NVIDIA Pixel Clock Patcher

[scheherazade]

(09-28-2012 10:21 PM)ToastyX Wrote:  The patcher signs the file for you now, so "Pixel Clock Patcher" is correct. Running the patcher again should let you restore from backup. It looks for the driver file, not the cards. If you still can't get it to restore, then just reinstall the driver.

Did you enable test mode using testmode.exe? Some people are having trouble enabling test mode for some reason. You can get the driver to load by pressing F8 during startup and choosing "Disable Driver Signature Enforcement" from the boot menu. The problem is without test mode, you have to do that every time.

The testmode.exe program already tries these two commands:

bcdedit /set TESTSIGNING ON
bcdedit /store C:\Boot\BCD /set TESTSIGNING ON

If the boot store is on another drive, then you will have to open a command prompt as administrator and set it manually.

You can also try ReadyDriver Plus, but I have not tested it.

Here's my dilemma...

I chain load my windows bootloader off of grub.
Windows bootloader still exists, but is in the first few sectors of the windows partition, as opposed to the MBR itself.

The "bcdedit /set TESTSIGNING ON" command fails in my normal configuration.
It returns:
"The boot configuration data store could not be opened
The system cannot find the file specified"

In order to make it work, I have to hide my other bootable partitions, and set the windows partition to active.
This boots me directly into windows, and then running the command will succeed.

I have the impression that this command is naive, and it tries the earliest partition, or the 'boot/active' partition by default - as opposed to the parition with the bootloader that started windows.

I looked at my windows volume, and there is no <vol>:\Boot\BCD directory. Was that shorthand for "your BCD location", or did you mean that path literally?
If I knew how to properly specify where the BCD is located, it would save me some time when changing this option.

In any case, so far I've had to goto linux and hide my other partitions whenever I try to run the command.

-scheherazade