Unlocked Nvidia-Dell Video BIOS! Overclock your 17inch notebook Videocards! - Page 69

Okay i have the 7950 gtx, was overclocked and working fine, but i wanted to try to update the drivers, so i got the driver off dell 174.31 XP a04. Well my rivatuner wont save the overclock. I even updated that as it said with the new driver the new program update was needed. What am i doing wrong, i check disable clocktest under global powerusers...

I just sucks using a 2 year old driver for the new games. PLease help

There is no such thing as an unlocked rom. Depending on the driver, you will have to use two different versions of the same rom. So, essentially, for your software OC's to stick you will need to flash your original rom back to the card. There are two alternative approaches to solving this problem as well. One is to make your own rom with hardcoded values of the clocks and the other is to use a universally unlocked rom that has power saving repercussions.

So...are 169.04 still the only ones that allow overclock for 7800 GTX Go on I9300 with XPS 2 BIOS and that unlocked videocard BIOS?

I would really like to use newer drivers due to fixes, but I do not want to lose the overclock!

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Why? What?

I mis-read your question so my answer was not of any use to you.

Well I have an interesting issue, I was going to get around to AS5ing everything in my m1710, and decided, hell why not adjust the pll frequencies.
Never do this if you haven't double checked the crystal and motherboard, period.

My m1710 just got back after some very costly repairs. I've been having to use a 150 dollar laptop I got off ebay that is 500mhz and barely only supports dx8. Just awesomeo.
Anyways here's my thinger, since they ended up replacing EVERYTHING, I need to reflash my 7950 go gtx card, and I plan on finally doing a driver update. I just wanted to know a few things guys.

Firstly, Is it too difficult to replace the CPU? I've found someone who may be willing to part with their T7600G and want to upgrade it by putting in in there (don't worry, I'll be AS5ing the VC and CPU and even northbridge for sure.) My biggest issue is with the palm rest itself, hopefully it's not too challenging. (or breaking)

Secondly, I was curious about the drivers. I never had an option for threaded optimization in my drivers, but also heard that the later nvidia drivers stop overclocking. I'd also rather keep the classic control panel. So I was curious if the 90 drivers, (specifically the 92.77 or 94.22) supported it and if they made a fair difference in fps.
By the way the drivers being used now are the stock 84.69, they're stable but I think if the newer drivers help more with more options then it's worth doing.

On top of this, I've gotta invest in norton ghost so I can clone my hard-drive.
Hell after this I might even try overclocking this crappy laptop, putting xp on it, as5 and reselling it for more money :P.


Lots of stuff on the go, and I know you guys are all busy too, I appreciate the answers you give which have always been quality, hell I learned how to flash from here.

Thanks again! Myke.

You don't need to invest in Ghost to clone your laptop. There's free software out there that will do it. Maybe not as easily but I cloned my whole startup drive using the free software that you get with a new hard drive.

guess this thread is kina dead damn.

None of your questions related to the thread at all. Anyway, I'm tired now but I'll answer your questions later.

Ahh well this is true I did get lazy, I will post somewhere else.

So...once again...any drivers above 169.04 that allow overclocking on 7800 GTX Go and Windows XP?

Unsure, I would strictly trust the 9x.xx drivers only for the 7 series

PRETTY MUCH EVERY DRIVER ALLOWS OVERCLOCKING. ITS JUST A MATTER OR WHICH VERSION ROM YOU USE WHETHER YOU CAN OVERCLOCK OR NOT INSIDE THE OPERATING SYSTEM. Hopefully I will not have to say this again.

If you are skillful enough to apply AS5, then removing the CPU should be easy.

You can enable the old nvidia control panel is 90 series drivers: http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/...howtopic=11627 . Note that the newer drivers have all the functionality of the old control panel into the newer one. There's even the side pane to let you navigate it easily like in the classic. Hence, I don't see any reason to use the classic control panel anymore. (Well not all the functionality of the classic is in the new but most of the stuff you miss is diagnostic and you won't even notice).

I cannot think of a single driver that does not allow overclocking.

Hey, I read the post you had on the "locked" drivers things. So basically, your saying that it depends on the drivers and not the BIOS on if we can overclock our mobile GPUs? Because I noticed before flashing my bios to an "unlocked" one that I could overclock my 7950gtx in my dell xps m1710, I was using a modified .inf from laptopvideo2go.com using the 180.70 drivers. After using an unlocked .rom from the original post it wouldn't let me over clock. I used nTune btw. If that's the case then I didn't need to flash my BIOS? Also, right now when I am overclocking, if I set my memory above 700 mhz my screen gets all distorted and I have to shut down my computer. It's not a heat issue, as right now nvidia monitorview is reporting my card at 66 c, also I'm using a zalman nc2000 laptop cooler, so I was wondering what the problem with it is as I've heard others overclock their memory to 800mhz. I should note that I was running the tune system thing in the nvidia performance tab when the screen first distorted.

Newer drivers require you use the stock rom to overclock. So, no, you didn't need to flash the unlocked rom to OC on 180 series and in fact, doing so disables you from being able to OC.

I don't know why your memory cannot OC far. Every card is unique and I'm on the other end of the spectrum: my memory can OC to 900 MHz. Anyway, overclocking your memory past a certain point really has nothing to do with heat but just that the frequency is too high for your memory. The reason I cannot OC past 900 MHz is that the memory quality of my card is too low, not that its generating too much heat.

Yeah I think it was actually the heat, turns out the card got up to 90 something degrees celcius whenever I turned the clock and memory up to 600 mhz/800mhz. Stupid dell won't let me control the fans so I downloaded I8kfanGUI and now its 40-50 idle and usually 70 when I am gaming. The problem before was that the fans weren't even on during normal useage and the idle temps were at 70 - 80 celcius.

Yes, Dell keeps the fans off which the average user likes because the laptop is silent but enthusiasts dont like high idle temps. I always use i8k because of this reason. Also, keep in mind that the temperature your GPU shows is only the core temperature and not the memory temperature. Of course, they are related a bit and can affect each other as well.

About to overclock my 7950GTX. Wish me luck.