Removing 7970M from Clevo P170EM

Hi - My P170EM's 7970M died, and I would like to remove it. When I do and then try to boot up the laptop the three lock lights next to the power light start to flash, the CPU fan goes crazy, the laptop beeps, and then the laptop shuts down. Is there any way of removing the 7970M and running it with the graphics card removed? I'm using the i7's HD4000 for display.

Edit - sorry for the double post. I've reported the older one.

 

Funny, seems like all the 7970ms are dying around the same time. Mine just started having problems a month ago, recently replaced with a 980m.

Can you boot into safe mode? Then maybe you can disable it in the device manager to prevent the drivers from loading. I was able to use my p170em in the meantime.

You can't run the laptop without the card in there. My problem sounds different than yours, so my solution may not work. My problem was random BSODs and the video card not being detected. The bios would say no vga card too, and then would freeze during boot up at Windows logo. I baked my video card and that lessened the BSODs, and allowed me back into Windows, but seems like BSODs would occur anytime the video card lost detection. Solution was to disable 7970m in device manager and I was able to use computer with Intel hd4000.

 

Thanks very much for your reply! I had to reinstall Windows because it was acting really funny when I tried to just disable the card. I was considering baking the card before going ahead with anything else, but yeah I'm pretty sure this card is done. I would like to get a new card, but they're so bloody expensive. I am looking into trying one of those external desktop GPU solutions, but I don't know if that would piss this computer off given that there's such a weird degree of tying down the GPU to the essential functioning of the laptop. I'd hate to just be stuck with the HD4000 given that the laptop is still amazing in every other way. Sorry for being long-winded

Thanks!

 

I haven't heard of external GPUs being used with p170em, and even then, it probably wouldn't work without a card in the laptop since signal has to pass through it before going to the screen. The GPUs are expensive, but it's probably your only option. You could always go with a 970m, which is still great performance for a better price.

 

The 970M is not horrendously expensive and will bring you bang up to date performance wise.