Soft Quadro hack on zd 7000 17" widescreen ??

Has anyone successfully done the Soft Quadro mod on an HP zd 7000
laptop with the 17" widescreen? My video card is NVidia GeForce Go
5600. All attempts to make this mod have failed. Any advice please.

TIA
Femi

zd 7000
P4 2.8ghz
512 mb ram
80gb hd

 

look for a recent post called geforce fx go 5700 soft quadro around 10/22.
there is a link in there with step by step instructions. i have a zd7000
that is supposed to ship on the 4th so i am anxiously awaiting the op to try
it too!

 

See all of the info in a post on 10/22/04. The steps should be the same,
and there is a link to a step by step guide.

 

Which download should I looking for?
Detonator 52.14
rivatuner
soft quadro 4
soft quadro

Anyone will do?

 

These are the steps that I used. With an additional step of getting the
latest Quadro FX 500 drivers from nVidia after I went through the steps
listed below. You will need Detonator 42.14, Rivatuner, and SoftQuadro4.
They should all be available through www.guru3d.com.

1. Downloaded the 52.14 driver (10/19/03) from guru3d.com and unzipped it
to a directory.
2. Ran Rivatuner and ran the NVStrap antiprotection script.
3. Ran the SoftQuadro4 script
4. Low-level system tweaks, NVStrap driver settings should be AGP
Sideband... Determined by VGA BIOS, AGP fastwrites... Determined by VGA
BIOS, Graphics adapter identification custom and use 032B (NVIDIA Quadro FX
500)
5. Re-Boot and when it tells you new hardware found, choose the
"nv4_disp.inf" in the directory you unzipped the driver to.

 

My PC HDD partition to 3 partition and using gforce fx5600 graphic card. All
using windows XP. One for general use, one for solidwork and one for
graphic. If I perform the soft quadro tweak on the solidwork partiton, would
it effect the others partition? If I not mistaken, if you tweak on the bios
side it will effect all the partiton graphic card configuration.

 

You sound like you don't understand computers very well. Using the tweak,
it alters the way XP sees your graphics card. It will affect XP and ALL of
the programs that you have on your computer. Partitions have nothing to do
with your graphics card. It is like saying if you change the paint inside
of your garage, your car will get worse gas mileage.

 

I can see your point, but it is not logical to install XP on 3 different
partitions. Do you care to explain to me why someone would have 3 different
images of XP? I can't think of any reason.

 

Dale, you are right. I ve encounter alot of problem with windows. From they
I ve learn not to ve one OS only for one pc. If the windows won't boot up,
during urgent thing you know the situation how bad is it. It is safe to ve
two or three windows in different partition with one pc. When I crash one
windows, I can still boot up from another windows. I can trial out new
software or those unstable software on another windows without crashing my
important file. One more good thing is, I don't need to cramp all the
software into one windows as you know will slow down the pc and my work.
This is the good thing for multiple boots up. I even ve separate HDD with
install windows incase another HDD spoil. Play safe.
For the soft quadro tweak, if the tweak is just to alter the winXP look at
the graphic card, than it won't effect my others partition windows. If the
tweak is in bios, than it could effect all the windows partition as the bios
is locate at the graphic card and read by the processor. Same as the
motherboard. If I m right.
Hope YouGoFirst understand my explaination.

 

I ve success to softquadro my graphic card gf5600 to fx500. But using the
3dguru instruction 42.51. In solidwork, the realview still grey out. Should
I install again the solidwork or the detonator version is too old? I try to
follow your way but the instruction confuse me.

 

I tried it too and kept getting a "file protected by WFP" warning box when
trying to apply the anitprotection etc. Then i tried all the files in the
patch folder and they all gave me that error box. Pressing on thru with the
prescribed files resulted in a no display reboot and then a rollback. HINT
copy your nv4_mini.sys file out to your desktop just to be sure you have a
clean copy to drop back in there in case something goes wrong. I have the
5700 go. If anyone has done this please help me. specifiy the exact files
needed from guru3d links preferably and a step by step of how to do it. if
this is out there i will then for my contribution make an exact howto with
screen shots/dig pics of how the process goes. i will then post the files
(you won't have to go to guru3d) and the howto so anyone with the 5700 can
do this. I'm not a complete idiot when it comes to computers but i'm not the
Gate Keeper either but a little more detailed instruction or at the very
least what the computer SHOULD be doing as the steps are followed would be
tremendous. I am having issues with the 5700. Initially with opengl off I
was at a customers and RMB to open file and BOOM there went the screen, had
to restart to get it back. Once i turned opengl on it seems better but we
all know we don't want to do that. so i would really like to apply the hack
if possible. please help. direct contact can be achieved just email me
direct for phone number. Aside from that the puter is awsome...hot but
awsome. it has gotten quite the comment from customers and jealous engineer
types ;0) i thinkit's that big ass screen. if i can get the soft quadro to
take i will be very very very happy with my purchase BOB! ;0) Thanks guys.