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    Flashing GTX 460m Video bios (how-to?)

    Discussion in 'Alienware M15x' started by lorddinky, Apr 29, 2011.

  1. lorddinky

    lorddinky Notebook Guru

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    I have seen people flashing their video bios to overclock there gpu back to normal or close enough back to normal while on battery. I have seen a guided but the bios.rom and nvflash files or expired....could some post me a guide on how to do this or give me another link for the files if you have done it already and still have the files?

    Much appreciated!

    Matt

    Reference: guide
     
    lorddinky, Apr 29, 2011
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    Sgt. Notebook Consultant

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    I'm interested in knowing the answer to this as well but I think a DELL OEM 460M cannot be flashed. :(
     
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    anyone...? please help?
     
    lorddinky, Apr 30, 2011
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    There's actually everything you need in the guide you linked to... make a bootable USB flash driver with nvflash and flash your modded vbios...

    The command "nvflash -4 -5 -6 vbiosname.rom" will force the flash procedure... so make sure your vbios isn't corrupt.

    I'm not familiar with nvflash, but if you type "nvflash -?" or similar you should be a able to see a list with all possible commands... for example to see the checksum of the rom file to make sure it didn't get corrupted when copying to the memory stick.
     
    svl7, Apr 30, 2011
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  5. lorddinky

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    but the modded vbios "link" is a broken link. :(
    anyone have this file?
     
    lorddinky, Apr 30, 2011
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    Has anyone been successful in flashing the Dell 460M?
     
    TheHighlightGuy, Apr 30, 2011
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    You can't do most of the stuff with the mobile cards anyway... e.g. changing the fan control like in this guide. I recently took a look at the vbios of the 460m from an Asus G73JW, and I wasn't able to mod anything correctly. This may be different with the Dell vbios, but I haven't heard of anyone who was able to overvolt this card... so you can also simply stay with adjusting the clocks from within Windows whenever you need it.
     
    svl7, Apr 30, 2011
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  9. widezu69

    widezu69 Goodbye Alienware

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    The latest version of nibitor had support but you cannot change anything in the 460m vbios. You can in the 470m though strangely.
     
    widezu69, Apr 30, 2011
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    Ive heard that the gtx 460m doesnt work with a screen with 1600x900 res? does anyone know or have heard of this?
     
    akiratang, May 1, 2011
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    When I remeber correctly some clevo cards don't work properly (for a reason I don't know) when put in a M15x with the 900p screen. There's no problem with the Dell version of the card though.
     
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  12. lorddinky

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    I bought a GTX 460m and i have that 1600x900 resolution. works for me. :D
     
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    widezu69 Goodbye Alienware

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    @lordinky did you buy a clevo or dell 460m?
     
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    I think I was the only case that the 460m didn't work with a 900p. I got the clevo version and the only time it would display is when I connect to a external monitor. I try to go into screen resolution and change it to output my native monitor but some how it doesn't recognize it.
     
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  15. lorddinky

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    I think it was a Dell. I did not get if from them however.
     
    lorddinky, May 2, 2011
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