The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Please help with Clevo p150hm

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by masamra, Oct 24, 2015.

  1. masamra

    masamra Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    32
    Likes Received:
    2
    Trophy Points:
    16
    i have a Clevo p150hm (Sager NP8150), my ati hd6990m suddenly showed nothing on the screen, so i bought another gpu the ( Clevo P150HM Video Card nVidia GTX 485m 2GB 6-77-W860L-D21 N12E-GTX) the seller says that it was pulled from a Clevo p150hm.

    after i pluged it in it is the same as the old 6990m ''Black screen'', the laptop runs up and i an turn the wifi or bluetooth on/off (by the light indicators).

    should i flash a new bios that can deal with nvidia cards(where to get the file?)?

    any help urgent so i can return the card if i found that it is the problem

    thanks
     
    masamra, Oct 24, 2015
    #1
  2. jaybee83

    jaybee83 Biotech-Doc

    Reputations:
    4,125
    Messages:
    11,571
    Likes Received:
    9,151
    Trophy Points:
    931
    if youve done the installation correctly and all thermal pads and thermal paste are in place, it should at least show up and give u any kind of display output. this way it rather looks like the card was DOA...
     
    jaybee83, Oct 24, 2015
    #2
    i_pk_pjers_i likes this.
  3. Prostar Computer

    Prostar Computer Company Representative

    Reputations:
    1,257
    Messages:
    7,426
    Likes Received:
    1,016
    Trophy Points:
    331
    Do you happen to know what version BIOS you have? Are you able to test on an external display (do you get a picture, if so)?
     
    Prostar Computer, Oct 26, 2015
    #3
  4. jaybee83

    jaybee83 Biotech-Doc

    Reputations:
    4,125
    Messages:
    11,571
    Likes Received:
    9,151
    Trophy Points:
    931
    the bios version "shouldnt" matter, since the 485M was supported right from the very release of the p150hm, so it shouldnt need a bios update...

    but yeah, try and see if u get a display output on an external display, just to make sure its not your internal display being broken
     
    jaybee83, Oct 27, 2015
    #4
  5. Meaker@Sager

    Meaker@Sager Company Representative

    Reputations:
    9,436
    Messages:
    58,194
    Likes Received:
    17,909
    Trophy Points:
    931
    Have a talk with prema, he may be able to shed some light if a specific bios is required, or differences between AMD and Nvidia.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Oct 31, 2015
    #5
    jaybee83 likes this.