Thank You for your interest. ASFAIK assembler knowledge would be more suitable but.... who knows. I will paste here my theories which I have already posted in the 'upgrade bios' thread so some stuff might be irrelevant but majority of it is applicable... at least i think so.
Here it goes: GL! I've always wanted to that (and even more...) on my NX7300 - but my HP lacks a recovery mechanism that other HP Laptops have (namely Crisis Recovery Disk - after a bad flash you can try flashing from a USB Floppy drive). Did you know that after replacing of vbios in the bios file you have to have a correct checksum? Do a google search on phoenix bios vbios checksum - or try to find some info on wimsbios.com - just be shure to have a recovery system - don't brick your laptop! The thing I would recommned first is to just change the device ID - from 27A2 to let's say 29A2. I suspect (and I might be horribly wrong) that the drivers just read the device ID from vbios and load their own stuff into memory - so this might trick the drivers into thinking you've got 965. That is theory nro. 1. Theory no 2. replacing the vbios of gma 950 with a vbios of 965 (if you choose to download the zipped version of drivers from intel you will get it). The perfect solution would be to replace the shadowed vbios. I've tried writing into it with the use of some tools but it's locked. The linux guys have a solution that might be useful to us - In order to fix some resolution problems a kernel patch called 915 resolution was developed. I've looked through its source code and there are some interesting routines there (unlock vbios is one of them). I don't have a clue about assembler so I can't tell if it is possible to unlock and overwrite the whole shadowed vbios or if it is possible on a windows based machine. ASFAIK some cracks for windows XP act as bootloaders before windows XP starts and during this process they overwrite some portions of cached bios - again - no idea if it is possible to mod one of those into overwriting vbios. Just some midnight thoughts... But once again, unless you have a method for blind bios recovery (from a floppy) don't try flashing it - don't brick your laptop - use it as a photo frame if you don't like it. End of quote. On 13 Kwi, 22:27, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm sorry for double posting, but I would just to post my lappie's > specs if it helps: > > Windows XP 32-Bit Professional > 2.0GHz Intel Duo > 950 GMA, 224MB > 3GB RAM, will expand if necessary > 17' --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "INTEL 9XX Gaming" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/intel9x-gaming?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
