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    NP9260 (D900C/901) Motherboard brand

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by WackMan, Sep 6, 2007.

  1. WackMan

    WackMan Notebook Guru

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    NP9260 (D900C/901) Motherboard brand

    Does anyone know who makes the NP9260 (D900C) motherboard? I know a few on this forum have opened up the 9260. All indications to me are that it is an Intel 965 board, but it is not detected as Intel. Reason I am asking is because I have been playing with ClockGen and some one has figured out the ICS for the 9260. Now I can set a CSI very close to it but when I try to apply the new speeds it reverts back to default, it will not take. Now I tried another program, I think it is SoftFSB or something, lord knows I downloaded a bunch trying to get one to stick, it has the ICS for the NP9260, 954227 I believe, but it will not work either. Looks like they have some sort of a watchdog software on those boards. I am thinking, if we know who makes those boards there maybe be a way of getting another bios for them. I read somewhere, can’t remember where, in my quest for a better bios and overclocking things are getting a bit fuzzy, that someone has a Laptop and found out the brand and model of his Mobo and then used the Bios of the same desktop model, apparently it worked without any BIOS restrictions. Oh well, if some one knows who makes the mobo for the NP9260 (D900C) I would be grateful since he’ll save me un-gutting my laptop..lol

    I know that mobos are built specifically to fit laptop models, but I can’t help thinking that there is a motherboard out there that will fit and work in the NP9260, hence doing away with restrictive bioses. No I don’t care about voiding the warranty, you will be hard pressed to kill a component simply by overclocking it and if one fails I’ll buy another.
     
    WackMan, Sep 6, 2007
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  2. Gophn

    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    Wack...

    Clevo is the designer and manufacturer of the notebook.... chassis and motherboard.

    I think you are mistaken to believe that this notebook is using a desktop motherboard.
     
    Gophn, Sep 6, 2007
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    zodttd Notebook Consultant

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    I believe it is the BIOS preventing the ICS 954227 PLL from setting the FSB to a value other than default. The BIOS also prevents MemSet (Felix's memory timings editor for Windows, similar to www.rightmark.org RMMA tool) from detecting values and changing them.

    It would be very nice if something as simple as a BIOS update allows these values to be changed. Not to mention the memory test on boot could be replaced with a quick boot option, would be nice as well.
     
    zodttd, Sep 8, 2007
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    jd91651 Notebook Enthusiast

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    The bios is a clevo modifed [but based on a] Phoenix 6.0 bios (in mine at least). Yours might be a different Phoenix version.
    I called Phoenix directly within the last 2-3 weeks (Sept 2007) asking for an update and they told me no update was available.
    Also Phoenix doesn't provide it, Clevo (or Sager or who ever your 0em was) provides it.
    Like everything else on a notebook... you can only get updates to bios, drivers etc from the Notebook mfr.... with only a few exceptions.
    So it's not likely we'll ever see one (bios update) unless they find some bug. Even then though they are not likely to unlock anything that is currently locked down for us since it would increase the risk to them of more rma's.

    Incidently a couple of the exceptions I've found are you can get NIC drivers from Intel. HD sound drivers from RealTech and apparantly some mod'd video drivers from several custom web places (haven't tried the video yet myself).
    I recently updated the sound and when I got my 9260 it had no nic driver disk for XP for the wireless N card so I had no choice but to track down my own.
     
    jd91651, Oct 8, 2007
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  5. Ozob

    Ozob Newbie

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    I have a Clevo D900C with a Core2 Quad Q6700 @2.66 and with CPUFSB I can't read the ICS 954227 PLL, it just throws an error. With ClockGen 1.0.53 (found on a chinese website archive) I was able to use a close PLL to change the FSB, but it just immediately bounced back to stock again.

    If there's no way to overclock this thing, that will be a big disappointment. Hopefully some BIOS hacker will get a hold one of these and unlock it.

    BTW, in case anyone is curious, with Cinebench R10 this thing gets: Rendering (Single CPU): 2731 CB-CPU
    Rendering (Multiple CPU): 9656 CB-CPU
    Multiprocessor Speedup: 3.54

    Henry
     
    Ozob, Nov 9, 2007
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    you can use programs to OC, like:
    - RMclock
    - CrystalCPUID

    But these notebooks are rarely made with options to OC the CPU (in the BIOS).

    The videocard is OC'able however.
     
    Gophn, Nov 9, 2007
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