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    vga biosmod or flash on the dell 1520?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by skynetwork, Jul 12, 2007.

  1. skynetwork

    skynetwork Notebook Consultant

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    hay doodz....

    i just dl'ed nibitor and thought i'd maybe try reading out the vga bios and it worked. unfortunately you cannot raise the V but lower it significantly (min 1V instead of 1.15V stock). ok, i do not really want to lower it (as the books is ultracool even under 3D load with max. 65°C) but maybe raise it.

    i have an acer aspire 5920G bios over here (same gfx card, same clocks, almost everything the same, even the vendor ID, but the dell bios seems to be newer). on which i can raide the V in 3D from 1.2V to 1.32V which should normally give a decent raise in overclocking potential (not that i would use the card overclocked all the time, but i'd somehow like to know how much potential it has)....

    so my question is if anybody has experience with flashing a laptopbios and maybe with flashing a different manufacturers bios (even tho it happens or seems to be from the same manufacturer). is the vga bios completely separate from the system bios on dell books?

    i have flashed dozends of vga bioses on desktopcards and ofc endless many systembioses on both laptop and desktop but never flashed anything like a vga bios on a laptop :D
     
    skynetwork, Jul 12, 2007
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  2. skynetwork

    skynetwork Notebook Consultant

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    no idea? any1?
     
    skynetwork, Jul 13, 2007
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  3. GloStiX

    GloStiX Notebook Evangelist

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    Your skill level is above that of this forum. Sorry. :(
     
    GloStiX, Jul 13, 2007
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  4. kgeier82

    kgeier82 Notebook Deity

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    this thing just came out, give it some time. all this stuff will be around in no time.
     
    kgeier82, Jul 13, 2007
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