P-6831FX Bios update (94.28)

We'll, after doing some research on flashing a bios, I decided to do it on my Gateway P-6831FX laptop. I installed a T9300 Core 2 Duo a while back and it seems that the the original 94.26 bios had some issues with it.
Anway, after installing the new 94.28 bios from the Gateway website...which worked, thank God....I've been noticing some latency issues while playing World of Warcraft. About every five minutes, my framerate drops and the audio starts to crackle. Could this be an issue with the new bios, perhaps some bottlenecking? And is anyone else having any issues like this after flashing the new bios?
Oh, by the way. I've updated my drivers and tried the new modded Nvidia driver from Laptopvideo2go.com. There was no change to the latency. So I've pretty much ruled out the driver being the issue.

Thanks for any help or info.

 

sounds like the CPU or GPU is throttling. max sure your not on battery mode, etc.

 

Ya, I tried cutting back on my background tasks to see if it helped before I posted this. But I just did a more in depth look at everything and found that my performance was set to balanced instead of high performance. I also found a few start up programs that were causing some lag in start up and possibly eating my processing power during gameplay. Also, my Webroot Spy Sweeper never told me that a new software update was available that made it more stable with Vista. So that might help too.
I haven't tested my new settings yet, but I'll post if the latency returns.

Thanks for the tip.

 

Nvidia is having big problems w/their GPU's (8xxx, 9xxx, and 2xx Series) failing due to heat.

Dell just did a BIOS upgrade tweaking the GPU on their laptops in order to run cooler.

This Gateway BIOS may be designed to do the same thing w/the Nvidia GeForce Go 8800M GTS in it.

To run cooler could mean underclocking the GPU, which could explain the drop your frame rates.

If you have any noted benchmarks before you ran the BIOS upgrade, you might run them again in order to see if indeed the GPU has been slowed down.

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really?
i was just in that bios file looking around and everything seems to still be the same.....

 

Are you talking about physically looking in the BIOS file itself that you looked or the BIOS screens on the laptop?

If everything is the same, then why the upgrade?

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1: im using phoenix bios editor pro to examine bios files
2: nibtor video editor 4.5
3: winhex editor

 

It was just a thought, w/the problem that CGAssassin was having w/his framerates dropping, as a result of updating his BIOS. I was thinking that it might be due to a possible fix for the problems w/the Nvidia GPU's in the BIOS update.

Any idea what the updated BIOS is suppose to fix, or update?

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yeah, not happening in a gateway. we went down that path with the x9000 and the x9100

 

Does anyone have the old 94.26 bios for my P-6831FX? I want to do a test to see if I do get higher 3dMarks with the older bios, as opposed to the 94.28 bios that I flashed to yesterday. I will post my results, if anyone is interested to see if there is a difference.

Thanks in advance!

-DJ

 

you know the 94.31 is out there ?

 

How does the 94.31 do for 3Dmarks? Are you using the 94.31...notice any differences?

 

yep i have the 31 installed.
no reason it should help your 3dmarks

 

Thanks for the info. I am looking into changing my bios back, as I was getting about 9800 3dMarks with my T9300 and the GPU overclocked, but now once I updated the bios to 94.28 from 94.26, I am getting more like 9300. Not a huge difference, but I wanted to see if it was the bios update, or something else, like the fact that I am using the 180.48 drivers, instead of the old Gateway recommended 167.something drivers.

 

thats the drivers..not your BIOS. Try the DOX or Xfastest drivers in the NVIDIA thread stickied at the top of this forum

 

i have them but how would i extract them for you i mean im running that vers but i dont have the file bin

 

Unfortunately, I don't know how you might extract them...I'm not very knowledgeable on how to extract a bios into a file. I am going to try and change my video drivers though, and see if that has any effect on my 3dMark scores.

 

Yep, it's the drivers. I installed the latest laptop drivers from Nvidia's new laptop reference drivers (179.28), and OC'd with my T9300 and overclocking the 8800 GTS card, got my 3dmarks up past 9800. Much better than the 9100 or so I was getting. So, it's not the bios, E-wrecked was right.

 

I'm always right. kiddin.. royk was right

 

The bios adds some new features usually new CPU and added stability of overall system.

With the gate way bios update you also update the nvida gpu bios.

When that happens you should install new drives in our case BETA notebook drivers should be optimized for the new bios.

But the bios will not affect performance. maybe just a few percents.

 

Can some one post the BIOS download link cause i cant find it.