Official Sager NP8150/Clevo P150HM Owners Lounge

[Anthony@MALIBAL]

I just received my Sager np8150 and everything went great until I rand 3dmark 11 and got a score of "P3288 3DMarks" and its claiming that my clocks speeds are at 100mhz, as shown below, and I immediately ran ati's overdrive and sure enough gpu clock is at 100mhz and memory clock is at 150mhz even though they are set at 715 and 900 respectively. If anyone has any insight into this problem please let me know 8(

"Your Score is Low Compared to Similar Systems.
There may be a problem."
"Graphics Card
AMD Radeon HD 6990M
Vendor
Unknown
# of cards
1
SLI / CrossFire
Off
Memory
2048 MB
Core clock
100 MHz
Memory clock
150 MHz
Driver name
Driver version
8.930.0.0"

That's a normal score for that card, see benchmarks here:

AMD Radeon HD 6990M - Notebookcheck.net Tech

If you're referring to the stop sign on the page that says "Your score may be low" etc, that's just an advertisement. It does NOT have a reflection on your scores.

It looks like 3DMark may just not be properly detecting your clock speeds, so check out HWInfo as was suggested. But judging by your scores, your clocks must be ramping up as expected because your performance is within spec.

[supralover23]

Any suggestions on why AMD's Driver Autodetect doesn't work for me when I try to update the drivers for my 6990m? I download and run it, and it identifies the following:

Graphics Hardware: Radeon HD 6xxxM Series
OS: Windows 7 64-bit
Best Driver: catalyst_mobility_64-bit_util.exe

Then I click download and it asks me for the install location for the Catalyst software, then it tells me "AMD Catalyst Mobility cannot be downloaded due to incompatible hardware/software on your computer. Your computer does not contain a proper graphics adapter."

Any ideas?

[fernandes]

Did you get the notebook version, because my came with a spacer.

I did. Did the spacer fit perfectly?

[Architect]

It sure seem to fit pretty good once I put the hard drive cover back on.

[sha7bot]

Any suggestions on why AMD's Driver Autodetect doesn't work for me when I try to update the drivers for my 6990m? I download and run it, and it identifies the following:

Graphics Hardware: Radeon HD 6xxxM Series
OS: Windows 7 64-bit
Best Driver: catalyst_mobility_64-bit_util.exe

Then I click download and it asks me for the install location for the Catalyst software, then it tells me "AMD Catalyst Mobility cannot be downloaded due to incompatible hardware/software on your computer. Your computer does not contain a proper graphics adapter."

Any ideas?

I've never relied on those Auto update features. Have you gone to AMD's page and just download your drivers?

[supralover23]

I've never relied on those Auto update features. Have you gone to AMD's page and just download your drivers?

Yea, and that usually seems to work, for the most part, anyhow.

[grkstyla]

Hi Guys,

Dont know if anyone can help me, but I have wierd one.

I have a p150hm 6990m 16gb ram etc with 6230 intel wifi

I have another laptop and what I have done due to the fact at work we have a wireless N running a fibre internet 110mbps and another with fileserver and a 20mbps adsl connection. I use 2 internal wireless cards (both minipci express)

I have noticed when opening this one even with the 6230 in it has a free spot underneath laptop (guessing its for tv tuner) when I try to install intel 5300 wifi card the laptop wont turn on (turns on for 2 seconds then off)

when emailing metabox support they replied:
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1st reply:

Hi XXXXX,

I've just checked with our service department and admittedly what you are attempting is the first we have
heard of it :-)

We have not tried a secondary wireless card in the secondary mini-pci socket before so we are
not sure of the exact outcome. It is possible that the secondary socket is not designed to handle
a secondary wireless card. I'm sorry but we cannot offer much advice on this aspect of the system.

XXXXXX


Kind Regards,

XXXXXXXXXX
Metabox / ITC Mobile Computing
Ph (08) 6102 6060 Ext XXX Fx (08) 6210 1352
email:XXXXXXXXX@itchannel.com.au
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2nd Reply:
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Hi XXXXXXXX,

XXXXXXXX

The secondary mini-pci socket slot on P150HM is only a USB socket and doesn't have the PCI
bus connection active. Therefore you would be limited to a TV Tuner card most likely, but we
have not tested or confirmed one will work as we do not support this socket.

If you have any further queries please do not hesitate to ask.


Kind Regards,

XXXXXXXXXXXXX
Metabox / ITC Mobile Computing
Ph (08) 6102 6060 Ext XXXXX Fx (08) 6210 1352
email:XXXXXXXXXXXXX@itchannel.com.au

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Now I have tried to remove as much info as I can so as not to get anyone in trouble

Please tell me your thoughts on the issue, can we put a 3g card in or tv tuner or what? can we even use it?

I have also seen SSD drives the go in that spot that work on my g73sw havent tried yet on this, and it may be good as we only have 1 hardrive bay, for those who didnt get the caddy

[Anthony@MALIBAL]

Hi Guys,

Dont know if anyone can help me, but I have wierd one.

I have a p150hm 6990m 16gb ram etc with 6230 intel wifi

I have another laptop and what I have done due to the fact at work we have a wireless N running a fibre internet 110mbps and another with fileserver and a 20mbps adsl connection. I use 2 internal wireless cards (both minipci express)

I have noticed when opening this one even with the 6230 in it has a free spot underneath laptop (guessing its for tv tuner) when I try to install intel 5300 wifi card the laptop wont turn on (turns on for 2 seconds then off)

Now I have tried to remove as much info as I can so as not to get anyone in trouble

Please tell me your thoughts on the issue, can we put a 3g card in or tv tuner or what? can we even use it?

I have also seen SSD drives the go in that spot that work on my g73sw havent tried yet on this, and it may be good as we only have 1 hardrive bay, for those who didnt get the caddy

The second slot is not a true mini-pci slot. As was pointed out- it's wired for USB pin out so it's limited to TV tuners and the like. It's also not properly wired for mSATA either, so those SSD's are also ruled out. It's a pretty limited slot in terms of upgrades.

[grkstyla]

Seen as it is possible to buy usb 3g cards. Are there any models that would work in this slot? Also what model of TVs tuner is recommended?

thanks alot or your time

[Geekz]

Seen as it is possible to buy usb 3g cards. Are there any models that would work in this slot? Also what model of TVs tuner is recommended?

thanks alot or your time

another option is a USB wireless adapter which costs around 15$