DIY eGPU experiences

[akwok]

I know it's not ideal to post this here, but I don't know where else to post this.

I recently bought a PE4L + 100cm cable set from Harmonic Inversion. In the time it's taken to get here, I already built a full sandy bridge rig, so I have no use for it anymore. If anyone in Canada wants to buy it off me for a discounted price (say $75 CAD shipped anywhere in Canada), let me know via PM. It's unopened.

Sorry for the off-topicness

[Grafh]

Thanks nando4, I'll give that a try.

[apollo-fox]

Almost at the point of giving up and maybe i will be RMA ing my items soon,

One main problem:
error 43 (maybe its because of gtx 460 SE? dont buy that just buy regular GTX460) even if its cheaper.
On Vidock setup, the NVflash function under video card dont recognize GTX 460 SE but its showing GTS 450??? weird.

Hey @becak what drivers are you using? According to at least one owner on Newegg the included 260.99 drivers did not detect the GTX 460 SE.

Also, according to Nvidia GTX 460 SE support was added in 263.09.

[becak]

Thanks for all the help guys, FINALLY GOT IT WORKING

Although not using latest driver i use nvidia driver 258.96 ver instead of the latest 266.58.
Weird thing is NVflash on vidock setup still wont recognize GTX 460 SE but it recognize my card as GTS 450 which is in accordance with device manager on win7.

One of my other thing i miss is i didnt choose save dump (which i did finally) after successfully load dump.
then do pci compaction, chainload and choose automated start up bat. turn off vidock, once windows start turn on vidock and plug in the card. it got detected no error and soon i have signal.

[bleuiko]

*Sigh* I am kind of ready to throw this thing out the window. Can anyone suggest future steps for me?

I have a Thinkpad T61p with an internal Nvidia FX570M and DIY ViDock with a GTX 460. I tried installing drivers for both cards but I only managed to get both working in Win7 32-bit twice. Both times I had to wipe everything and installed an old driver for my laptop internal GPU and 266.58 for the external GPU. When I put the laptop to sleep and bring it back, it stops working again.

I have also successfully installed Optimus driver for both cards, but when I put the laptop on standby and power on setup, then resume. I still get "No Driver Installed for this Device" for the external card.

In the two times that the card actually worked, it was right after I installed the driver for the external card. It would flash the screen a few times and switch over to the external. Again, I am unable to repeat this a third time.

I have tried to use the DIY ViDock Setup disc but I can't even get into the setup. It hangs after I select menu-based. It says "Installed A20 handler number 11 / 64k High Memory Area is available." and just sits there.

Please help! I don't know what else to try...

[becak]

@bleuiko
What did u do to get the diy vidock setup? I know the steps itself are hard for regular people. I have to try the hard way to learn. I wished before me, there is a more stupid guide to do the diy setup. like a dummy guide of vidock setup. I know a lot of people who don't even know how to go to BIOS setting.

[bleuiko]

@bleuiko
What did u do to get the diy vidock setup? I know the steps itself are hard for regular people. I have to try the hard way to learn. I wished before me, there is a more stupid guide to do the diy setup. like a dummy guide of vidock setup. I know a lot of people who don't even know how to go to BIOS setting.

I did all the steps done in this post:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/gaming-software-graphics-cards/418851-diy-vidock-experiences-63.html#post6295529


Basically, I turned off UAC (confirmed) and installed ImDisk. I then downloaded the setup disk and used its batch file to create a bootmenu in win7. I think copied devcon into the config folder. Rebooted and selected the menu item to begin setting up the DIY ViDock Setup but it freezes and won't even get to the menu.

UPDATE: I tried the USB drive method and it worked. I am very lost as to how to use the setup though. I think I am having issue chainloading into Win7 in the very least. My HDD is encrypted using Truecrypt so my partitions are a bit weird. I am trying to edit the menu.w7 file. What lines do I change? How do I test this? I tried testing it by getting to the grub commandline and typing this: chainloader (hd1,0)/bootmbr but it gave me an error. How do I get it to launch into windows?

My PCI allocation was yes* so I ran [bridges] and saved it to startup.bat (or was it pci.bat). Is that right?

[ronvalencia]

3DMarks 2006 with 1280x1024 res. Scored 12306


RE5, 1280x800 variable benchmark mode, default settings, DX9. Average: 79.9 FPS

No additional workarounds. Used Catalyst 11.1 desktop and mobile drivers.

[becak]

@blueiko
I am not entirely sure what you did there but in my case, I paste a shortcut of the diysetup image file from the c root directory (in diyvidock folder) into the startup folder in windows. then I reboot the windows selecting diy setup my vidock is entirely off and unplugged until i get prompted to turn it on. wait like 10 secs (the fan speed will turn faster then you can press enter to get to the menu).
Have u download r-w everything and make a dump file?

[Legu314]

Hi Guys.

Today i got my new HP6930p laptop with 4gb RAM and 4500MHD.

i would like to try out the DIY ViDock project.

I am just wondering if i buy the P4EH and express card adapter with a gtx460+atx psu
-will that setup work without any workaround or not? (e.g.Vidock setup1.x etc)
i would like to shoot in x1.opt
If not what would i have to prepair myself?

Any suggesstions about that for anybody?

Than you

Legu