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GeForce 8800 GS, and any way to get an Gen1 BIOS version? - 2008/04/08 02:00 I am hoping someone here can help me out. I have an ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA motherboard with a GeForce 6800 GT AGP card. It seemed about time to upgrade and instead of splurging on the GeForce 8800 GT I got a GeForce 8800 GS graphics card. Well, the GeForce 8800 GS is from EVGA and is not compatible with the ASRock board. After a lot of research I see that EVGA released an updated BIOS for this issue for the G92 based GeForce 8800 GT cards. But of course there is nothing for the GeForce 8800 GS cards. How can I get a Gen1 BIOS for the GeForce 8800 GS? I would rather not swap out the motherboard, it's too disruptive. Thanks...

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Re:GeForce 8800 GS, and any way to get an Gen1 BIOS version? - 2008/04/08 19:17 We can have a look but I doubt we will be able to do much, although if youc an somehow make a backup of the original BIOS of your GeForce 8800 GS from EVGA and provide that on this thread we will have a look. Can you also mention hwo much memory the card has? Secondly I would also suggest to contact the EVGA technical support and ask this question about the PCI Express compatibility issues you encountered.

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Re:GeForce 8800 GS, and any way to get an Gen1 BIOS version? - 2008/04/08 20:29 It is a 384MB card. And I believe the BIOS is the same as on this website in the download section. I downloaded that and then opened it with NiBiTor to review it. Unfortunately I could not change to Gen1. Both the Gen1 and Gen2 were grayed out. EVGA is checking into this problem for me, but have not figured this out yet.

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Re:GeForce 8800 GS, and any way to get an Gen1 BIOS version? - 2008/04/09 23:28 8800GS wrote:
It is a 384MB card. And I believe the BIOS is the same as on this website in the download section. I downloaded that and then opened it with NiBiTor to review it. Unfortunately I could not change to Gen1.
If you can't share your own original BIOS there is nothing we can do for you, this is just a small effort that we ask and we really need your own BIOS cause for experience we don't take it for granted that it is the same BIOS unless we have done ourselves a full HEX editor compare. This is to avoid any issues when we would be able to modify your BIOS. Thanks...

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Re:GeForce 8800 GS, and any way to get an Gen1 BIOS version? - 2008/04/17 06:43 Okay, I just got access to a different computer with a PCI Express slot and I tried to get the BIOS and upload it. Let me know if that does not work.
EVGA e-GeForce 8800 GS 384MB Edition
- Bus Type : PCI Express
- Memory : 384MB

File Attachment:
File name: evga88gs-384mb-8800gs.rar
File size:39247 bytes

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Re:GeForce 8800 GS, and any way to get an Gen1 BIOS version? - 2008/04/17 22:48 8800GS wrote:
Okay, I just got access to a different computer with a PCI Express slot and I tried to get the BIOS and upload it. Let me know if that does not work.
I have checked the BIOS, but there is not much we can do really. So what would be needed is that EVGA is coming up with a similar BIOS version as for their GeForce 8800 GT to fix it, or better that NVIDIA comes with a similar update of the GeForce 8800 GS graphics cards.

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Re:GeForce 8800 GS, and any way to get an Gen1 BIOS version? - 2008/04/18 07:51 I second the idea to contact EVGA about the problem, especially considering nothing that Mavke can do about it. Perhaps another GeForce 8800 GS BIOS with the ability to switch generations would work on this card. If it's a reference card it may very well work.

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Re:GeForce 8800 GS, and any way to get an Gen1 BIOS version? - 2008/04/19 13:08 DarkFox wrote:
I second the idea to contact EVGA about the problem, especially considering nothing that Mavke can do about it. Perhaps another GeForce 8800 GS BIOS with the ability to switch generations would work on this card. If it's a reference card it may very well work.
Just to add that the Gen1 to Gen2 or vice versa was only a very temporary solution that was only possible on first BIOS's and was due to some things NVIDIA had left in the BIOS for working as a PCI Express 1.x card only. Since these are supposed to work a PCI Express 2.0 that was soon changed and the option is no longer there as it is just not possible any longer on new BIOS's. So just as with the GeForce 8800 GT, some minor PCI Express compatibility update was added since 62.92.24.x version and higher.

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Re:GeForce 8800 GS, and any way to get an Gen1 BIOS version? - 2008/04/19 13:38 I was unaware of that, but I'll keep that in mind from now on. It seems that the ease of upgrading with ASRock's AGP and/or PCI Express boards also have their downsides. Perhaps ASRock's techical support can provide you with a BIOS that will support this card better? It's worth a shot...

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Re:GeForce 8800 GS, and any way to get an Gen1 BIOS version? - 2008/04/19 14:04 DarkFox wrote:
It seems that the ease of upgrading with ASRock's AGP and/or PCI Express boards also have their downsides. Perhaps ASRock's techical support can provide you with a BIOS that will support this card better? It's worth a shot...

Don't count on ASRock ever since the GeForce 8800 GT and the PCI Express topic the main issue was always the VIA chipset and most persons having bought an ASRock and frankly ASRock technical support was just ready for it and neither were their product engineers and designers. And also VIA wasn't so NVIDIA after some period stepped up and fixed it...

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