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    XPS m1530 GeForce 8400M GS BIOS

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by NuMetal4Life, May 6, 2008.

  1. NuMetal4Life

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    Well I've been reading some of the threads posted on this site and I noticed some of you are able to overclock your GeForce 8400M GS video cards by flashing the BIOS. I'm wondering how you guys are doing this since nibitor can't read the BIOS on my laptop for some reason (probably because of some dumb proprietary BIOS that Dell put in). If you guys have any help you can give me that would be great. My BIOS Version is 60.86.51.0.44. And the Forceware drivers that are currently installed are v174.31. Thanks in advance for any help you guys can give me.
     
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    stevey5036 Notebook Evangelist

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    If you just want to overclock, download drivers from laptopvideo2go.com (I am using 174.74) and then download the nTune application. That will allow you to overclock using Nvidia's utility.
     
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    Yeah I tried that too.. Doesn't work.. When I click apply for the new clock settings it says "testing failed". Again I think I'm getting F'ed by the BIOS.. Damn I need to find away around this.
     
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    shawnhao Notebook Consultant

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    Wait...you have an 8400 for your 1530? Where did you buy your laptop? Also, don't use nTune, try RivaTuner, it should work better.
     
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    i work for dell (i do marketing promotions for them at my university campus), and this is the laptop they gave me (XPS 1530), and rivatuner is the same story. click ok after trying to apply settings and it goes straight back to default.. i've been trying forums everywhere to figure this out.. i fear i may be out of luck.
     
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    brerben Notebook Enthusiast

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    NuMetal4Life, the reason the clock settings keep reverting to default is that after nVidia driver version 169.04, the ability to overclock mobile GPU's was taken away.

    Soooo... all you need to do is install the GeForce M driver version 169.04 (the last overclockable version) and it will work.

    Here is a link to that driver: http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=15825

    PLEASE READ

    Steps for installing:

    Download the actual driver file (.exe) in that forum thread and extract the contents. Then, download the "modded INF" file (.inf) and replace the original inf that came with the driver file you downloaded with the modded one.

    Then, run Setup.exe and you will then have the ability to overclock.
     
    brerben, May 27, 2008
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    vengance_01 Notebook Deity

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    I can Overclock with the 169.09 drivers. A key I have also seen and its wierd is if I start the notebook on battery and boot into windows, my O/C will not stick. If i boot on A/C then my O/C is just fine.
     
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    Thank you so much man that worked perfectly!! I'll just have to find the best overclocking range as to not damage my gpu or anything.. i'm think 40mhz will be ok for now
     
    NuMetal4Life, May 27, 2008
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