Flashing a PNY Verto GeForce4 Ti 4600 failed

04-09-2002, 10:51 | posts: n/a

Hi! 
 
I tried to flash my PNY GeForce4 Ti 4600 for higher clock-speeds, but it failed. Now i've got a blank screen if I turns the system on. 
 
Uses anybody here the same card and can send me an dump of his bios?! Or a bios of a MSI Geforce4 Ti 4600, because refering to the vendor ID, the PNY-card is a MSI one. 
 
Excuse me for my surely not perfect english, i'am german! 
 
Kind regards, 
 
Falk Jeromin <A HREF="http://www.PCTweaks.de" TARGET=_blank>www.PCTweaks.de</A>

Falkentyne · 04-10-2002, 11:38 | posts: 367

How exactly did it fail ? 
Did you receive an error message during the flash? 
How do you know that it failed, from the flasher itself (besides the black screen?). 
 
Also...NEVER, EVER, EVER flash a BIOS when your system is overclocked. If your AGP bus is running at all out of spec, the flash can fail. (an easy way to see this is to try running VGABIOS.exe on an 89 mhz AGP, and watch the pretty colors :> 
 
In fact, even if you are "spec" at a 133 mhz FSB, it's adviseable to back down to 66 or 100 mhz FSB before flashing, if possible.

04-10-2002, 23:25 | posts: n/a

Try this ripped straight from <A HREF="http://www.geforcefaq.com" TARGET=_blank>GeforceFAQ</A> 
 
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> 
If you do not have a PCI graphics card spare, create a boot floppy disc on another system (select 'Copy system files' when you format it). Create a file called 'autoexec.bat' in the main directory of the floppy disc, and put the following line only inside: 
nvflash -p -h -ffilename.ext 
where filename.ext is the name of the BIOS flash file that you are going to use. Also copy nvflash.exe and dos4gw.exe into the main directory of the floppy disc. 
 
Then put the disc in the drive and start the computer. The floppy disc should be read within 30 seconds or so. You should soon notice the keyboard lights going mad - this means that your video BIOS is being flashed. Your computer should reboot when finished, and hopefully your video card will then work.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> 
 
You will also need to download nvflash and the bios for your card. NVFlash can be found here: 
 <A HREF="http://www.gforcex.com/bios_johan/index.htm" TARGET=_blank>http://www.gforcex.com/bios_johan/index.htm</A> 
 
But there are no GF4 bioses available on this site yet, you could retry with the bios that failed before, or if you were clever you would have saved the original BIOS before attempting a flash <IMG SRC="smileys/wink.gif"> 
 This message was edited by rubjonny on 10 Apr 2002 03:28 PM