*OFFICIAL* Clevo M57ru FAQ & Owners Lounge

So I just wanted to share the good news with everyone here, and also spread the word about something that could help someone here.

For a quick recap, after about 6 years without any consistent hardware maintenance, i.e. there were huge dust bunnies clogging my high tech heat sink vents, etc., my video card finally quit on me.

It all started when my friend started gaming on my computer after it had been left running for a couple days, the screen started going green and black and locking up the entire system. After some experimentation, I discovered that underclocking the GPU clock from 625MHz to 400 MHz, with shader clock from 1250MHz to 800MHz, and memory clock from 799MHz to 602Mhz fixed the problem temporarily. Performance of course took a hit, and while doing a little more research I read a lot of people saying "If you have to underclock your video card to achieve stability, then you need to RMA that Video Card." That's probably good advice, but where did that leave me, an owner of a 6 year old laptop from a now defunct distributor with little to no replacement options?

Things were going well until I started slowly working my way back up to stock clock speeds, when I simply overheated the card one too many times, and my system completely crashed. I couldn't get the computer to boot anymore, actually I wasn't getting any video at all, not even the BIOS loading screen. That's what brought me to this forum, where, along with a few other locations on the web, people reporting similar problems were claiming to have fixed their issue by baking their defective hardware. Someone reportedly fixed a ruined Dell by completely disassembling the PC and baking the entire motherboard. More importantly other owners of the M57RU with my exact same problem solved their issue by baking the video card in the oven.

I figured I had nothing to lose, so I removed the back panel, detached the heat sink, took out the card, removed the plastic pull handle that helps detach the card, put it on a Pyrex cooking tray on top of a sheet of tin foil, held aloft by 4 pea-sized balls of tin foil on the four corners of the card, preheated the over to 385 degrees Fahrenheit, and stuck the card in for exactly 8 minutes.

Afterwards, I let it cool outside for about 15 minutes. Then, I reassembled everything, pushed the power button and crossed my fingers, and, believe it or not, the thing booted right up, like nothing had ever happened.

I thought things were going pretty well, I could even run FurMark (GPU Benchmarking) on full stock clock speeds! But then a couple days later I started trying to use 4x Antialiasing and the temperature of the GPU shot up and started acting up again. So I was back to underclocked speeds, but then even that didn't work and something happened with Windows and I had to re-install everything, and even then it was still acting up. Everything was Not Responding constantly, the GPU was crashing with minimal loads.

Now you're probably thinking, "Well that's what happens when you start sticking hardware in the oven." But you'd be thinking wrong. What I have now discovered is that's what happens when you have at least 6-years old, crusty Thermal Paste on your CPU and GPU. Do yourself a favor. If any of my issues seemed familiar to you, go and get yourself some thermal compound from Radio Shack. And if you are, make sure you go the extra mile, and the couple extra bucks, for their Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound, which is 99.9% silver that isn't conductive, so you don't have to worry as much about it accidentally contacting and shorting your board.

You gently remove the nasty, dried up, caked up thermal paste that's in there and put in some nice new arctic silver. Look up a couple Youtube videos on how to apply thermal paste. You'll wish you did it 4 years ago.

Now I run FurMark on full screen 1680 x 1050 resolution with 8x MSAA on intense burn in with dynamic background and my max GPU temp is 54C. 54C!!!!!!!!!

In case you don't know, that's freaking amazing because before this thing was shooting up to over 80C before it would crash. Now I can't get it past 55C! (I haven't tried overclocking.)

Alright. I'm gonna stop typing now, but I hope y'all enjoyed my story and I really hope you go out and get some Arctic Silver if you haven't already. Let me know how it works out for you if you do. I swear I don't work for Radio Shack or anything (although my brother used to) I am just seriously amazed at the results. I hear it is cheapest on Amazon.

For now I'll enjoy my finally fully functional PC.

On a final note, the thing runs like dead quiet half the time now, I guess because the temp is so low the fans aren't even engaged half the time unless the CPU or GPU take on a serious load.

Thanks Arctic Silver! :thumbsup:

 

HI, my Nvidia got fried and i am searching for one used on eBay. Will this fit?



For Alienware M15X NVIDIA 8800M GTX 512MB Videocard VMD2NB8PGTX512 DHL Free SHIP | eBay

Thanks in advance

 

Hi, I bought this computer mid-2008, and installed win7 about 4 years ago. It was a huge pain to find compatible drivers back then but I found enough to meet my needs, albeit some of the more insignificant hardware hasn't been used. More recently, I have reinstalled win7 and am having a terrible time, yet again, with the drivers. I believe I was able to get some vista drivers to work. I tried all webcam drivers on the clevo site for this model but none have worked for me. Can anyone help me out with this issue? Am I better off reinstalling Vista and using the driver disk (which is absolutely no help to me with this newer OS)? I'm sure this has been asked before, but 130 pages is a lot to read through. Thanks.

Also, thanks mbiebel872 for the tip on the paste.

 

Hi, There's some useful information, this notebook in latin america goes by the name of amazon gamer, from the amazon pc company, today discontinued, Thanks!

 

Still nobody can tell me where the bios battery is?

 

Always worth giving the forum a search before asking:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/sag...-m57ru-faq-owners-lounge-113.html#post6848670

 

Ladies & Gents,

For what its worth, my Clevo / Rock / Sager M570ru is for sale. Some of you may need these parts...

Read descrption carefully...

Enjoy.

Rock Xtreme770 17" Laptop 8GB RAM 500GB 7200rpm 450Mb/s Intel wifi 8800MGTX 7Pro | eBay

 

Hello guyz,

I would like to ask you , i have a Clevo M57RU.

With :
Intel T7250
2GB RAM DDR2 667Mhz
Nvidia 8700GT
SSD 120GB

How can i upgrade it ? It's god dammit too slow.

 

Hello everyone. I am so happy that i found this page. I have the same M570RU laptop. I bought it second hand from Germany in 2010, it was sold in 2007 by a company named NEXOC as model E705II.

The laptop has;

4GB 667Mhz rams (2x2GB)
Core2Duo T7700 2.4GHz 800MHz
Intel(R) PM965 + ICH8M Chipset
NVidia 8700M GT
240GB Kingston SSD (100+140)

I have 2 questions.

1) These things are written in the manual:

Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor
(478-pin) Micro-FC-PGA Package, Socket P
T7300/ T7500/ T7700
65nm (65 Nanometer) Process Technology
4MB On-die L2 Cache & 800MHz FSB
2.0/ 2.2/ 2.4 GHz

Can i upgrade to a Core2Quad q9100? That only has 2 different things. One is the FSB (Q9100 has or requires (i don't know which word would be right) 1066 MHz and the other is something called process technology which is 45 nm.

I have a gut feeling that this would be too good to be true. But if it doesn't work, what would be my best choice of processor? If I install another 1066MHz FSB cpu, wouldn't it work at 800Mhz because this seems to be what the chipset supports? I am thinking of having a quad core cpu that works at 800 Mhz instead of dual core cpu that works at 800MHz. Please forgive me if sound stupid. I am just trying to learn.

2) When i plug in a headphone everything looks good and windows recognizes it but no sound. I tried XP, Vista, 7 and 8 with no luck. Just silence out of the port. I saw on a machine that is sold on eBay that this was a "common fault". Does anyone have the green headphone out jack not working? And did someone luckily manage to fix it?

Thanks for reading.

PS: This is my NovaBench score:

Ram 109
Cpu 221
Graphics 69
Hardware 18

TOTAL 417

 

Hi Petros,

You can add another 2GB 667Mhz DDR2 and upgrade to T7700 cpu. Let's see what will they say to my post about upgrading the cpu even more.

 

Hello,

I have requested to re-open this thread in case i can get a few answers.
I got this laptop for free, from a friend that didn't need it.
It has a 8700GT and a 7250 Intel inside, with Kingston SSD V300 120GB and 2 GB of RAM.

I am thinking of "boosting" it up a little.
By

Putting another 2GB RAM (total to have 4GB) ,and thinking of buying a new cpu like QX9300 but i don't know the results of the "heat" that will come out even if i use Arctic Cooling Silver 5 thermal paste.

Which is the highest CPU that anyone has installed with no problems ?

 

Noone exist ?

 

Yes, here !
To put the QX9300 inside you need to have a special M570TU model , made after dec 2008.
Otherwise I think your best update is X9000.

I think this page will help understand what you can and cannot do to your laptop:
http://www.eurocom.com/ec/configure(2,189,0)ec

 

I'm running Windows 10 on my Clevo M57RU. Anyone else? The only things not working (yet, as I'm still investigating and looking for drivers) are the camera and the fingerprint scanner. Just interested if anyone else is running 10 and what issues they might be having.

Clevo M57RU: Intel T8100 2.1GHz 4GB 120GB SSD 8800M GTX 1920 x 1200

 

Yes, me too.
I Have Windows 10 , and camera doesn't work. It requests Bison etc. but no luck yet...

 

Question , do we support 9600M ?

I have the latest 0.13 bios.