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So I have new problems now. Drivers show card is there, but with problems. With some more bios flashing and driver tweaking we got it working fully. Only problem was it wouldnt boost past 135Mhz. we then began with more flashing and drivers mods.
until all of a sudden the wifi was no longer working. It was connected and secured, but "no Internet". ran troubleshoot and says one or more internet protocols are missing. tried some more trouble shooting with that with no luck. So I then said screw it will just plug ethernet in and download the lower version NVIDIA drivers I wanted. Well I unlugged laptop from charger, connected laptop to ethernet. Downloaded NVIDIA driver and updated Win10 wireless driver.
Installed new wireless driver. Unplugged Ethernet and did a reboot... only to be blessed with a black screen.
I checked bridge and it was still good.
So today I put 660m in to see if it would boot which it does.
took off bridge and put 780m in, black screen.
bridged it, black screen. Also GPU fan no longer spinning.
I think I might have killed the card, more on the VRM side of things.
Heatsink plate was pretty warm, but not hot. Copper heatpipes pretty warm, but not hot.
This all happened after a reboot, not your typical GPU overheat and laptop shut off.
Any ideas?
Update: I also cant access bios with 780m in. UEFI is off. Screen turns on, just stays black. No sound of windows boot in the background.