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Could I upgrade the Quadro FX 3700m in my m6400 Precision to a 3800m ?
Hi,
I don't have a Quadro FX 3800m to compare to so my question is how does it physically differ from the 3700m and what's to prevent me from upgrading to one in my 6400 precision laptop ? Are there major differences in form that would preclude this ? Will my whole machine burst into flames ? Are the fans and exhaust substantially different between the 2 ? Is the chipset totally incompatible ?
The only thing I have to go on right now are the service manuals for the 6400 & the 6500 and they aren't telling me much.
Thanks for your insights. If there is anyway to do this, including the use of crowbars and blowtorches, I'd like to know.
JF
robotreto
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October 30th, 2017 01:00
Why should you not be able to *download* the driver from the website to your PC? Did you mean you could not *install* it after you downloaded it ?
On my M6400 I have Version 385.08 installed. No problems.
You have to be careful to select the proper driver from the Nvidia Website.
Product Type : Quadro
Product Series : Quadro Series (Notebook)
Product Family : 5000M (do not chose any other 5000, like P5000 or K5000, they are wrong)
And also chose the correct operating system of your M6400. A win 10 Driver does not work on Win 7 etc.
Then it should work without problem.
If it still does not work, your Card is non-standard or an engineering sample.
The correct Vendor ID should be : PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_06DA
Dehlisandwich
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October 30th, 2017 05:00
Thanks but I solved the problem with the quadro 5000m. It didn't have the correct Video Bios ID so I had to flash it using nvflash and the rom I found online. But your post also brings me to my next problem. So I finally managed to find a way for windows to recognize the 5000m but I can't install Nvidia drivers higher than version 342.00. I'm on windows 7 ultimate sp1
robotreto
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October 30th, 2017 12:00
I was able to go as high as 378.92 on win7-64 bit.
What happens if you try to install a newer one than 342.00 ?
Maybe you flashed the wrong bios ?
Dehlisandwich
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October 30th, 2017 14:00
Nevermind. I googled the driver version you listed (385.05) and it let me install. But if your curious as to what happened before when I tried to download the driver listed as the latest driver (377.61) the installation wizard would go through a compatibility check for like 45 second before telling me that the driver would not install on my current version of windows and that it would not install on my current hardware. But like I said earlier it's all good now. Thanks for the help.