Thanks Busykid for the reply. Yes I think you would certainly qualify for the title of "super-modder"! I want to clarify why I mention the "limitation of the Phoenix tool". The reason is because no previous SLIC is needed in non-Dell BIOSes, but there is such a requirement in Dell BIOSes. There's probably some technical barrier. Unfortunately, this is something I cannot understand at my level. Would there be a short, concise explanation for it other than "it is not possible and you are SOL"?
It is simple...a DELL Phoenix Bios has characteristics that are embedded into it when it was made that FORBID any other future modifications to it unless there is at least a SLIC 2.0 and your bios does not fit that qualification...again you SOL...
Can anybody please repost the Dell Latitude D430 modded BIOS? The links in this thread are dead. Thanks!
Whats up my peoples ? I don't know where to post this, but here is what I need: My niece got a Dell Inspiron 1545 and wants to play SIMS 3 on it, I know, I know, it's not a gaming laptop. I need to go into the BIOS and change the static video memory size from the default of 32MB up to 128MB, but Dell obviously won't let you change it. I looked into dell's DCCU utility and see it has an option to change video MEM, But I have no clue how to make this work, I know how to extract the ROM and HDR files though, from the Dell Bios update from the download page of this laptop version. Again, I need to MOD the bios to either make this hidden option available so I can change video mem size or do it with dell's client config utility somehow and flash the modded BIOS. The way vista dynamically allocates more mem for the video card is causing problems with SIMS, I want to set the static size in the BIOS, because between the way Vista allocates more MEM for the onboard vid card to use and the way superfetch allocates all your mem for cache and it needs to be release to play the game, and then again to allocate for more vid MEM, it's causing the game to skip while the game is loading while the music is playing. I'm thinking if i set a static MEM size in BIOS to 128MB, the SIMS won't have this problem........ How can we do this ? I only want to unhide that one option in the BIOS and then flash it, without bricking the lappy of course. BIOS version can be A12, A13 or whatever, doesn't really matter.
Intel onboard is handled by seperate Intel video BIOS. That is the one, in combination with the OS, that dynamically allocates RAM. Using DCCU probably won't help.