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post #961 of 1001
1/15/08 at 12:11am
What's your setup ? Do you have the same CPU as me ( info is in signature).
That's weird but looks like mine is not pulling high settings when set Crysis on 1440x900. When there are a lot of objects on the map - laptop starts lagging.Could it be my HDD ( it is only 5300rpm IDE) ?

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Never mind . Looks like you have CPU pinmodded - that would explain why you run high settings with no troubles. I guess I will have to do this pinmode sometime. It will improve performance alot , will it ?

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Originally Posted by Andlastly View Post
Got the 7800 for $250, like new as far as i can see, and the adapter for $32. I love how I am about 3+ years late to this upgrading your I9300 spree. At least it's not costing me $600+.. I mean I can play crysis on my vanilla 6800 on med-high perfectly smooth, this will be great once overclocked.
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post #962 of 1001
1/15/08 at 12:43am
CPU is pinmodded, but, it is not running at 2.13 right now, it's running at 1.6 max performance, thanks to not having the 130watt adapter until tomorrow morning (I hope that fixes it, and lets me use the pinmod). My setup is 2gbs 533, 5400 60HDD, now 7800gtx, 475/1260 overclocked.. I'm hoping for more performance tomorrow with the correct adapter instead of this 90watt adapter.

I've run Crysis with these settings: high shaders, shadows, physics, game details, post processing, motion blur... medium: volumetric, textures, and the thing below gamedetails/post processing, forgot what it is.. low: water,sound..

Also I have not tried 1440x900 resolution yet, I was playing with these settings on 1024x640 or whatever that one is. But like I said, I hope with the 130 watt it will be even better.. We will see.
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post #963 of 1001
1/15/08 at 12:55am
I hate to break it to you, but the power brick will not effect the pinmod. You've done something wrong. Go back and make sure you have the right pins connected, because it appears that you probably do not.

Also, your overclocked 7800GTX isn't even running at full power. Its in power saving mode. Have you flashed the BIOS on your laptop to the XPS Gen2? There is a good chance you wont be keeping those clocks once your card start operating at full power (more heat)
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post #964 of 1001
1/15/08 at 1:05am
Interesting.. Well that sucks, I've had the pinmod in for over a year and a half now, and it's always worked fine (with my 6800 go), I use NHC to adjust performance for gaming or idling, and it's always worked. Yes I've flashed, to A01 Xps Gen2. So what do you recommend? When the 90 watt is NOT plugged in, the pinmod kicks in and i get 2.13 but then of course the card goes very slow in games, but i do have the 2.13..

I was thinking the new brick would let it work at full speed since it's the only missing part for this mod/upgrade.. I am wrong then? I see lots of other's signatures successfully pinmodded but they also have the right brick..
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post #965 of 1001
1/15/08 at 1:28am
My theory is that, if running from the 90 watt power supply, as you can see in this picture attached, my voltage is too low to be at 2.13ghz pinmodded, so when I take out the power adapter it will run at 2.13 because It is running on the correct battery. The image is a screenshot I took of NHC and the voltage as you can see. What does someone think? Maybe I need a new XPS bios file to flash to? I think this one is old, the one provided earlier in this thread by someone, A01 I think.. This just doesn't make sense..

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post #966 of 1001
1/15/08 at 2:01am
Well plugging in the adapter could be tricking the laptop into thinking it's in a "under power" mode and thus causing NHC to change the state. If the NHC is set for max performance, it shouldn't matter what kind of power it's drawing from.

The voltages are less than 1.5volts, that's not a lot. A 90w power brick can supply that fine, though I could be wrong.

I do know I did the 1.8 --> 2.4 Pinmod on my i9300 before I got my 7800GTX. I had the 90W brick and my pinmod ran just fine, it wasn't until I got the 7800GTX that I got the 9cell and 130W brick.

I ended up stripping a screw on my heatsink on my cpu though, so I can't use the pinmod cpu anymore. Gets too hot since the heatsink doesn't sit firmly on the processor anymore. I should probably go ahead and sell it.
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post #967 of 1001
1/15/08 at 2:17am
I don't know, I hope i can fix this though. I know it's running in 400FSB 1.6 ghz mode, and it sucks. I am currently reverting back to A05I9300 bios, just tried a new version of the M170 but no change. I am still hoping for the new brick tomorrow.
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post #968 of 1001
1/15/08 at 2:19am
Yup, the power supply showed up and it's working BEAUTIFULLY!
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post #969 of 1001
1/15/08 at 2:31am
I'm running the XPS Gen2 AO1 BIOS on my laptop.
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post #970 of 1001
1/15/08 at 2:54am
I was running that one, A01, then tried A05 the latest for XPS bios, all the same CPU results, just put back on A05 I9300 bios, and now I have my 2.13ghz back. Seems to recognize the 7800gtx and everything, only issue I have now is.. First off, Skillz, you say crysis should run fine and smooth at high settings with higher than 800x600 resolution with my set up? I have rivatuner and when i overclock There is no FPS difference in crysis, so I'm guessing though I AM overclocking the High performance 3d setting, it is running on low 3d mode, because there is no difference when overclocked or regular. So this must be where the 130 watt will let me run on full max 3d mode.. Am I right? I just read like 50 pages on this Thread, and I probably read the answer to this but now it's all jumbled, and it's late, amd I'm tired. AM I right Skillz? Thanks.
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post #971 of 1001
1/15/08 at 3:15am
Yes, as I said before. Overclocking your video card is pointless without the 130W brick.

That's a bit werid with your pinmod. It should work no matter what BIOS your using. I had my 1.8 --> 2.4Ghz pinmod working on the XPS BIOS with no problems, until I stripped the screw on the heatsink, causing it to overheat. You should probably try using a different wire (or clean the one you have now); flash the AO1 XPS BIOS and see if that fixes it.

It should recognize it, use cpu-z to verify results. I see no reason why it will be booting at 400FSB. It shouldn't be doing that unless your not crossing the right pins.

The 9300 BIOS will never give the 7800GTX enough power, regardless of what brick your using.
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post #972 of 1001
1/15/08 at 4:12pm
Well damn, no brick today, I got my 7800 via USPS from CA to here in NY in 2 days, yet from texas is taking 3+ days now, interesting. I don't have patience! Oh and i just got 4236 in 3dmark05, VERY low I know.. I'm taking that as a hard fact that my card is running in low mode.
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post #973 of 1001
1/15/08 at 5:07pm
Sounds like 2 day shipping vs regular shipping to me.
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post #974 of 1001
1/19/08 at 6:24pm
Hello together,
i´m new here and I hope I´m right in place here .-))
I have togehter all the hardware stuff for the I9300 7800GTX deal and want now to do step by step the instructions from the first page of this threat, but i´m not able to do the first step- the bios update. I have boot from a Win98 CD (DOS) and start the I9300A02.Hacked.exe...the dell Bios update utility starts, but it abort with the message "You try to update a Inspiron 9300 Bios but you need a Inspiron 9300 bios??!!!" Anybody idea? Im actually running the A05 original Dell bios on my I9300. What is the problem? Have anybody a working CD-ISo to do this?

Thank you for help.

Best regards
Christian
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post #975 of 1001
1/19/08 at 6:37pm
no you want to flash using the xpsa02 bios
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post #976 of 1001
1/19/08 at 6:56pm
You are trying to boot from dos right? BEFORE windows starts up,
you hit F12, you did this? Boot from the CD, and just follow the instructions on page one. You can NOT install flash the XPSBIOS from windows, in windows, you have to boot from the cd, then flash the bios. It looks like you are trying to flash from windows.
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post #977 of 1001
1/19/08 at 7:00pm
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Originally Posted by atwood7fan View Post
no you want to flash using the xpsa02 bios
I want first try the I9300hacked one, for the way back.. does it not work?
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post #978 of 1001
1/19/08 at 7:03pm
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Originally Posted by Andlastly View Post
You are trying to boot from dos right? BEFORE windows starts up,
you hit F12, you did this? Boot from the CD, and just follow the instructions on page one. You can NOT install flash the XPSBIOS from windows, in windows, you have to boot from the cd, then flash the bios. It looks like you are trying to flash from windows.
Which CD??? I have downloaded the XPS2Bios.zip from the link on page 1 an boot from Win98 DOS CD


Update:
I found on another website "XPS2.iso" . It looks like a freedos andthere is a folder containing "IXPS2A01.EXE ". Is this the right one?
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post #979 of 1001
1/20/08 at 12:50am
Looks like the right one. Its 11.7 mbs or something very close to that. You boot from that. Yep. Freedos
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post #980 of 1001
1/20/08 at 5:19am
Yes, it is 11.7.mbs, I will try it in the next few days, I have to work now.
Thanx
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