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    Modifying or Tweaking vBIOS

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by joshwang11, May 16, 2013.

  1. joshwang11

    joshwang11 Notebook Consultant

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    Does anyone know of a program like NiBiTor that can be used to tweak or modify the vBIOS of the 680M on a Clevo machine?
     
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    Prema Your Freedom, Your Choice

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    Nope there is no software to do that for us, you will have to do it yourself with a hex-editor.
     
    Prema, May 16, 2013
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    Aw... I am looking for a vBIOS that has stock cores, but a voltage of 1.025.
     
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    Someone should make a tutorial on what values the change to edit a vbios. There is probably a pattern on what hexadecimals to look at right across all vbios?
    I`d like to learn that
     
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    I would like to make a program to modify vbios. I shall PM prema so that I can work out the details.
     
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    I think thats a pretty big task ryzeki. Svet have been working on his vbios tuner for quite some time but he still haven`t finished it to support Kepler mobile cards. Only Fermi and Kepler desktop cards.
    Could be that he is lazy though :p
     
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    Nah, since we all have works and a life going on, we don't have much time to work on such things. I already have developed some software to modify, visualize and burn data to ROMs before, so while it is not easy at all, as long as we have down what we want and what we are looking for, I can make the software with adaptations of what I already had done.
     
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    Well if you can make one, the whole community would be very grateful for it. Highly needed :)
     
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    The 1.025V vBIOS from TechInferno has a core clock speed higher then 719mhz, which is the default. Is there a reason why Afterburner cannot reduce the core clock speed on the modified vBIOS's?
     
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    I don't own a 680M, so no idea...

    @ ryzeki the reason that there is no tool is that each vB is different nowadays and the vendors simply don't stick to standard MXM implementation, so it would work on some and just brick others...
     
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    Then I better make it configurable per vendor :) hahaha. I most likely would be doing MSI and Sager. Keep in mind we can add up all the differences and hardlock it in a way that you can't mod a Dell vbios using MSI viewer for example. It's going to be for advanced users I guess, since we are going to have many varying vendors and vbioses.

    It's a pain it is not standardized but I bet we can do something about it.
     
    ryzeki, May 16, 2013
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