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I bet these recent reports of failing bios'es are part of a big complot that was created out of the evil minds of sales and marketing staff that will render all cards useless the moment the new card is announced, and they are now conducting some field tests on innocent G400 users to see if the remote time bomb mechanism works
I could also have watched too much episodes of the X-Files hehehe
No luck so far, can't seem to whip the bios into shape.
using ATI PCI mach64 adapter with G400DH.
editted max PINS settings as Venturer suggested
booting clean dos, using progbios command as above.
Receiving the following error:
Let me know if the flashing process works correctly!
If it works, DO NOT USE YOUR G400 (even it s a Vanilla) WITH MAX settings because your card may be damaged permanently due to the passive heatsink (without fan)!
Originally posted by Venturer Mmmm too bad!
Seems some PINS values are invalid! Are you sure you have edited all values i wrote, correctly?
Try to flash pins.txt as it is, without changes i suggested (DO NOT EDIT IT)! If it works your G400 should be recognized as a MAX!
Try to do that!
Yup, had tried that already, same error.
Not too sure what version of progbios i'm using. It's the one from the 2.07 bios package. Should I be trying an older one?? Louie at Matrox Tech Support told me they don't have the base BIN available for my card and recommended R.M.A. I found another thread which had Haig was being a more helpful with a Murcer named Tilson. I'm gonna try use some of this info.
Thanks again for your assistance, Venturer, I'm gonna try one more evening of this.
The MURC just one-upped the Matrox Tech Support Dept., actually used links and Ideas from both.
I'm going to get this card fired up in my main system and test to make sure the editted MAX PINS file is OK then I'll upload it.
Thanks again.
So, Ant, what type of disclaimer needs to be posted regarding the use of the PINS data downloaded from this site? Anybody brave enough to add adapter resurection procedures to the FAQ? Actually GBM's site was also most useful.
Use winimage to extract the image file to floppy. It will boot to bare windows 98 dos prompt and execute:
progbios -d <'mypins.txt
remove diskette/reboot after you get back to the A: prompt.
you now have a backup of your PINS. I'm sure most already have one, but if you don't GET ONE.
No this disk is not a recovery tool, but it is a quick and easy way to grab a copy of your PINS. Use at your own risk.
I'm also attempting to attach PINS file which worked with a G400 DH 32MB, G4+MDHA32G , It detects as a MAX but the timings are for a Standard G400.
As for the PINS data:
Haig why doesn't the staff support allow to send PINS to the users that need to recover their video BIOS?
Come on, PINS are an industrial secret for the Gxxx video cards anymore!
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