Erazer X7849 GTX1070m VBIOS

[104439]

Hi all,

I have an Erazer X7849 gaming laptop with a GTX1070. The GPU is not working properly, I get many BSOD's. Unfortunately the laptop is more than 2 years old so i can't make use of guarentee of Medion. So i need to fix it myself. I have tried many options, updating BIOS, updating Drivers, Reinstall windows, Reinstall games etc. My last option is to reflash the GPU. Maybe the guy that sold me the laptop did a bad flash. Does someone had the original (stock) Rom or VBIOS of the GTX1070 (mobile i guess)? On techpower up there are two:

https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/?architecture=&manufacturer=&model=GTX+1070+Mobile&interface=&me...

But I am not sure i can use one of them.

Thanks in advance!

 

[FreedomEclipse]

What makes you think that its your GPU thats making the BSODs? Have you tried opening up the laptop and changing the thermal paste to something newer?

 

[104439]

Thank you for your reply. Yes I didt change the thermal paste today.
Before changing i got the VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE error
nvlddmkm.sys failed
After i changed the paste it still crashes and reboots (didnt see the blue screen today but tested it only twice today)

 

[Final_Fighter]

did you recently buy the laptop? if so i would return it if possible. trying to fix laptop gpus is a recipe for failure. if returning it is not possible you might try downclocking it in 50mhz increments until you find where its stable.

good luck and welcome to tpu.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Hold on....

When did you buy the laptop and how long did you have it before discovering it had an issue?

I cant really find any solid information on your problem on the net, There are some solutions but you have tried 99% of them so im going to put it down to a hardware fault that cant be fixed by the average person...

Try installing windows 7 just to see if the same issue occurs. From what I have read is that its an issue with Windows 10 only. You might be ok on windows 7. If it doesnt crash the theres obviously a compatibility issue with windows 10 and your laptop.

If you havent had the laptop long, Id say try and get your money back if you can. Its not really worth the hassle trying to fix as bios's for laptop graphics cards are quite often 'locked in' or merged with the main bios for your motherboard and there is no way to seperate them or flash them to something else.

Let me page someone with more experience who might be able to help you more.

@eidairaman1

 

[flmatter]

Medion Erazer Support I am going to assume you tried these and or contact Medion themselves first.

VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE

Is a driver failure or corrupted. What driver are you using? Latest from NVidia? Maybe rolling back driver to a later one. Did you use DDU before updating drivers? Try using DDU to uninstall all gpu drivers first then download new driver and install. @eidairaman1 has the steps and links in his sig. @FreedomEclipse threw out some good info as well.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Medion Erazer Support I am going to assume you tried these and or contact Medion themselves first.

Is a driver failure or corrupted. What driver are you using? Latest from NVidia? Maybe rolling back driver to a later one. Did you use DDU before updating drivers? Try using DDU to uninstall all gpu drivers first then download new driver and install. @eidairaman1 has the steps and links in his sig. @FreedomEclipse threw out some good info as well.

I think that answer was a yes -- fresh windows 10 install. From what i have read, its only an issue that pertains to windows 10. I cant find any reports from any other operating systems

 

[flmatter]

@FreedomEclipse OK thanks I was reading fast trying to close up shop for the day. I did notice the bios at Medion was for Win7/8

 

[eidairaman1]

When i have a chance i will reply.

Busy atm.

Being TDR related isnt a bad flash, infact there is no bios mods for GTX1000+ series.

If anythinh OP needs to check medion support page for firmware updates and use their drivers.

Sometimes windows gets so buggered up...

Could be a failing power brick but TDR says to me driver problem so OS and driver...