7300gt BIOS

Sinny · 19 May 2007 at 00:19

Hi, i have a 7300gt that crashes in games and such and has had problems since imy friend flashed the BIOS with more core/mem speeds, i have a backup of the rom on the C drive but it wont load, i can get nvflash to load on boot screen but what command do i type.

i have tried c:/nvflash original.rom

MeatLoaf · 19 May 2007 at 01:05

If yore friend borked it tell him to get you a new one

waso_dude · 19 May 2007 at 01:41

more clock/memspeeds?

just clock them down.

prob driver run.

Riva tuner will do this

Sinny · 19 May 2007 at 14:31

waso_dude said:
more clock/memspeeds?

just clock them down.

prob driver run.

Riva tuner will do this

will riva tuner flash the graphics cards bios? because its flashed, i have the program and a cd (floppy) boot disk with it on and a copy of the old BIOS but what do i type?

as stated in original post thats what i type but it just goes back to C:\

the nvflash version is 5.50 btw, i really need some help as i think this may be the problem.

MrScott · 20 May 2007 at 10:38

It definitely should just be

nvflash original.rom

(flashed my 7800GT quite a few times using nvflash). So it just returns to a command prompt with no output whatsoever? That seems odd.

Sinny · 20 May 2007 at 14:23

yep, the odd thing is i created a cd which is identified as a floppy drive, and when it boots that up it says a:/, so i change the dir so it looks in the c:/ drive, type nvflash originalbios.rom and it just makes a beep and doesnt do anything.

i even tried disabling the protection on it but that didnt work even though disabling the protection worked.

MrScott · 20 May 2007 at 14:30

Hmm. I'm guessing C:\ is NTFS? If so are you sure the command line can access it properly, and that it isn't just using the letter C:\ as a RAMDrive or something? Try typing 'dir' at the c:\ prompt to get a list of files on the drive. Also nvflash needs a file called cwsdpmi.exe to work, check that's in the same directory as nvflash. You could always try getting the latest nvflash from here.

Sinny · 20 May 2007 at 14:35

i have that file on their, should i create another disk with the old bios on it?

Sinny · 20 May 2007 at 14:43

this is what i type and get.

[DR-DOS] X/>nvflash originalbios.rom

NVIDIA Firmware Update Utility (Version 5.50)

I/O ERROR: Cannot open file: originalbios.rom

C:/

MrScott · 20 May 2007 at 14:48

Right, so it can't read the bios file. If you're sure you're spelling it right and you've removed any restricting permissions on there I'm not sure really, maybe try renaming it so something only a few characters long in case the command prompt doesn't like long filenames? Or like you said put it in another location and try it from there.

Sinny · 20 May 2007 at 14:52

lord_scott said:
Right, so it can't read the bios file. If you're sure you're spelling it right and you've removed any restricting permissions on there I'm not sure really, maybe try renaming it so something only a few characters long in case the command prompt doesn't like long filenames? Or like you said put it in another location and try it from there.

saying that it sounds like the right solution, i just tried reflashing the new bios with a shorter name and the correct prompt line came up, i will go and change the filename to something a lot shorter, il update on the news.

Sinny · 20 May 2007 at 14:59

thanks for all the help, renamed the file to orgbios.rom from originalbios.rom and worked, nvflash should tell you if the file name is too long is their a way i can contact nvflash and ask them to include this?

thanks for the help, sinny.