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    Rock Bios for Xtreme CTX Pro

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Mister Spoons, Mar 18, 2009.

  1. Mister Spoons

    Mister Spoons Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi, new to Clevo products and happy so far with my previously-owned M570U, it is a Rock Xtreme CTX Pro, with the 7950 card and glossy WUXGA screen, amazing! What I am looking for is for the original Rock-branded Bios file to flash as mine has been updated with generic bios, I think the Rock latest version is 1.00.02, what I hope to do is extract the image from this at some point and insert into the 1.00.06 bios, thereby having the latest bios with Rock logo at boot instead of the generic Intel logo...

    Has anyone either got this Bios or a later Rock version?

    Thanks

    Mister Spoons
     
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    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    Hi Gophn,

    Thanks for the warm welcome!

    I am actually running the 1.00.06 BIOSes currently, what I am hoping is that someone has the original Rock BIOS saved somewhere so I can extract the splashscreen image (with the word ROCK on it!) and replace the image file in the 1.00.06 BIOS which being a Clevo BIOS has a generic Intel logo instead, I updated my BIOS to 1.00.06 from a CD and was unable to save the original when flashing.

    With the video BIOS, does one burn to a disc and install from a boot-up or can it be done within Vista? Excuse my n00bness, have flashed a few mobos but never a graphic board...

    Every time I boot the laptop up I grin madly, my wife thinks I am mad not to have spent the money on a new Dell, but for what I paid for my Rock the best I would have bought new would not have come close!!!

    I've swapped the original 100gb HDD for a 200gb 7200 Seagate and the 100gb is now the caddy drive, one minor query is regarding memory; I had 2x 1gb DDR2 667 installed and swapped them for 2x 2gb Corsair, with these installed I only get 4-bit graphics; on the premise that there is a problem addressing memory larger than 3gb I then replaced one 2gb with a 1gb giving me 3gb, but still cannot get the graphic better than 4-bit.... go back to 2gb and all returns to normal! Is this normal or could I have a problem...

    Thanks

    Mister Spoons
     
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    you can actually modify the BIOS with any splashscreen that you want.

    I believe there is a thread here that shows you how to do it.
     
    Gophn, Mar 18, 2009
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