The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    New AMD bios and AMD video driver (dated 9/20/2010) for M17xR2

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by moddy, Sep 21, 2010.

  1. moddy

    moddy Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    9
    Messages:
    103
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Hello everyone :) Now that the new official Mobility Radeon drivers are finally put up on the Dell site, can we please have some insight :)
    Both the updates say Recommended. It seems to have fixed many known issues.
    Has any one updated both these drivers? How is the performance in old/new games and other functions of the machine?

    DESCRIPTION: "ATI Radeon Mobility HD5870 A01 VBIOS (13B96101.104) Win7 64b. Dell REQUIRES using this VBIOS with 8.763 (A01 R281215) Dell approved driver in order to have proper system functionality. Install video driver first prior to flashing the VBIOS. This VBIOS is meant ONLY for the ATI Mobility Radeon HD5870 video card offered in the M17x-R2. Flashing any other model cards will result in a no boot/POST and cards will need to be replaced. Please see important information section for more details."
     
    moddy, Sep 21, 2010
    #1
  2. BatBoy

    BatBoy Notebook Nobel Laureate

    Reputations:
    7,395
    Messages:
    7,964
    Likes Received:
    25
    Trophy Points:
    206
    BatBoy, Sep 21, 2010
    #2