Bios mod needed...

I just bought a GTX 680m upgrade kit for my Sager NP9280 (D900F) off Eurocom. The VBIOS has the right revision for Clevo (P370EM3....80.04.67.00.01) but, I can't install the Nvidia driver (387.92) for it because Nvidia update can't find the 680m.

If you think it could be something else, let me know what I need to do. Also when I go into device manager, it just shows Standard VGA for Windows or something like that. I can't find the 680m anywhere. Although, CPUZ recognizes it? GPUZ or HWmonitor does not see it.

My bios is on the latest "factory revision" available which is 1.00.09 and my EC is 1.00.04. This is more tham likely my problem since this only supports the 480m. I need a @Prema bios for my machine but he's a hard man to get up with. I know he has or had one from doing a search on NBR. I will throw some cash his way if he comes through for me.

If anyone can help me out, I would greatly appreciate it. I'm sure Eurocom will get back to me sooner or later but it's the weekend and going all weekend without my machine is a tough one to swallow.

Thanks,
Charlie

 

You need to mod your nvidia driver. I can help you out, just do the following:
- Tell me which Windows version you're running (7, 8, 8.1,10 or 10C)
- Go to your device manager, rightclick the GTX 680M, properties, details, look for hardware ID, copy the hardware ID and post it here.
Once u done that I can make you a custom .inf file. and tell u what to do.

 

I know its off topic for the thread but curious if the X5650 works in your laptop.

Otherwise yeah, just need to mod the inf in the driver and should be good to go.

Some people go to a website for it, some recommend against it. I never had the need to so far but I believe it was called laptopvideo2go or something along those lines.

 

I'm on Windows 7, I will check the device manager in the morning. But it's not showing up in device manager. Only shows VGA.

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Pretty sure it will work. I seen on other sites that I can run Xeon 5500-5600 series.

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If you ever went that route, if your laptop allows overclocking (Im ignorant to that model) then you might be able to hit 4.0Ghz consider some desktops take it as far as 5.2Ghz

Should be an interesting thought for later should you consider it.

 

the VGA card is your GTX 680M, just give me the hardware of that device.

 

You could use @j95 drivers. Just under Game and software and look for 387.92 Findings.

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Here is a screen shot of it.

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I was thinking about doing that upgrade next or try the i7 990X. It can be overclocked now but only by turning up the multiplier using Intel extreme tuning utility. Bios is locked.

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Alright follow the instructions:
- Turn off your notebook or restart it, tap F8 until you get into the startup options from windows (safe mode etc.)

- Start with "Disable driver Signature enforcement"
- Download the this driver from Nvidia
- Once the install automaticly starts after you extracted it, cancel it (once u press cancel it will take a bit until it actually cancels)
- Go to the folder you installed your Nvidia driver (typically C:/NVIDIA/DIsplayDriver/387.92/Win8_Win7_64/International/Display.Driver)
- Download the file I attached, unzip it, replace it with the old one.
- Start setup, at some point windows will ask you if you want to install the non signature driver, and you click on "yes I'm sure."
- After install reboot your system.
- Enjoy your GTX 680M

You can also check the device manager if it installed it properly if you want

 

Still get the same error message

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Did you replace the .inf file in Display.Driver and not put the zip file in? it's important that you put the .inf file in the right folder.

If you did everything as written and it still give syou that error then use the file I put into attachement. It should work then. It seems that you have Windows 7 SP 1 and not windows 7.

 

In running Windows 7.

I will

Yep, unzipped it opened the display.driver folder and replaced it.

 

Just edited my post above yours.
Seems that Windows 7 and Windows 7 SP 1 are using different sections in the drivers. Which now makes sense considering there are 3 sections 2 for windows 7 and 7 SP1 and windows 8.

 

Yeah its service pack 1...I will try that one and let you know. Sorry about that.

 

This still confuses me tho, I always thought 6.1 was w7, 6.2 was windows 8, 6.3 was windows 8.1 and 10.0 was windows 10.

 

Same error message...It's a Dell version of Windows 7 ultimate service pack 1 if this makes a difference.

 

Now this is interesting, do you have teamviewer?
It should defnitely work, so this is confusing me. I think windows might actually refuse to overwrite the file so I guess I'll edit it direcly via teamviewer.

If you don't like using teamviever then I can guide you through discord.

 

No I dont have that. Let me try downloading the update again and moving the modded INF into a fresh download. I may have corrupted it, who knows.

 

Can you download either teamviever or discord? Both are free.
Teamviever lets me control ur PC remotely so I could direcly work on it.
Discord is a voice program that lets us talk much like teamspeak, skype etc.

So either is fine so I can either do it myself or guide you through it.

 

I downloaded team viewer. Take over lol!

 

Send me the ID and Password over conversation. We don't need multiple people controlling :'D

and open a notepad file So i can write something to ya.

Alright problem fixed, now i'd suggest downloading 3dmark 2011 and do a benchmark run, you can post ur result here so we can see if the card performs properly

 

I appreciate you helping me out. I will get some bench numbers and let you know if I see anything wrong with it. As of now, it's running like a champ. Highest temp got to 73c on firestrike demo.

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Just send direcy link after you done the benchmark the scores are saved on the link. No need to upload pictures and such

 

Danish I too just purchase a GTX680M for my Clevo d900f--- i7 930--- windows 10 64bit. I follow this tread and was hoping the inf file you sent work work with win10. However I get the same error when attempting to down load the driver for the 680m. I did put the laptop in test mode through the command promt (I thought this was like safe mode for 10).
If you would be so kind as to give me some help with this.

 

THe inf file is for windows 7 or windows 8, I'll give you a widnows 10 version per private message in a couple of hours, please be patient!.

EDIT:
Alright follow the instructions:
- Restart your notebook with shift hold it, select:

- Download the this driver from Nvidia
- Once the install automaticly starts after you extracted it, cancel it (once u press cancel it will take a bit until it actually cancels)
- Go to the folder you installed your Nvidia driver (typically C:/NVIDIA/DIsplayDriver/388.00/Win10_64/International/Display.Driver)
- Download the file I attached, unzip it, replace it with the old one.
- Start setup, at some point windows will ask you if you want to install the non signature driver, and you click on "yes I'm sure."
- After install reboot your system.
- Enjoy your GTX 680M

 

-Thank you this worked like a champ very greatful, I purchased this laptop new in 2009 and it has been a great machine until the video card went, now i can enjoy a few more years with it. I probably need to upgrade them memory though and maybe even the processor. But again thank you for your time...

 

No biggie!
yeah the system is still great, the desktop 1st gen I7 is still very powerful and with the GTX 680M you'll still be able to enjoy most games on medium/high settings with good frames.

You should be happy that you made a great buy

 

Glad you got it going. It's a huge upgrade over the 280m (if thats what you had) no doubt. I have mine overclocked to ~940mhz/~2200mhz to run benchmarks. With the multiplier set at 28 on all 4 cores using Intel extreme tuning utility. I play BF1 at medium settings with stock clocks just fine with around 40 fps. I will post some benchmark results here eventually.

 

Yes what came out of it was the 280m, and this 680 is a nice upgrade. As I said I ve had this machine since new and the 280 failed. Not bad considering I bought it in 2009. Havent run any bench mark or anything however, I would like to see your results. I have run aion, swtor, gw2 all in full graphics with out really any issues with the 280. Havent played those in awhile though. Did you have to do anything to be able to run 12g memory?

 

Nope just updated to the latest bios 1.00.09 and KBC/EC 1.00.04 which probably allows 12gb. I've heard they can handle 24gb but not sure about this.

 

Here are a few benchmarks below. 941mhz Core clock 2198mhz Memory.

 

You have a around 10% higher score than a GTX 780M

 

Yeah it's running good. I repasted with ic diamond 24 and it brought the temps down about 3-5c more. Thanks again for all the help @Danishblunt with the set up!

 

Good to see you took that advice with the better tim