IFL90- i have mine

Yep, that looks like a reasonable explanation to explain the discrepancy. Thanks, wave.

 

do you guys want me to check using a different ocing software?

 

Maybe ATITools if you could? Just for comparisons sake. If you have the time. Thanks.

 

here you go

 

Thanks.

So I guess it has stock core speeds and a memory clocked 300 below.

 

@flippoet

You want to try overclocking the memory? See how far you can take it?

 

i'm a bit scared to since i have no clue whatsover what i'm doing. whats the highest safe temperature?

 

If you do overclock, use coolbits, it is a built in feature of nvidia drivers. You wil need a certain file to access it though. The guys on this board can help you find it.
Simply boost up the clock speeds and then run the "test" button. If the card is unstable, coolbits will NOT let you apply it to your card. No harm can come to your computer with coolbits....it is what the nvidia factory uses to factory overclock their cards.

 

sounds good. where do i get it?

 

sweeeeet do it... good luck

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Video-Tweak/GeForce-Overclocking-CoolBits-Reg.shtml

 

i'll have the results up by 4:00 eastern time

 

what exactly are you doing with it? testing to see if the card can be brought up to the supposed stock speed of the g1s card at 700mhz?? from 400? and jus see how high it can go?

 

i can't get coolbits to work, how do i get to it in vista? i think i'll just see how high it can go

 

if u have 64 bit vista u may have to find a 64 bit cool bits or something idk... not familiar with vista yet, im still on xp... till i buy my ifl90

good luck. look for a new download place or something... www.google.com

 

sorry guys but i think i'm going to stop trying. my computer failed to boot till i did the whole last good configurations that worked thing. i think the coolbits registry hack isn't compatible with vista or i just got the wrong hack

 

coolbits don't work with vista nvidia drivers, you will need to use the new rivatuner currently. And I wouldn't o/c anything unless you are comfortable with doing so or know what you are doing. Let me do that

 

do u have urs yet nettwerk?

 

I wish!!!!!!!

 

flip its up to u try out riva tuner just go really slow though

http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?page=rivatuner ??

 

Be careful not to yank up the speed real high.. Push it up by increments of 10 or so.. And if you are not comfortable doin it, just leave it..

Not worth it to lose ur laptop over a few fps/points..

 

Just use the newest ati tools, it's compatible with nvidia. Just open up the rotating spike cube thingie and then raise the core slowly, set clock, scan for artifacts. No artifacts after a minute or so, raise it again a little. Keep doing this until artifacts start to appear. Do the same for memory. You'll find your max OC clocks after awhile.

 

what are these "artifacts" just like heat spikes?

 

No, you will hear a DING! and then you will see yellow spots/line that form in the picture with the cube. That will in turn reset your No errors for xxx seconds. So if you hear the DING and/or yellow lines/spots, turn your clock/memory speed down.

 

I get those symptoms whenever I stay awake too long.

 

i have about the bios update

i download the bios ( to ifl90)from
http://www.bizcom-us.com/support/IFL9091/BIOS/IFT00110.zip

what should I do now?

 

i'm in the same boat as you. i have no clue how to install it!

 

It should be about the same way you update the bios on a Compal HEL80, so this sticky of the compal subforum should tell you how to do it.

Edit: you dont have to download from the link in step 1, you already have the .exe file

 

the .exe file doesn't burn a cd it just fails to load a rom image when you open it. would manually burning a boot cd work?

 

Bleh. You need a DOS bootdisk, either USB-floppy drive + floppy disk or a dos boot CD. Then onto that CD you'd burn apart from having it a DOS boot CD the contents of the zip file.

If you choose the floppy way, make sure you have good floppies, do a long format on each, then just pop them as DOS FAT, make one bootable and the other well fill it up with PHLASH16.exe and the BAT file and whatever says in the BAT file (i think it's the .WPH bios rom, IFT00110.WPH to be precise, so get that one).

Boot from the usb floppy drive (it's 'f12' during bootup screen on EL80 to obtain a boot device choice menu), chuck in the boot-disk, let it boot, remove boot disk, put in disk with bios+bat+phlash utility, a: [enter], IFT00110.BAT[enter], wait till it's done. ta-da. preferably have the laptop on battery + mains.

Personally, I'd go with the cd way. Get a CD-RW disk, burn it as DOS bootable cd + contents of the zip file, done, boot from it. The cd-rom prolly will come up as r: so use 'r:' instead of 'a:', the rest of the above instructions applies.

 

thx imachine

thanks to you it was easy to updated the bios

 

I'm not really familiar with this. Can I only use a CD-RW disk? or can I also use a CD-R disk? I think it probably can, but you specifically said: CD-RW. Can I use a CD-R for the BIOS update?

 

makes no difference, for OS data is data, whatever way you provide it. It's just not worth it in my opinion to burn 3MB on a 650-700MB cd-r.

 

Ah, yes, of course! I found it weird already but now it makes sense to me.

 

has xotic or powernotebooks began to ship yet?

 

Donald, from powernotebooks, just posted elsewhere that they are expecting the IFL90's to arrive Monday. If that turns out to be the case, I would expect them to start churning them out a couple of days after Monday.

/me crosses his fingers, and gets back to his mai-tai...

 

Justin from xoticpc also told me that they are getting some laptops in on monday, so things are looking good for you waiters out there

 

lol its monday, nobody has said anything about having recieved laptops =(

 

That could just mean they are busy unpacking

 

If anyone is a reseller (Donald, Justin) could you let us know if you received any?

 

I just called xotic. They didn't get a single one in today >:|

You know what maybe I should just cancel my order.

 

Not one?! Man this is really starting to bug me. I really need this before school starts at the end of July.....come on Compal ship some units!

Also maybe a dumb question, but how come Sagers are shipping and not the Xotic and Powernotebook ones?

 

Awwww darn... that asus c90s from gentech pc looks more and more tempting now. Ken said they will get them tomorrow too!

 

I just realized its been exactly one month since I ordered....Man I should have just shelled out the money for the Macbook Pro...it would have been here two weeks ago...

 

Macbook Pro? Don't be silly, it's apple...

 

hmmm maybe someone should make a thread entitled "alternatives to the IFL90 for people who don't wait to wait until it is obsolete to get it"

 

I get that waiting this long can be painful, but really (even in my case) there's not a whole lot of reason to be so anxious. I'm sure for some of you there is a genuine need to get it soon, but for most us it's just that we really want our computers.

For example, it's not even mid July yet and there are people who need it late July/August and they're going crazy over it. Give it a little. And if it's for school, don't worry, in most cases you aren't going to be using a laptop the very first day of school. And a week without a laptop isn't going to kill you as a lot of people dont' have laptops period.

just my take on it.

EDIT: If it's really hard for you, stop visiting this site. It doesn't help and only adds to the anxiety. Say you're depressed. Visiting a self help site filled with other depressed people doesn't make you feel any better.

 

I like Macs. They look sexy!

 

I can't understand why, but if you're so impatient as to getting a laptop, why bother buying online to begin with? I mean, there's a wait time on that too isn't there? There's the processing, the shipping, the support, the hassle if it comes around, the packaging, etc. I say just let it be, Donald or Justin can't really do anything because of Compal's prehistoric shipping methods, can they?

 

Some people use their laptop more intensively than what you outline here. Receiving it after the semester has begun would be utterly disruptive for me.

 

I agree with lemur. School starts August 15th for me but I am going on vacation on the 21st of July. I need my laptop before that because I come back from vacation on August 11th.