http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/overclocking/vidcard/34 Instructions on how to flash video card BIOSes for both NVIDIA and ATI cards. |
ATI Cards:
These instructions apply to both atiflash and flashrom, command-line syntax is the same. When using flashrom replace "atiflash" by "flashrom".- Download the BIOS file (ATI Bios collection here) and put it on a bootable floppy/usb stick/CD. Check bootdisk.com on how to get a boot disk.The ATI Bios collection has a new feature which serves you a bootable floppy image or bootable iso CD image with the bios you want on it. Click on "Advanced" when in the Bios list.
- Download an ATI flashing utility and put it on this disk too.
- Reboot your computer with the boot disk and run atiflash -s 0 oldbios.bin to save your old bios just in case you might need it at a later time.
- Now run atiflash -p 0 newbios.bin Replace newbios.bin with the filename of the downloaded bios file.
- If you are trying to flash a bios for a different card then you will get a security warning that the bios does not match your card. If you are absolutely sure that the bios is compatible you can use the -f parameter to force flashing. For example atiflash -f -p 0 bios.bin
- Reboot your computer
- Done
NVIDIA Cards:
- Download the BIOS file and put it on a boot disk. Check bootdisk.com on how to get a boot disk.
- Download nvflash (v4.41) and put it on this disk too.
- Reboot your computer with the start diskette and run nvflash -b oldbios.bin to save your old bios just in case you might need it at a later time.
- Now run nvflash -f newbios.bin Replace newbios.bin with the filename of the downloaded bios file.
- If you are trying to flash a bios for a different card then you will get a security warning that the bios does not match your card. If you are absolutely sure that the bios is compatible you can use the -p and -u parameters to force flashing. For example nvflash -p -u -f bios.bin
- Reboot your computer
- Done