hmm, *.bin files commonly used as BIOS or flash stuff, or even ROM in some cases..i'll try and mess up with them (juz got home actually ..lol...) also intel is known to their LAZY driver support...in some cases, the only thing that change in an intel driver is their inf..others stay in tack ..lol...nice findings btw Kiki...^^ and u stay up pretty late...i believe u are 2 am - 3 am now...it's 1am here...
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Kiki <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm looking at the INF at the moment, and some files make me pay some > attention on them. > > these files: > - igcompkrng500.bin > - igfcg500.bin > - igfcg500m.bin > - igkrng400.bin > - igkrng500.bin > > > 1. what do they do? > > 2. why both MD and original driver only use the igkrng400.bin? > what's the use of those *500.bin then? > > 3. I see that in series 4 driver, they use igcompkrng500.bin, > igfcg500m.bin, and igkrng500.bin > and also igcompkrng575.bin, igfcg575m.bin, and igkrng575.bin (the > last 3 are Series 4 specific files) > however, it's funny that they have igkrng400.bin file, but it's not > used > > 4. it's also funny that there's igfcg500.bin in MD/original, but it's > not used > > 5. is it just my impression, or Intel somehow like to copy paste > driver files from one driver to another newer driver, and doesn't > really care to delete the unused, making them some junk files that > result the installer being bigger than it should? > I realize that the igkrng400.bin and *500.bin from 945 have > different size with the same files from Series 4 (so I guess Series 4 > igkrng400.bin must be from somewhere, not from 945, although like I > said before, it's not used on Series 4) > > 5. I was doing some experiments, trying to "steal" *575.bin from > Series 4, and apply them on 945. success, but not noticing any change > at all > > so... back to the main question... what do they do actually? @_@ > > -- > 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS > -- Laptop: Acer Aspire Core Duo T2300E @ 1.67GHz Intel GMA 950 IGP Intel 945 Chipset 1GB RAM (512MB*2) Dual Channel DDR2 80GB standard PATA HDD Win7 Ultimate 32bit / Ubuntu 10.04 hmmm : Athlon II X4 630 OCd @ 3.225GHz Sapphire HD 5670 512MB Artic Cooling MSI 770-C45 MoBo Kingston 2GB RAM DDR3 1333 750GB Samsung SATA2 HDD Win7 Ultimate 32bit / Ubuntu 10.04 -- 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS
