Flashing Cards. People still have problems. This might help.

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  1. Chouji

    Chouji Guest

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    amadeus you dont have you vivo settings right, in the nvidia settings, you came to the wrong thread my friend. i dont support this nor do i support the chaintech bios.

    its probably settings in the nvidia thing..

    to make note to everyone, i only support the gainward and the leadtek bios.. i dont even fully support the gainward bios.. its just a good alternative to the leadtek bios.

    theres a thread on how to make vivo work when flashing, which you can edit the leadtek bios to work better with vivo commands from your original bios. just gotta find the thread hun
     
  2. Shataan

    Shataan Maha Guru

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    ok, had a friend of mine try the Leadtech bios on his 128 meg Asus 5900 ultra. He as well used WFFlash.

    Leadtech bios:

    "Adapter type (no text)
    Adapter information:

    Chip Type, DAC Type, Memory Size, Adapter String, Bios Information:

    Unavailable"

    So much for the Leadtech bios that ALWAYS works. lol

    Next we tried a bios that I got from Mavke last night.

    POV-FX5950U.rom:

    interesting, some progress. Restarting computer shows Geforce FX 5950 text. At desktop recieved a DLL error. Went to display settings, set to 32 bit.... and the display went crappy. So he has flashed back to his default bios=Bios 4.35.20.27


    I`d sure like to find a bios that would work for this dude. ;0) ;0)



    the command at A Prompt we are using is the one that worked for me.

    A:\WFFlash.exe nm A380u.rom

    the bios file, DOS4GW, and WFFlash are on the disk.
     
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  3. Chouji

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    you can also give nvflash version 4.41 a try "only 4.41 not 4.46 or lower then 4.41 as i have not tested them.
     
  4. Obi1kanobi

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    Ok here's my problem. I own a Club3d 5900xt videocard. I own the green pcb one. I tried to flash this card to a XFX 5900NU which is the best bios for this card as goes for the Gainward 5950e400 one. With both bios i am getting a blackscreen after windows starts to load (login screen). This only happens after a cold boot. When flashing restarting, everythings ok, works good. But when I shut down my machine and boot it back up...bam blackscreen on login screen.

    Tried lots of things...driver uninstalls and installs of 53.03, 53.04 and 53.06 samething on all. Strange thing is Save mode works...so with standard VGA driver no prob. only with hi-res mode....

    Is there anybody out there with the same problem and could someone come up with a sollution....please????
     

  5. Chouji

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    ya refresh rate, make sure in safe mode, set your refrest rates back down to 60hz as this causes alot of problems after flashing.

    sense your monitor isnt use to the new card at the rate..

    so in safe mode, change your monitors refrest to about 60hz, yes i know its annoying but oh well. and uninstall all your drivers for your video card, and reinstall them when back in normal mode.

    if this does not work, then tell me if anything new happened.


    the 5900u bios is also ok for XT/SE cards. as it takes the core about 50mhz higher then the 5900nu "in most cases depending on the brands" as some 5900nu's and ultra's have both 850mhz memory clocks, though some nu's have 800mhz clock

    "bfg 5900nu uses 400/850, and their ultra's use 450/850" soo thats why i would figure a 5900u bios would work.
     
  6. Obi1kanobi

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    I just flashed the card again went to save mode
    (which worked) and uninstalled the drivers. Set the refresh rate at 60 and went to normal mode which now also works in VGA mode. But the moment windows installs the nvidia 5900 driver and it says 5900 installed ok...it goes imidiately black. ???

    Got any new suggestions? Got a 350watt power supply so i think that should be enough.
     
  7. Chouji

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    aww i see.. hmm let me think.. what driver version are you trying to install?

    you were able to make it into normal mode at lease.. so we know its driver base.. as you didnt have the problems tell you installed the drivers.

    which means you might want to pop into the nvidia driver forums. as they may have people who do specialise directly with drivers..
     
  8. osx

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    I have a 5900 Turbo from albatron. Stock speeds are 410/850 with 256 megs of DDR 2.2ns I flashed the card using Leadtek bios for there 5950 ultra. Once with a fresh install of XP did the card work as a 5950 but then on a reboot of the system it acts like a fresh card with no drivers. 16bit color and only 2 choices for my screen resolution.
     
  9. Chouji

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    OSX im not sure what your saying here?

    is it that you flashed it and it worked fine, or you had a problem because windows xp doesnt orignally have drivers for 5950 so it sets basic vga, and that 2 settings and 16bit colour is normal. you will need to install the nvidia drivers.
     
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    Sorry about that part Yes I did install the drivers. I tried the drivers from nvidia webpage and also from the Leadtek site. Then I still have the problem of the card acting like there are no drivers.
     

  11. Chouji

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    hmm. this is more for the driver thread
    when you flash a card and it works, but you come up with driver problems, then its not a flashing problem.

    when you propperly flash a card, it becomes what you flash it to. so then it becomes a driver problem...

    you will need to install drivers after flashing including wdm drivers if needed.

    but if you have problems directly caused by flashing or problems flashing then come to me.

    anyways im here to help people who have problems flashing, not as much as problems after flashing. as i cant be there to test every card and every system.

    Edit: also some people like using 4x.xx drivers, but do not realise you need to use 52.xx and higher, or better yet the 53.xx and higher
     
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    I have also flashed the card twice with 2 different Leadtek bios there is a older version than the one on the website. The second bios that I flashed is closest I got the card to work. The drivers I tried were 53.03 both on the Leadtek site also on the Nvidia site. You think that older drivers might work better?
     
  13. Chouji

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    no, im not sure what your exact problem is,

    when you install the drivers tell me what steps your doing.

    also so far i got that you have only 2 resolution choices at 16bit colour?
     
  14. Xhaust

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    I took a risk and tried to flash my 5600u to a 5700nu and failed miserably. So now i'll have to revert back to my 5600u but I can't do it without a PCI card. My question is this: If I use the PCI card method, (in my case thats the only possible) the bios won't by any chance overwrite the PCI card bios and not touch the 5600u?
     
  15. Chouji

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    look i stated a dozen times i even made a thread about this. DONT F*ING FLASH OUTSIDE YOUR CARDS SERIES!

    what part of that dont you guys understand. i wont even help you, you got yourself into this mess you get yourself out!.. im tired of this!

    jeez hilbert save me please.. let me hide behind you...
     

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    Yeah i know what i did was stupid but still I think it would be helpful to others also to get confirmation that flashing with a PCI card wont infact overwrite the pci cards bios.
     
  17. Chouji

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    dont it wont mess with the pci card unless the pci card is nvidia.. there ya happy

    do a blind flash, its harder but safer... "jeez i cant believe some of these people"

    i dont want to flame you, but i made a thread about this very exact thing!
     
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    Oakie dokie, sry for the trouble and thanks for the help.
     
  19. jfolds

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    havent flashed yet but

    I can say that when i backed up my chaintech 5900 bios for mavke nvflash asked me which bios to back up, the fx 5900 or the gf4 mx440.

    I'm assuming that flashing it woul ask the same thing, so it shoudl be safe for you to flash with your pci card in. I dont know for sure though as I havent tried yet myself.

    Jamie
     
  20. Chouji

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    ya you only have to worry about the PCI bios if its a nvidia chipped card.

    i use a old 3d blaster banchee for my pci card, as its light, low heat, small and very durrable. "plus i sealed most of the card up so no static or anything like that."
     

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