x8100 with 485m weird problem it works but 2 beeps are reboot

So i've confirmed 485m works with modded inf, running 275.33 only, however here is the weirdest thing, everything so far works good, but when i reboot i get 2 beeps and that's it, it hangs, i have to then take out the card put in another card in the primary then reinsert the 485m to get it to work again, then if i reboot it happens again, i'm going to try to downgrade the bios and maybe something will bypass but anybody happen to have had anything like this happen or might have any theory as to why.

anyway to reset CMOS? holding a button or something, i'm getting tired of unscrewing the laptop

 

i removed 1 stick of ram and now i can boot, so it seems i can boot with both sticks of ram perfectly fine and run intensive stuff, then reboot and i hang, removing stick of ram allows me to boot again. Weird, i wonder why and i've also seen this posted somewhere else for another laptop, can't find link.

 

Clearing CMOS may not be a bad idea.

 

can't clear cmos, battery is stuck on. and nothing in manual, also somebody experienced same problem with a w880cu system and 485m

 

Short circuit the two terminals of the CMOS battery.
Of course, pull out the laptop battery before.

 

Here is a thread that describes a similar problem with the 485m and the w860cu:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/sag...le-2gb-ram-succeed-other-ram-size-failed.html

 

i can confirm that 4gb of ram in a single slot this time doesnt boot, but when i put 2gb it does, i get same problem weird, and games all run fine, however i'm massively cpu bottlenecked. very weird,

 

now running 2 x 485m's but i can't enable sli in control panel, hmm need to find a way.

 

well i have reached my limit off evaluation, why because i've already posted before that i'm having heat problems, as far as i can tell the 485m works flawlessly with modded .inf drivers i made, as for SLI, i see the problem and possible solutions but i can not do any of these at the moment because this damn motherboard is really cooking me up to 95c then cutting off around there.

I'm waiting for a p180hm and i'll conduct tests,

Off the bat i'd say it's very possible to run 485m/580m in sli with a 220watt, however i can't confirm, you have to take into consideration that a x7200 cpu has about 85 more watts of power consumption then a 45 watt mobile cpu, and considering it uses 300watt psu, it seems very plausible and i highly doubt the x7200 hits 300 watt threshold unless running a hexacore, i WONDER how many systems will start dropping down if people in here put x8100 and x7200 laptops in basic 24/7 stressing tests. o well, time to play waiting game ;x

 

hmm, heres to hoping the p180hm has the mentioned 130w MXM 3.0 slots. I can't imagine they would develop a new model that still had this issue.

 

In my case, with one GTX580M OC (OV), the maximum power consumption during 3DMark Vantage test is over 220 Watts.

 

what is your laptops rated TDP, as for the p180hm it's going to be 220 watt's as well, same power adapter and everything, i'm just hoping the bios recognizes the card(it should), and what i really hope is that my HEAT related issues are done,

 

My AC adapter has a 180 watts of rated power. But it can provide for few seconds a little more (220).
http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/3603/dsc0175y.jpg

 

you ran vantage and hit 220 of the wall? with a voltage meter? how long did you run the test and did you crash or shutdown at some point? what temps btw

 

220 watts is the maximum value, attained by only a few seconds during the test 3DMark Ventage with OC 800/2000. For 3DMark11 maximum input power is much lower (180 watts) and allows for up OC to 860/2000.
The maximum temperature does not exceed 89 C

 

thats good for stress testing temperatures in a "laptop", but your overclocking so that affects your wattage, nether the less i strongly believe 220 watts is adequate, almost certain at this point. Now to await for a p180hm motherboard ....

 

The reason for this is that the adapter can OUTPUT 180W. There is some loss in the AC -> DC conversion so even with an 80% efficiency that would be 225W drawn from the wall.

 

but we Chinese simply think it's a trick of CLEVO

they fear about the GPU card upgraded by yourself on the older type of their notebooks.

so bios/ec or some other things maybe wrong ?

860 could upgrade to 6970m(es , equal to 6990m) but gtx560m will meet a black screen

that's all , we also Helpless but an amd card will solve this problem .

please upgrade to 6990m-crossfire-X and everything will be fine .

 

lzykocp1002,

Did you ever get the 485 working well with both ram sticks installed? I've got a x8100 I'm trying to get working with a 580m, and I have the exact same symptoms (two beeps at boot, no video). Unfortunately, I don't have a 2Gb stick of SODIMM to try- just two 4GB.

Regards,

Jared

 

It's the NVRAM that is getting corrupted because of values not properly written after first shutdown...the easy way to workaround would be to detach the cmos battery for good...
as for the SLI, it is something that has to be present in the BIOS for that specific card, so it properly reports to the OS...

 

Can that NVRAM be overwritten to correct the problem? I flashed the BIOS to the latest- then a modded one, just to see if it'd make a difference. I also flashed/upgraded the Vbios to the latest CLEVO ID'd vbios I could find for a 580M.

 

Update on this- I put a 5870 in the "Slave" slot, and it will consistently boot with video now at least. Unfortunately, the 580m still shows up as "Unknown" in BIOS, and "Standard VGA Adapter" in Windows. I'm running the .14 BIOS (.08 EC) for this - and I've even tried a modded BIOS with unlocked OC options, and I've played with all of the video settings I could find. So I'm guessing my options are one of three things: 1. The 580m is just not compatible with the x8100, move on with life. 2. Find a different modded vbios for the 580m so the x8100 will recognize it. 3. The card itself is bad, see if it can be returned.

If anyone has any ideas, I'm all ears.