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December 18th, 2009 19:00

Question for 4870 Crossfire in M17X

Hi everyone, I just got my new M17X with 4870 Crossfire, running very good. But I got a question, Alienware uses a Nvidia G9400 as a onboard GPU which is a good idea for running M17X in battery model. But it didn't work with 4870 very well, everytime I need to disable it from BIOS setup in order to let 4870 working properly.

 

Anyone has any idea about this? Beacuse when u change to battery model, m17x will change to onbaord gpu immediately. Then 4870 will be disabled.

 

Thank you so much for your help!

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December 18th, 2009 23:00

Yeah, that wae what I did. But when u change to battery model, m17x will trun on the onboard GPU immediately. That means everything u  plug in again, u need to go to BIOS setup to trun off onBoard GPU, I dont like this. My question is can we let them work together?

Thank you so much!

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December 18th, 2009 23:00

Well, that is what I want to find out. Because we dont always plug in to use a laptop, right? But I understand why they can't work together, I just want to know did alienware give out any solution for this case

Thanks 

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December 18th, 2009 23:00

To have the 4870 Crossfire on all the time, go into the bios and switch both the Hybrid Graphics and Integrated Graphics to Off.

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December 18th, 2009 23:00

I do not see that option in the bios.

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