• M6700 upgrade from FirePro to HD 7970M not booting.
    15 replies, posted
I've bought a eurocom 7970M from a local friend, Someone I trust and therefor I assume the card is functioning. Now I've simply put in the 7970 but my laptop will not boot, The fans go on for about a second and that's it. The LCD screen just stays black, the backlight doesn't even turn on. Once I take out the card and boot on IGP graphics it just boots as normal. I'm kind of dead in the water here since I've traded my old AMD FirePro 6000M for the HD7970M and I've run out of idea's of what the problem could be. I'm running the latest A08 bios, Downloaded from DELL itself. I've tried booting using external display's such as VGA,HDMI and Displayport, all no avail. I've reset the CMOS multiple times. Pics of my 7970M [img]http://i.imgur.com/dm6KAPI.jpg[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/N4MfBBt.jpg[/img] I've understood that the vBios on the 7970 is only for BTO/Clevo laptops, Yet other people say it should just be plug and play. So yeah, Here I am now with a semi-dead M6700. I'm really hoping someone else here will be able to help me out with this issue.
15$ Steam game for whoever knows a solution to my problem :v:
I dunno if the BIOS on those are locked to certain motherboards, you could flash it to something else so it becomes a normal 7970M. Which laptop do you have?
I've got a Dell Precision M6700. The 7970 should indeed come with a vBios specifically for clevo/BTO laptops but the fellow M6700 users report that it's a plug and play situation.
on the first picture(left from the chip) it looks like you have to plug in some flat cable
[QUOTE=QuAtT;39623451]on the first picture(left from the chip) it looks like you have to plug in some flat cable[/QUOTE] That's for crossfire setups.
Are you sure it's the right 7970M? As far as I'm aware, the differences between a Clevo or Dell card go further than the vbios. But I could be wrong.
Yeah It's a eurocom one, Which is plug and play for my laptop. Well I mean it should be.
you can actually crossfire in a laptop? cool
Yeah although most of the time you either end up with A. Alienware or B. A laptop the size of a fridge [editline]20th February 2013[/editline] Example [img]http://www.dvhardware.net/news/2012/eurocom_panther_4.jpg[/img]
You have a fridge with USB ports and monitor? I assume the keyboard & trackpad is for making food purchases
looks pretty good for smacking someone in the face
[QUOTE=Djessey;39655654]Yeah although most of the time you either end up with A. Alienware or B. A laptop the size of a fridge [editline]20th February 2013[/editline] Example [/QUOTE] That's pretty unfair, that laptop can house a desktop Sandy Bridge E processor. This one with a laptop processor is a bit thinner: [IMG_THUMB]https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/images/products/3179/4_big.jpg?226[/IMG_THUMB]
[QUOTE=rhx123;39656592]That's pretty unfair, that laptop can house a desktop Sandy Bridge E processor. This one with a laptop processor is a bit thinner: [IMG_THUMB]https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/images/products/3179/4_big.jpg?226[/IMG_THUMB][/QUOTE] That looks really nice actually. I would buy a laptop that looked like that in a heartbeat.
[QUOTE=rhx123;39656592]That's pretty unfair, that laptop can house a desktop Sandy Bridge E processor. This one with a laptop processor is a bit thinner: [IMG_THUMB]https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/images/products/3179/4_big.jpg?226[/IMG_THUMB][/QUOTE] Such a 'tactical' photo, I'd like to see one from the side.
[QUOTE=Djessey;39669368]Such a 'tactical' photo, I'd like to see one from the side.[/QUOTE] [IMG_THUMB]https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/images/products/3179/6_big.jpg?265[/IMG_THUMB]. Still no where near as big as the huge one. The one I linked is 49.7mm tall at its highest point with the screen shut. The one you linked is 62.1mm at its highest point with the screen shut. 1.2cm is quite a big difference. [editline]21st February 2013[/editline] Look at the size of the ODD door for a comparison.
Sorry, you need to Log In to post a reply to this thread.