OK, maybe this is TPM before last decades TPM standards? I know TPM 1.0-2.0 need a module, but I guess it's possible some configurations it's not needed. I don't know to be honest, have never used other than testing.

M6700 should have TPM 1.2.
imo those module provide addon tpm chip to desktop boards,but on M6700(and almost all of business notebooks) this chip already BGA to the motherboard.

The boards I've used have Infineon chips on board already too, that utilize the modules. Maybe with the addition of that it's able to create a much stronger encryption or something?
Who know, not a big deal or anything we need to worry about now since you checked the board and there is no header.

I see memory frequency selection, do you see that in your BIOS? Other than that, nothing really for CPU voltages.
I'm sure it's there and could possibly be changed or enabled, but I can't open this BIOS in AMIBCP, for now I can only edit what I currently see in the stock setupprep file (attached, all that can be changed)
https://www.sendspace.com/file/6s6b2v

If you need any of that adjusted, make a list of exact setting, and what you want default changed to of the choices shown directly below each setting (Default is shown for each thing, in parentheses)

OK,we could just wait for AMIBCP become available. thanks for help :D

AMIBCP is available now, but opening the BIOS in it isn't due to some string in the BIOS is messed up so I can't open it in there properly

@Lost_N_BIOS, @Blossomcrown: Thank you very much for the modded bios and the efi vars. I have finally found some time to test the modded bios and sucessfully set the turbo multi for 1-Core to 4,0GHz and 3,8GHz for the others.

Now it is time for some test ;-)

@pseudodeed - you're welcome, and thank you for the report back, good luck in your testing!

Dear @Lost_N_BIOS,i've finally understand what you meant "a TPM module".
On my Precision M6700 there is a specific 1/2 mini card slot with Mini PCI-E interface that is reserved for a so called "Dell encryption module".I'll try to get one,see if it can activate TPM function and then report back.

-update-
i opened up the other tpm-enabled machine and didnt see any module on that 1/2 slot, meanwhile i cant find any mini pci-e encryption card on neither ebay nor aliexpress, so im pretty confused now.
hmmmm, maybe still a bios related problem?

@Blossoncrown - yes, that sounds similar, but not exact same thing I mentioned. It doesn't go into a 1/2 card slot (Whatever you mean by that, Mini PCIE I suppose?)
Normal TPM I've always seen on any board, the device plugs into a header similar to COM port or a USB onboard header, but it has it's own pinout and larger size than those. I gave links on page 5 post 62 to device I mean, there you can see how it connects, like a USB block header

Hey @Blossomcrown,

I own the same laptop , and am curious about how far you can push the 3940xm on stock volts.

My laptop is currently equipped with the 3740qm and K4000m (heavily overclocked on a custom bios). I want to try to squeeze more power out of it by upgrading to a 3920xm/3940xm and replace the GPU with a 980m . Should cost about 400 bucks in all for the parts.

Can you hit over 4.0Ghz? It seems like fairly meager gains compared to the stock 3.9 turbo maximum. I'm trying to decide if it is worth it to sink more money into this laptop, or sell it and get something newer.

Thanks!

Hi there,
Full core @ 4.1GHz work for me,and before you hit 81.25W power limit you should already encountered TJMax.
For daily use i just maintain full core @ 4.0GHz,getting about 10% more performance than stock full core @3.7GHz.
Personally i want to use this machine for one or two more years , then replace it with upcoming 10nm processors or Ryzen counterparts.
From what I know,suggest you just pull up 4x multiplier for your 3740QM (which means 4.1GHz for single freq and 3.9GHz full core) .I think that's good enough , no need to buy an expensive 39x0XM. Meanwhile,GTX980M or M5000M is the best graphics card you can get for PremierColor version of M6700 so i think it's good.
Remember,replace whole thing or not still up to your need,that's your call.

Hi from here too Blossomcrown.

Ihave M6700 with i7-3720qm and want little power on it. I have thinking to buy xm prosessor, but
what you say abaut it? I have now GTX980m and very happy abaut it. Can you make custom bios
so i can push little bit more power to my 3720qm??

Hey there! I just signed up for this Forum because i screwed myself over...

After flashing the modbios from @Lost_N_BIOS and setting the NVRAM variables i rebooted and wanted to re-set some settings in the bios.
I noticed that all the options were grayed out and that an Admin password is suddenly set.

Do you maybe know some way to get out of this and get the admin PW unset?
I do have a SPI Flasher as well.

Thanks a lot in advance,
Nevoness

Edit:
I forgot to mention: I cant even use the grub setup_var anymore, since im stuck in UEFI - Secureboot ON mode and cant change that without the "admin password"
Windows still boots though

Edit2: Figured out thaz the bios in Post #17 has a bios PW set. Managed to reflash my bios using SuperUEFIinsecureBoot and fpt.

@Lost_N_Bios, could you please mod my backup? Would be awesome to have the MSR 0x194 unlocked.

@neovness - Great to see you found a way to get back your original BIOS!!
Please confirm, what all do you need edited in above file, just the MSR 0x194 edit, or anything else too?
Also, please dump both chips and upload somewhere for me, I can't edit just the one chip, this BIOS is split in the middle across both chips.

* Edit - Ohh, so the above is FPT Full BIOS dump, not programmer. Can you flash back full BIOS with FPT? If yes, OK, I can edit like this and send back to you