L702x Modded GPU BIOS

in fact, the thing that means "all" in computer is " * ", not " . "

 

so I changed it from A17_COMPLETE_0.9120.wph to A17_COMPLETE_0.9120.* but it doesnt let me, says "a file cannot contain any of the following extensions - * included"

So if anyone could help me out, what do i change the file extension to in order to see it when I flash it using the flash program... :S

Thanks,
Tim

Edit: Changed the extension to .rom and flashed it, no visible changes to the Graphics BIOs string.. Im so lost with all this stuff haha...

 

Hello Batmemo,

I play game in 3D mode on and watch 3D movies and stuff all the time. I have noticed that the temps never touch 70 degrees celcius... I think it can be cooler but the high temps are due to 3D use I guess. My hard drive bays also get a bit warm, I wonder if that is all because of the intensive nature of 3D mode.

Do you run a specific game that makes your lappy hot, I can try the same game and see how it is !!

Sumi

 

Hey sumi, do you know what extension the file you download has to be changed to in order to flash it? Also my Graphic BIOS string isnt changing when I flash... its staying at 70.06.32.00.02 and not upgrading, any ideas why?

Thanks,Tim

 

@sptimmeh

I flashed it with the .wph directly :S.

 

This is weird then, you sure you didnt change any settings about the BIOS or the WinFlash program? Cause when I go to search for the BIOS it isnt visible and I know its on my desktop ... (where I downloaded it to) . Hm

 

Hi Tim, When selecting the BIOS file from WinFlash, you must change "Files of type:" from "BIOS Image (*.fd;...)" to "All Files (*.*)". You should now be able to see the BIOS file after the refresh. Changing the file extension of the BIOS file will not make it visible in the window.

If you are still having trouble finding the file, you may also type "A17_COMPLETE_0.9120.WPH" directly into the "File name:". The auto complete function should guide you into locating the file. I hope this helped

 

hmm 70 is perfect, i doubt it can be cooler even if you not play in 3d.You have very good luck with the GPU.My somethimes reach up to 81-82 after long gaming sesion,but i am ok with that temps.I just want to see how the GPU handle games in 3d.Do you sacrifice too much graphics and resolution to hit good FPS.I know that it wants doble the power in 3d for the same fps in 2d.Can you tell which games you play in 3d and with what graphics settings,thanks

 

Hello Batmemo,

I play many games but to match up our machine temps according to the games settings I am posting the settings from Resident Evil 5. I get about 64 degrees HOT while playing this game. Please find the screens attached.
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Nvm, installed a17 9120 instead. Thanks a lot for the mod . It's working like a charm ^^.
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Hey Sharadeos,

Just wondering, could you make a A14 0.9120V bios for me please? I'm currently using the gt 555m gf116.

Thanks in advance.

And btw, i meant "it" on my previous post, not "the" xD. I edited the post.

 

What's the difference between 16 and 17? Also would it only be using that extra juice if i OC?

 

Latest Report on Clock settings. I am playing SKYRIM. It is working ok...

http://img.techpowerup.org/120424/nvidia_20120424_183223.png

 

Hello Uruha,

I may be wrong but I believe that you can choose A16 or A17 depending on what BIOS you have now. Secondly, for me, the higher voltage only comes into play when there is a need for it. I have monitored GPU-Z to confirm that the voltage fluctuates depending on the usage of GPU. I have used nVidia Inspector to overclock my GPU. See the attached pic for overclock settings.
http://img.techpowerup.org/120427/nvidia_20120427_143627.png

Sumi

 

Update for my New Dell XPS 17 3D

After 2 weeks of modded BIOS (.9120V - A17) use I am witnessing a real rise in the temps of my overall system. I am using HW Monitor PRO to monitor temps on my system. I have my clocks set to 800, 1100, and 1600 right now. My Hard drive, CPU, GPU and system board are all having high temps. I can virtually fry eggs on the lappy now. The game I am playing is Alan Wake. Ever since I started playing Alan Wake the heat is REALLY UP !!!

sÜmi



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Thanks for your replies Sumi. I'm about to flash to A16 seeing as the voltage is only needed when I OC. If my temps increase like crazy like you though I would have to revert back to stock! I want to OC my 550M so I can run GW2 no problem!

 

OH GOSH! I flashed the modded bios. Before I could not go 700+ on the core without the card failing. Not I am able to OC to 740 with no problem! I was just testing it at 709 mostly and the temp went from 61C(stock 550M) to 66C. This is killing my card and making it more likely to break right? I only Tested 740 for a little but the temp hit 68C no problem. Memory never seem to do much but increase heat so I left it alone.

EDIT: Okay, I played a bit of RIFT and My GPU's temp was 69C when I OC'ed it to 709. Man that's hot!
What was the default voltage for the 550M? Even when I am not over clocking it is using .91V when in use. This sucks. I was hoping it only used as much as it needed through scaling.

 

70C is pretty darn cool for a laptop GPU...mine at stock is in the low 80s, which is pretty typical fully-loaded.

 

Hello Uruha,

I have previously used A16 BIOS to flash my GPU and I was seeing fluctuating voltage from .8 to .9120v but ever since I used A17 BIOS my GPU voltage is always at .9120. I am guessing that it may be due to the overclocking utility that is being used. I had used MSI Afterburner before and now I am using Precision X from EVGA. I will play around with the A17 BIOS and different tweaking tools to get an idea about what is going on.

Sumi

Update: I want to report that A17 BIOS does not lock your GPU voltage at .9120v. The voltage use in my case is dependent upon the GPU usage, higher load more voltage and vice versa.

 

I flashed using the modified A17 and WinFlash links at start of this thread. There were no errors of which I'm aware.

a) I thought these mods unlocked the BIOS so OPTIMUS may be disabled. No such option exists. Was I incorrect?

b) I'm a bit confused by some specs reported by GPU-Z.0.6.2 (see below). I know the GT 555M has CUDA available and I've seen other 555M screen shots that indicate DirectCompute is available. Any guess as to why my 555M is not reporting as expected?

Your time is appreciated.

 

Optimus is a hard-wired deal. The final output to the monitor is done via the Intel IGP, so you cannot truly disable the Intel graphics. Through the driver control panel you can force rendering via the Nvidia chip for all or some of your programs, but that's all you can do without physically changing the motherboard.

 

Can't seem to get back to stock volts... Tried flashing stock bios multiple times. Can anyone help?

EDIT: Its a GF106 555m BTW.... Anyone else experience this? I have tried to flash everything, even going back to A16 and doing the A16 stock, volts still show .9120

 

What was the stock volt?

 

Don't worry about what GPU-Z reports which technologies are enabled. Certain inaccuracies occur sometimes when there are two different GPUs in one system. As far as I know once you install the appropriate NVIDIA drivers then you will benefit from all the specific technologies enabled with the GPU.

Hi deuceduzit, Did you make sure to select the right BIOS before flashing? The program saves a default path from its most recent BIOS flash file. If all else fails, Try to download the official A17 BIOS setup from Dell and I will have a look with the voltage settings in the stock BIOS files.

As for the temperature concerns, I suggest reapplying your thermal paste with a 3rd party brand before playing around with the modded BIOS files. This helps in reducing overall system temperatures.

 

I tried both the official A17 bios from dell website and the one you posted in OP... I even downgraded to A16 stock + yours... Still no difference...

 

This is really odd. Can you please tell me what GPU BIOS version you have so I can try to isolate the potential problem. Have you also tried turning off then turning on your laptop? Another user reported this issue but apparently it resolved itself. It would also help me if other users can feedback on their experience with flashing back to stock settings.

 

Bios version on my GPU is 70.06.32.00.02... Please help me get back to stock volts.

 

I have checked the individual BIOS files and I found nothing wrong with the stock BIOS settings. From what I can tell other users have also flashed back to stock settings due to the number of downloads yet they faced no problems. I really do not know the problem at this point.

 

Ok... The problem seem to have fixed itself.... Weird...

 

Hello guys, I'm a new around here and I have a big question... I have owned a XPS L702X for about a year and everything was perfect... but I decided to buy a new XPS L702X with better spec on it... I got the new one, but it seems that the system cannot see the intel hd graphics (Device manager)... I tried to upgrade/downgrade the BIOS... and no change... now I have A14 installed and I want to try this BIOS... now the question: Does anybody know how to enable the Intel HD graphics? ... or can it be done with an upgrade/downgrade of BIOS? ... any recommendations!?
Thank you!

 

Did you get the system with the 3D screen? If so, you don't get Intel graphics. And the BIOS doesn't touch the Intel graphics, nothing there to change re: that.

 

Madmattd... you have saved my day and allot of time... I do have the 3D screen on the new one... Thank you!!!

 

Hi, I have updated my bios to "A17 GF106/GF116 All Models and BIOS Versions" and overclocked to 850 MHz and tested it's stability, is it possible to modify the A17 bios with the new, higher 850 MHz 3D clock as its a bit of a pain having to set the clock every time I play a game?

 

Something very strange happened guys.

I was using the gpu bios mod and decided to return the original one and saw that GPU-Z was still showing 0.9120 voltage.I overclocked with the original bios and when it was on overclocked frequency the voltage shown on GPU-Z was 0.8120.

But that is nothing, I decided to install the bios mod again and played a little with overclocking(had a system freeze once at 850/1080 and had to use the power button, not sure if it's related) and at some point I looked at GPU-Z stats and it was showing 0.9200 V now?!

I revert back to original A11 bios(just to be sure) version and now it is showing 0.8700 V?!

Is there a reason to be worried about something?

Did I damaged the system somehow?Or it's just wrong reading from GPU-Z?

 

might be a wrong reading from gpuz, have you tried other versions of gpu z?

 

Yup, no difference, AIDA64 also shows 0.8700 V btw...

 

Hey,

I'm the owner of a Dell XPS L702x. I want to use RAID0. It is not possible to enable software RAID0 and install Windows on it so I need hardware RAID.
I'm reading that this is available on this particular chipset but Dell has locked it because they only enable it on their more expensive models (Alienware).

Now I've found this thread where you unlock more GPU features. Is it possible to unlock RAID as well? Many people are asking for this on the internet. But nobody came with the BIOS yet. I don't know how to do it myself, but if you can do this with the GPU it can't be that hard right?

Kind regards,

Simon

 

Hi, first of all, many thanks to Sharadeos for providing the modded bioses for the l702x along with those really helpful links. Without them I wouldn't be modding the bios myself.

I've been able to create many working bioses and was even able to up my GF106 555m's voltage to 1.030V with the specific A16 70.06.32.00.02 bios that was being provided earlier. My computer boots and is able to run 3D apps in the 3D profile with the 1.030V, but after a few minutes of really graphically intensive use, my lappy always blue screens saying the video drivers timed out and failed to recover. Overclocking doesn't matter; it's just unstable at that voltage in general. However if I lower my voltage back down to 0.92V or less, the card runs perfectly fine at all times, even if I use different hex values for voltage than what Sharadeos had originally provided, as long as they equated to values less than 0.92V (but not less than 0.8625V which is the next step).

Any suggestions or guesses on how I could overcome the blue screens?

In case you didn't quite come to the conclusion, it should be noted that anytime the Voltage is raised past 0.92V, the voltage automatically rounds up to 1.030V and performs at 1.030V. Same thing with the stock value of 0.9125V, which actually registers as 0.92V while my comp is in use. It appears that .92V and 1.030V are two of several voltage steps that the card can actually perform at (I haven't tried anything below .82V).

 

I should add that I'm changing the Fermi voltage in line 0xD278. In that line there are two hex values of EC0D (0.9125V), which are the only modified values I'm currently running, aside from the required checksum change all the way at the end of the vbios. I'm currently running smoothly with 050E (0.9189V).

 

So have the Blue screens stopped for you?

I have been looking for some fixes with the reboots. Some games I can crank it all the way up and others i cant.

Skyrim I can run 700 gpu 950 mem shad 1400 and .92v
and sometimes I can run 800gpu 950mem 1600 shad and .92v

can really ramp up the gpu if the A/C is on in the house or it's not summer.

 

Can we expect modded A18 soon?

 

i'm hoping for a modded A18 too. Latest bios seems to work fine
so i would like to keep it, but i won't if it means i lose the voltage mod

 

There will be a modded bios for A18, just a matter of time

 

Many thanks for the modded bios, these are the 24/7 stable clocks I was able to achieve with it

 

Sharadeos,

Any progress on the new A18 version?

Cheers!

 

I was wondering the same. Will there be a A18 modded? The A17 works great for me I have been able to clock 800 gpu and 1000 on the mem. I am going to be redoing the thermal paste soon with some Arctic Silver. Anyone else here redone theirs? Couple people I have seen on the net say its a good idea. I will have to agree too.

 

Sharadeos you still modding the l702x bioses?

relating unlocked menus, if you didnt unlocked them yet, I think I can help you to mod the setup menus.

my recovery method for the l502x will also works for your l702x, however I will need to edit the ISO image and make a l702x version.

let me know if you are interested

 

ok, couldnt resist

I downloaded the official A18 BIOS for the L702X and I found it was quite similar to the L502X one.

so I decided to try something by myself and check if I can help to unlock menus and also create a BIOS recovery method for the L702X ^^


here it is :3

I also made a recovery CD-rom image

this should allow L702X users to recover their BIOS from a bad flash.

here is the download link

L702X BIOS Recovery ISO by kasar

the procedure should be exactly the same than l502x, but obiusly you should use this cd-rom image instead the one I made for the l502x

here is a quote from the l502x BIOS recovery instructions.

 

Oh man!This sounds really nice!

Thanks!

Now, who will be brave enough to test it first?

 

thanks

well, anyone with a l702x machine can be the hero

anyway keep in mind I posted in the same post a modded bios and a recovery method

many bios mods doesnt have an avalible recovery method and people try it by just crosing fingers

 

I can try it tomorow if i have time, i will report here

Just wondering, the gpu bios is part of the laptop bios or ? And what are the hidden menus that are unlocked ?