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5680 BIOS update 9-18-03 - Page 3

post #41 of 77
9/19/03 at 11:44pm
Heh, lmao.

Btw, after discovering that my GPU clocks were actually low, I flashed the BIOS; the speeds went up to 351MHz core and 249MHz memory. My 3DMark03 jumped 120 points to 2945 (this is with all my usual background apps (ZoneAlarm, Norton Antivirus - Real time, Daemon tools, the driver progs, Palm Sync background app) and my Wireless-G card active).
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post #42 of 77
9/20/03 at 9:53am

Read this on clock speeds!

From this link:

"The process shrink that the Mobility Radeon 9600 underwent helps keep power consumption of the chip low. Compared with the Mobility Radeon 9000, the Mobility Radeon 9600 consumes the same amount of power and actually runs at 0.5V less (the chip runs at 1.0V). This is done even with the high 350MHz core clock speed and 300MHz DDR memory clock (600MHz effective) speed that the chip is clocked at. The clock speeds of the Mobility Radeon 9600 place the chip between the desktop Radeon 9600 Pro's 400/300MHz DDR speed and the desktop Radeon 9600's 325/200MHz DDR speed. The chip should be one fast mobile graphics processor".


http://www.anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.html?i=1802&p=3
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post #43 of 77
9/20/03 at 12:44pm
ok, so is it OK to install the normal (desktop) version of version 7.93 drivers onto your pc? and when I update my drivers, I have to uninstall the old ones right?
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post #44 of 77
9/20/03 at 2:33pm
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Originally posted by xindan80
ok, so is it OK to install the normal (desktop) version of version 7.93 drivers onto your pc? and when I update my drivers, I have to uninstall the old ones right?
Thats the confusing part: I have no clue what to do with the normal drivers, but I got the patched 7.93s from Sager yesterday and installed them without uninstalling anything else; dont know if that was good or bad.
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post #45 of 77
9/20/03 at 3:25pm
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Originally posted by mmarkin
Thats the confusing part: I have no clue what to do with the normal drivers, but I got the patched 7.93s from Sager yesterday and installed them without uninstalling anything else; dont know if that was good or bad.
Ok, the desktop drivers should be fine. However, many times, the desktop driver's INFs need... fixing (they dont list the mobile cards).

If you guys gimme a min, i will try to host my mobile .6387s i picked up from ECS (before they dissapeared)...
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post #46 of 77
9/20/03 at 10:06pm
Sager already have the 7.93 drivers on their driver site?

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Originally posted by mmarkin
Thats the confusing part: I have no clue what to do with the normal drivers, but I got the patched 7.93s from Sager yesterday and installed them without uninstalling anything else; dont know if that was good or bad.
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post #47 of 77
9/21/03 at 1:32am
Yup
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post #48 of 77
9/29/03 at 8:37pm
I just recieved my 5680 today and it was ordered on 9/24, will mine have the bios update? I installed powerstrip and it says my video card is running at 344 core and 236 memory.
Also everywhere in the control panel and power strip it says M10 not M10-P is that the same for everyone?
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post #49 of 77
9/29/03 at 8:57pm
You need to flash your BIOS
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post #50 of 77
9/29/03 at 9:23pm
I think its M10 for everyone. Mine was also underclocked and I fixed it with the BIOS flash.
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post #51 of 77
9/30/03 at 3:31pm
My 5680 shipped with the current bios, because I can enable/disable the startup beep, but my M10 settings are 236.25 memory and 344.25 core. Is it possible that power strip is incorrect? Also would updating drivers possibly change this?
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post #52 of 77
9/30/03 at 7:09pm
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Originally posted by wakeman
My 5680 shipped with the current bios, because I can enable/disable the startup beep, but my M10 settings are 236.25 memory and 344.25 core. Is it possible that power strip is incorrect? Also would updating drivers possibly change this?
Woah, thats a weird one. Hmm.... Have you tried flashing again?
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post #53 of 77
9/30/03 at 7:42pm
I'm going to flash it tomarrow, I'll report back how it goes.
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post #54 of 77
9/30/03 at 7:43pm
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Originally posted by wakeman
My 5680 shipped with the current bios, because I can enable/disable the startup beep, but my M10 settings are 236.25 memory and 344.25 core. Is it possible that power strip is incorrect? Also would updating drivers possibly change this?
Those were my clock speeds too, before i flashed. Your BIOS has not been changed.. flash away...
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post #55 of 77
9/30/03 at 9:26pm
Thanks for the input Madcat, I also think I have bad ram too, but I'm not sure, it also seems like over-heating.

When I play bf1942 dc mod the longer I play the more frequent it shuts down the game. I'm going to take out a dimm tomarrow.
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post #56 of 77
10/1/03 at 2:04am
Well the bios flash fixed my video card settings

Now I just need to figure out if my ram is bad. I searched and couldn't find a definate anwser, but when you have bad ram does it restart your computer or just kick you out of the game.

I can run 3dmark 03 no problem and bf1942 for about 1 hour then the game just keeps closing.
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post #57 of 77
10/1/03 at 8:20am
Closing as in just disappearing or closing as in crashing (BSOD, 'We're sorry, this program has encountered an error and must close', etc.)?
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post #58 of 77
10/1/03 at 11:05am
Closing as the game just disapears no errors or anything. Then I have to restart the game and once it starts the frequency of the game closing increases.
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post #59 of 77
10/1/03 at 11:31am
Woah, thats weird. Have you tried checking the Event Viewer? Start > Programs > Administrative Tools (If this is not there, go through Control Panel) > Event Viewer. Look in all three categories to see if the system logs anything.

Does the frequency of these crashes increase if you reboot after each crash?

Do you have all the latest drivers and DX9b?
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post #60 of 77
10/1/03 at 1:19pm
Ok these are the errors I have 1 application error, 5 esent errors, and 2 true vector engine errors all of these are in the application category, but the times of these errors do not match up to when the problem happened.

I do have the latest drivers from sagernotebooks.com and 3dmark 03 says i have dx9.0b and the long version is 4.09.00.0902.

Supposedly I had the current bios, but didn't so maybe I should reinstall dx9b.
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