Acer MXM BIOS Mods and discussion (was: x920G vs. 9600M GT)

[momol51]

@hycks : Why you buy not a 9650m gt because this card is excellent with a overclock .

[Hycks]

Hi,

@momol51 : I would like to! But it seems that even the 9600m gt, as I have explained, doesn't work good under ubuntu, so I guess it would be the same with the 9650. If I were using windows, It would be great, but I need to run absolutely ubuntu for ma work, that why I have priviligated The safety over the performance with the 9500m gs (héhé)! Plus, I found this 9500m for a very cheap price!

Have a nice day!

[.NetRolller 3D]

Sorry for neglecting the thread, I'm being distracted by other issues.

@Hycks: As far as I know the nouveau module has a parameter to enable power saving - it is off by default. Try enabling that.

[pehknowhow12]

Many thanks for your super fast answers and sorry for my late replay...

I dumped now with nvflash my "generic" 9300m GS vbios to a file, - Malau, please check if it is ok for you.

About "flashing the new Acer GF 9300m vbios", can this happen under windows with nvflash? I absolutely don't trust my old floppy disks, - so a flash under DOS might be highly risky...

The modded SBIOS is only needed when no original Acer based MXM card is used, right? So when I flash this Acer GF 9300m MXM vbios it should run without modded SBIOS...

To Malau, can you provide me a download ticket for your vbios please? thanks!

Will this sbios fix my new 9300m, ive already udated sbios with the latest sbios for acer 9920G from the first page, works except still only external display, will this file make my 9300m work?? or am i just wasting my time??

[.NetRolller 3D]

The modified SBIOS is required for all cards newer than the GeForce 8000M series - even Acer ones.

[pehknowhow12]

The modified SBIOS is required for all cards newer than the GeForce 8000M series - even Acer ones.

The Sbios is updated with the latest for the 9920G found in the first page

Today i updated vbios with the 9300 acer vbios found in page 60 in this thread, the display is now working but only in dos in windows all the colours are ed...
the colours in dos is also ed but still watchable..

Conclusion is that a special Vbios for the 9300M is needed for the card to run properly in the acer 9920G does anybody have a solution or a direct link to a vbios suitable for 9300m for the card to run properly in the 9920G machine or is this not possible ATM?

I tried tp insert a stock 9600M GT DDR3 it worked but with display errors so i used the vbios update from thefirst page and now there is only external display again...

used the command nvflash -f -4 -5 -6 9600.rom

So ATM nothing is able to runs properly on my 9920G it seems, hope some one have a fix

[Rentz]

Hi. Pehknowhow12, I have working 9920 (win7x64) + 9600m gt. Try this: Flash netrollers vbios on page 70 of this thread. Then go to laptopvideo2go.com, download and install driver 285.86

[Hycks]

The Sbios is updated with the latest for the 9920G found in the first page

Today i updated vbios with the 9300 acer vbios found in page 60 in this thread, the display is now working but only in dos in windows all the colours are ed...
the colours in dos is also ed but still watchable..

Conclusion is that a special Vbios for the 9300M is needed for the card to run properly in the acer 9920G does anybody have a solution or a direct link to a vbios suitable for 9300m for the card to run properly in the 9920G machine or is this not possible ATM?

I tried tp insert a stock 9600M GT DDR3 it worked but with display errors so i used the vbios update from thefirst page and now there is only external display again...

used the command nvflash -f -4 -5 -6 9600.rom

So ATM nothing is able to runs properly on my 9920G it seems, hope some one have a fix

Hi,

The 9500m gs card also works very well on my laptop, see my post above for further information.

It seems like the 9600m gt is able to work under windows, as Rentz and blackened described.

Good luck!

[Hycks]

Sorry for neglecting the thread, I'm being distracted by other issues.

@Hycks: As far as I know the nouveau module has a parameter to enable power saving - it is off by default. Try enabling that.

Hi NetRolller,

Why apologizing? You already made quite an amazing work here, and don't feel sorry to have a life (héhé)!

To my side, I tried the latest nvidia drivers, and with the powermizer option, things go a little better (my temp are around 60-70°). Things would be great if I could hav access to the fan setup (I used extensively google trying to find a way to access this setup. In your opinion, do you think there is something in the Sbios that could be activated to fix this?

And one more thing : i used the 8600m gt bios, and everything works well, but it's a pity that I can't make the 9500m gs run under its true self! Have you done by chance a modified VBios for the 9500m gs, that I would have missed?

Thank you again for everything, and for the advices you could give me to "fine-tune" my 9920g.

Have a nice day!

[pehknowhow12]

Hi. Pehknowhow12, I have working 9920 (win7x64) + 9600m gt. Try this: Flash netrollers vbios on page 70 of this thread. Then go to laptopvideo2go.com, download and install driver 285.86

Thanks man workgreat now except when i install driver bluescreen of death...

Ive tried the 285.86 driver aswell as the one found on the first page of the thread same issue...

But works without driver...