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    GTX980m Prema VBIOS crashes

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by SnowDrifter, Jan 12, 2015.

  1. SnowDrifter

    SnowDrifter Notebook Geek

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    I was intending to flash my 980ms with Prema's unlocked bios as I did with my motherboard. As noted I made sure nvidia's latest drivers were installed. I clicked modme.bat, read through the prompt and inputted "y" at which point the display went blank. I came back a few hours later and it was still blank. Restarted the PC, everything back to normal. Verified vbios version with GPU-Z and found that the bios was still original and not prema's as I had intended. I tried to run as administrator which yielded the control window closing immediately after opening. I tried modme2.bat as I have pair of cards in SLI and it yielded the same results. Blank screen which was rectified with manual reboot and original vbios remains.


    Any idea what I could be doing wrong here? :confused:
     
    SnowDrifter, Jan 12, 2015
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    Doh got it figured out. Forgot to disable the cards in device manager. I really ought to get more sleep LOL


    Voltage slider wasn't unlocked on afterburner like I'd hoped though
     
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    Prema Your Freedom, Your Choice

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    You need to use NVIDIA Inspector...ENJOY! )
     
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    Prema, apart from allowing further overclocking and voltage changes does this modded vbios change the behavior of the clocks under SLI? I find on my gtx980m the 2 gpus can vary their core n memory clocks when running games sometimes by a lot.
     
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    Good deal. Thank you sir!

    I'm thinking I will need a dual PSU setup to really get these cards going. Sent my brick into protect hehehe
     
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    It disables the throttle, so even on stock clocks without making any changes you will get the full speed that you where promised in the first place...
     
    Prema, Jan 13, 2015
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    I wasn't aware they throttled in Clevo notebooks, thought that was only in Alienware machines. Where/how does this throttling take place? What should I be looking for?
     
    kantana, Jan 13, 2015
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