HOW-TO: Upgrade your 9300 with the Ultra or 7800 "Photo Guide" - Page 42

You and me both mate!

I'll compose an e-mail to the seller in the morning - want me to copy you in?

I thought that ALL Dell parts ordered from dell have a refurbished sticker on them. If you got from ebay and the seller got it from dell then there should be a refurb sticker. If someone pulled it from a system it should not have one.

Nah, thanks. I'll write something up myself. Also, it seems that we're having different errors. Should he refuse to accept a return we should probably compose a joint claim thru Paypal.

Even on brand new spare parts? My card must have been running on high loads for a while before, as the board shows burn marks from the heatsink. Nonetheless, if the seller got it from Dell as refurbished, it would only make sense to continue using that condition rather than renaming it to be new, even if Dell puts those stickers on all parts. You can't resell a refurbished item as new, in my opinion.

Ok, I am trying to go back to my x300 and 9300 bios. The link to the iso bootdisk doesn't work. Anybody got the files.

I know it looks dubious, but after using it, my notebook is still alive... lol

http://www.megashare.com/86941

Any ideas anyone? Could use an advice.. Thanks..

I think the general rule of thumb is that the newer the power brick, the more likely it is to work.

When you flashed the bios, did it work fine until after you swapped the cards?

I know this sounds elementary but make sure it is plugged in all the way into the laptop and make sure it is plugged in at the 3 way on the adapter. I will get that message if it doesn't get the best connection. Oh and I am using a REVA01 adapterb with my 6800 Ultra in 9300 with no problems

AFAIK Dell started over with the revision numbers after A05. So if you recently bought it new, it's most likely a Rev 6 with a A01 sticker on it.

Nope. I put the 6800 ultra in about 7 months ago an got the adapter on ebay at that time. It is an older adapter. never had a problem.
please tell me what is AFAIK means?

afaik = as far as i know

Welcome to NotebookForums,

Anyways do you have a 130w Power supply? And the 9 cell battery?
Did you uninstall the old video card drivers?
Did you flash to an Xps Gen2 Bios?
Double check the steps you've taken within the first page.
Maybe you missed something and caused the slow mode.

Need to know where your at in the mod state

Hi Everyone,

And thanks to all of you for the great advice, but I just recieved another adapter
purchased via eBay today and it was Rev. a05, needless to say with this one i was
able to boot right up. All seems well thus far,however I do not know for sure if it is
running at full speed. It does seem a lot better though.. I'm currently running the
97.46 drivers and they seem to have a crippled control panel.

I downloaded these from dell's site, is there a coolbits reg. entry for these? I'm running
Vista home prem. atm, still new to vista.. so you know how that goes!

Once again, thanks for all the helpful hints and advice.. seems like my 9300 has been reborn!!

I got an advice since I had the same problem before I got a working PSU.

Boot without the PSU, but plug it in when the Windows loading screen appears. Then everything should be fine.

My problem was that I didn't have the 130W but only the 90W for my 9300. The above mentioned way got it working for me with my 7800 GTX BUT........

When using the 90W PSU the temperature reading from the 7800 GTX was 110 degree celcius constantly - regardless of booting up while the computer was cold or after playing 10+ minutes of HL2, Oblivion or other. I didn't believe this reading, especially because the fans seemed to be spinning up/down according to what I should expect according to what I did (playing Word vs. playing HL2).

The PSU that I recieved less than an hour ago is OEM (ie. bought through Dell) and is labeled REV A01. But it works also when booting.

The rest of the PSU label is:
CN - 0X9366 - 71615 - 6B3 - 0C11 (Made in China) REV A01
I can guarantee that the "0" preceeding X and C are numbers as I have entered them above. They may be letters.

I have previously bought a PSU through eBay. The shop described it to be REV A02 but I got a REV A00 that didn't work when booting. Fortunately they refunded it. The price premium for me in Denmark (eBay vs. Dell) is app. USD $40 vs. USD $88. After having had bad experience ealier the choice was clear to me, so I would advice everyone to make DA..ED sure they get what they are seeking, i.e. ask the seller and be sure to trust them.

By the way... The ATI X300 stinks... My 7800GTX rocks... I'm drooling but very tired, because my night sleep-time have just been converted into play-time...

Which is the "new" REV A01 Dell released after REV A05. I have one of those as well, ordered directly from Dell Germany.

Hey all I have a question...
So I just got a 9300 with a 7800gtx installed but I was having problems with the power adapter, so I bought one off of ebay (A01 - didn't realize it mattered at the time). Anyway with the new power adapter I get ~ 4500 in 3dmark05 and ~6700 with the other power adapter. Thus obviously with the new adapter it is running in low power mode. Now I noticed that the computer is running the stock dell 9300 A05 bios; the graphics card is unrecognized in the bios. Would the power adapter I bought work correctly if I installed the XPS bios? Can I just install the XPS bios that is on the dell site or do I need a special one?
Thanks all!

Are you sure that you actually have the 7800 GTX in there? It was my understanding (although admittedly I didn't try it when I had my 9300) that if you try to boot with a 7800 GTX in the 9300 without changing the bios you just get a black screen.

Also, if you do install the XPS bios you can not just install the stock ones. You'll get a hardware mismatch error, you need to get the hacked bios iso and burn it to a cd or make a bootable USB key.

someone said something about the latest 9300 bios supporting the newer cards...Im not sure as it doesnt pertain to me

Yes, I am sure that the card installed is the 7800gtx; I went ahead and installed the hacked xps gen2 bios but now I can't boot with my battery installed (6 cell battery); my question now is - is there any way I can put the 9300 A05 bios back on the laptop?

If you used the skeetj boot disk you can just follow the instructions on the first page of this thread