Specifications

5. When the process is finished, reboot.
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Q. NVFlash does not support my EEPROM. What can I do?
Currently the following EEPROMs are not supported by any publicly available copy of NVFlash:
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SST MTP 37VF512
The only option if your card has one of these chips is to use VGABIOS - see the '
How can I use the latest Video
BIOS without flashing my Video BIOS?' question. If you are using Windows 2000 or XP and therefore cannot
use VGABIOS, unfortunately there is currently no solution except to hope that a copy of NVFlash that does
support your EEPROM is released soon.
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Q. My card's Video BIOS is corrupted and I can't use my manufacturer's flash program to
restore it. How can I restore it?
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If you cannot get any display, get a PCI graphics card, put it in your system along with the GeForce, and
plug your monitor into it. You should now be able to use NVFlash to reflash your GeForce's Video
BIOS.
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If you do not have a PCI graphics card spare, create a boot floppy disc on another system (select 'Copy
system files' when you format it). Create a file called 'autoexec.bat' in the main directory of the floppy
disc, and put the following line
only
inside:
nvflash -p -h -ffilename.ext
where
filename.ext
is the name of the BIOS flash file that you are going to use. Also copy nvflash.exe
and dos4gw.exe into the main directory of the floppy disc.
Then put the disc in the drive and start the computer. The floppy disc should be read within 30 seconds or
so. You should soon notice the keyboard lights going mad - this means that your video BIOS is being
flashed. Your computer should reboot when finished, and hopefully your video card will then work.
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If you want to get your original manufacturer's video BIOS back, try using WinAce to open your
manufacturer's flash program file and see if you can extract the raw BIOS file from it. You can use
NVFlash with this raw BIOS file. This has been tested with ASUS BIOS files.
You can download WinAce at the following website:
http://www.winace.com
Otherwise, you will have to find someone else with the same card and ask them to save their Video BIOS
using NVFlash and then send you the file.
You can find out more about NVFlash in the 'Where can I get and how do I use NVFlash?' question.
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Q. Does the GeForce / GeForce2 / GeForce 3 support flat panel (DVI) correctly?
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The GeForce does not support DVI inside the chip itself - it was added with another external chip. This
should not cause problems.
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The GeForce2 supports DVI in the chip itself -
however there appears to be a problem as the chip can and
does generate out of band signals. This means that with some displays there is no problem but with others
there is.
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