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post #21 of 71
10/18/06 at 3:23am
Currently running the 84.21 series driver for my Nvidia Go 7800 256mg.

These drivers were back from March '06. Wondering if anyone has an updated driver for this card that they are enjoying?

Thanks.
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post #22 of 71
10/18/06 at 2:45pm
Thread Starter 
any recent WHQL certified drivers are preferred favorites such as the ones on Nvidias own website then combine it with the related INF file from laptopvideo2go.com and your set.
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post #23 of 71
10/26/06 at 3:37pm
Can someone please give me a definitive answer?

I want to apply some as5 to my GPU:

What are the reported drops in temps over Dell's stock TIM?
My GPU and heatsink don't seem to want to part company, has anyone else had this?
Is it OK to fill in the gap between the GPU and heatsink that k6 talks about, with as5 or do I need to start looking for some copper sheeting?
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post #24 of 71
10/26/06 at 10:57pm
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Results vary thus there is no definitive answer.
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post #25 of 71
10/27/06 at 8:10pm
What about the stuck heatsink and as5?
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post #26 of 71
11/10/06 at 4:25pm
i attempted to apply some of these drivers to my 7950gtx but it always says no hardware found. am i doing something wrong?
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post #27 of 71
1/9/07 at 11:59am
Irobertus states that you needed a hacked XPS2 bios to put the 6800ultra or 7800gtx into the i9300. what's wrong with using one of the real bios's? what's hacked about it?
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post #28 of 71
1/9/07 at 11:58pm
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The 9300 doesnt recognize the 6800Ultra and 7800GTX due to there higher power requirments and Dell's Intentional blocking of the cards in the Bios. Using a hacked XPS Bios tricks the 9300 into thinking its an XPS2 (assuming you have the 9 Cell battery and 130watt PSU)
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post #29 of 71
1/10/07 at 12:33am
I understand why you need the XPS bios, but I want to know if it must be a hacked bios.
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post #30 of 71
1/10/07 at 12:41am
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Originally Posted by dgcaste
I understand why you need the XPS bios, but I want to know if it must be a hacked bios.
Yes. The reason it's hacked is so that you can flash to it on a 9300. If you try to download Dells XPS 2 BIOS and flash to it, it won't work. It will give you an error saying that your system is not compatible and will not allow you to do it.

The hacked BIOS is on a live CD and goes ahead and flashes the BIOS anyway, regardless of what system you're running.
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post #31 of 71
1/10/07 at 3:35am
That makes sense. In that case, has anyone hacked a more recent BIOS than the A01?

Also, I bought a 130W power supply, but it's version A00. Will that work, or must I have the A02?
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post #32 of 71
1/10/07 at 1:20pm
I haven't seen a new version than A01 on a live CD, but as long as you use the live CD to flash to the A01, you can then download A05 and flash to it because your computer already thinks it's an XPS.

I'm pretty sure one of the guides here says you need version A02 or newer.
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post #33 of 71
1/10/07 at 2:13pm
The guide says "I think A00 and A01 don't work" (in regards to the power supply)

I'm not quite sure what you mean by Live CD. In order to minimize the amount of back-and-forth in this issue and thread bloating, if it's not too much inconvenience could you please outline a quick procedure on how to accomplish this or maybe you know of another forum posting that explains this?
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post #34 of 71
1/10/07 at 3:51pm
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Originally Posted by dgcaste
The guide says "I think A00 and A01 don't work" (in regards to the power supply)

I'm not quite sure what you mean by Live CD. In order to minimize the amount of back-and-forth in this issue and thread bloating, if it's not too much inconvenience could you please outline a quick procedure on how to accomplish this or maybe you know of another forum posting that explains this?
A live CD is a CD that you can boot your computer off of. Once you burn the CD, you will have to tap the F12 key when you turn on the computer, and chose to boot from the CD drive. Here are the instructions from the guide about the upgrade.

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Burn the ISO using Nero or Roxio or any decent CD burning software, then restart you PC and press F12 at the Dell Logo screen and select CD-rom as your boot device.

Choose Option 1
Choose Option 1 again
Choose Option 2

Type cd\\freedos\\3rdparty

Type IXPS2A01

Press any key

If you get an error about flashing your bios with an older bios just push "C" to continue.

Press Y to flash your bios with the XPS2 Bios.

System will restart and your 9300 now believes its a XPS.

You can download the ISO for the live CD in the link in my signature.

After you flash to the XPS BIOS, you can then download the newest (A05) XPS BIOS and flash to it. You won't get any errors because your computer already thinks it's an XPS.
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post #35 of 71
1/10/07 at 4:15pm
Thank you! I'll let you know if it worked.
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post #36 of 71
1/10/07 at 4:48pm
It did! Thanks a lot man. Are you overclocking your CPU or is that stock? And how is your 6800 Ultra responding to that OC? Did you do any heat sink modding like paste or copper shims? That's quite a jump from stock.
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post #37 of 71
1/10/07 at 5:45pm
My CPU is overclocked. It's originally 1.8 GHz, but the pinmod brought it up to 2.4 GHz.

The 6800 is doing alright with this OC. All I've done to help cooling is by using some AS5 on the GPU. It does run pretty warm, but not too bad.
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post #38 of 71
1/10/07 at 6:10pm
There's a pretty big gap between the GPU and the heat sink though, did you fill it all up with the sauce or did you put a conductive spacer in between?

Also, I have the 2.0 ghz Pentium M Dothan, is it overclockable with the pinmod or any other way?
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post #39 of 71
1/10/07 at 6:16pm
There isn't really a gap at all between the heatsink and the GPU. Have you had yours apart to see?

Your CPU isn't overclockable because it's already got 533 MHz FSB. You need to get a CPU with 400 MHz FSB and pinmod it to fool it into running 533 MHz FSB.
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post #40 of 71
1/10/07 at 6:26pm
I wonder if it's a noticeable performance increase from the 2.0ghz.
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