Re:GeForce 8800 GT, and any ways to edit out PCI Express 2.0!? - 2007/12/23 09:42jcdmp wrote: Hi, yes mate all possible variations tested and I've read in another forums that a lot of the first Zotac's have been returned by the shops. Works for a few weeks than suddenly stops working. Looks like my case, gonna return mine and exchange for the AMP! version. Okay, thanks for the update. Well that is new to me as well so at least now we know that Zotac has had some issues and hopefully that has been resolved. My guess would be a bad batch of cards they received. Good to know though for if anyone else is facing something similar.
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Re:GeForce 8800 GT, and any ways to edit out PCI Express 2.0!? - 2007/12/23 09:59xlchaslx wrote: Now what I would like to know is if there is a way to make my Jetway GeForce 8800 GT run on my ASUS AV8-XE mainboard with a CD instead of floppy drive for flashing video cards BIOS. Well first things first, I moved you thread to this thread as it is fully related. Then, you don't need to know someone with a PCI Express 2.0 system but you need to know someone with a better chipset, meaning all Intel chipset based mainboards are working fine, as I also have a GeForce 8800 GT and it runs fine on an Intel 975X chipset (PCI Express 1.x). You won't be able to flash it yourself as your PC doesn't boot fine with the card in it. So either you try the special way to get it booting by removing the power to the card and plug it in once booted...
But I would strongly recommend against this and see to find a friend who has a different mainboard to try the card on and first backup the original BIOS of your Jetway card and then to flash it with the ASUS Gen 1 BIOS. And also provide us your Jetway original BIOS as reference.
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Re:GeForce 8800 GT, and any ways to edit out PCI Express 2.0!? - 2007/12/23 22:47Well I'm glad to hear I don't need a PCI Express 2.0 compatible board. The thing is I'm not sure about the whole BIOS flashing since the Jetway brand isn't mentioned in here. However I'm gonna try the power cable thing once, and if that's not working I will try flash it. But I still would like to know how to get the BIOS from another PC with a DVD drive. Anyways I will test it now be back later with result. Thanks very much for the info, this is a very helpful forum!
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Re:GeForce 8800 GT, and any ways to edit out PCI Express 2.0!? - 2007/12/24 09:23Now just make sure that before you start flashing to make a backup first! If else don't even bother to flash, and neither to come back to us when teh flash went bad. So always a backup first and to provide us a s well a copy. And no don't use a CD or DVD to backup or flash the BIOS, the backup won't work with a CD or DVD, so go out and get a USB memory stick and make sure you format that to become a bootable DOS media and use that. I neither don't use a floppy, but a bootable USB memory stick that I keep save for all my flashing.
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Re:GeForce 8800 GT, and any ways to edit out PCI Express 2.0!? - 2007/12/24 18:42Thanks again for all your help. The EVGA Gen1 BIOS worked in my XFX GeForce 8800 GT card. I was able to backup the old BIOS and then flash the new BIOS with the nvFlash utility. I am now running in my ASRock 775Dual-VSTA motherboard with a Gen1 PCI Express slot. I had to create a USB DOS boot drive and then use another computer that had a Gen2 motherboard to flash. I had to back off all overclocking to get the video to boot in to Windows XP. After that I was able to overclock by keeping the PCI Express clock synchronous with the overclocked CPU settings.
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Re:GeForce 8800 GT, and any ways to edit out PCI Express 2.0!? - 2007/12/25 18:48Now my Sparkle GeForce 8800 GT works on my ASRock 4CoreDual-SATA2 but when I go into NVIDIA control panel, and into adjust GPU settings and try to choose direct fan control nothing happens. Can't move the slider at all, it still greyed out, why does it not work?
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Re:GeForce 8800 GT, and any ways to edit out PCI Express 2.0!? - 2007/12/26 11:50peace wrote: Now my Sparkle GeForce 8800 GT works on my ASRock 4CoreDual-SATA2 but when I go into NVIDIA control panel, and into adjust GPU settings and try to choose direct fan control nothing happens. Can't move the slider at all, it still greyed out, why does it not work? Well I don't know really sure but I don't have that option in my NVIDIA control panel and I think it is somehow normal as the fan speed is a bit different controlled and handled on the GeForce 8800 series by means of temp controlled and duty cycle settings... This you can adapt via RivaTuner though.
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Re:GeForce 8800 GT, and any ways to edit out PCI Express 2.0!? - 2007/12/28 10:34I have a Gainward BLISS 8800gt with the Rev.02 BIOS. I can boot with it and use the internet and such but when I start a game or a movie the screen goes black direct and the sound freezes and the computer doesn't respond. Now when I reset with the reset button it will not boot, it beeps for a short while. Now I know it is booting but the screen is just black...
But here's the funny thing, when I power off the computer and then power it on again it boots just like normal. But if I try to start a game or a movie I get black screen and computer freezes. Do you think a BIOS flash to Gen 1 would help me?
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Re:GeForce 8800 GT, and any ways to edit out PCI Express 2.0!? - 2007/12/28 11:50Gossen11 wrote: But here's the funny thing, when I power off the computer and then power it on again it boots just like normal. But if I try to start a game or a movie I get black screen and computer freezes. Do you think a BIOS flash to Gen 1 would help me? Well just strange but this doesn't look to be a problem with the PCI Express as what others are experiencing but I would think it has something to do with the power supply you got and maybe not being good and/or stable enough. So which power supply do you have?
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Re:GeForce 8800 GT, and any ways to edit out PCI Express 2.0!? - 2007/12/28 12:03Well, I have a Corsair 620W power supply. It would be strange if it couldn't deliver sufficient power to the card, but as I said it only goes black when starting a game or movie. Sometime it can get like 10 sec in to the Crysis benchmark test and other times it doesn't even manage the loading screen.
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