Thanks, more than enough to give me a broad prospective on what my GPU can do.
I'll tinker around and see what I can do. On Apr 13, 4:53 pm, JuiCe <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
