Though I didn’t take photos, I recently sold off my dad’s Alienware 18 which also had LM since 2015 on the 4930MX and it was working perfect,...
The GPU prices/unavailability as well as CPU unavailability are what actually drove me to buy another laptop back in December. I can’t believe...
Doesn’t work as power is still being routed to PEG0, is just windows cannot utilize the device or change its power state. @faustiano there is...
I have never been able to recover a machine that 7 beeps. Might be time for looking at a new machine or a new motherboard
MacOS display scaling is second to none. Windows 10 is still garbage at scaling, and like you said, 15” FHD at 100% scale Is as far as I would go....
Early days it was a wash between 680M and 7970M. With driver improvements, the 7970M/8970M/R9 M290X came and solidified its position over the...
My M17x R3 was configurable with a 6970M or 580M
No enduro in my machine 7970M/8970M still gets driver updates and in the long haul, surpassed the 680M you are thinking of 6970M vs 580M, which...
AMD has not come to play ball in the mobile space in nearly 10 years. The last Great War was between the 7970M and 680M in 2012. Sad really
Code 43 in SG + 8 beeps in PEG usually means dead GPU. It’s a Dell card judging from the VBIOS version, and an early one at that, which were prone...
17.3.3 is the only driver that works.
Then the chassis is definitely not grounded or more likely, the motherboard is touching something on the chassis and may be shorting. I’ve owned...
It’s just a short in the USB. We used to prank each other by using aluminum foil gum wrappers or paperclips and stick them into each other’s...
Reverts back to SG. There is logic there that needs to be defeated/broken.
Doesn’t work in 2020 that’s why I’m asking if somebody has modified the switch logic to get it working. 2020 has a mux and the only switch case is...
None of those work. I need to be able to select IGFX in the BIOS to actually turn off PEG0 which the nvidia gfx lives on. Otherwise there is...
Has anybody figured out how to disable nvidia GFX in BIOS on 2020 models? Need to disable to use as an ultra book/ long battery life. Optimus sucks
It’s always a gamble buying broken machines. Don’t risk more than you’re willing to lose
I see CFG lock, Overclock lock, and BIOS lock to disabled on failsafe and optimal. I want them disabled for good. I left user access to see them...
Thise two locks you disabled are to re-enable undervolting in windows. there is one called BIOS lock I think under chipset -> security that must...
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