NVIDIA BIOS Editor (NiBiTor) v6.02 software so give feedback? - 2011/04/05 23:06As promised we would release a new version of NiBiTor to the public and we actually did get it out a bit sooner than planned thanks to having received a few extra mobile BIOS images. We did get your feedback and we have a new update to add extra support, also with full support for the newer GeForce GTX 5x0 series video cards. And for any features or things you would like to see, let us know and we will see what is possible and/or feasible in a next update going forward.
For those who are having some of those newer Fermi based GeForce GTX 590 graphics cards and are looking for tweaking clock speed, voltages and fan speed, this is available after a donation through the ChipIn module. And don't forget that all the development is only feasible due to your contributions. As always please provide your feedback, so we can make it better! Also provide your original BIOS as that help a lot to get better support in the next versions!
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Re:NVIDIA BIOS Editor (NiBiTor) v6.02 software so give feedback? - 2011/04/07 18:57This news version always gives a red or a yellow integrity when you open a saved BIOS image. If I use the previous version there is no problem. When I do a rescan with NiBiTo v6.02 the integrity turns green. That is the only problem I found.
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Re:NVIDIA BIOS Editor (NiBiTor) v6.02 software so give feedback? - 2011/04/07 22:14Thanks for the feedback, we encountered that as well and have this already fixed in the next version. We had to change the integrity slightly and it seems we had a little issue in the code. But indeed when you rescan it should be okay, so you can use that function to be sure as it only happens on the initial check. And no those that get after the rescan still a yellow or red integrity there is something not fully correct with the BIOS image.
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Re:NVIDIA BIOS Editor (NiBiTor) v6.02 software so give feedback? - 2011/04/09 13:28Okay, here's the BIOS file for my Zotac GeForce GT 430, hopefully it will be added in the next version of NiBiTor software, to also allow tweaking of these cards.
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Re:NVIDIA BIOS Editor (NiBiTor) v6.02 software so give feedback? - 2011/04/09 16:49Mmm, I think you have forgotten to attach the actual BIOS itself? Can you check and redo the action, the best is to zip the BIOS image and attach it as such. Once we have it we can check to support it on a next version.
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Re:NVIDIA BIOS Editor (NiBiTor) v6.02 software so give feedback? - 2011/04/16 07:42I don't know if this has been asked or not, but Nibitor has a problem running on 64 bit operating systems. I don't know if it can be fixed or not, but it would be really nice to be able to use it on 64 bit (it doesn't work for me.) its a pretty common issue, and most people with high end cards (or any card) are using 64 bit operating systems.
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Re:NVIDIA BIOS Editor (NiBiTor) v6.02 software so give feedback? - 2011/04/16 10:11Euh, I don't know what you mean exactly but NiBiTor works as a program for tweaking a BIOS just fine on a Windows 64-bit operating system. I guess you mean that you are not able to backup your original BIOS? And that is something we have explained already various times which is simply because for getting direct access to the hardware Microsoft now blocks that unless you pay for a certificate that needs to be renewed each year. Sorry but we don't pay Microsoft for things that should just be possible since it is your hardware and you should be able to do whatever and secondly we are a non-profit website and simply don't have what Microsoft is charging.
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Re:NVIDIA BIOS Editor (NiBiTor) v6.02 software so give feedback? - 2011/07/06 15:37Hi,
Yesterday I downloaded and used for the first time NiBiTor. I use 64 bit windows, so as many other already reported I got the infamous: Cant start driver: 1275. Now I have the pleasure to inform you that is a bug and is not related to the digital signature issue.
Error code 1275 is ERROR_DRIVER_BLOCKED and the description is: This driver has been blocked from loading
The real error related to the digital signature is error 577 ERROR_INVALID_IMAGE_HASH and the description is:
Windows cannot verify the digital signature for this file. A recent hardware or software change might have installed a file that is signed incorrectly or damaged, or that might be malicious software from an unknown source.
Now, back to the error 1275; The reason why you receive that error when you use 64 bit OS, is that NiBiTor tries to load the 32 bit driver: nibitor.sys and not nibitor64.sys, you can verify that by including only the nibitor64.sys file and by renaming it nibitor.sys by doing that, if you did not press F8 and disable digital signature, you will receive the error 577, which is related to the signature issue.
The bug is in the comparing of OS minor version with the number 2 which in the case of 64 bit OS, jumps the 64 bit check and therefore, does not load the 64 bit driver nibitor64.sys
Widows 7 has minor version 1, so the compare fails.
Also only windows 2003 server has minor version 2, so the comparing does not make sense.
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Re:NVIDIA BIOS Editor (NiBiTor) v6.02 software so give feedback? - 2011/07/06 15:54Mmm, first I will say that we will check what you are saying and second that NiBiTor does use the 64-bit driver but if failing we might be checking though the 32-bit version. I am no longer sure cause we made no changes since quite some versions and that is simply because we don't have a digital signature as we didn't want to spend money on something that should simply be allowed and not blocked by Microsoft. We did check at that time and for direct access to the hardware we found that some certificate is required, which you need to renew on yearly basis. Though since you did some checks, I think it would be logic that we check this further with your comments.
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Re:NVIDIA BIOS Editor (NiBiTor) v6.02 software so give feedback? - 2011/07/06 16:18Hi,
Digital signature is not a problem, you just press F8 at the boot and chose to disable digital signature, is not the best option, but is the only option available at the moment.
The issue seems to be in the wrong check of minor version of the OS, which causes to jump over the check for the 64 bit OS and therefore resulting in not loading the nibitor64.sys, but trying only nibitor.sys and you can follow the procedure I wrote in my previous post to verify that.
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