DIY eGPU experiences

[fatpolomanjr]

Should have PM'd me! Could you post a little bit more about what's going on? The PE4L was 100% working when I packaged it up, so I'd like to see you get it up and running. I've got 3DMark benches posted in here somewhere as proof. The green light comes on? Have you checked the position of the switches, they could have gotten moved during shipping. Next thing I would check is the cable. These short cables have caused problems for several people, simple replacemnt fixed everything. I never tried to use that cable, I used a mini-to-standard HDMI cable and the standard-to-mini adapter that came with my 460. Could try that if you haven't.

Although you did mention you already bought a PE4H..

Hey hizzaah, I'm not worried about the actual working condition of the PE4L. The green light comes on and everything, and the jumper is closed on JP4, open on JP3. I had to adjust the jumper myself because the default jumper setting caused smoke! (to answer antiknown: the jumper setting is used to regulate 5V/3.3V from whatever power source you are using) I shut down the PSU quickly, and though the green light still comes on something might have been fried.

Since I've ordered the PE4H I'll also get another mini-hdmi cable and E2C2 to see if those are at fault, and I can check if my gpu or psu are at fault (though this is unlikely). I ordered a 1m mini-hdmi cable from dealextreme before I bought your PE4L, so I'll be able to know if it was the original mini hdmi cable very soon. If I find out the PE4L is not the issue I'll decide between keeping the PE4L or PE4H.

[Pearf]

Hi Folks,

good news:

after a long email conversation the tech support from bplus came to the conclusion that the expresscard joint of the dongle has some problems and they will send me a new one.
So if you still have problems, contact the support!

[hizzaah]

Hey hizzaah, I'm not worried about the actual working condition of the PE4L. The green light comes on and everything, and the jumper is closed on JP4, open on JP3. I had to adjust the jumper myself because the default jumper setting caused smoke! (to answer antiknown: the jumper setting is used to regulate 5V/3.3V from whatever power source you are using) I shut down the PSU quickly, and though the green light still comes on something might have been fried.

Since I've ordered the PE4H I'll also get another mini-hdmi cable and E2C2 to see if those are at fault, and I can check if my gpu or psu are at fault (though this is unlikely). I ordered a 1m mini-hdmi cable from dealextreme before I bought your PE4L, so I'll be able to know if it was the original mini hdmi cable very soon. If I find out the PE4L is not the issue I'll decide between keeping the PE4L or PE4H.

Oh, lol. Had me worried for a minute! Hope you get things figured out once your parts get in..

Good luck!

[Cabaal]

Hi Folks,

good news:

after a long email conversation the tech support from bplus came to the conclusion that the expresscard joint of the dongle has some problems and they will send me a new one.
So if you still have problems, contact the support!

Do you think the new one will work then?
Seeing so much problems in the forums here, I'm not really convinced of that - but please keep us informed!

[demolk]

Hi guys ,
Here is my spec

Msi Cx 623
I5 460m
4gb Ram (3,79usable)
iGpu: Intel HD
dGpu: Geforce 310m
Egpu: Geforce Gtx 560
Nvidia 295,73 with moded inf

My statup.bat :
call speedup lbacache
call iport dGPU off
call vidwait -d 10de:1201
call vidinit -d 10de:1201
call pci
call grub4dos mbr

Well everything was working fine since 3month but now i have a problem, after 15/20 minutes my system just crash , and when i unplugged my egpu everything crash again .

In the past i could plug it and unplug it as i wanted even when i was playing a game .

So now i can't stand more than 20 minutes without a crash , and its totally random not because of temperature or something . i think both my problems are conected . So i am trying to find something to be able to unplug my egpu without crashing everything .

If any of you have suggestions that would be great.

Anyone ????

[Fabi3n]

Hi Folks,

good news:

after a long email conversation the tech support from bplus came to the conclusion that the expresscard joint of the dongle has some problems and they will send me a new one.
So if you still have problems, contact the support!

Hi,
I order mine on ebay (redtrontech), who have I to contact if i got a problem ?

[Joss27]

I try the USB port in PE4L and he works very well.
I contact by email the tech support from bplus.

[Joss27]

so bplus send me another one which the joint was improved, but the samples will be ready around March 22nd.

[celli]

@Joss

thanks for the good new. I wrote my email a few hours ago and so i am very confident that i am getting a new PE4L as soon as possible
And what are you supposed to do with your broken PE4L?

[sivikchen]

Confirmed, bplus will send a new one around March 22nd. Their product page now shows pre-order ready March 22nd as well.