User talk:Gerdesj

Hi there. Thanks for the great article on the Dell 1737. I have the same laptop running Gentoo, and I love it. But recently I have been having trouble with my graphics card. It seem as of ATI Catalyst 11.2 something has happened to by BIOS... my RAM timings in particular, and I can no longer drive external monitors at a proper sync rate. I think my card BIOS has been improperly modified by Powerplay, and my RAM clock is wrong.

I suspect the BIOS because reverting to any previous driver doesn't have any affect. But beyond that amdcccle reports my core clock at 450 and my RAM clock at 500, while this wiki page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units#Mobility_Radeon_HD_3xxx_Series

suggests 500/700 are correct.

Detail of my observations are here: http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=160284

I was wondering if you have a clean BIOS on your laptop, and and if so could you perhaps extract it and send it to me?