DAz999 Posted March 23, 2008 Report Share Posted March 23, 2008 (edited) I have a HP Pavilion 9790 laptop with HP 8600M GS 512mb DDR2 Video Adapter. I have managed to get hold of a Acer.8600MGS.512.070711_1.bin DDR2 Video BIOS update which is set to higher clock speeds etc. My question is is how do I update my Video card BIOS, as I can t seem to find a utility to do this. And is it safe to do so considering they are the same model card, just Acer has higher clock and shader settings. Edited March 23, 2008 by DAz999 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reiluke Posted March 24, 2008 Report Share Posted March 24, 2008 (edited) do not update bios with different manufacturer, it will not work, if you want higher clocks use nbitor and nvflash Edited March 24, 2008 by reiluke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAz999 Posted March 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2008 (edited) ok thanks for the tip. only problem I have is Nbitor doesnt have 8600m gs only 8400 gs and Nvflash only works in DOS and I do not have a floppy drive to copy my BIOS then reupload it, I can create a dos CD but won t be able to write the copy to my CD. Never Mind really annoying you can t overclock HP 8600m GS, NVtune or rivatune do not work, just resets to default settings on Vista Edited March 24, 2008 by ®®® Removed Full Quotation of Previous Post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reiluke Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 if you want to overclock use 169.04, its the only driver that can overclock 8600 and 8400 series Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Knivez Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 ok thanks for the tip. only problem I have is Nbitor doesnt have 8600m gs only 8400 gs and Nvflash only works in DOS and I do not have a floppy drive to copy my BIOS then reupload it, I can create a dos CD but won t be able to write the copy to my CD. Never Mind really annoying you can t overclock HP 8600m GS, NVtune or rivatune do not work, just resets to default settings on Vista Here is a guide i just wrote on how to OC an HP bios for drivers above 169.04. http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=3153962 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAz999 Posted March 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2008 (edited) thanks for the tips, worked a treat, just hopeing now someone can discover the secret in the 169.04 drivers, so we can mod the latest drivers for Nvidia HP 8600M 512MB to be overclocked. :) (without modding the BIOS) Edited March 30, 2008 by DAz999 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAz999 Posted May 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2008 (edited) Here is the link to the new drivers 175.63 http://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/index....showtopic=18532 A note for HP Nvidia Notebooks Vista Users only, if you use XP I am afraid you have to mod your own inf you need to copy this inf into install directory overwrihting the one already in there, otherwise new drivers will not install. once done then run the setup.exe as normal I have added to enable install on HP Nvidia cards below "NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150" NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 " "NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 " "NVIDIA GeForce Go 6100" "NVIDIA GeForce 7150M / nForce 630M" "NVIDIA GeForce 7000M / nForce 610M" "NVIDIA GeForce Go 7200" "NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300" "NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400" "NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400 " "NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600" "NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 " "NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS" "NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS " Vista x64 inf http://www.mediafire.com Vista x32 inf http://www.mediafire.com Edited May 21, 2008 by DAz999 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
®®® Posted May 17, 2008 Report Share Posted May 17, 2008 Please don't link homebrewn, untested 3rd party INFs from our forums. People might be tempted to download in order to get help and will run into problems as nobody ever tested those INFs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAz999 Posted May 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2008 I have tested them and they work fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
®®® Posted May 18, 2008 Report Share Posted May 18, 2008 1 out of 100 users is not enough. If you want more people to test the INF and consider it working we can open a dedicated thread for this INF here: http://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/index.php?showforum=10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAz999 Posted May 19, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2008 1 out of 100 users is not enough. If you want more people to test the INF and consider it working we can open a dedicated thread for this INF here: http://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/index.php?showforum=10 Ok cool just edit my post and copy it over to the correct area, as I don t have rights to open a post at the link you have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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