Re:GeForce 8800 GT, and any ways to edit out PCI Express 2.0? - 2008/02/27 07:46Okay thanks for the reply. The last BIOS are available at ASUS or XFX? On the ASUS website I see the BIOS is 62.92.12.x which is older the this 62.92.24.x. Another question I want your opinion to put a GeForce 8800 GT in my ASRock P4VM900 motherboard with an Intel P4 3.2GHz, with 1GB memory and could this play Call of Duty 4 at 1280x1024 resolution? In two months I change to a Core 2 Duo, with 2GB DDR2 memory and an ASUS Socket 775 mainboard with this GeForce 8800 GT, but I would anticipate and buy the GeForce 8800 GT already. Again sorry my English and thanks.
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Re:GeForce 8800 GT, and any ways to edit out PCI Express 2.0? - 2008/02/27 11:04Well, ASUS and XFX won't actually put much BIOS's on their website, but you can ask from them to their technical support. However when we somehow get the BIOS's we put these on our downloads section so check that one also. You never know that we migt have it already.
And your proposal to already go out an buy a GeForce 8800 GT is just fine, and you will be able to play the games you want at 1280x1024 resolution, but the main bottleneck will be your CPU, meaning your old Intel P4 3.2GHz... In fact you really need a faster CPU to fully enjoy the power of the GeForce 8800 series.
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Re:GeForce 8800 GT, and any ways to edit out PCI Express 2.0? - 2008/02/27 17:14Hello, I am new to this forumq, but I followed this discussion for some time. I also own that famous ASRock Board with the VIA cipset for Intel's Core 2 Duo. And now I also own a GeForce 8800 GT. In my case its a EPES card which I prefer to call noname from China. Well, as far as I can see it seems to be an ordinary GeForce 8800 GT with 512MB. It differs from most other versions I have seen yet, that it uses dual slots with a quite big two rotor cooler, which is supposed to be silent and powerful. I managed to read out the BIIOS, and now added to this post.
Later I found out it cannot be read out correctly by NiBiTor, so I used nvFlash to save it at first, so I did not realize that. But NiBiTor can read the saved file correctly, as it seems. I also tried to edit out Gen2, but NiBiTor did not want to give me that option, it was both greyed out. At the moment I did not give the ASUS Gen1 BIOS a try or any other, although the core speed and other values seem to be suitable. I am hoping for some hints to change the BIOS of my noname card. Thank you.
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Re:GeForce 8800 GT, and any ways to edit out PCI Express 2.0? - 2008/02/27 17:15And additionally the original BIOS number is 62.92.27.00.00, which is higher than the other versions that I have found from other vendors yet. Another problem occured now, I couriously tried to flash the ASUS Gen1 version, but nvFlash cannot direct it to the correct card. The reason for this is, I am using a board with an GeForce 6100 on-board chipset, so I can still watch when the flash fails but nvFlash seems to need additional parameters to know it should use card number 1 instead of 0 which is the GeForce 6100 chip.
Forget what I have written yet. The BIOS of this version seems to work with my mainboard, without changing anything. I just gave it a chance and built the card into my ASRock 4Core, and the screen did not stay black... I guess I was a bit too fast thinking it wouldn't work. At the moment I am about to install the newest driver, I will tell when everything is alright. Finally I played soem games for some minutes with full details on. No problems, fast and smooth, they way it should be.
Ok, after all this effort, maybe finally somebody may benefit of the BIOS I posted. Another mistake I must correct, the name of the card is not EPES, its CERES. Well cover art was kind of misleading and I must say to my excuse, I am not twenty anymore, so just to correct that.
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Re:GeForce 8800 GT, and any ways to edit out PCI Express 2.0? - 2008/02/27 23:11As mentioned in my previous posts the newer BIOS for the GeForce 8800 GT as of the version 62.92.24.x or higher all have the PCI Express compatibility fix which was provided by NVIDIA. So if your card is coming with such a BIOS or even higher version it will just work fine on those VIA chipsets.
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Re:GeForce 8800 GT, and any ways to edit out PCI Express 2.0? - 2008/02/28 05:41Okay great Mavke and thanks for all this and congratulations for your great work. Keep it up as it is really good for all of us.
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Re:GeForce 8800 GT, and any ways to edit out PCI Express 2.0? - 2008/02/28 19:21You are welcome, I think with all the pushing towards NVIDIA from many brands they have finally come up with a better BIOS supporting more mainboards with various chipsets. And in the end that was needed if you want to make more sales.
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Re:GeForce 8800 GT, and any ways to edit out PCI Express 2.0? - 2008/03/04 13:40Would you believe I have still not heard back from Gainward. Even tried to contact them via phone now and it seems to either ring out on some numbers or just not ring at all. Don't think I will ever buy another Gainward video card.
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Re:GeForce 8800 GT, and any ways to edit out PCI Express 2.0? - 2008/03/04 15:55OldFart wrote: At the moment I did not give the ASUS Gen1 BIOS a try or any other, although the core speed and other values seem to be suitable. I am hoping for some hints to change the BIOS of my noname card. Thank you. It's good you got it to work, but you know you can always use the "-i0" or "-i1" switch with using nvFlash. If you just start nvFlash without parametres, it will tell you the functions and should give you a list of all options and/or parameters you can use for flashing the BIOS.
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Re:GeForce 8800 GT, and any ways to edit out PCI Express 2.0? - 2008/03/04 19:11uradox wrote: Would you believe I have still not heard back from Gainward. Even tried to contact them via phone now and it seems to either ring out on some numbers or just not ring at all. Don't think I will ever buy another Gainward video card. Well you can use the BIOS's that are posted as explained with a version as of 62.92.24.x and higher. It works fine with the Gainward GeForce 8800 GT with 512 MB at default memory and core speed. So no need anymore to underclock the card.
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