I thought I'd ask here since this forum may be more knowledgeable of dell 7970m stuff. I recently purchased a used dell 7970m from a surplus dell parts vendor off ebay to replace my gtx570m gpu.
I believed my original gpu had died, because every time I have it attached to the mxm slot, laptop cannot power on, cannot charge battery, etc..., even the led light in the ac adapter turns off. It's completely dead. Without the gpu, laptop can power on and boot into windows, but without display because my notebook has no iGpu.
I installed the 7970m and the laptop can power on. But it will just reboot over and over again within 5-8 seconds. The fan spins at a high rpm, and then spins down, and spins up to a high rpm again every restart. Without a working output display, I can't see whats going on. I've heard dell has begun rolling out 7970m cards with a UEFI vbios. A person on ebay selling his 7970m w/ UEFI vbios claims his card can only work or re-flash vbios on ivybridge gen notebooks. The sticker on my card indicates the vbios version from factory is 015.021.000.000.000000. That is not the most recent version, but its pretty recent. I noticed the x-bracket on the back is bent, so I think a previous user took it off to install on another laptop, only to put it back on. This leads me to believe he may have bricked the card with bad vbios flash or perhaps to a newer vbios that has uefi.
I tried blind flashing, but its not even booting to the point where I can.
Anyone have any info on this? Much appreciated.
I believed my original gpu had died, because every time I have it attached to the mxm slot, laptop cannot power on, cannot charge battery, etc..., even the led light in the ac adapter turns off. It's completely dead. Without the gpu, laptop can power on and boot into windows, but without display because my notebook has no iGpu.
I installed the 7970m and the laptop can power on. But it will just reboot over and over again within 5-8 seconds. The fan spins at a high rpm, and then spins down, and spins up to a high rpm again every restart. Without a working output display, I can't see whats going on. I've heard dell has begun rolling out 7970m cards with a UEFI vbios. A person on ebay selling his 7970m w/ UEFI vbios claims his card can only work or re-flash vbios on ivybridge gen notebooks. The sticker on my card indicates the vbios version from factory is 015.021.000.000.000000. That is not the most recent version, but its pretty recent. I noticed the x-bracket on the back is bent, so I think a previous user took it off to install on another laptop, only to put it back on. This leads me to believe he may have bricked the card with bad vbios flash or perhaps to a newer vbios that has uefi.
I tried blind flashing, but its not even booting to the point where I can.
Anyone have any info on this? Much appreciated.