applications using the NVIDIA graphics. When the NVIDIA graphics is not used, it will show None.

 

yes bro i already did its show not in use always using hd4000 intel . 980m showing everything good instalacion is good without modifying inf but in games or start any applications its not use nvidia gpu even i also check stress test but its not starting gtx 980m only runs intel

 

What about BIOS & EC firmware? Are they up-to-date? When did it stop working?

 

i have this and install the card today everything seems good in installation but when i start gaming its not run games with 980m its run with hd4000 .is gtx 980m msi versión

 

Hi. Just out of curiosity, have you set high performance nvidia processor as the prefered card in global settings in Nvidia Control Panel ?


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yes i set this also but no understand why its not enable my card any activity

 

Download Furmark (stresstesting software) and run it and see if it recognize your card, and if it does and you run it, you will see how many fps the card is generating + you will also see the temperature.


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already try’s but its run on integrated grafics instead ok nvidia

 

What i the modellnr of your msilaptop ?


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gt60 onc
ivy bridg

 

So, If I get this right your card is visible in device manager and you have no problem updating nvidiadrivers(install recognize card) Is bios and firmware original from when the laptop was new, or have you updated them. I cant find the versions you have (your screenshot) on MSI:s supportpages for the MSI GT60 ONC.


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just updated my window to 10 just a wait i show you results bro

 

How did it go?

 

Yes it is possible. just go to first page of this thread and you'll know how to upgrade to 980m for your laptop

 

yes its work awesome help thanks everyone
here is my specs
gt60 onc
i7 3610qm
16gb ddr3l
bios 51x ec t18
gtx 980m 8gb just need to modifications inf
i got call of duty ww2 60fps in ultra
i saguesst nt-h1 thermal past after 2 hour gaming temp never go upto 83c

 

yes its work awesome help thanks everyone
here is my specs
gt60 onc
i7 3610qm
16gb ddr3l
bios 51x ec t18
gtx 980m 8gb just need to modifications inf
i got call of duty ww2 60fps in ultra
i saguesst nt-h1 thermal past after 2 hour gaming temp never go upto 83c

 

That's great!! So it was the OS. )

 

its was inf file i modify but i cant make good so bmtwo modify for me and its work

 

Great ..so congrats to that you got it sorted out


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work awosome yes and really its very helpful thread i cant do this without this thread very helpful

 

is this possible to upgrade cpu 4th gen this laptop msi gt60 onc

 

Really? What was the difference?

 

just need to modify inf file

 

What model? What card? Could you run 3dmark firestrike?

 

stillin very busy .
gt 60 onc
i7 3610qm
16gb ram
gtx 980m 8gb msi version

 

today i am gonna run

 

this is 3dmark score but just trail version

 

Hi guys Just wanna know if there is someone who has improved their cooling and how you have done it. I have also b.t.w upgraded my GT70 2 PC Dominator to GTX 980 from GTX 870. Already with the 870 I had problem with sound disappearing while gaming (gpu gets warm and the sound chip gets affected, a very common problem as I understand it) The problem has continued with the 980, so I was just curios what you have done about it ? (besides running the fan at full speed all the time while gaming) Otherwise I love this laptop and all possibilities to upgrade it, and last but not least I want to thank you all helpful people in this thread