Hi, These pages have reference bioses for most nvidia cards up to the geforce4: http://bunny.xs4all.nl/hardware/vid_nvidia.html, http://www.nvplanet.com/modules.php?name=Sections&op=listarticles&secid=2
The tools used to test/flash the bioses (vgabios/nvflash) require you to be in DOS (so you may need to download a DOS boot disk). This MUST BE DOS and not a dos box in windows (or a dos emulator in linux!!). This page provides information on the flashing procedure (and loads of links): http://www.tweak3d.net/faq/faq.html#hw:gef:flash:nvflashhow Hope they help, Good luck, Joel. On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 10:23, Christian Herzyk wrote: > Joel Wright wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >The only suggestion I can make is to flash your bios to the nvidia > >default. I realise this can be a bit worrying, but so long as you save > >your original bios and have a pci gfx card to use in the event of > >something going wrong, there's no reason you wont be able to return to > >your current state. > > > >I had this problem for months with a geforce3 Ti500, i spent ages > >changing kernel options, module options, and main bios settings until I > >finally got fed up and flashed my bios. This changed my X startup times > >from ~5mins to ~2secs. > > > >Good Luck. > >Joel. > > > > > Hi Joel, > > perhaps I will really do this. > > Can you give me a short howto and a link where I can get this bios? > > Thanks > > > Christian > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- $_='while(read+STDIN,$_,2048){$a=29;$c=142;if((@a=unx"C*",$_)[20]&48){$h=5; $_=unxb24,join"",@b=map{xB8,unxb8,chr($_^$a[--$h+84])[EMAIL PROTECTED];s/...$/1$&/;$d= unxV,xb25,$_;$b=73;$e=256|(ord$b[4])<<9|ord$b[3];$d=$d>>8^($f=($t=255)&($d >>12^$d>>4^$d^$d/8))<<17,$e=$e>>8^($t&($g=($q=$e>>14&7^$e)^$q*8^$q<<6))<<9 ,$_=(map{$_%16or$t^=$c^=($m=(11,10,116,100,11,122,20,100)[$_/16%8])&110;$t ^=(72,@z=(64,72,$a^=12*($_%16-2?0:$m&17)),$b^=$_%64?12:0,@z)[$_%8]}(16..271)) [$_]^(($h>>=8)+=$f+(~$g&$t))[EMAIL PROTECTED]"C*",@a}';s/x/pack+/g;eval -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
