Bios Flashing 7800 and OC to 500/1000Mhz - Page 14

Dude, I have a vanilla 7800 and would like to flash it with the 7800 GTX bios but I cant find a good link to the stuff I need. Can you hook me up with a link to the shyt I need? I read every single post and all links are dead. I tried searching but some are the same dead links. Thx

No problem bro I can hook you up, 1 thing first gotta ask ya before you can do anything. First all do you have a 9 cell battery and most important do you have PA-13 130 watt power supply from like a XPS Series laptops? If you dont have the power supply you might aswell forget it untill you get one. You can find one brand new on eBay like i did for $20. If you only have the 90 watt stock one the most you will probably get on the core is 370Mhz-385Mhz & 900Mhz-950Hhz, if you try to go any higher your system will slowly freeze up then lock up and youll have to reboot.

My Laptop: E1705\T2600(2.16MHz)\2GB DDR2-667\7900GTX(600\1400)\100GB Hitachi SATA 7200\WUXGA+\SB Audigy HD\Intel Pro WiFi+Bluetooth\DVD-Burner\PA-13 130watt Power Supply

Wife's Laptop(my old one): 9400\T2500\2GB DDR2-667\7800GTX (430\1200)\100GB Hitachi SATA 7200\WXGA+\SB Audigy HD\Intel Pro WI+Bluetooth\DVD-Burner PA-10 90 Watt Power Supply<!-- / message -->
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9 cell batt and 130 watt, no, I dont. Good looking out man, thx. I have the stock batt and power brick 90W. So, that would explain the BSOD and freezeing I saw in the game...LOL! It's funny though, I thought I screwed up my card cause it ran fine for like a couple days at 380/900 and then it just started to BSOD and freeze/reboot after like 5 minutes of play . I bought a 7900GS but I might as well get the battery cell and power brick. Hey, there is a 150W power brick that I almost bought 1 day from Ebay do you know if that one will work??? However,if you could please hook up with the software I need I will put a order in for the power brick and 9 cell battery. Thanks bro..alot

Now here is the funyy thing, with the 7900GS your fine with the 90watt!!!!
I just sold my new 7900GS on ebay Clocked at 600\1200 from 375\1000 and it works fine with the 90w, YOU DONT NEED A 130w with a 7900GS, The GS uses the least power of all 7xxx go cards. So im that case your fine, but i would still gey the 9 cell!

My Laptop: E1705\T2600(2.16MHz)\2GB DDR2-667\7900GTX(600\1400)\100GB Hitachi SATA 7200\WUXGA+\SB Audigy HD\Intel Pro WiFi+Bluetooth\DVD-Burner\PA-13 130watt Power Supply

Wife's Laptop(my old one): 9400\T2500\2GB DDR2-667\7800GTX (430\1200)\100GB Hitachi SATA 7200\WXGA+\SB Audigy HD\Intel Pro WI+Bluetooth\DVD-Burner PA-10 90 Watt Power Supply<!-- / message -->
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Now, you said that you overclocked it to 600\1200? Was this a stable clock?? I want to upgrade to the 7900GTX when they come down in price. I am still getting the 150W supply cause I will need it sometime in the futuer...soon . Now, I am not so sure that the 9 Cell batt will make a difference if I am using AC all the time. I looked at the specs and both the 6 Cell and 9 Cell batt output 11.1 volts!! The AC adapter puts out 19.1V!! At such a reduced voltage I dont think any overclock would be stable. Especially, trying to run a 7900GTX! The bigger batt would just allow it to run a little bit longer before it sucks it dry...lol!!! I do have a question pertaining to the dual pipe config of the 7900GTX card. Where does the second pipe fit on the E1705? There is already a pipe from the CPU going to the left fan so, where does the second 7900GTX pipe sit? Need to know cause the 7900GS I bought is a dual pipe.

Oh, the seconf pipe fits right next to the CPU heatsink, inside the laptop there is about a 1 1/4 inch gap from end of the cpu pip heatsink to the edge of the laptop vent it shape like a perfect square and wej you aline the card it fits right in that area, I woulp hope on a dual pipe, because it would most likely run cooler due to the second pipe. and may give you more clocking head room. When i had my 7900GS single pipe the highest playable 24/7 clock i could achive was 625\1250 but i modded the bios and flashed it with a 1.24v setting apposed to 1.0v. Also a 6 cell will be fine and only on the 7900GS YOU CAN USE YOUR 90w, even at the o\c settings. I had posted a chart in another forum i think that the 7900gs only eats 20-25w while the ather three othe 7xxx series suck up 40-45w. The main reason is sold my GS is becuase i sold my New single pipe for $269 and got a brand new 7900GTX for $499 so totla upgrade price out of my pocket was $230, pretty wise investment if you ask me. Below is a link on removing or adding dual piped cards:
http://support.dell.com/support/edoc....htm#wp1006368

Putting in a single or dual pipe 7900GS or a 7900GTX is very easy it
Literally pops right in with no adjusting or modding as if it was made to fit.
The 7800 GTX was a pain, i had to bend the pipes a bit, I had to cut a metal keyboard support beam of the motherboard and it felt cramped going in. That was another reason i chose to keep the 7800GTX over the single piped 7900GS, plus in realtime gaming the 24pp\8 of the 7800GTX shine through over the 7900GS 20pp\7
Back to the poiny of overclocking the GS I took it form stock 375/1000 and kept mine for ful-time use at 600\1200, I felt better about the temps, i just didnt fel safe at 625\1250 for 24\7 use, but remember all cards overclock different. If you dont mine me asking how much did you pay for your GS? and where did ya get it. I could of gotten ya a great deal on cards, for future reference.

My Laptop: E1705\T2600(2.16MHz)\2GB DDR2-667\7900GTX(600\1400)\100GB Hitachi SATA 7200\WUXGA+\SB Audigy HD\Intel Pro WiFi+Bluetooth\DVD-Burner\PA-13 130watt Power Supply
3DMark05: 9658
3Dmark06: 5506

Wife's Laptop (my old one): 9400\T2500(2.0GHz)\2GB DDR2-667\7800GTX (430\1200)\100GB Hitachi SATA 7200\WXGA+\SB Audigy HD\Intel Pro WI+Bluetooth\DVD-Burner PA-10 90 Watt Power Supply
3DMark05: 7652
3DMark06: 4833

Desktop Rig: AMD Athlon64 x2 4400+\2GB DDR-400 OCZ Platinum EL 2-3-2-5-1t\ATI Radeon X1800xt(690/1600)\Maxtor SATA 7200 120GB\Maxtor SATA 7200 160GB\Mad gog 6in1 DVD Burner\Lite-on Combo Drive\KDS Rad-9p 19"LCD 1280x1024@75
3DMark05: 9772
3DMark06: 4783<!-- / message --><!-- / message --><!-- / message -->

Oh, the seconf pipe fits right next to the CPU heatsink, inside the laptop there is about a 1 1/4 inch gap from end of the cpu pip heatsink to the edge of the laptop vent it shape like a perfect square and wej you aline the card it fits right in that area, I woulp hope on a dual pipe, because it would most likely run cooler due to the second pipe. and may give you more clocking head room. When i had my 7900GS single pipe the highest playable 24/7 clock i could achive was 625\1250 but i modded the bios and flashed it with a 1.24v setting apposed to 1.0v. Also a 6 cell will be fine and only on the 7900GS YOU CAN USE YOUR 90w, even at the o\c settings. I had posted a chart in another forum i think that the 7900gs only eats 20-25w while the ather three othe 7xxx series suck up 40-45w. The main reason is sold my GS is becuase i sold my New single pipe for $269 and got a brand new 7900GTX for $499 so totla upgrade price out of my pocket was $230, pretty wise investment if you ask me. Below is a link on removing or adding dual piped cards:
http://support.dell.com/support/edoc....htm#wp1006368

Putting in a single or dual pipe 7900GS or a 7900GTX is very easy it
Literally pops right in with no adjusting or modding as if it was made to fit.
The 7800 GTX was a pain, i had to bend the pipes a bit, I had to cut a metal keyboard support beam of the motherboard and it felt cramped going in. That was another reason i chose to keep the 7800GTX over the single piped 7900GS, plus in realtime gaming the 24pp\8 of the 7800GTX shine through over the 7900GS 20pp\7
Back to the poiny of overclocking the GS I took it form stock 375/1000 and kept mine for ful-time use at 600\1200, I felt better about the temps, i just didnt fel safe at 625\1250 for 24\7 use, but remember all cards overclock different. If you dont mine me asking how much did you pay for your GS? and where did ya get it. I could of gotten ya a great deal on cards, for future reference.

My Laptop: E1705\T2600(2.16MHz)\2GB DDR2-667\7900GTX(600\1400)\100GB Hitachi SATA 7200\WUXGA+\SB Audigy HD\Intel Pro WiFi+Bluetooth\DVD-Burner\PA-13 130watt Power Supply
3DMark05: 9658
3Dmark06: 5506

Wife's Laptop (my old one): 9400\T2500(2.0GHz)\2GB DDR2-667\7800GTX (430\1200)\100GB Hitachi SATA 7200\WXGA+\SB Audigy HD\Intel Pro WI+Bluetooth\DVD-Burner PA-10 90 Watt Power Supply
3DMark05: 7652
3DMark06: 4833

Desktop Rig: AMD Athlon64 x2 4400+\2GB DDR-400 OCZ Platinum EL 2-3-2-5-1t\ATI Radeon X1800xt(690/1600)\Maxtor SATA 7200 120GB\Maxtor SATA 7200 160GB\Mad gog 6in1 DVD Burner\Lite-on Combo Drive\KDS Rad-9p 19"LCD 1280x1024@75
3DMark05: 9772
3DMark06: 4783<!-- / message --><!-- / message --><!-- / message -->

NightRaverX, 1st I want to say thank you so much for the tremendous help you have been for me with information! I paid $300US on Ebay. I posted a bid but I didnt think I was going to win but I ended up being the only one. Do you think that the 7900GS could be flashed with the 7900GTX bios?? Do you know what the stock voltage for the 7900GTX is?? I think they are the same card, PCB, just some pipes have been deactivated on the GS board. If that is true then you could in theory run a dual pipe GS at the same voltage and speed as a GTX...right?? What do you think?Do you know if anyone has tried this?? It should be the same for the 7800 & 7800GTX. I mean, why would Nvidia spend more money on 2 different PCB for the same card when they can just turn off some features by leaving off some circuits! I was just wondering cause it seems to make sense. Now, you say that the 7800GTX is better than the 7900GS because of the extra 4 pipes?? How do you mean? Is it faster in real world gaming?? It is 2 different core right?? The 7900GS should be better than the 7800 series...right?? Hmm, if not, then that is kind of weird how 4 more pipe could make such a big difference. I cant wait till I get my card here!!! I am glad to hear that it fits right in. I mean if you have a 7900GTX dual pipe then I should be able to get a 7900GS dual pipe to fit also. Man, can show me what software you used to mod your GS? Also, did you HAVE to flash to 1.24V to go with higher clocks? Just wondering seeing as you have pretty much done it all with the 7800s and 7900s Thxs again for all of your GREAT info and help!!

Sorry for the really stupid question I'm going to ask and I'm ashamed but uuumm how are you guys booting directly to DOS to save your original BIOS? Ive tried to find a way to make a DOS boot CD but they all jsut say how to make a 3 1/2 inch boot disk...which obviously doesnt work well for our application. If anything can someone tell me which files I need to boot to DOS?

*edit* nevermind I burned a .iso to disk, now the problem is I get that Failure error with Caldera 6.22 dos...maybe ill try another version.

Press F12 during a start up with a disk in, f12 is you boot screnn set up!

My Laptop: E1705\T2600(2.16MHz)\2GB DDR2-667\7900GTX(625\1500)\100GB Hitachi SATA 7200\WUXGA+\SB Audigy HD\Intel Pro WiFi+Bluetooth\DVD-Burner\PA-13 130watt Power Supply
3DMark05: 9828 Max temps 81'
3Dmark06: 5723

Wife's Laptop (my old one): 9400\T2500(2.0GHz)\2GB DDR2-667\7800GTX (430\1200)\100GB Hitachi SATA 7200\WXGA+\SB Audigy HD\Intel Pro WI+Bluetooth\DVD-Burner PA-10 90 Watt Power Supply
3DMark05: 7652 max temps 84'-86'
3DMark06: 4833

Desktop Rig: AMD Athlon64 x2 4400+\2GB DDR-400 OCZ Platinum EL 2-3-2-5-1t\ATI Radeon X1800xt(690/1600)\Maxtor SATA 7200 120GB\Maxtor SATA 7200 160GB\Mad gog 6in1 DVD Burner\Lite-on Combo Drive\KDS Rad-9p 19"LCD 1280x1024@75
3DMark05: 9772 max temps 62'
3DMark06: 4783<!-- / message --><!-- / message --><!-- / message -->

Just remember this isnt' covered by complete care. accidental damage, not intentional.

Yea I have comolete care on-site warrenty too, but your voiding all kind of dell rules when you crhank opren your laptop start cutting peices out to say to get a 7800GTX to fit, then overclocking the hell out of that, Than kust alone imgine dell sending a tech to your house to fix something and they open it up, scews are missing mounts are missing there is a huge dual piped video card, that only a single piped card shoulp be in there,(e1705\9400 all cards x1400,7800, and 7900gs are all single piped) can you imagine how many times you broke your warrenty agreement?

My Laptop: E1705\T2600(2.16MHz)\2GB Hynix DDR2-667\7900GTX(625\1500)\100GB Hitachi SATA 7200\WUXGA+\SB Audigy HD\Intel Pro WiFi+Bluetooth350\DVD-Burner\PA-13 130watt Power Supply(XTr91.31-2.40a)
3DMark05: 9828
3Dmark06: 5723
Max temps: 81 Degrees

Wife's Laptop (my old one): 9400\T2500(2.0GHz)\2GB DDR2-667\7800GTX (430\1200)\100GB Hitachi SATA 7200\WXGA+\SB Audigy HD\Intel Pro WI+Bluetooth\DVD-Burner PA-10 90 Watt Power Supply(xTreme 91.31-2.40a)
3DMark05: 7652
3DMark06: 4833
Max Temps 86 Degrees

Desktop Rig: AMD Athlon64 x2 4400+\2GB DDR-400 OCZ Platinum EL 2-3-2-5-1t\ATI Radeon X1800xt(690/1600)\Maxtor SATA 7200 120GB\Maxtor SATA 7200 160GB\Mad gog 6in1 DVD Burner\Lite-on Combo Drive\KDS Rad-9p 19"LCD 1280x1024 @ 75Hz (Stock Cats 6.6 drivers) (FOR SALE)
3DMark05: 9772
3DMark06: 4783
Max Temps 62 Degrees

Ya, I got it to boot in Caldera DOS np. When i goto C:\ then type in nvflash -b backup.rom it loads and says it could take upto 10 sec to save it. Then it says "Double Fault error" and gives a random number. Do I have a corrupt file ro something? Night would you happen to have a copy of your .1 volt BIOS file I can have? Or link me to the .iso DOS boot you used, my DOs boot is gimp or something

Yea I have a good boot sidk for ya and pretty much any filr you need, are you trying to o\c a standard 7800? Cuase i have all the files still saved on disk Private message me and let me know whay tou need and what you are exactly trying to do, and i'd be happy to help you, ALl the guys on here helped me, so I'll be happy to help you, and believe me you will be so siked when you o\c it and see the difference!

My Laptop: E1705\T2600(2.16MHz)\2GB Hynix DDR2-667\7900GTX(625\1500)\100GB Hitachi SATA 7200\WUXGA+(1920x1200)\SB Audigy HD\Intel Pro WiFi+Bluetooth350\DVD-Burner\PA-13 130watt Power Supply(XTreme-M 91.31-2.40a)
3DMark05: 9828
3Dmark06: 5723
Max Temps: 81'

Wife's Laptop (my old one): 9400\T2500(2.0GHz)\2GB A-Data DDR2-667\7800GTX (430\1200)\100GB Hitachi SATA 7200\WXGA+(1440x900)\SB Audigy HD\Intel Pro WI+Bluetooth350\DVD-Burner PA-10 90 Watt Power Supply(XTreme-M 91.31-2.40a)
3DMark05: 7652
3DMark06: 4833
Max Temps 86'

Desktop Rig: AMD Athlon64 x2 4400+\2GB DDR-400 OCZ Platinum EL 2-3-2-5-1t\ATI Radeon X1800xt(690/1600)\Maxtor SATA 7200 120GB\Maxtor SATA 7200 160GB\Mad gog 6in1 DVD Burner\Lite-on Combo Drive\KDS Rad-9p 19"LCD 1280x1024 @ 75Hz (Stock Cats 6.6 drivers)
3DMark05: 9772
3DMark06: 4783
Max Temps 62'

Hi all, i also got a Dell Inspiron 9400 with T2500 and a Nvidia GeForce 7800 GO (G70 A1, 16pp,6vp)
On temp testing i got really high ones like 92 °C with WoW 2 hour.
I dont want 2 overclock my system but id like 2 set down the temperature by modding the Voltiage to 1,2 V.
I tried to get the boot.iso Rom´s but no link works anyway.
Can someone give me a link 4 these roms?
I would need all the Regular voltage; 1,2V and perhaps 1,3V but i think i didnt take 1,3 V cause system failures like less Power Supply or so.

Thx 4 help

MfG Rendal

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