2013 Series 7 chronos / Ativ Book 8 15" owner's lounge (NP770Z5E / NP780Z5E / NP870Z5E / NP880Z5E)

Try a different build of windows 10, it happened to me on one build and the solution was to install an older version then update.

 

The NP770/780/870/880 (collectively AB8) was released with Win8 and officially supported by Samsung for Win8.1. So certainly Win7 cannot be the only OS to work.

I ended up using Leshcat drivers (google it) on my NP700Z3A in order to get the AMD switchable graphics working with Win10, and disable updating of those drivers by Microsoft. But my model has the older AMD PowerXpress graphics switching, whereas the AB8 has the newer Enduro graphics switching. The only other issue with Win10 was the ExpressCache feature, which required using a newer Lenovo version of the software. But AB8 doesn't have ExpressCache -- and again, it is a generation newer than my Sammy.

I personally went back to Win8.1, but that was merely because I don't like Win10, not because of unsolvable conflicts with the laptop hardware.

You could try (1) either a clean install of Win10, using the drivers recommended by @faeterov and others in this thread; or (2) factory restore to Win8 using Samsung Recovery, then upgrade to Win10 from there.

 

I never had problem with switching graphic not in 8.1 or win10. But now I have problems with overheating...I broke my head over reason. I went as far as changing thermal paste multiple times and checking everything 3x. Turned out it is driver issue. Haven't figured out what to do. It is quite simple, insane thermal throttling. Reason igpu and amd is working in crossfire. Don’t know why or how. But result is too much heat for cooler to handle and awful fps. Destiny 2 gets ~30fps until it overheats completely and freezes out pc.

 

That was exactly the problem I had with Microsoft's AMD drivers: I found they were running permanently on the AMD, and running pretty hot at that. Or they would hang for a long time during boot if EnableULPS was enabled in registry.

After trying various things I got tired of wasting my time, so installed Leshcat drivers. The newest Leshcat drivers I found to still work on my older NP700Z3A are 14.4. But again, I have the older AMD PowerXpress graphics switching, not the newer Enduro that you have.

You also have to run Microsoft's Windows 10 Show/Hide Updates utility to stop them from overwriting the Leshcat drivers all the time.

 

It is nightmare to find any information about this. 99.99% results are about forcing app to run on descreate and no results about them running togher unintentionaly...
also leshcat's drivers don't help in my case - 14.4 refuse to run and newer have this problem. Only thing is that after aplying cryonaut paste laptop seems to handle temps...but again 30-35fps in destiny 2...
I am not even sure what couses problem, intel or amd drivers, or win itself.

 

And problem was not in drivers or heat trasfer, but god damm game it self. runned fure mark and 100 utilization...delete game settings and same...

 

Try me setup in post 6227, I do not have any problems with overheating in the 5 np770 / np670 I have.

 

I know nobody is seeing this thread anymore, but I'll leave this question so maybe somebody searching with google will come to it... can you use a screen from an 880z5e or 780z5e ona a 870z5e or 770z5e, that is can you make a non tocuhscreen notebook a touchscreen one? I'm looking at pictures and videos from the 880z5e and the conector seems the same....

 

@faeterov: Well, as a custodian walking the empty halls of a museum with few visitors, I do in fact see all posts made in Samsung

My only thought on your project would be that it has to be a 770-to-780 conversion or an 870-to-880 conversion. IOW, dont stick an 880 panel in a 770 and expect it to work, as there are motherboard and (as I recall) BIOS differences between them, which could affect display support. It might work, but lower odds.

Afraid that's all I got.

If you do try this, by all means post your results. It's stuff like that which will get some people to come back to this empty museum.

 

Hello,
My Samsung NP770Z5E fan has recently started making horrible noises. I have opened up the laptop and it appears to be the the fan on the left (the one closest to the HDMI). The fans start whirring far more than they used to so I very gently air dusted, but it has made no difference. Currently - I am working with the laptop resting on the bottom cover(not screwed on) loosely which sometimes stops the fan spinning. However, this does mean that I can no longer work in the library due to the noise output from this laptop.

Any suggestions?