help for Radeon BIOS Editor, reversing the bios signature
Dario Napole
darionapole at gmail.com
Sun Jun 19 13:03:41 PDT 2011
hi, and sorry for asking here, i'm not sure this is the right place but
it was the only one that i know that has highly experienced programers
and that also reverse engineer drivers. (btw first time using a mailing
list so sorry if i missed something)
I'm just going the ask if anyone has some free time and would like to
give it a try and help BAGZZlash at Tech Power Up, because nor i nor him
does know enought to do it.
The problem is that RBE is able to edit the bios, but AMD introduced
some kind of signature check for the HD 6000 series bios and if it
doesn't match it rolls back the configuration to the original ones. This
is bothersome because you can't even change the fan curve if you dont
like your 6950 working at 90ºC just to keep it quite (the VRM can even
reach 110ºC) .
This can also be quite usefull if you use the gpu for extensive tasks
with openGL, which as the fan curve is prepared for "gaming", could very
much end up burning the card as would happen with furmark if you dont
set the fan at 100%.
If anyone could reverse enginering the algoritm so he can add it to RBE,
i would be very gratefull
sorry if this wasn't the right place to ask for help
the topic in the forum is this one (i'm laharl2k)
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=147647
thanks in advance for any help you could give him
Dario Napole
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