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| System Name | Gogairyu |
|---|---|
| Processor | Intel Core2 Quad Extreme QX6700 2.66GHz (OC'd FSB 280-x11 [3.08GHz]) |
| Motherboard | ASRock Conroe865PE BIOS 1.70 |
| Cooling | Intel Extreme Cooling Fan - 120mm Fan 2000-3000 RPM [D99136-001] |
| Memory | OCZ Platinum EL (4 x 1GB) CL2 DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel [OCZ4001024ELPE] |
| Video Card(s) | HIS IceQ Radeon HD 4670 AGP8x 1GB GDDR3 (OC'd 820/1000) | ZOTAC nVidia GeForce GT 610 PCI 1GB DDR3 |
| Storage | 500GB SATA2 Seagate 2.5" Momentus 7200.4 500420 [ST9500420AS] |
| Display(s) | Black Dell E198WFP (Digital) 1440x900 |
| Case | Custom |
| Audio Device(s) | Realtek AC'97 |
| Power Supply | 420W Thermaltake Purepower HPC-420-102 DF |
| Software | Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 x64 |
Alright! As the title states, I need help flashing a .rom to my graphics card within my Toshiba Satellite L300D-040.
Reason is, I want to unlock the Overdrive capabilities on the card so that I may overclock it. As much as it is a laptop GPU, I mainly just want to unlock the thing so that I can feel accomplished.
So, I've tried the conventional ways of overclocking, first trying with the BIOS, which is not an option since the BIOS on this isn't accessible and I haven't been able to find a proper BIOS update for this specific Toshiba Satellite model. Every time I press F2 or F12 as the laptop boots, the BIOS just hangs until I power it off or reset it (Ctrl+Alt+Del). Then there is the software that I have tried, and no matter what I try it will not overclock. I always end up getting fake clocks, GPU-Z and TRIXX are no help because it just shows the fake clock I applied then AIDA64 and HWInfo32 always says I am at the original clock. Even trying to use PassMark to check for higher scores and I get no improvements. I used several programs, RivaTuner, MSI Afterburner, TRIXX and AMD GPU Clock Tool. MSI Afterburner and AMD GPU Clock Tool would actually apply the "fake" clocks (displayed in TRIXX and GPU-Z) while the others would do nothing. I even increased the GPU Clock to 9999Mhz and GPU-Z would actually read the clock as 9995MHz.
Then I decided to go a leap forward and try to unlock Overdrive on the vBIOS. At first I tried to get some information on the vBIOS of my card online and nothing would show up. So I took into my own hands and decided to dump the vBIOS file. RBE was the only program that was able to actually dump the vBIOS (checksum: 0xE200). After modifying the vBIOS with Overdrive enabled, I tried using ATIFlash and ATIWinFlash to flash the new rom, but it would never detect my card. Tried uninstalling drivers, using Safe Mode and even DOS, but nothing would work. I got some sort of hunch that it may work if I installed 2x2GB sticks with Dual Channel enabled. After using 4GB from another laptop, I decided to dump the vBIOS, but this time the checksum was 0xE100, then I also noticed that the Memory clock was 333Mhz instead of 266Mhz like the previous dump. Though again, trying to flash the BIOS with the new modified rom only resulted in failure.
Forcing it to update wouldn't work since it can't even check what adapters are installed. Now AtiWinFlash is doing some wierd stuff. At first ATIWinFlash would say that there are some important files missing and after messing around with compatibillity mode, it only says it can't find an ATI discrete card. Anyone able to shed some light at all?
UPDATE! Just tried updating the BIOS by uninstalling the driver through Safe Mode and rebooting. Used ATIFlash (4.07), ATIWinFlash (2.0.3) and ATIWinFlash (20113??) and nothing would detect my GPU. I also noticed after rebooting (from SafeMode into Normal Boot) that the Windows driver to my 3100 was automatically installed and that I was prompt to restart, again. Instead of rebooting I tried modifying the BIOS, but again with the same result. I then decided to try and Overclock the GPU to 600MHz with AGCTool and this time it actually worked! AIDA64 was actually reading the card as overclocked and so was everything else. Thinking I had fixed it, I restarted Windows but after restarting, the GPU would show a fake clock once again. So now I know that when both the Windows driver and the original ATI driver are uninstalled, I can actually overclock the card. Which leaves me to believe that there is something on the driver side that is preventing me form actually overclocking this card.
Another wierd thing is that the AGCTool always shows a lower clock in the "Engine" box than the clock that the GPU is already at or set to manually. But, when I successfully overclocked the card before rebooting, it actually displayed the real clock for once.
Reason is, I want to unlock the Overdrive capabilities on the card so that I may overclock it. As much as it is a laptop GPU, I mainly just want to unlock the thing so that I can feel accomplished.
So, I've tried the conventional ways of overclocking, first trying with the BIOS, which is not an option since the BIOS on this isn't accessible and I haven't been able to find a proper BIOS update for this specific Toshiba Satellite model. Every time I press F2 or F12 as the laptop boots, the BIOS just hangs until I power it off or reset it (Ctrl+Alt+Del). Then there is the software that I have tried, and no matter what I try it will not overclock. I always end up getting fake clocks, GPU-Z and TRIXX are no help because it just shows the fake clock I applied then AIDA64 and HWInfo32 always says I am at the original clock. Even trying to use PassMark to check for higher scores and I get no improvements. I used several programs, RivaTuner, MSI Afterburner, TRIXX and AMD GPU Clock Tool. MSI Afterburner and AMD GPU Clock Tool would actually apply the "fake" clocks (displayed in TRIXX and GPU-Z) while the others would do nothing. I even increased the GPU Clock to 9999Mhz and GPU-Z would actually read the clock as 9995MHz.
Then I decided to go a leap forward and try to unlock Overdrive on the vBIOS. At first I tried to get some information on the vBIOS of my card online and nothing would show up. So I took into my own hands and decided to dump the vBIOS file. RBE was the only program that was able to actually dump the vBIOS (checksum: 0xE200). After modifying the vBIOS with Overdrive enabled, I tried using ATIFlash and ATIWinFlash to flash the new rom, but it would never detect my card. Tried uninstalling drivers, using Safe Mode and even DOS, but nothing would work. I got some sort of hunch that it may work if I installed 2x2GB sticks with Dual Channel enabled. After using 4GB from another laptop, I decided to dump the vBIOS, but this time the checksum was 0xE100, then I also noticed that the Memory clock was 333Mhz instead of 266Mhz like the previous dump. Though again, trying to flash the BIOS with the new modified rom only resulted in failure.
Forcing it to update wouldn't work since it can't even check what adapters are installed. Now AtiWinFlash is doing some wierd stuff. At first ATIWinFlash would say that there are some important files missing and after messing around with compatibillity mode, it only says it can't find an ATI discrete card. Anyone able to shed some light at all?
UPDATE! Just tried updating the BIOS by uninstalling the driver through Safe Mode and rebooting. Used ATIFlash (4.07), ATIWinFlash (2.0.3) and ATIWinFlash (20113??) and nothing would detect my GPU. I also noticed after rebooting (from SafeMode into Normal Boot) that the Windows driver to my 3100 was automatically installed and that I was prompt to restart, again. Instead of rebooting I tried modifying the BIOS, but again with the same result. I then decided to try and Overclock the GPU to 600MHz with AGCTool and this time it actually worked! AIDA64 was actually reading the card as overclocked and so was everything else. Thinking I had fixed it, I restarted Windows but after restarting, the GPU would show a fake clock once again. So now I know that when both the Windows driver and the original ATI driver are uninstalled, I can actually overclock the card. Which leaves me to believe that there is something on the driver side that is preventing me form actually overclocking this card.
Another wierd thing is that the AGCTool always shows a lower clock in the "Engine" box than the clock that the GPU is already at or set to manually. But, when I successfully overclocked the card before rebooting, it actually displayed the real clock for once.
