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    Someone Please Help Clevo P170EM with GTX 980M

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Andrew DeCola, Jul 6, 2018.

  1. Andrew DeCola

    Andrew DeCola Newbie

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    My motherboard recently took a dive on my Clevo P170EM. Luckilly I was able to find an inexpensive replacement and all the other hardware seems to be working. However, the new motherboard has stock Clevo BIOS instead of the @Prema mod BIOS that I was running on my previous motherboard. This BIOS is not compatible with the GTX 980M. I still have the .zip file with the Premamod BIOS, but it is encrypted and I do not know the password. Does anybody know the password? The file name is.....Neptune_X_v3.zip. I have tried variations of biosmods.wordpress.com and variations of premamod.com as the password with no luck. I bought the GPU from Eurocom in 2015, but their tech support has not responded to my requests for the password. I will update this post if they do reply with the password so nobody wastes their time.

    EDIT: I was able to use a brute force program to determine the password. Thank you to anybody that replied.
     
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    KuroSan Notebook Enthusiast

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    The BIOS from newer model EM machines support the 980m natively. The BIOS for the P170EM does not because it does not support UEFI (required to use the GPU). I have not tried other Clevo BIOS from newer EM models in my laptop. Maybe I will do that next time. It does not matter anymore because I was able to "brute force" my way to find the password. Took a couple days since it was 9 digits and I was searching all typable characters
     
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    OK, i was not aware that there were EM series machines which does not support uefi, i thought the HM machines were the problematic ones - anyway, good your problem is solved.