This work has been going on for awhile at notebookforums.com
http://notebookforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=85
we know the m9800 is based off the x800 desktop core. we trust the data from benchmarks done at beyond3d.com which imply the m9800 actually has 6 active vertext shaders instead of the 4 advertised by dell and ati.
so the we wanted to know if unlocking extra pipes was possible for added performance. we have both the m9800 and mx800 bioses. we believe the mx800 bios to be important as they both share the same general architecture but the mx800 has 12 active pipes instead of just 8 and uses a pci-e interface instead of agp.
w1zzard was kind enough to browse over the m9800 and concluded that the bios supported 16 pipes, so the lockout must be something else. we've hypothesized that it maybe due to hardware masking.
rivatuner has a component called nvstrap that can remove hardware masks for nvidia cards to unlock pipes, but no such support exists for ati.
i've come here to both describe our work in progress as well as ask members of this forum that may be skilled at bios editting and manipulation for help. specifically, could someone suggest a good bios editor? we've been using hex editors (hex workshop 4.23), but they're not very convenient as none of us are skilled at interpreting hex. are there any editors that offer higher level translation of the code?
thanks
http://notebookforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=85
we know the m9800 is based off the x800 desktop core. we trust the data from benchmarks done at beyond3d.com which imply the m9800 actually has 6 active vertext shaders instead of the 4 advertised by dell and ati.
so the we wanted to know if unlocking extra pipes was possible for added performance. we have both the m9800 and mx800 bioses. we believe the mx800 bios to be important as they both share the same general architecture but the mx800 has 12 active pipes instead of just 8 and uses a pci-e interface instead of agp.
w1zzard was kind enough to browse over the m9800 and concluded that the bios supported 16 pipes, so the lockout must be something else. we've hypothesized that it maybe due to hardware masking.
rivatuner has a component called nvstrap that can remove hardware masks for nvidia cards to unlock pipes, but no such support exists for ati.
i've come here to both describe our work in progress as well as ask members of this forum that may be skilled at bios editting and manipulation for help. specifically, could someone suggest a good bios editor? we've been using hex editors (hex workshop 4.23), but they're not very convenient as none of us are skilled at interpreting hex. are there any editors that offer higher level translation of the code?
thanks