gtx 690 not working in Alienware Graphics Amplifier

Krominicon · May 7, 2018

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.

Streetguru · May 7, 2018

10 minutes ago, Krominicon said:

Probably just doesn't support dual GPU cards, you could try buying a 7990 and seeing what it does with that.

Krominicon · May 7, 2018

1 minute ago, Streetguru said:

Probably just doesn't support dual GPU cards, you could try buying a 7990 and seeing what it does with that.

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.