lenovo energy management windows 10 z710

I have found out that the fan for the secondary fan did not spin. I have inserted my old 8970m in the secondary slot and will start testing crossfire. The graphics card is recognized as a 8970m but works normal. I completely uninstalled the previous driver and installed the newest driver. This will be the vbios I will keep at the moment. Note: This vbios reduce the cards performance from 900 mhz to 850 mhzĪfter more testing I found one that is working with no limits.

But because of no thermal paste, the test lasted 20 seconds because the temperature raised fast.įlashed a new clevo vbios version 015.032.000.003.044465Ĭaused the card to be corrupted and resulted the 8 beep code.įinally managed to flash the back and return the graphics card to its original state.įlashed a new dell vbios version 015.046.000.014.045579Īfter trying multiple vbios with no luck I finally found one.ĭell vbios Version 015.041.000.000.044966īrings back the post bios screen and I can now enter the bios menu through the r9 m290x. No post bios showing when booting, so impossible to enter bios menu, but can boot into windows 10 with no problems.īecause I haven't deleted the old AMD 8970m the r9 m290x shows as a 8970m with no problems.įirst performance test was a success. So I decided to buy a r9 m290x and see if I could make it work in my alienware and also run crossfire.Įven though many shops refused to sell me one because the didn't think it would work in an alienware m18x r1 only in the r2.

I have a alienware m18x r1 running an amd 8970m, I wanted to upgrade it to crossfire but I could see a 8970m was more expensive than a r9 m290x

Lenovo energy management windows 10 z710