Aorus X7 DT V8 Owners Lounge

its about as risky as downloading and flashing your bios with the official one from gigabyte. i essentially got help to do it, i supplied someone with my ripped bios, they unlocked it and i reflashed my bios with it. but for gigabyte laptops, you have to do one extra step to allow for unauthorised flashing, probably the riskiest part as requires you to enter grub and disable a parameter which can be found in post #2 here https://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Thread-REQUEST-Aorus-x7-DT-v8-bios-unlock

the modded bios i still have along with the required files to flash it as he sent me the bios in private for some reason.

 

I see. Other than undervolting, did you change anything else?

 

i opted to underclock a bit too, felt the 43x offset was a little much, and i enabled expose xtu. not really touched anything else, there is xmp but not feeling the need for overclocking the ram

 

If anyone else wants to upgrade their RAM, HDD or SSD, here the compatibility list sent by Gigabyte eSupport:

Also, if the laptop doesn't want to boot after RAM upgrade, you need to do the BIOS reset like so:

1. Remove the battery and the CMOS battery
2. Press the power button for 40 seconds
3. Connect both batteries and power up the laptop

In my case, the laptop restarted a few times but did eventually boot. Hope someone finds this useful.

 

thats very few thats apparently supported, i think thats more of an oem certified list. the Corsair Vengeance 2666mhz ram i can confirm is compatible. i live in the uk so will have to do some digging, but you can see the ram specs here https://www.scan.co.uk/products/16g...-pc4-21300-(2666)-non-ecc-unbuffered-cas-18-1

 

Yes, there's more to that list for sure. But just to be sure, I bought G. Skill rams, and they work.

 

Hey guys.

Has anyone been experiencing complete random shutdowns? After roughly 2 years, my laptop has completely shut down 2 times now within the last 3 days. And I couldn't power it up again until I disconnected the power adapter and reconnect it after 2-3 minutes.

Also, for the past 2 months, I've been running my laptop directly on the power adapter, since I had to remove the battery because it was inflated, but I don't think that would be the cause. The laptop isn't overheating either. Then I thought the power brick was acting up, but I measured the output voltage and it's fine.

 

no, i cant say i have, the only time ive gotten shutdowns is what i believe to be overheating. 4.3ghz boost clock is far too high for my machine so i reduced it and havent shut down since. perhaps your laptop isnt recieving enough power? just a guess, in which case you could try undervolting and lowering the boost clock. your issue seems intermitent so would be hard to test.

 

The thing is, that I have it already undervolted and underclocked at 3.4Gz since I bought it. It's hard to say what's causing the shutdown, but what's interesting, is that I cannon power it back on until I unplug the power and wait a bit.

 

i wonder if having a replacement battery inside it would make any difference, even a different charger even though its apparently fine.

 

My guess is, it would just switch from adapter to battery... But for now, it seems to be stable.

 

This is getting really annoying. Today, it shutdown twice. Maybe it's the power adapter, but I can't tell for sure. Even if it is, the same one from Gigabyte store costs almost 200$, which is insane...

 

I've been having this issue for months now. As of 1 week out of my warranty, or 1 week and 1 year if it's solely the charger.
Thought it was the gpu or CPU (don't know too much about the ins and outs of computers) my service centre never took the charger and sent it back to HK I expect. They couldn't find a problem and sent it back. Apparently all they did was repaste the CPU.
Once it was back I noticed that the led was not lighting up on my charger, not sure the problem was there before, never saw.
The laptop overheats, playing games I used to be able to play all day non stop, randomly between 10mins to 4 hours but happens a couple times a night.

Edit: forgot to point out it stopped charging for a week or so. I changed my power settings in command and control and replugged it and started again.
Now sometimes after a crash I have to disconnect and replug in the power cable to the charger.

You're not alone.

Now considering getting thermal grizzly kryonaut expreme and figuring out how to undervolt.

Think it's pretty crappy for the premier laptop at the time of purchase (and bloody expensive) to have issues a week out of warranty.

 

I have Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut Liquid Metal inside and I have both CPU and GPU undervolted since day 1, so I can't be having overheating issues.

At the repair center, they told me as well that all they can do is to repaste it...

2 days ago I received a new battery, and this happed:

As I turned on the laptop, the battery was at 13% and it said 2h to fully charged. I went on with my work, and after 20 minutes, the laptop stuttered for a second while I was in the middle of some audio rendering, and the charging stopped (and if it wasn't for the battery to take over, the laptop would've turned off). I had to unplug and reconnected the power cable in order to start the charging process, but this time it said 4h to fully charged...

Nonetheless, the battery is now at 100%. I'm still going to order a new AC charger, and hope that will do. But if that's not the case, it must be the main board's fault, and since they don't manufacture it anymore, I can throw the laptop away...

As you said, it's really bad for such an expensive laptop to fail after 2 years...

 

So I did the re-pasting and undervolted. The crashes slowed down heaps. for a bit. I started getting BSOD's sporadically too to make up for it.
So the temps are down now (wish I'd known about this earlier). and under stupidly light conditions I still get crashes, or it hangs for like 5-15ish seconds then comes back.
I bit the bullet and bought a new power adapter for 207 bucks NZD. and it has the same readings on the multimeter as the one I thought would be faulty. and I'm still getting all the same issues....!

and the BSOD's which are dpc_watchdog_violation started happening more often as I got the temps down and reduced the game settings down a bit each day.
apparently, this is tied to corrupted drivers most of the time and as I've looked into it more, in the event viewer I'm seeing an Nvidia file failing, I'm seeing other issues with DCOM and command & control (SmartManagerV4) though that's getting into registry stuff and I don't know much about that..

I'm starting to wonder if there was a bad display driver update a while back or some other thing, but bugger me if I can remember what happened before all this started happening.
All I can see is that I'm still getting the random shutdowns, I'm now also getting BSOD's, 1 of which the screen was purple and glitched drunkenly so there were 2 images next to each other.
I've formatted the laptop, repasted the CPU and GPU, and bought an expensive adapter, and i'm no closer.

Ready to throw it through the window tbh.

 

have you tried resetting the CMOS? try doing both that and completely removing all gpu drivers using DDU and then install official latest nvidia drivers (dont use the ones in drivers update)