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post #161 of 481
5/27/05 at 4:06pm
Its on Aw's FTP site. I loaded Sager's and didnt notice any difference. Not worth the bother to load.
post #162 of 481
5/27/05 at 5:35pm
after loading .03 I noticed my gpu fan sometimes shuts off or never came on in the first place, it heats up and locks up. I don't have Gethermal install right now so I know it's not that. I was kind of hoping it would have a fix for that. I am think of reloading the .01 bios that was on there when I first got it.
post #163 of 481
5/27/05 at 8:03pm
I've found something that might be interesting, the Keyboard Bios Controller download uses a Flasher from Hitachi, and it flashes an "H8" thing, and i think this H8 is of the wierd file that Get Thermal Includes, and when i flashed that, the trip point i had set on get thermal changed, so i think there is a Link there, what do you guys think?

Edit: I also see that the ver of the new Flashed Bios shows on the titlebar of Get Thermal
post #164 of 481
5/27/05 at 11:06pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by xtian
I've found something that might be interesting, the Keyboard Bios Controller download uses a Flasher from Hitachi, and it flashes an "H8" thing, and i think this H8 is of the wierd file that Get Thermal Includes, and when i flashed that, the trip point i had set on get thermal changed, so i think there is a Link there, what do you guys think?

Edit: I also see that the ver of the new Flashed Bios shows on the titlebar of Get Thermal
I don't think it has any connection. I uninstalled ati drivers and installed omega drivers and the getthermal trip points on my machine reverted to default settings. It's a temperamental piece of software - I mean getthermal.

Getthermal shows the flash bios regardless of version - I have .03 and it shows in the title bar. It's just reading info off the motherboard.
post #165 of 481
5/28/05 at 2:52pm
I was looking at the bios info for 1.00.03 and it says that the update was to correct a problem with ATI cards. Those of you that had fan shutdown problems after updating, how many had Nvidia and how many had ATI? Perhaps the update is creating problems for nvidia users. I updated and have an ATI cards and I haven't had any gpu fan problems.

Just a thought.

I downloaded the newest bios, but I won't flash it until I see a readme listing the changes. Anbody seen one?
post #166 of 481
5/28/05 at 5:34pm
I believe 1.00.03 had a problem with the keyboard controller as well (maybe starting from 1.00.02, I forgot).
As soon as I updated the BIOS to 1.00.03, I had to hit the keyboard multiple times with both of my palms in order to activate the keyboard when I start/restart the machine and it prompted me to enter the startup password. Now it's just fine with 1.00.04.
post #167 of 481
5/28/05 at 5:35pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by eltep
I don't think it has any connection. I uninstalled ati drivers and installed omega drivers and the getthermal trip points on my machine reverted to default settings. It's a temperamental piece of software - I mean getthermal.

Getthermal shows the flash bios regardless of version - I have .03 and it shows in the title bar. It's just reading info off the motherboard.
I flashed the 1.00.04 BIOS but getthermal's still showing 1.00.02. Dunno y...
post #168 of 481
5/28/05 at 7:21pm
I think getthermal reads the KBC version....I have a slight suspicion that that Keyboard Controller has to do something with the fans and temps.....ill check out some stuff and report back later


Report:
The File to be flashed is named: H8D900T.02
The Flasher app is named: H8Flash
The app, when run without parameters: Flash Memory Downloader for Hitachi H8S/F Clevo Computer Company

This must be propietary of Clevo, just like Get Thermal (supposedly right) and both apps reference something about this H8..
Does Somebody know anything about what H8S/F is?
post #169 of 481
5/29/05 at 6:47am
Thread Starter 
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Article26479.htm
post #170 of 481
5/29/05 at 9:25am
Thread Starter 
I examined the xtreme g drivers and a few other modded drivers.

I finnaly deceided to don't work on the same way of those modded drivers.

Those drivers prefer fast perf with poor image quality, trust me, i saw some settings that should be used for pentium 3 and geforce 2

Since we have fast computers, i'll completly re-work on my drivers for the best image quality possible for the laptop, and my settings won't be use for scoring on 3D mark but will use for games and amazing image quality.

If u prefer score, so i'll let u use xtreme g or other driver, but if u're like me, prefer image quality, u'll use my modded driver.

I'll post them today or later in the next week.
post #171 of 481
5/29/05 at 12:29pm
OK. All I'm really concerned about is choppy video in games by tweaking the driver up to quality settings. But I'll be a player and help out with the testing of those, on BFV, BF1942 and Far Cry.
post #172 of 481
5/29/05 at 1:51pm
Thread Starter 
OK, great, i'll try to give the best of my knowledge for doing the best driver for the 7700 and will need your help.
post #173 of 481
5/29/05 at 4:47pm
Thread Starter 
The new driver is soon ready and will be released on monday or thursday.

I'm also writing a full guide about my settings and will learn you how to mod driver and include your own settings.
post #174 of 481
5/29/05 at 11:00pm
Ok. Just let me know how you want me to give you results, like using an FPS program or something.
post #175 of 481
5/30/05 at 11:31am
Man, I just ran into a problem after running "Chicony Keyboard R8.16 : 06 MAY 2005". Now my hotkey program doesnt work (those three buttons on the top that control web browser, email, and an additional application). Can someone please help me? I tried going to www.alienware.com to get maybe a more updated driver but I couldn't log in, I don't know how, do you need some type of special password that you must purchase or something? I am so lost, someone help me please!
post #176 of 481
5/30/05 at 11:48am
just thought id share, i decided i couldnt be bothered to upgrade the bios through burning a cd, so i used the sager flash utility and their bios. If u do this make sure u reset the hardrive configuration from raid to ata in the new bios or it wont find ur operating system.
post #177 of 481
5/30/05 at 12:22pm
Found the new stuff that is on the new Bioses:

Area-51m 7700 BIOS 1.00.04:
Features and fixes in this BIOS release:

* Added the display of the Video BIOS's build date in the Screen Configuration Utility (SCU).
* Added down-throttle of the CPU clock and voltage when running on battery mode.
* Changed the stop charge point from 120W to 160W when using the 220W AC-Adapter.
* Fixes a random failure to enter the BIOS Screen Configuration Utility (SCU).
* Fixes the cache size display of 0KB for Intel Extreme Edition processors with 2MB of L2 cache.


Area-51m 7700 Keyboard Controller BIOS 1.00.02:
Features and fixes in this BIOS release:

* Allows the usage of the Fn+F10 key combination to disable/enable the touchpad.


Source:
http://support.alienware.com/Support...anu=8&item=359
U need 2 Login.
post #178 of 481
5/30/05 at 12:41pm
can i get that bios? i can't log into the site...
post #179 of 481
5/30/05 at 12:54pm
You need to register first. Look at the right side of the login page.
post #180 of 481
5/30/05 at 12:55pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by xtian
* Fixes the cache size display of 0KB for Intel Extreme Edition processors with 2MB of L2 cache.
So it does support Pentium EE.
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