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    New Dell Vbios A01 for 580m?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Chaos92, Dec 22, 2011.

  1. Chaos92

    Chaos92 Notebook Consultant

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    I have a replacement for my gpu pending. Just received an email from the dell tech saying the new vbios should take care of the issue.
    Currently i am out of station for few days. No lappy. Posting it here incase some of you wanna try it out.
    Do let the others know too especially whether the throttles at 63C and 78C have been fixed.




    Hi Aditya,



    I’m sorry I could not reply earlier because I had my offs and didn’t have access to my mails. We got an update that systems with the Nvidia 580 M graphics card had an issue with performance and need an urgent upgrade of the Video Card BIOS. Please update the same by burning the below ISO file onto a cd and booting from it;



    ftp://ftp.dell.com/video/GTX580M_Vbios_A01.iso



    This might resolve the performance issue. The Nvidia graphics cards support CUDA which helps the system to use the graphics card for norm



    And it’s good to know that you’ll be in Bihar between 29th Dec and 6th Jan, the service will surely happen by then.



    Here are the steps to burn the ISO BIOS file on to an empty CD and update BIOS by booting to the Bootable BIOS disc,
     
    Chaos92, Dec 22, 2011
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  2. widezu69

    widezu69 Goodbye Alienware

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    No it will not fix the issue. That one will throttle from 620 to 475 whenever it decides to throttle. Dell are idiots thinking that they've fixed things. They've just made things less aggressive. It still throttles. It is the same fix as the one in my sig except my vbios throttles from 620 to 620 :D so no throttling. Ignore that. Use mine. It is the same thing but better.
     
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  3. SlickDude80

    SlickDude80 Notebook Prophet

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    Chaos, they are screwing you...

    push for the replacement GPu...don't settle for this Vbios. This one can be downloaded from the dell website and like widezu said, it does NOT remove the power throttle...it only makes it less impactful.
     
    SlickDude80, Dec 22, 2011
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  4. Chaos92

    Chaos92 Notebook Consultant

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    this is not A08 this is A01.. sure it is the same? i dont know. this is not available dell website i think.
    i have using widezu's .92V one anyway.
     
    Chaos92, Dec 22, 2011
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  5. widezu69

    widezu69 Goodbye Alienware

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    No no. A08 is a system bios. A01 is a vbios for the GPU. They are different things. My vbios is a modified A01 anyways from here:
    Drivers and Downloads | Dell [United States]

    I wouldn't be telling you this if I wasn't totally sure that I am correct :)
     
    widezu69, Dec 22, 2011
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