Bios Help + Bios Editing

[CompMod]

I got the card to work, but I don't know how or why it does. Every time I tried to install drivers it would say something about the driver not being compatible. I ended up trying this numerous times by extracting the driver and picking the one setup file (nvao, or it was nvdm). Well in the process of installing the driver, the laptop locked up and I had to do a hard reset. Upon booting up into windows it showed in device manager than my 8600gt card was their.

I was extremely glad so I figured not that windows recognizes it, I'd try to do install the most recent drivers. Well long story short, my pc resorted to the retarded VGA driver and I was back to square one.

I tried reinstalling the driver again and I kept getting an error which I don't really recall what it was. I figured the only thing different this time was the laptop didn't lockup on install, so I figured I'd do a hard restart in the middle when it was installing drivers. After I start the driver install, I wait about 5 secs and proceed to do a hard restart and when I booted the thing back up, it recognizes it. I'd really like my bios to recognize the card as I think this is part of the issue with the all the driver headaches.

I tried installing win 7 64 bit and had no luck getting the 64bit drivers to install after a few hours so I swapped back in my vista hd and called it a day.

I ended up flashing my stock bios back on and then reflashed the SLIC one out of curiousity to see if the card still worked and it did, but no difference in the bios.

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I really didn't need the SLIC mod, but for those that are interested in it for this model it can be found here and downloaded.

http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads...-Bios-help

[banana19]

Also gabiz_ro,

We tried downloading the latest dell drivers , because this is a dell 8600m gt card. The dell. inf files contain the correct subsys id references where the nvidia ones dont but the error message still occurs

Regards
ADmin

i still like my idea to modify the bios in the video card. This util will allow you to change device id and sub device id to one supported by the system bios

http://www.guru3d.com/xbios/

Nick

[gabiz_ro]

If your hw id exist and string is identical in device manager and in inf file then windows must load drivers.
Did Dell update their drivers for an older card? I see driver date is 2010 in your print screen.
Your card have their bios? or is integrated into main bios?
I don't know about that card.
I take a look into E1505 bios and have 4 vbios parts one intel,one some ati,one ati x1400 and one nvidia.
Take a dump of your video bios and replace the original nvidia with yours from real card.

Later edit

Since you doesn't say from where is your video card and what drivers you are using I take a look at 1520 and 1720
Latest Dell drivers are from 2008 but in printscreen your driver date is 2010 so you are not using Dell drivers.
I've downloaded Dell nvidia drivers for 1720 same as for 1520
for 0407 your device id that is in info

Code:

%NVIDIA_G84.DEV_0407.2%   = nv_G8x,        PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0407&SUBSYS_01F21028
%NVIDIA_G84.DEV_0407.3%   = nv_G8x,        PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0407&SUBSYS_01F11028
%NVIDIA_G84.DEV_0407.4%   = nv_G8x,        PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0407&SUBSYS_02281028
%NVIDIA_G84.DEV_0407.5%   = nv_G8x,        PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0407&SUBSYS_02291028
%NVIDIA_G84.DEV_0407.6%   = nv_G8x,        PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0407&SUBSYS_022E1028

but your subsytemid is 20031028 as resulted from RW printscreen.
Download this driver from del extract them then open with wordpad nvdm.inf under the
[NVIDIA.Mfg.NTx86.6.0]
section add this line

Code:

%NVIDIA_G84.DEV_0407.2%   = nv_G8x,        PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0407&SUBSYS_20031028

then try to install driver using setup.exe or manually.

[1234s282]

Glad it got it working CompMod

Admin

[CompMod]

If your hw id exist and string is identical in device manager and in inf file then windows must load drivers.
Did Dell update their drivers for an older card? I see driver date is 2010 in your print screen.
Your card have their bios? or is integrated into main bios?
I don't know about that card.
I take a look into E1505 bios and have 4 vbios parts one intel,one some ati,one ati x1400 and one nvidia.
Take a dump of your video bios and replace the original nvidia with yours from real card.

Later edit

Since you doesn't say from where is your video card and what drivers you are using I take a look at 1520 and 1720
Latest Dell drivers are from 2008 but in printscreen your driver date is 2010 so you are not using Dell drivers.
I've downloaded Dell nvidia drivers for 1720 same as for 1520
for 0407 your device id that is in info

Code:

%NVIDIA_G84.DEV_0407.2%   = nv_G8x,        PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0407&SUBSYS_01F21028
%NVIDIA_G84.DEV_0407.3%   = nv_G8x,        PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0407&SUBSYS_01F11028
%NVIDIA_G84.DEV_0407.4%   = nv_G8x,        PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0407&SUBSYS_02281028
%NVIDIA_G84.DEV_0407.5%   = nv_G8x,        PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0407&SUBSYS_02291028
%NVIDIA_G84.DEV_0407.6%   = nv_G8x,        PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0407&SUBSYS_022E1028

but your subsytemid is 20031028 as resulted from RW printscreen.
Download this driver from del extract them then open with wordpad nvdm.inf under the
[NVIDIA.Mfg.NTx86.6.0]
section add this line

Code:

%NVIDIA_G84.DEV_0407.2%   = nv_G8x,        PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0407&SUBSYS_20031028

then try to install driver using setup.exe or manually.

This now seamlessly works for installing the driver. I ended up implementing this idea into my Windows 7 64 bit 2.5 drive but had to change a few things and it works perfect on install. I'm running the current Nvidia 8M drivers as there as recent as 3/16/2010.

Your string works fine for vista 32 as I tried it as well on my other notebook OS drive.

Can you guys think of any benefit of having my bios recognize my video card. The only thing I can think of is if the gpu start to overheat and if my bios was programmed to shut the laptop down. There's no fan on the video card since the cpu fan blows through the cpu heatsink as well as the video card heatsink too. I think the fan is only based off the cpu temp.

[gabiz_ro]

Glad to hear is working,if I remember right I adviced to do this (but not explained in details) some days ago,another forum,maybe was other person but problem was like this and I assume was you.
As for heating part ... since original was not designed to control fan for video card ... only possible variant is bios shutdown if overheating gpu but I think is not the case.Best you can do is to add some tape foil who air seal heatsink of cpu-gpu tandem so you can obtain maximum of cooling from airflow.
Hope you understand what I want to say,since english is not my native language.
I don't know how you implemented cooling part but if is like in E1705 I hear using some tape is better since you are forcing all airflow from vent to go through heatsinks and you get a little bit of improved cooling.You may also use I8kfangui. Don't know for others but for my E1705 only works as temp monitor or as fan forcing.a little noise but cooler notebook.
As for bios recognize video card I think is most probably just a cosmetic problem now.If you can control brightness through keyboard keys (if is supported by E1505) then I see no problem.BIOS doesn't recognize video card name but once bios pass controll to OS then OS is dealing with video card.All can be missing is some bios control over lamp inverter.