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so my grandpa has stuff he got from his work, a dell latitude 7424 rugged extreme and an acer vg271p monitor. for some reason the monitor doesn't want to connect to the laptop or something properly and i've tried various solutions, basic things like rebooting and new cables and stuff. i updated drivers and stuff. the laptop will detect the monitor and knows what's plugged in and stuff, but for whatever random reason the monitor will not display from that laptop specifically. i tried it with my laptop and an older laptop that they have and it works fine with both of the other machines. i've tried everything i'm smart enough to do and the internet has literally no resources on this. i'm not sure if it's some funky something going on with the laptop being managed by the company or something. i'm just not sure what to do anymore. this is my last resort cause i'm not sure where else to go. and the tech support guys for his company are pretty useless right now because of the pandemic thing. they won't return calls or anything.

But i feel like it would give me the same results... it honestly might be the dual gpu thing. however Dell did put the gtx 690 into their list of supported graphics cards.

So I have an AW 15 R2 (i7-6700hq, gtx 970m, 16gb ram), hooked up to a graphics amp with a gtx 690 in it, yes the old dual 680 card. so i hooked it all up like normal, i'd tested the graphics amp with a 960 before and that worked fine. But i got ahold of this 690 and i thought it would be a neat ex periment to try it out. However, when i go to turn on the laptop, i get this error. And then it hangs there unless i push a button and then it reboots and starts all over. I've tried looking all over google but no one seems to be having the same issue. Initially i thought that it would be the stock 450watt psu not supplying enough juice. On one of dell's forums they said you shouldn't be pulling more than 365 watts continuously from the psu, (which doesn't make a whole lot of sense but okay), and a bench mark i found showed that the gtx 690 was pulling 362 watts under full load. So i swapped the power supply with a corsair CX600 i had lying around, that happened to fit. I got it all hooked up right and everything and it was looking fine, but then i got the same error. So either the new PSU still isn't powerful enough, (but i'm sure a gpu doesn't pull full wattage when just booting up, but i could be wrong) or the alienware graphics amplifier really doesn't like the SLI setup of the 690. At least point i just want an answer or a solution so i can move on with my life. Anything is appreciated at this point. one last picture i guess.

I use tunnel bear a lot, I got the year long service. It's amazing too, way faster than any other VPN I've ever used. I guess we'll see where this takes it. Not looking good though...

hm, I don't know this much about graphics cards. And I don't think I'd be comfortable applying thermally conductive material directly to the chip, so maybe that isn't a solution for me... I can try and keep looking for vbios mods, the only one's I've been able to find were for either the 6gb version, or for a different brand/model of laptop. I accidently downloaded a zip for an asus laptop, (i didn't flash the bios to my chip, because I have no idea if it would work).

what do you mean by hardware mod? like different power supply? i've currently got a 180w that came with my laptop.

but in afterburner i can't change the power limit, it's locked as well. is there software i can use to unlock that?

i know that, i've even see people get at much as +135mhz on the core clock. What i want is to be able to unlock the voltage so that i can put that up a little bit and pull some more mhz out of it. I do have Afterburner installed, and for some reason i can't even get past 50mhz. which makes me think that i might not have lucked out on the silicon lottery...

So I've got some thermal headroom on my Alienware 15 R2, not to mention I intend on applying some liquid metal thermal compound in the future, and I'd like to try overclocking it. I've spent a few hours over the past couple of days looking for forums and articles on how to do it, because I know that nvidia locks the m-series chips from overclocking. So I looked for a custom vbios, or somet kind of modded bios for the card, and I haven't been able to find one that's been available. I might be doing my research wrong, but I haven't been able to find anything that's very helpful to me. Some assistance or tips on overclocking my 970m would be very appreciated.

thanks for the info. I'd say i'm fairly experience, but I've never done liquid metal, so maybe some practice would be good before hand, considering I'd really rather not lose my laptop. How would you recommend practicing? I don't really have a lot of cpu's lying around that can be delidded.

i see. that makes my doubts a little bit stronger. Maybe i'll hold off on doing that to my laptop for now. It would still be cool to do though, so make it more plausible to OC the 970m in my laptop.

So I heard that liquid metal thermal compound can leak out of between your processor and heat sink on your laptop, if it's jostled around too much. I have an Alienware 15 r2 that i haul around school, and I've already done a repaste before, and it did improve thermals, but i just used normal polysynthetic thermal compound. I'd love to do this to my laptop, but if it being carried around in my backpack to and from classes is going to cause the liquid metal to leak, I'd rather not risk it. Is there anyone who could possibly confirm this? maybe?

okay cool.

I couldn't find the error log. The plugin is what allows you to use an AMD graphics card for video encoding. I forget what the actual name was. But it detected my graphics card and I "could use" the amd ecoding platform. But when I would go to record, I got an error. And I think it's because it's not plugged into the screen. So OBS is trying to record my screen, but since the graphics card isn't plugged into any screens, and it's using that encoding platform, it freaks out? I don't know. I'm kind of new at this whole recording/streaming thing... I might just figure out how to get my laptop to handle the streaming instead.

i might have gotten ahead of myself. there's a recording error when you start recording... that i'm trying to figure out.