Nemesis

Glorious Update...

A09 removes the "Windows 8 Fast Boot"-Option again, which came new with A08.

Also the GT-Overclocking-Function is disabled when having an ATI-Card built in.

I could work out the link on their FTP-Server.

A09 can now be downloaded via this link: ftp://ftp.dell.com/FOLDER00931122M/1/M17R4A09WIN64.exe

Have Fun !

And again, the downloadlink is broken. It's not possible to download the A09 at the moment.

I can't find it on their FTP-Server too.

Every time they update something on their homepage, it's not possible to download it for days.

How can such a big company have such a bad homepage-support.

Ehm....something must have been buggy with the A08 I think, because Dell released A09 today !!!

I really would like to know what this "Windows 8 Fast Boot"-Option does or how it works.

Windows 8 boots up in a few seconds even with A05.

The only new feature I can find is a "Windows 8 Fast Boot"-Option. It's activated by default.

What a timing...

Dell just released the A08-BIOS on their homepage.

The link didn't work for me, but I could found it on their FTP-Server.

Here's the link: ftp://ftp.dell.com/FOLDER00790406M/1/M17R4A08WIN.exe

I just called the Alienware-Hotline, but the employee couldn't tell me anything about a new A08 update.

He means the A05 is the most actual BIOS for the R4.

I have flashed the unlocked BIOS and everything seems to work fine, but I can't find the new options in the BIOS.

The only change is the tab "Main", where the hardwareinformations are listed.

Everything else is same as before. Did I do something wrong ?

The "Advanced" tab, like in this screenshot, is completely missing for me.

If some like to have a dump of the A08 Bios, just let me know.

It would be great if you could make a dump of it.

I would like to take a look at it.

Thanks for your efforts.

Oh damn, you're absolutely right. Too dumb to read.

Sorry Michael !

Did anyone of you experienced problems with overclocking the 7970m using Windows 8 too ?

Under Win7 I was able to overclock with MSI Afterburner without any issues.

Under Win8 I get graphic-glitches immediately after over- or underclocking the card.

I tried a lot of changes with the graphics driver, but nothing worked.

Do you think a modded BIOS is the solution ?

I can prefer the PC 350 from Sennheiser.

It's pleasently to wear and has really great sound.

Ok, thanks.

But another thing, why am I not able to download the attachments in this forum ?

I would like to create a bootable USB-Stick using the file included in this instruction-thread: http://forum.techinferno.com/general-notebook-discussions/1738-%5Bguide%5D-amd-vbios-flashing.html

But everytime I try to download the attachment (http://forum.techinferno.com/attachments/microsoft-windows/2741-bootable_disk.zip), I get an error-report:

What can I do ?

I can't download the vbios Patcher as well.

Same error:

What's the problem ? Why can't I download any attachments on this site ?

Hello everybody.

I'm using an Alienware M17xR4 with the 7970m.

On Win7 I could overclock without problems, but since I'm using Win8, it doesn't work anymore.

When I over- or underclock just 1 MHz the screen starts to flicker. I tried a lot with modifying the driver, but nothing seems to work.

So I decide to try the way by modding the BIOS.

Are there any other configurations online ? Or just the ones in the startpost.

By software, I had overclocked my card till 948/1550 without problems. Is it possible to create a bios with this values ?

A short question. When I overclock my 7970M manually using MSI Afterburner (950x1500), the GPU runs with 400 MHz in Idle-Mode but the RAM still runs with full 1500 MHz.

When I'm using the stock configuration (850x1200) the GPU runs with 300 MHz in Idle-Mode and the RAM with 150 MHz.

What is when I use your modified BIOS ? Is the system able to automatically downclock again ?

In German:

Ich sehe du kommst aus der Schweiz. In deutsch kann ich besser formulieren was ich meine.

Wenn ich meine 7970M mit den Standardtakten verwende, taktet sie sich im Idle-Modus automatisch runter auf 300/150 MHz.

Das passiert aber nicht wenn ich sie übertaktet habe. Da geht dann zwar der GPU-Takt zumindest noch bis 400 runter, aber der Speicher läuft weiter mit maximalem Takt.

Das ist schlecht, da so natürlich auch der Lüfter mehr arbeiten muss und zu laut wird.

Wie sieht's mit deinem modifizierten VBIOS aus ? Nimmt die Karte dann noch den normalen Idle-Takt an und taktet nur unter Last so hoch ?

Oder wie verhält sich das ? Du kannst mir auch gerne per PN antworten. Danke !