Dell Precision M4800 - Can GPU be upgraded?

Thanks for the advice, definitely looks like I got shipped a dead video card. Popped my old FirePro M5100 in and it started working on internal display again. Even swapped in my older K2100M and that worked as well. Put the WX 4150 in and it went back to only working on external, furthermore in device manager only HD 4600 showed up and when I tried to load AMD driver it stated no hardware found. Looks like I am sending this one back to the seller.

 

On the NVIDIA side sometimes vBIOS incompatibilities like this (internal display not working but external display working). All of these cards have a vBIOS tailored to the system that it originally shipped in. It may be the case that flashing a vBIOS that works for someone else fixes your problem. (Especially if it was pulled out of an HP system which always seems to be trouble.)

 

The seller claimed its pulled from a Dell Precision. I tried to flash the VBIOS but there was no card showing up for it to flash to.

 

Well that's not good. Hopefully you get a working card next time, if you so choose to get another.

 

My understanding is that the WX 4150 does not work with LVDS screens. Does anyone know if the WX 4170 is compatible with LVDS screens?

 

Hi. I joined this forum just for this awesome thread. I have a Precision M4900, FHD (1920X1080). I don't know much about computers but would like to upgrade it. I already ordered the correct RAM (extra 2X8Gb DDR3L 1600 SoDIMM) for it. I think the only bottle-neck will be the graphics card (Currently on NVidia Quadro K2100m).
I would like to do the upgrade you just did, but I have no idea how to change BIOS and such.

So if I get it right, your method is "plug-and-play" and all I have to do during installation is to put 2X0.8mm shims, and after installation is to install some kind of AMD drivers?

TIA,

Shane.

 

Hello,

I successfully upgraded my Dell M4800 QHD+ from a Quadro K2100M to a Quadro M2200.
No problem for the upgrade (about 1H/1H30), the BIOS says "unknown video card" but it boots properly and is detected by the OS.
In my case the OS is Linux so I didn't need to tweak anything in the drivers and everything worked out of the box.

 

I also successfully upgraded my Dell M4800 QHD+ from a Quadro kepler to a Quadro M2000M last year.
CUDA 9.2, MXNet, Mixed Reality headset and benchmarks ran faster and apart from occasional hibernate / resume issues and boundary clipping between the laptop QHD+ panel and external QHD monitor everything was fine until Friday...

I installed the Win10 Pro 64bit 1903 feature update and immediately lost projection to the external monitor - the Nvidia driver 397.93 was replaced by the Microsoft Basic Adaptor. Tried installing a variety of Nvidia and Dell GPU drivers and using Safe Mode and DDU uninstall but every time it stopped with the "Could not continue" :
Update Update Failed
Package Display.Driver
Log file: C:\WINDOWS\nvmup\updatepackage\log\nvmup.log
Exit Code = 1603 (Error)

I also flashed the m4800 BIOS up to A25 in the hope that it was holding back the graphics driver but no dice.
Eventually decided to rollback the 1903 feature update to 1809 and all is well except I still can't upgrade the graphics driver. Now I am getting "Cannot continue" and something about running the wrong version of Windows.

Has anyone else seen this issue and/or worked around it?

 

Hi, guys,
I have a couple of questions related to this GPU upgrade
1. one seller says WX4130 will work in M4800 if the internal panel is IPS... Mine is TN-TFT. Is there accurate? By the way, my panel is FHD eDP
2. Copper shim.. What would be the size of it? I heard the 0.8mm thick but buying what about the area? I guess 15mmx15mm would be fine
3. Copper shims: Is it better to use ONE exact shim thickness than stacking thinner shims?

 

WX4130 works as long as your screen is eDP