D901c Quadro 3700M Vbios

Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone might have a copy of the vbios for the quadro 3700M card that was used in the D901c

Thanks!

 

YES!

ME TOO! thank you for posting this!!

oh and FYI there are some HP ones that seem to work.

 

Me three

 

mmarchid has it... but uh im not asking him

 

It's odd because it works with an external monitor but it doesn't even recognize the internal LCD at all. Really works quite well actually and runs suprisingly cool.

 

As Niff mentioned, try the HP vBIOSes that have been uploaded, it might fix your problem.

 

yeah, I'm going to try that when i get home and post my results. Thanks everyone!

 

Tried a few HP Vbioses, still no love from the LCD screen. It's like it's not even there, though the VGA and DVI ports still work fine,any ideas?

 

Hmm. Sounds like the issue one of the users here had with putting an upgraded graphics card in his M570RU that had a revision 1 motherboard, all he got was a black screen. I forget what the problem was, I think it had something to do with LVDS recognition. Maybe some of the advice he got could help you.

In general, it's probably a good idea to stay away from L enovo parts, sometimes they are just a little bit different compared to all the other stuff of the same type from other companies and thus are not compatible with anything but a L enovo system.

 

Yeah, I figured it was something to do with the LCD being something different from what the vbios was expecting. Just tried something on a whim though. I flashed a GTX 280M vbios to the card and suddenly the LCD started working. It crapped out when windows loaded as others have experienced when doing this but it shows that the LCD problem I'm having is in fact BIOS related, I just haven't been able to find a Quadro one that works yet.

 

Try a 9800m GT/GTX vbios, that might be more stable.

 

seriously there is a clevo 3700m bios is around here somewhere

 

Well, I broke it. Apparently one of the vbioses I flashed to the card was corrupted and now I get the two beeps of doom... but the machine still seems to boot to dos off the usb stick even though I cant see anything (I put a line in the autoexec to create a file on the USB stick if it booted and it was there when I checked). does anyone know the proper options for nvflash so I can try a blind flash?

 

Very interesting. At least that means the problem is not insurmountable.

Since so many members of the community are affected by this "280m flash is fine until I get into Windows where everything goes to hell" I should probably get back to trying to figure that problem out. It has to be fixable, it's just a driver issue.

Yes, I have had to do a few blind flashes with my 3700m. Write an autoexec.bat with this line:

nvflash -4 -5 -6 -A -y file.rom

I also had to hit Y and Enter a few times to get it to complete (not sure why, the above command shouldn't need you to do anything) but when it's done your system should automatically reboot.

 

It wants you to confirm and such by pressing enter and Y. its always the same as a non blind flash. I dunno about writing a batch file, I've done that a bunch of times from memory and it works fine.

I still think it could be a VBIOS issue and we could get an awesome compatible vbios somehow. i have to solder and acpi heatsink back on to get my m570 working with my other 3700m >_>

 

Hmm, I can still dump the vbios to the flash drive so this is good because it means NVflash it still seeing the card, I think I have to type YES somewhere in the flash process because just Y and enter doesn't seem to work
Just gonna keep plugging away

 

Okay, got it back to what I started with. The lenovo vbios, so at least it's working, now I can breathe again. I PMed mmarchild about the clevo BIOS, hopefully he'll be able to help out.

Thanks for your help guys!

 

It could very well be a vBIOS problem. One of these days when I get some down time I'm going to rip them both apart and see where the differences are and try to make some kind of hybrid FrankenvBIOS that will work. Too bad none of us seems to know anyone that is an expert with video BIOSes...

 

I bet Mavke could figure it out over at the MVKtech forums. I dunno if he has time though or the cards to test it.

 

Still no luck with any of the bioses I've tried, tired a 9800M GTX vbios and the same thing happens, no display on the computer but an external display works fine. The only vbioses that the LCD on the computer works with are ones from 260m and 280m cards, which obviously crap out as soon as the drivers load.

 

Been looking on ebay and the lenovo card looks quite a bit different than a hp version card. Guessing that might be the problem
as the others have no issue with the hp version.

hp
http://cgi.ebay.com/HP-8730w-Nvidia...586?pt=PCC_Video_TV_Cards&hash=item2c578910f2

lenovo
http://cgi.ebay.com/Nvidia-Quadro-F...187?pt=PCC_Video_TV_Cards&hash=item27b442ebe3

 

I'm pretty sure it's not an electrical incompatibility that's causing the screen not to work, otherwise the vbios from a 260M and 280M wouldn't make the LCD work. I think the problem is that the lenovo vbios doesn't have support for the d901c's built in LCD. It's not something it would have seen in a thinkpad so it doesn't know what to do with it and therefore ignores it. Unfortunately I've had no luck getting ahold of an actual Clevo/Sager/etc Quadro FX 3700M vbios which I'm sure is the key to making this work.

 

Sorry to drag out this old thread but anyone ever manage to get the vbios for a clevo 3700M?

 

but it was a new card. Sealed. However, even if a few connectors were to have oxidized, shouldn't SOMETHING be detected? Even if garbled? Anyway, the troubleshooting continues...

 

I've uploaded a clevo 3700m vbios file in your post.
May check it out?