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Hey, I recently purchased a mini pcie to 16x pcie for my spare GPU i had laying around. I then proceeded to take the laptop apart removing the keyboard and the wifi card, and replaced it with the mini pcie adapter. I then plugged in the power to the 16x slot as well as the connection between the mini pcie and 16x slot. Next I placed the graphics card in and the power cable for it. I jump started the PSU and the gpu was clearly on, and my laptop kept shutting off before booting Into windows 10. I then unplugged the Power supply powering the GPU and 16x adapter to see windows booting up. How do I get the adapter to work and provide video out put?

 

Here are the specs, make and model of this laptop.

 

1.7 GHz AMD A8-5545M Quad-Core

 

8GB of DDR3L RAM

 

120gb ssd

 

AMD Radeon HD 8510G Graphics

 

15.6" HD WLED-Backlit Touchscreen

 

1366 x 768 Native Resolution

 

802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth

 

The BIOS vendor is American megatrends

BIOS version F.46

HP Beats 15 notebook PC 15-p390nr

GPU i planned to use R7 260X

 

Thank you if you can help me fix this issue!

 

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first, i'd see if the BIOS recognizes the PCIe card before attempting to continue into an OS. 

boot the GPU and the laptop motherboard at the exact same time. 

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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27 minutes ago, VioDuskar said:

first, i'd see if the BIOS recognizes the PCIe card before attempting to continue into an OS. 

boot the GPU and the laptop motherboard at the exact same time. 

You mean plugging in the PSU at the same time as I click the power button right?? If that's what you mean it still doesn't work. 

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28 minutes ago, VioDuskar said:

first, i'd see if the BIOS recognizes the PCIe card before attempting to continue into an OS. 

boot the GPU and the laptop motherboard at the exact same time. 

Also the BIOS doesn't have any functions for devices besides viewing the cpu values and memory. I can only enable virtualization technology, fan always on, legacy mode, and boot settings

 

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1 minute ago, Overclocked_felix said:

You mean plugging in the PSU at the same time as I click the power button right?? If that's what you mean it still doesn't work. 

i mean flipping the power switch on a pre-jumped PSU when you hit the power switch for the motherboard. 
have everything already connected. 

do you have the laptop display connected still? and a 2nd display out of the GPU? that way you can see either if they come on. also, just enter the BIOS and see if you can detect anything on the PCIe bus. 

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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6 minutes ago, VioDuskar said:

i mean flipping the power switch on a pre-jumped PSU when you hit the power switch for the motherboard. 
have everything already connected. 

do you have the laptop display connected still? and a 2nd display out of the GPU? that way you can see either if they come on. also, just enter the BIOS and see if you can detect anything on the PCIe bus. 

I have the laptop display still connected yes, and idk how to check the pcie bus on this laptop.

Also, might you be in the LTT discord? I could dm you and talk about this easier

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On 7/5/2021 at 9:39 PM, Overclocked_felix said:

I have the laptop display still connected yes, and idk how to check the pcie bus on this laptop.

Also, might you be in the LTT discord? I could dm you and talk about this easier

i'm not on the discord, sorry. 

any luck?

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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