Nvidia Maxwell & M6600/M6700/M6800 bios

I see. Just had a look on the mainboards. They look slightly different, so If i would change the lower and upper case, would at least the display be compatible?

 

The display should work the same, M6600 uses LVDS and M6700 has ports for both LVDS and eDP.
Most other parts should be compatible between the two. You'd have to swap out the CPU of course. M6700 only takes 3rd gen CPUs. I think you'd also have to swap out the I/O board.

 

allright. CPU is no problem i have a spare i7-3740QM from a M4700. May also the I/O board of the M4700 fit?

 

I started writing that I think there is a decent chance that the M6700 and M4700 use the same I/O board. But then I looked on eBay and I see that they are totally different, it looks like the layout has been changed to accommodate the fan position. Fortunately, they are rather cheap.

 

Old thread, but just for document sake, that is false. I have an M6600 with a Kepler based K5000M installed. Been running it since 2013 with bios A13-A16. Almost tried the P5000 recently, but I ran into all the threads saying an IPS is needed (not sure which port my touch screen is plugged into). I decided to search compatibility with the M5000M, and found this lovely thread.

Why or where do people think the Kepler cards don't work with the M6600? It works flawlessly. No special bios, vBios, or driver mods... it just works, even Optimus.

If anyone wants to send a temp card (to be returned or purchased) of an M5000M or a P5000, with the M6600 I can document the experience here.

*edited year of install, had to lookup my receipt

 

Hello guy, Do you know if there is a vbios for the M3000M to work on my m6700? I installed today this card on it and only Intel 4000 is recognized. Nvidia driver cannot detect the card ;/

 

It's not a vBIOS thing, you have to modify the NVIDIA driver INF file before it will detect the card. This is the case for virtually any "unsupported" NVIDIA GPU upgrade in these systems (except GeForce 980M).

 

Hey Aaron, my friend traded the Quadro P3000 with me for this M3000M (he has a Precision7720) and the P3000 worked perfectly for him. I am a layperson about these changes and you have been very kind to me. Would this INF file be the same as the P5000 Quadro you've already taught me?

I'm running W7 x64 with i7 3470QM (Optimus is enable at BIOS)

'' Assuming you are running with Optimus ON (not IPS display), open nvdmwi.inf (drivers from NVIDIA) or nvdm.inf (drivers from Dell). Find:
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_1BB6&SUBSYS_07B11028
Replace with:
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_1BB6&SUBSYS_153F1028
(all occurrences)

 

It will be very similar but the actual find and replace strings will be different.

I can provide them if you answer ---
1. Are you running with graphics switching / Optimus enabled or disabled? [Edit] Nevermind, I see your comment that Optimus is enabled.
2. Go to Device Manager and find your NVIDIA GPU (it should be showing as unknown device of some sort), on the details tab you should be able to find the hardware ID (it will look like one of the strings above), what is it?

 

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