Alienware M17xR4 with PNY based 680m from HP-Z1 design.

Stats:
Alienware M17x R4 w/A13 stock bios, all other parts stock and nothing is overclocked or modded.
3720qm at stock speed, 16GB Samsung ram (8x2) also stock from Dell
Intel iGPU of course HD4000 and the standard 60hz 1920x1080 display (all parts standard)
7970M - died (as per recommendations in a post from over a month ago)
Windows 7 64bit - fresh install, followed install order and stopped at graphics (after a failed Nvidia attempt to install), on a HDD non-UEFI.

Bought a 2GB 680m from Compeve on Amazon. The card has the nvidia emblem on it, but Compeve says it is a PNY OEM card. PNY says all their cards are stamped with PNY, however another person says they don't make it even when I gave him the product code for the PNY HP 680m for their HP-Z1 workstation. Company says PNY provided these to them.

Problem, I can't get the card to accept any nvidia drivers, plain, mod, or anything.

Bios/Vendor/DevID on card:
GPU z states bios 8.04.33.00.24 6/4/2012 Vendor Dell (1028), Revision A2, DevID 10DE-11A0, Samsung GDDR5
Kepler Bios Tweaker (using exported rom file via GPU-Z) says 80.04.33.00.24 6/4/2012 Vendor MSI (1462), Revision (sku 002), no memory ID (says memory clock is 1800)

HardwareID via Device Manager
PCI\VEN\_10DE&DEV_11A0&SUBSYS_05511028&REV_A1

680m Board has green not blue PCB and verified Samsung memory.

@Raidriar, @j95, @Mr. Fox
You three appear to be the resident experts on all things Alienware and GPU. I cannot figure out what to do to get this card to work. Modified Video Bios, Modified System Bios or something else including the actual driver version. I have learned a few things today about what not to do once Optimus is working. I would prefer to keep Optimus capability.

Here is a copy of my bios
http://ift.tt/2aarthw Bios as of July 26 2016.rom?dl=0

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Alienware M17xR4 with PNY based 680m from HP-Z1 design.