Ok, long story shot I was hoping that I could post a success thread but it aint gonna happen. My friend has a Latitude D810 with a 1.73GHz CPU and an X600 128MB vid card. It pretty much sucks at gaming, so I was hoping to pin mod a 1.6 400FSB to 2.13 and put in my old 6800Go and he'd have a pretty good gaming rig. However, I pin modded and it boots, but the card is messing up. I get two quick flash blurs, one of the BIOS start up screen and one of the windows load screen and then black. I'm double checking right now to make sure that its the vid card and not the CPU, but if it is the vid card, any suggestions for getting compatibility? Flash the sucker to a 9300? Same mobo, dont see why it wouldnt work. Anyway, lemme know what you guys think.

-Mr. K6

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Ok Don Rico. Explicame la mierda de Kaaaaaaaaaaaaatie?

I returned an D810 for an 9300 'cos dell told me there would be no upgrade path for it

I think the D810 motherboard has less power, less watts, maybe not enough for the card

Fantastic try though, good luck, and you have a very trusting friend there

Nice to experminent with the warranty behind you. Be sure to get a brand new 6800 from dell (should get more on ebay for it! lol)

k6, great idea.

Flash the D810 to a M70

the M70 is the same motherboard as your D810, and they come with nvidia quadro chips, which should be very close to the 6800go. I would try that before flashing it to a 9300, since they have some different pci ports

If you can get the bios to recognize the 6800go, I'm sure it will work fine and be a great upgrade.

Are you sure it's a bios problem, and not a windows driver problem? Can you enter the bios and change things? If so, it is likely a windows problem.

Good Luck!

rallycobra that is a great idea, and there is a thread where someone used rivatuner to detune an 6800 to a quadro in an 9300, so if the motherboard does have too little power then maybe a soft-detuned 6800 will convert it to an M70?

Don't worry about power. All of the laptops mentioned use the 90W powerbrick. The only gpus that run into trouble are the 6800ultra and 7800. They need 130W and a bios that know what to do with the brick. That PCI slot must be good to 130W with the proper brick, so a standard 6800go that uses a 90W will be fine.

yep, your right, 90watt standard

checked proces too, lowest dell canada d810 is around $1600cdn (1.86) with lowest M70 $2400cdn (2.13 processor)

potentially a nice conversion! Good luck.

Tom's Wife. Katie.

Actually "Katie" is from the family guy movie and it's a joke between the three of us, Don Rico is another friend "involved" in this project .

Anyway, thanks for the support guys. The original plan was to take the heatsink off the X600 and put it on the 6800Go so that it'd fit inside the laptop. The cards are the same size, and although the X600 has a smaller cooling solution, it should be adequate for a stock 6800Go and even some mild overclocking. The 2.13Ghz pin-mod is stable as can be, even undervolted to 1.244v, so I'm happy there . On a side note, holy shit does the cooling solution suck on the D810, friggen CPU loads at 60C at 1.244v , I might try a different approach on the AS5 application when I open the laptop again.

Anyway, the Dell service manual shows the M70 as being identical to the D810, even the same cooling solution on the Quadro as the X600, so I think we're gold in the cooling department. To explain further, here is the exact problem. I hit the power button, a quick, very distorted image of the Dell load screen appears at the BOTTOM of the screen, then a split second later the another very distorted image appears, resembling the load screen for windows, then the screen goes black. Now, has anyone ever flashed a D810 to an M70? I'd have to FUBAR my friend's laptop because there's no confirmation on this . I definitely think it's a BIOS issue and the card not being accepted. I dont think modding the card to a Quadro would help any, as it seems to be Windows based rather than flashing the card, and the current problem exists in the BIOS recognizing and accepting the hardware. Anyway, I'll look more into this. I think a 2.13GHz CPU and a 6800Go on a 1280x800 would friggen own, not to mention the 4 hrs.+ life he gets gaming with the extra modular bay battery. Anyway, any information here is greatly appreciated. I'll look more into this as I'm flashing and overclocking my brandy new 7800Go (got 6770 in 3DMark05 at stock speeds ).

The softmod does not work. Sorry to get your hopes up.

Wasn't going to use it anyway . Know anything about flashing the M70 BIOS to a D810?

I'm interested to see if this works. Maybe it might up the demand for the vanilla 6800Go so that I could potentially get more if I decide to pawn it on ebay.

Hey, I always try to do some service to the community

maybe contact whomever hacked the 9300 bios and xps2 bios to do the same for the m70 on an d810?

I know before it was hacked (9300) the 9300 would check and not acept the xps bios

(family guy is excellent)