7900GS + GTXBios = 7900GSX - Page 53

Nope, I've never heard of that. I know that the EEPROM on the video cards only hold 64KB though.

Since you are trying to flash another card's rom onto your card you will have to use the force flashing switches when flashing (ex. nvflash -4 -5 -6 gtx.rom). However, since you are using the force flashing switches you will need to be careful not to flash the wrong rom onto your card. I have all the roms you need over at LV2G. You just need to find out if your 7900 GS is rev0 or rev1. You can check this out by comparing the size of your video card rom to the rev0 and rev1 sizes. You can also find out in the bios by looking at the version number (I don't remember the version numbers so you'll have to look this up yourself). If you have a rev0 GS then you can flash it with a rev0 GTX rom. If you have a rev1 GS then you can flash it with a rev1 GTX rom (however, I've heard that the rev1 GS can't run GTX frequencies too well; regardless, this wouldn't result in giving you a blank screen). If you're confused about this then just ask. I'll admit I'm a bit busy now to explain this all in detail.

http://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/top...bile-gpu-roms/

Thanks, I'll check it out asap.

I remember something about using a DOS with extended memory or somthing. Somebody was flashing and it errored out before it was done because his version of DOS didn't want to write the full 64k or something to that effect. If its not a common issue with your setup then I won't worry about it.

Thanks again, and I'll let you know if I have any issues.

EDIT: Found the forum I read, seems to be referring to the GTX, not GS so I should be fine, but for your reading I'll post the link.

http://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/top...flash-failure/

OC Experience

I have flashed my Revision 1 7900 GS. I went from approx. 6,300 in 3DMark'05 to 8,079, and about the norm (3,500ish I don't remember exactly) for 3DMark'06 to 4,316. I used the 7900 GTX Rev 1 bios, with no other overclocking. Strange that it shows up as a NVS 510m. This appears to be very stable.

May main concern is that my temps were close to what I read for the 7900 GTX pre overclock, now I hit 167F or 75C under ati tool, is this too high?

I do have a nice performance increase over stock, but I also have a gaming desktop so I don't need to push this laptop. I will probably just end up flashing the unlocked 7900 GS bios, so I can have fun later if I want w/o flashing.

75 is OK, if your going to run with Over Clock settings, you should keep the fans on high, and I would also suggest a laptop cooler.

Of course there is no doubt running the card like this will shorten the life of it.

I will say, its a breath of life into the video card, but I think I'll just stick with stock. It does just fine for all my games, and there are a lot, though I did want to play gta 4 on it. To bad that don't make XPS's anymore, I'm not really fond of the alienware look

Perhaps if I felt a little more ambitious I'll edit the rom to drop the voltage some to see if I can't get rid of some of the heat. I plan on cleaning the vents too.

I was curious to see what normal "GSX" temps are?

mine were typically under @ 60 with the cooler and fans on high. ( I had also removed Dells crappy thermal solution and applied AS5 to the CPU and GPU) and cleaned the fans out on a regualr basis.

if you go above 90 it will start to give you problems.

Curious, do you know of any fan based software control for Windows 7 64 bit? All that I used to use don't work in Windows 7 64 bit.

(I haven't bothered to read the thread you linked to yet) Ah yes , nvflash directs you not to use any extended memory mode when flashing but some people were saying they needed to use max memory mode to flash. I was unable to reproduce the problem flashing from cd with my 7950 GTX from what I recall and I typically use flash drives which don't have the memory options. I have more about this written in my blind flashing thread here. Also, in there I offer a way to make the cd use custom memory settings by default and I also offer a fix for systems with more than 2 GB of memory. With all the problems of using cd's I always recommend flash drives; however, I still support the cd method since it requires less prep work on the user's behalf. Also, 75 C is a good max temperature for sure. I'd say 85 and below is accceptable, with 82 and less being good and 78 or less being great (for a laptop). I used to run a few cards with dualpipe heatsinks to the low 80's all the time back when I used to game alot. All my cards still work perfectly to this day afaik. I don't use Windows 7 and I don't think i8kfangui is still being actively developed. I have plans to modify the core program for Linux but only when I can get the time. I think everyone is gonna be sh*t out of luck for manual fan control until another developer picks up where i8k left off. I suppose a hack for manually putting the videocard fan on high or low would be to manipulate the videocard driver to output higher or lower temperatures respectively. Would work on any machine provided the hack works. Hmm, sounds interesting. Actually I suppose you could change the diode tables in the videocard BIOS but that requires a reboot. Still, very interesting.

helped myself thx though for all the information in this thread

Shift + Fn both held, then 1 5 3 2 4, then FN + R. Disable bios control, set fan speed. Works on all dells.

wow

cheers ...

I had the same issue on my m1710 and windows 7 64-bit, but I found a solution online which worked for me to get I8kfangui working: "Hi all, I solved this problem. Win 7 x64, dell E6400. 1. Install i8kfangui 3.1 (with disabling driver signature enforcement), do not restart yet. 2. Download and install Driver Signature Enforcement Overrider 1.3b http://www.ngohq.com/home.php?page=Files&go=cat&dwn_cat_id=34 3. Select sign, and paste path to fanio.sys (I found 2 fanio.sys in my Windows directory. One in Windows\\system32\\drivers\\fanio.sys and one in Windows\\SystemWOW64\\drivers\\fanio.sys) I signed both 4. Select test mode 5. Reboot" from here: http://cdiefer.proboards.com/index.c...lay&thread=664

Nice tip and headup!

cheers ...

Thanks!