MicroAlex
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Hey there lads,
I am having some trouble with my upgrade decision. Essentially I have thought that just like with desktops I will be able to easily upgrade my laptop... NOPE!
This laptop was rocking a 560M previously, however I have decided to strap a M290X to it. I did manage to get it working by updating to the latest Alienware unlocked BIOS and tweaking some settings.
My problems is that the GPU fan will not spin at all while the laptop is ON. Yes I can control it with a 3rd party software, however I prefer that the fans would work automatically as when you are not in Windows you are baking your laptop.
The fan is not faulty as was tested by swapping with CPU fan. Also GPU fan spins with custom HWiNFO curve and while performing a BIOS flash as both of them ramp up to 100%.
Any suggestion on what could be modified, tweaked and so on for this to work properly?
PS, if to be believed the M290X 4GB card is from a new Alienware 17 series laptop launched sometime in 2013.
Alienware M17X R3
BIOS A12 (unlocked)
Intel i7-2670QM
nVidia 560M (stock GPU)
AMD R9 M290X (upgrade)
16GB DDR3
Samsung EVO
Stock power brick
Thank you for your time.
I am having some trouble with my upgrade decision. Essentially I have thought that just like with desktops I will be able to easily upgrade my laptop... NOPE!
This laptop was rocking a 560M previously, however I have decided to strap a M290X to it. I did manage to get it working by updating to the latest Alienware unlocked BIOS and tweaking some settings.
My problems is that the GPU fan will not spin at all while the laptop is ON. Yes I can control it with a 3rd party software, however I prefer that the fans would work automatically as when you are not in Windows you are baking your laptop.
The fan is not faulty as was tested by swapping with CPU fan. Also GPU fan spins with custom HWiNFO curve and while performing a BIOS flash as both of them ramp up to 100%.
Any suggestion on what could be modified, tweaked and so on for this to work properly?
PS, if to be believed the M290X 4GB card is from a new Alienware 17 series laptop launched sometime in 2013.
Alienware M17X R3
BIOS A12 (unlocked)
Intel i7-2670QM
nVidia 560M (stock GPU)
AMD R9 M290X (upgrade)
16GB DDR3
Samsung EVO
Stock power brick
Thank you for your time.
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