Integrated graphics can save a bad flash?

[Fulcrum]

Ive heard how having a pci graphics card can help restore the bios on a badly flashed AGP graphics card, will the same trick work with integrated graphics or will they conflict on the same bus?

 

[OV3RCLOCK3R]

Ive heard how having a pci graphics card can help restore the bios on a badly flashed AGP graphics card, will the same trick work with integrated graphics or will they conflict on the same bus?

Integrated video should work

 

[Fulcrum]

Ok thanks I think I'll give it a test run and try and rip the original bios first and see what it comes back with. I presume integrated graphics bios cannot be updated or ripped anyway since its probably hard wired

 

[NightmareXX]

IG (Integrated Graphics) can be updated like any normal GFX card and like the name suggests, they're integrated. As far as I know you can't even overclock them

 

[Ender]

you can infact overclock them (and quite well though the performance is still pretty bad

 

[Fulcrum]

Glad to hear it, I have a x300 system to setup soon and Iam hoping to make it the best budget system ever

The actual motherboard I will using for the bios flash has a 440mx chip which is still used daily for CSS and does a decent job really.
Apart from its poor shared memory I think it was basically the full card unlike the new types like the x300 which has been hobbled in its manufacture to stop any competition with a proper card or so I read :/

 

[Minstadave]

you can infact overclock them (and quite well though the performance is still pretty bad

Yeah you can overclock integrated graphics and even laptop graphics if you're desperate enough, I know I've had a go at it

 

[Fulcrum]

I was just trying it then and I couldnt get the integrated graphics to take precedent over the AGP card however I found my old Stealth 64 PCI card about 10 years ago, I remember it cost like 70 quid and it only handles 2d graphics so it'd be nice if it actually did something usefull now

The bios only allows for PCI or AGP to be chosen and the integrated gfx just switches off if the AGP is there I think.

I found an .iso which will auto flash so I will try tommorow

 

[Fulcrum]

I booted up the computer via pci graphics and updated the agp card via a bootcd loaded with a script to flash the card with the correct new bios, pretty easy.

http://www.techpowerup.com/bios/

Very good site and the advanced feature is pretty usefull as I have no floppy disk, makes an iso no problem.

I did find running on the new bios, the timings were tighter so I had to drop the memory speed slightly.