Hello,
I've got brand new Clevo p375sm with stock bios and one gtx880m 8GB inside and it's working almost perfectly.
I wanted to upgrade to SLI, so I bought second gtx880m (used, not new, also 8GB, and seller wrote that it came from dell alienware).
So I put this card to gpu second slot. Unfortunately my computer reacted like in Chevez and Anders-i's case (see few posts above): after start my Clevo boots to Windows, everything is ok during few seconds, but suddenly it beeps about 30x and then shuts down.
My Clevo beeps and shuts down also after I put pendrive and booted to DOS.
Then I installed this dell gtx880m to primary gpu slot as the only gpu - result was black screen, about thirty beeps and shutdown after minute.
Let's assume that the gpu is not damaged and problem lies somewhere else. What should I do now? Could something help me if I flashed Prema's V2 BIOS? Is it BIOS issue? Something locked in stock BIOS?
P375SM:
BIOS 1.03.03RG
EC 1.03.01N8
BIOS from original gtx880m from P375SM: 80.04.E9.00.10
BIOS from Dell gtx880m: 80.04.E8.00.0C
These two cards look almost identical, small differences are in some small chips at the top of cards.
I read a lot of posts about putting dell/msi gpus to clevo laptops and vice versa and in worst case I was prepared to flash vbios of installed dell gpu (for example flash it with previously loaded vbios from my first original 880m). But I'm not able to flash it cause of Clevo shutdowns
Any idea except putting this gpu card to garbage
?? Prema, your help will be probably most valuable.
Thanx in advance