I was successfully able to bring back a dead 7900GS today. Just so you guys know, JMOD's image replaces the '-' near the number keys with a '`', so you have to use the '-' on the numberpad 'fn+;' for it to work, else it types 'nvflash `4 `5 `6 Romname.rom'. Took me another computer running the CD to figure this out

why oh why does the stupid GS voltmodding not work?
there was a time when i could play anything with this stupid card....
after flashing every rom i can think of it just gets worse....
i know my rev 1 isn't as good as the rev 0 but can anybody help me get my performace back?
please

Have you tried cleaning your fans U(inside the notebook - you have to take it apart to clean the fans) yet?
I was experiencing the same problem. I could flash any bios I wanted or overclock as much as the cooling would allow me to, the performance just kept getting worse and even worse.

But after cleaning the fans, the performance went up to the old levels and the whole laptop stays much cooler (about 10°C).

If I were you, this would definitelly be my first option.
You can get a service manual that describes how to take your laptop apart at the laptop vendor.
(I can't be held responsible for any damage!)

hmmm didn't try that.... tell me what fan monitor/utility do you use? and what rom?
(thabks for the reply... and if i'm stupid enought to wreck my laptop than i can't hold you responsible :P)

I have an XPS M170, Geforce go 6800 Ultra, I can overclock it without any BIOS modifying, all I did was download Riva Tuner 2.06, and the 167 laptopvideotogo drivers, I have it overclocked to 521/1228 3dmark05 score 5800-5900...not a single issue. I have windows Vista...is this normal? I see others messing with the BIOS and stuff??

I use i8kfangui http://www.diefer.de/i8kfan/index.html just offset your gpu temp 8c

i have taken apart my xps and have cleaned the heat pipes and fans which were actually quite clean... the sad part is that there is no change in my performance...
i have installed a fresh copy of windows on my laptop during which the bios of the 7900 was the gtx one... the thing is there is no time i can restore to so i can't get my gpu preformance back... can't anybody figure this out?
i run at a staddy 60 C (using I8k) so i don;t think the card is throteling
this is so lame... i can't play anything anymore

It used to be that you had to flash another "unlocked" rom to the BIOS. Now, its all dependent on the driver. Take a read here.

hello boys.

can anyone maybe understand this.

about 4-6 months ago i got 5500 points in 3dmark06 OC @600/800 (1.24 volt),

BUT today (last week) i only got 5000 points (with same OC of course). i did the test 3-4 times but it didnt go up to 5500.

how is that possible ?????
(all games and everything else works fine. everything runs very good)

someone ???

Different drivers maybe? I am not sure what to really tell you. I'd say your score could fluctuate 350 odd points in 3dmarks tests depending on a given scenario. Really its not much to make a fuss about though. Its not like its an actual game or anything.

Hey y'all, I have an interesting issue with drivers. I heard theres lots of good reasons to including apparently a 15% performance boost on dual cores if I get the 90 drivers or above. Problem is, I have the 84.69 drivers still on here after a year and want to one, keep all the settings, and two, the bigger problem. I uninstalled the driver and rebooted, installed the new drivers from dell, but upon going back in, windows first tried to install its own drivers, and after the drivers were installed I couldn't get to nvidia's control panel at all. not one bit and I use it alot. I'm pretty sure this shouldn't have happened, any ideas would be helpful if you've got time.

Btw my 7950go gtx's latest stable overclock is 663/787

I've been using this for about a year but had to turn down the clock because my laptop overheats. I applied AS5 again, and cleaned out the fans, but they seem to annoy me more than ever.

I can't figure this out. I know about the 169 and above drivers not allowing an unlocked card to be overclocked BUT:

I am running Rev0 ISO modded to GTX (500/600 stock) with one heatpipe. I am running 167.55 drivers (Dell version according to LV2G).

Whenever I use nTune or RivaTuner, they will not overclock the card. I can change the core/mem, but when I hit apply, it goes back to 500/600.

I have removed, rebooted, used DriverCleaner, rebooted and then installed on Vista x64...but for the life of me I can now no longer overclock and have the changes stick...

Ideas?

PixelFreak

You need an unlocked card, or run a later version of the drivers...

Well, I personally have not been able to overlock any drivers after 169.04. If I use drivers after that version, I have the same problem as you: once I click OK, the values reset back to stock values.

I have not been able to find a solution for this.

And yes, like the poster above me said: you do need to unlock your video card bios 1st.