decoder board or HP 8770w dump file search

search file dump from the native decoder board from elitebook 8770w with DC2

wriring and copy dumping the decoder board in 8770w dreamcolor? (they mean dumping the chip from MX25Q32 at position U3)

this is necessary in order to buy a decoder board from 8570 and upgrade the dump version from 8760 or 8770 to it, and in turn to work for an additional brightness which 8570 does not have.

that is, version 8570 (as well as 8560 and 8470) has only 200 nits of brightness, while versions 8760 and 8770 have 300 nits of brightness.


thank you.

 

as I understand it, this is a risky step and not everyone wants to do it? sadness ..

in short, I ordered for my 8770w matrix Lp173wf3 slb3 and a decoder card version zbook g1 15 "and the corresponding cables. Let's see what happens. I also watched the HP notebook forum in China. There are ready-made firmware for the decoder board, but this does not mean that everything will work out, because in addition to the firmware, we need a dump file from the native decoder board, which was installed at the factory exclusively for the 8760/8770 model.

By the way, I’m a little off topic, but I don’t want to create a new topic - I saw the RTX 3000 video card from the zbook g5 / g6 laptop, it fits perfectly with the dimensions of mxm 3.0b and, moreover, for our 8770w laptop it fits exactly with the dimensions. The question is - will all this work at the software level or not?)

I'm sorry I am illiterate because I write through a Google translator, sorry)))

 

I have pretty positive expectations that RTX 3000/4000/5000 will work on 8770W DC.

 

Hi
I would like to know more about the temperature conditions of your GTX 1070 graphics card in this laptop, 8770w. When you bought this video card and immediately put it into a laptop with cooling (before modding adding two copper tubes) with two copper tubes (stock), what were the first temperature tests? Was the video card 100% loaded? I ate 122 watts? It was interesting that you reduced her frequencies by one time ( to 1400-1500 MHz core clock ) to check the temperature test, what was it like? 72 degrees? Was it all on liquid metal or thermal grease?
and also about modding two copper tubes - did you say that the temperature dropped by 10 degrees?
So, before that there was liquid metal or thermal grease, and after modding what happened as TIM ( thermal interface material )?
This is important to me, since I also want to do this, and I need to know that it's worth it ....
or maybe I'll take the 1060th ....

thank you.

 

The first temp test were with Liquid metal TIM and gpu went up to 86-87C max.
After adding two more heat-pipes they dropped to 78-80C.
With undervolt to 0.800V they were 80-82C before the mod and 68-69C after.
I am using it at 1700Mhz core and 4250Mhz mem at 0.800V for 24/7.
I wouldn’t recommend such an upgrade with default cooling as during the summer temps will rise above 90C and this can damage the card.

 

Thanks!

 

UPD:
I put the DC2 screen in my laptop, everything works. 300 nits of brightness is. I also dumped a flash drive dump from my decoder board, and shared with a friend who has a 8560w with limited brightness (I have 300 nits and it has 210 nits). He flashed my dump into his flash from the laptop's 8560w decoder board. Did not help. Let's try to solder the next 25c32 chip, but it's not soon)

 

Does your friend has 8560W or 8760W?

 

There's two eeproms on the board; one SPI (type 25) and the other I2C (type 24). The latter contains information or settings for colour spaces, so might be that brightness is specified there as well.

Made a dump of the type 24 from the board of an 8740w. Interested in that model as well?

 

at a friend 8560w

 

You can’t make 8560W display 300 nits as its panel is limited to 210nits no matter what dump file is written on the decoder board.

 

yes yes yes, i'm know...
8740w - I looked at the specifications of Dreamcolor in your 8740w, there are 210 nits .. it is unlikely to help ...I don't mind getting a 24c32 dump( thank ) but anyway - thanks.

that is, the adjustment does not occur in two chips (25c32 and w25x32), but only at the level of the STDP 8028 chip? sad =(

By the way, in addition to two HDDs of 2 terabytes, do you have 2 more SSDs, the first is mSATA and the second is installed where? where was the DVD drive before or where? I have a question about this - speed on mSATA and other SSD 2.5 is not cut?

 

I have one 512GB system SSD, 1TB mSata, 2TB HDD in the second HDD bay, one 2TB on the place of the DVD optical bay and one 2TB in the advanced docking station.
The speed of mSata, optical bay and advanced docking station is limited to SATA II whereas the two main HDD’s bays are SATA III.

 

thanks.
necessary information!

 

Here you go:
HP Colormapping board A02, Elitebook 8740w DC2 - U4 - Catalyst (CSI) CAT24C32W1.bin

Spoiler: HP Colormapping board A02, Elitebook 8740w DC2 - 01 - front

Spoiler: HP Colormapping board A02, Elitebook 8740w DC2 - 02 - back

Spoiler: HP Colormapping board A02, Elitebook 8740w DC2 - 03 - eeprom location

Spoiler: U4 - the interesting bit

Code:

Offset(h) 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F

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Screen brightness is determined by the specific LED strip used for the backlight. For the LP171WU8-SLB1 that happens to be 210 cm/m². A way around that would to to replace the strip with one that has brighter leds. However, the Dreamcolors use RGB leds rather than white leds, such as this example. Even if you can find a compatible one then replacing them is still a pain, but it is a theoretical possibility.

There might be another way out. The SLB1 backlight connector suggests there's two possible methods to drive brightness control:

Spoiler: LP171WU8-SLB1 (Dreamcolor, RGB Led, 10-bit), backlight connector

The description is a bit ambiguous; do they mean you can drive the pwm signal by sending either pwm or a stepless voltage difference (0-3.3V) or do they mean you can drive the panel either with pwm or directly by voltage control?

Fans are similar; they're either 4/5-pin (pwm) or 3-pin (voltage). But even the 3-pin fans usually have a pwm option on their pcb, it's just that it doesn't have a wire soldered to it. Voltage control was how all panel backlights used to be controlled, pwm being a later introduction.

You could find out by cutting the pin #18 wire and hooking it up to a small 0-5V buck converter such as those used for small diy fans. With a bit of luck it will accept >3.3V and it'd permit 'overclocking' the RGB led strip. Backlight longevity is limited by the amount of light it's putting out, so expect a somewhat diminished lifetime in return.

 

Hello!
Interesting topic! My 8560w DC2 can't go higher 210nits and I'm able to see PWM backlight at 100% brightness. It seems LCD backlight is limited. I also have Dell M6700 with Premiercolor display and it is so much brighter with no visible PWM at 100%.
I also tried flashing dump from my comrade Love is 8770w with no result.
Here is my HP 8560w RGB converter dumps from both flash chip 25L32 and EEPROM 24C32 - GDrive
Ver 113:

Spoiler: screenshot

 

Good evening gentlemen!
Almost 2-3 weeks ago, a new attempt was made to give this comrade a new version of the Zbook G1 / G2 17 ". When viewing this file through the HEX editor and subsequent comparison with other dumps (with the same places, but with a 15 ”laptop) - there are almost no differences, and there is nothing special, there are data savers about the colors you use in the HP Dreamcolor Assistant color profiles (Adobe RGB, DCI-P3, sRGB and so on ...). We want all the data to be received only with the STDP 8028 chip, it analyzes that you have a panel (most likely, using an EDID panel or Plug and Play identifier), and then gives certain settings. I don’t see the point of digging there. This is a very dreary business.

 

It's a little strange, but the Dell M4800 / M4700 has the same panel as the 15 "versions of the Elitebook 8560w / 8570w, and Dell has a panel that glows at 300 nits of brightness, and HP lights up at 210 nits. But I also heard that the M4800 with the LP153WF3 panel had problems (failure, etc.). If you touch this part of the panel, you can understand that it is warming. This happens at full brightness, 300 nits. And at 250 nits, the brightness is already almost at the level of the temperature of the human body. Perhaps HP was already aware of these issues.

but some owners of the M4700 / M4800 feel great with the LP153WF3, maybe they were very lucky. Or maybe they use 300 nits of brightness in rare cases? who knows)

3dview.jpg

 

and yes, thanks for helping mirage_bg and t456

 

For good measure, here's the dump from the 32Mbit SPI/25 eeprom as well:
HP Colormapping board A02, Elitebook 8740w DC2 - U3 - Macronix MX25L3205D.bin

And looks like the Dell option is another alternative to overdriving the backlight directly; they might be using an edid with different settings (coordinate points). Either method will mean a reduction in contrast though since these panels are not OLEDs, so the black value will inevitably shift more towards grey.

Something else to try for the not- faint-of-heart is to strip the antiglare (+protective) layer. I've done this on two panels and the result was spectacular (colour saturation especially). One downside is that the screen will become very sensitive to scratches then and, a subjective minus or pro, it will make it a glossy. Biggest hurdle is that it is ever so easy to take along the polarizer layer along with the ag/3H and that leaves a permanently 100% white screen that is very hard to undo without a cleanroom.