Hello All,
A friend of mine gave me his old Gaming Laptop. It is an Alienware desktop, still trying to figure out what model it is. Some of his components were direct upgrades to my desktop, so I removed the geforce 1070 graphics card and the intel i7 processor and swapped them out with my geforce 970 and intel i5 processor.
I have a little bit of experience building desktops, so I more or less knew what I was doing. I removed the heat syncs, used rubbing alcohol to clean the old thermal paste off, swapped the CPUs, applied new thermal paste, replaced the heat syncs, and then swapped out the graphics cards.
His 1070 didn't use the same 2x 6 pin connector that mine did, but the cable in his case had the cable there to do it.
After I got it all setup, when I boot the old alienware, all the fans spin up, I heard drive activity, and the monitors turn on, and then they turn back off shortly after that.
I suspect that the graphics card can't fully seat into the slot but I want to get a second opinion before I try to start cutting metal to make it fit:
View: https://imgur.com/s17d4Fd
A friend of mine gave me his old Gaming Laptop. It is an Alienware desktop, still trying to figure out what model it is. Some of his components were direct upgrades to my desktop, so I removed the geforce 1070 graphics card and the intel i7 processor and swapped them out with my geforce 970 and intel i5 processor.
I have a little bit of experience building desktops, so I more or less knew what I was doing. I removed the heat syncs, used rubbing alcohol to clean the old thermal paste off, swapped the CPUs, applied new thermal paste, replaced the heat syncs, and then swapped out the graphics cards.
His 1070 didn't use the same 2x 6 pin connector that mine did, but the cable in his case had the cable there to do it.
After I got it all setup, when I boot the old alienware, all the fans spin up, I heard drive activity, and the monitors turn on, and then they turn back off shortly after that.
I suspect that the graphics card can't fully seat into the slot but I want to get a second opinion before I try to start cutting metal to make it fit:
View: https://imgur.com/s17d4Fd