The title says it all, I'm trying to get an alienware m5500i-r3 working with an ATI 3870m graphics card (thermals be dammed, I have a chill pad for these things) and I would very much appreciate it if someone would modify the bios for me so it will finally post and work with this card.
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When a VGA card is not supported then this means that there is something missing in the MXM structure in the BIOS . Unfortunately i don`t knew what code should be modified to make the MXM structure correct and accept all cards . I`m sorry for this .
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Understandable. Than how about this, the alienware m9750 that came out with this one had the same internals except for more powerful SLI graphics cards. It was basically the same board though. When I try to flash my smaller laptop with that bios I get an error about having to connect my AC adapter before I flash. Can you remove this fail safe?
Baring that I do have the phlash16 tool for phoenix bios's along with a DOS flash drive but I don't know what kind of bios file I need to use with it to force a flash.
P.S. I'm hoping to get this thing working but wont be destroyed if it gets bricked.
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