Upgrading the DGFF GPUs in the Precision 7530 & 7730

So I went through a full restore/clean windows reinstall.

I should've fixed my GPU issues before doing windows update (dell recommended windows update once in after reinstall)... when doing so, the screen resolution changed (likely drivers for Intel) and then computer restart with nice blue screen... Video_tdr_failure.

Back to square one reinstalling windows and not updating to try and get this GPU to work first. Will continue tomorrow as it's very late now.

 

Where did you get this card from?
This was the error that I was getting frequently with my Quadro P5000 that I had installed in my Precision M6700. I was never able to figure out a fix; it was solved as soon as I put my old dGPU back in.

 

From eBay
And my chip has a marking on it saying QUAL SAMPLE

I will reinstall windows, not update drivers until I figure out how to get drivers and use it, then update windows. I brought the laptop to work as it is quite time consuming

 

Can you take a photo of the card?

 

I'm a little bit worried that your card is defective.
Disabling switchable graphics should be fine — you should still get output to the laptop display, no matter the configuration that you have set. This has nothing to do with the Windows drivers because Windows isn't even loaded.

I think "QUAL SAMPLE" means that somehow you got an early engineering sample card. Maybe it has an early vBIOS on it and flashing it with the "current" one from Dell would improve things? Any way you can get the vBIOS version number? (GPU-Z but it might require you to get a driver installed first.)

 

Does this link work?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/133355405207

 

I am able to POST and get into F12 boot or F2 EUFI, display back to working but Windows is the issue, once I finish POST I get a black screen, no error but only thing I can do is long press power to shut down.

I was able to get image to my TV display through HDMI so the dGPU at least is able to output HDMI but that's how far I got yesterday before come windows corruption.

I am now reinstalling windows as I can't find how to safe mode boot without graphics drivers. I am reading everywhere online but can't find how to get into safe mode windows from scratch, all options are run from windows or F8 which doesn't do anything for me.

 

I am going deeper and deeper in the rabbit hole. Middle of reinstalling windows from Dell assistant and it stopped with an error .. then scanned then disaster.

I used to have 4 boot options now only 2. And no clue how to re-add the correct ones.

I am not even sure if I reopen and swap the GPU I'll get anything back as it seems everything is getting close to fubar.

Also getting a no network card error, like something disconnected somewhere on a board inside.

I think I will just reopen and revert back to stock integrated to try and get it running clean again... before reattempting to install the dGPU. Or just resell everything at cost (except the dGPU) and find another computer as a 7740 with integrated graphics is not worth the $ and bulk for me.

 

I am still unable to get any boot... But now I do see dGPU Nvidia as well as the Intel UHD.

Also the Pcie SSD still shows so there must be a way to fix all this, but I have no clue if it's part of the 4 listed when I select Add Boot Option...

I don't have the efi/Boot/bootmgfw.efi file

In EFI there is only a Dell/logs/ and two dogs xmls

Crazy how things can get from bad to worse.

 

I've never had to manually add a boot option. The Windows bootloader should be automatically discovered and added to the list if you hit F12 to get the boot menu (or even if you just let the system boot and take no action, if there is no other default boot device already set up).

:-\