SER6 PRO (6800H) EGPU Boot Issue

pileup

Hi,


When it finishes booting and turns on the EGPU (RTX4070 in Akitio Node Titan) it works fine. However, if I boot with the EGPU turned on first and then the booting will continue to fail. I tried to turn off the iGPU (M680), but the BIOS (1.13) didn't have that function. Is there a BIOS that can turn off the iGPU or have it applied?

Thanks

Support-03

Hello there,

From your description, it is related to the power.
When you boot it with the EGPU on, the power is not adequate.
In the BIOS, we are unable to turn off iGPU.

pileup

Thank you for your quick response. Are you saying that SER6 is underpowered? If so, how can you address the shortfall?

fxnoob

pileup replied at 2023-05-16 03:59
Thank you for your quick response. Are you saying that SER6 is underpowered? If so, how can you addr ...

If you think or IS underpowered, just buy a 150W charger with same connector, which is almost standard. I use my SER6 with 3 games started (GPU is 100% perma and both CPU and GPU drain 45W 24/7) plus 3 browsers with many tabs, my work software started including Thunderbird email client, VPN, iCUE software from Corsair,  antivirus, etc. I reboot it Thursday every week when I update drivers or just restart. No power issues here, but I don't use eGPU and maybe it needs extra power for it.

pileup

I tested with a 19V 180W power supply and the result was the same. The problem is that the NVIDIA driver BSODs when the BIOS recognizes the eGPU before the iGPU. Any solution?

MCal27

This is normal behaviour it appears. Turn on the Beelink first, then once windows has booted and you are logged in, power on your eGPU. I would also attach a screen or HDMI Dummy dongle to the eGPU as well.

Al