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    Help with installing GTX970m in P170EM

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by unpilot, Mar 13, 2015.

  1. unpilot

    unpilot Notebook Consultant

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    Hi All...so I flashed Prema's mod and am ready to install my new GTX970m.
    Question to those who have done this before....what drivers to use.
    I know I have to clean out the old AMD drivers but what Intell vga drivers and what Nvidia drivers to use?

    Thanks!
     
    unpilot, Mar 13, 2015
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    unpilot Notebook Consultant

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    Got it working. I bought the GTX970m from RJTech and although it did not say it would work in my P170EM it in fact does.

    I ran Prema's bios uninstalled the amd 7970m drivers ran Display Driver Installer to clean out old drivers
    Installed the GTX970m ran Prema's vBios. I could not get the Nvidea drivers to install till I tried the 347.12 version from Laptopvideo2go. Then all was good.

    Can't say thanks enough to Prema for making this work!! It keeps the old lappy humming for another year!
     
    unpilot, Mar 14, 2015
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  3. D2 Ultima

    D2 Ultima Livestreaming Master

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    That's because a modded .inf was required for it to install. If you ever install Windows 8.1, you'll need to restart windows to install those drivers.

    Glad you got it working though!
     
    D2 Ultima, Mar 14, 2015
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    You need to do an advanced restart to disable driver signing.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Mar 15, 2015
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