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    7970M NP8150 problems

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by firstnomad, Sep 25, 2013.

  1. firstnomad

    firstnomad Notebook Guru

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    Hey guys, hoping to get a little help here...

    I bought a 7970M for my NP8150. I flashed the stock voltage vBIOS from Jaybee's thread and it seemed to go fine... installed Windows fine as well. Got to the desktop and Windows automatically installed drivers but everything looked off. The actual windows seemed to display in the correct resolution but any displayed text or pictures in the windows were very blurry. Checked device manager, there's a warning on the HD7970M. Code 43. I tried installing Catalyst 13.9 and it succeeded, but the driver seems to not actually work - trying to open CCC fails and returns a "driver not installed" error. Also I don't think the Catalyst installer is finding the hardware correctly. On the finish installation page it says "other hardware".

    Is it possible a bad vBIOS flash could cause errors like this? Am I screwed?

    I posted in the 7970M/780M NP81x0 thread but it seems to be sort of dead, so I'm hoping to get a little more visibility.

    Thanks.

    UPDATE: RJTech says ATI or Clevo changed something in the cards in March of this year to make them stop working in the P150HM, but apparently a modified driver will make it work. Anyone know anything about that? I was under the impression all that needed to be done was the blind flash.
     
    firstnomad, Sep 25, 2013
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  2. Prostar Computer

    Prostar Computer Company Representative

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    To my knowledge, production of the 7970M Clevo cards stopped right around that time - maybe a tad later, so I'm not sure that's true about them modifying it to no longer work in the HM series (I don't see why either Clevo or especially AMD would go to those lengths either).
     
    Prostar Computer, Sep 26, 2013
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