signon message can't be enabled anymore with G200 ??

[impact]

Have you tried sending him an email?

[Venturer]

No, i ll try now!

[arbymo]

Venturer : make sure u save a backup copy of ur bios, or get the recover.zip ? file from matrox and let it do the job for u ..
then do watever to ur bios ..if somethin goes wrong .. u can go back .. even if u don't have a pic on ur screen .. just make sure ur a: drive is ur 1st boot device .. put ur backup or recovery disk in .. and it'll program the bios back
but don't get my word on it

[Venturer]

I think i can t recover the option byte, because it s one of the items stored in a different location of the BIOS that can t be dumped!

[Venturer]

I ve solved the problem!!!!!!

Who want to enable signon message in every Matrox board follow this procedure:

-First run MXINFO and read the value of the option byte at the end of 3 screen (my option byte value was 44)
-Download the lastest matrox BIOS; then go to DOS real mode (in WIN ME use DOS REAL mode patch) and type
PROGBIOS -b OPTION,1,val where val is the value of your option byte plus 1: e.g PROGBIOS -b OPTION,1,45
-Reboot and signon message had to be enabled.


This because:
The value of the first bit of the OPTION byte controls the SIGNON message (0 is disabled; 1 is enabled)!
44 in bin is 00101100; if you change the bit 0 of the OPTION Byte from 0 to 1 the byte became
00101101 that it s 45 value


REMEBER TO SAVE YOUR BIOS BEFORE TRYING THIS OPERATION AND DO IT AT YOUR OWN RISK!



[This message has been edited by Venturer (edited 19 November 2000).]

[Jorden]

So my original question stills stands: What is the sign-on message?

[Venturer]

LOL!

[arbymo]

nice dig Venturer .. i'll give it a try next time i program my bios.

[Venturer]

69???
I tried with 45 and MXINFO tells me that signon is enabled but i can't see it during boot!

However i tought MXINFO shows bytes values in decimal not in hex.
Thx for your advice; now i ll try again with 69!

[This message has been edited by Venturer (edited 20 November 2000).]

[gbm]

You will NOT NOT NOT see it. I wrote it many times before...

[Venturer]

Thx GREG; correctly enabled with 69 and now MXINFO reports 45 as byte value in hex.

But Jorden wrote it depends from short-sync of the monitor, so i think i had to see it during reboot when the signal is already syncronized!

[Jorden]

errrm, I said you might see it, if there were still a sign-on message in the card (which I doubt there is?). Then again, I trust Greg when he says there's nothing to see

[gbm]

Sorry for not answering...

Your solution is almost correct. MXINFO displays in hex, while PROGBIOS wants decimal values. So 44 hex makes 68 decimal. Adding 1 for signon makes it 69 decimal, so 69 is the correct value to supply to PROGBIOS.

[Surfwienix]

you actually don't see it!!!

mxinfo sais signon message is enabled on my g400, but it isn't seen anytime. probably it's too short.

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>> Surfwienix <<

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