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Clevo P150EM and GTX980M

jadawin_2

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Hi yall,
two years ago i bought a Clevo P150EM (prostar Branded) second hand. I really love this old peace of laptop and wanted to upgrade the GTX670m.
So i bought a GTX980M from China on Aliexpress stating that it was compatible with all laptop like clevo, alienware etc...

When i put the card inside the laptop, it beeps for 30s (one beep every second) and shuts down.
I did upgrade the bios and EC of the laptop with the lastest of Eurocom :
EC V 1.02.11EC
BIOS V1.02.17EC v3b GTX9
and when i plug the card in the laptop, the bios says that it is a NVidia card, but it stills beeps for 30s and shuts down.
I checked the temps with my finger and it never gets the chance to be hot. The fans are new and spinning.
I can boot into windows, even log into my account but it shuts down before i can do anything.

I tried to flash the Vbios with one for GTX980M specific from Clevo, but NVflash (dos version) does not recognize the card, even with instructions that would force the bios to be updated.

By the way the GTX670M is still working great.

So my question is : is the GPU dead ?
Or is there a way to bypass the shutdown so i can investigate further inside windows ?
Is there a magical trick i am not aware of ?

Thanks.
 
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Laptops with MXM cards are kind of weird. Companies like Clevo design laptops with rigorous size, TDP, and cooling requirements in mind. Your laptop motherboard might support a handful of MXM cards, but certainly not all of them. Desktops are much more lenient when it comes to compatibility between motherboards and graphics cards.

I'd suggest that you do not remove your 670M unless it breaks and you have an identical 670M on hand to replace it.
 
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I believe @Rithsom is exactly right. Unfortunately AliExpress info can often be bad and perhaps that card is MXM but not actually compatible. I am no authority so continue to research until you are absolutely sure.

Some cards that appear to have worked in that model (for reference);



List of other P150 successful upgrades - https://linustechtips.com/topic/814438-successful-mxm-gpu-upgraded-laptops/
 
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Hi,
Best policy is to stay away from aliexpress period they always side with the fraud seller.
 
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It could be that the 980m might be a dell version or msi version. I remember the Dell version was only Compatible with dells but the msi or asus version was compatible with many brands. Honestly it morebof a pain to get it working.
I would go over to http://forum.notebookreview.com/forums and ask for help. But since the gpu is old and mxm designs are long dead, you might not get much help. Plus those forums are dying.
 

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Hello, I have the same laptop P150EM laptop and I recently got an msi gtx 980m from ebay (msi MS-1W0J1) to upgrade the old 670m. I have installed the premamod 1.02.17PM V2 bios but when I turn on the laptop it starts beeping after about 1 minute and finally, it shuts down. I guess I need to flash the prema vbios for this card in order to work correctly but I cant find the file. Does anyone have it?
 
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