Alienware 18 R2 - Upgrading to 860

Good Morning,

Had my Alienware for a while, the Existing NVIDA card had flaked out, I wound up going mainly to the intel hd card that was loaded in it. Finally decided to get a new video card for it. Got the NVIDIA GTX 860M GDDR5 2GB CN-0J0M0K. Went thru the whole process to replace. Can see it in the BIOS.

However Windows 10 and the latest driver patches don't detect the dell card in place. Reading some of the posts from Mr. Fox and others, I should be able to updated the nvdmi.inf file with the hardware ID. However, where I am struggling is knowing what to replace in the file with the updated information.

Hardware ID from the System:

PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_119A&SUBSYS_05501028

If you could point me in the correct direction I would appericate it.

 

Im also a bit clueless with that, I would hit up @woodzstack

 

- Press shift while restarting your notebook
- Go to troubleshoot, more options, advanced start options
- While restarting the system should ask you for an option, press 7 (not f7)
- When back in windows, download the latest drivers from NVIDIA
- Install the NVIDIA driver, but cancel the installation.
- replace the file inside the nvidia/w10driverversion/Display.Driver with the one I uploaded here in a zip file
- start the setup.exe again
- during installation it will ask if you're sure about installing non signatured driver, you say yes
- wait until it's done and enjoy your new GPU update.