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Hi
First of all, sorry if this message seems a bit familiar - I posted
something similar a while back but didn't get much of a solution.
Anyway, here's the problem. I have an nVidia TNT2 M64 with 32 MB of
RAM and no TV-out. It came as part of my Dell Dimension. The original
BIOS version for the card is 2.05.13.03 so I thought about updating
it.
I managed to locate an updated BIOS, version 3.05.00.10 and loaded
this with VGABIOS.EXE to test compatability. That went OK so I decided
to flash the card BIOS. Having made a backup of the original BIOS, I
flashed the card with the new BIOS using nVFlash and that went OK.
The problem is that, during POST, the video card is now reporting 16
MB of RAM instead of 32 MB, as the previous BIOS did. In the end I had
to re-flash the card with the original BIOS as the card was unusable
under Windows 98 SE.
Why is the amount of RAM being incorrectly reported? I'd love to be
able to get a newer BIOS working because, when loaded with
VGABIOS.EXE, I noticed some performance improvement.
Regards
Daniel Lam
Hi
First of all, sorry if this message seems a bit familiar - I posted
something similar a while back but didn't get much of a solution.
Anyway, here's the problem. I have an nVidia TNT2 M64 with 32 MB of
RAM and no TV-out. It came as part of my Dell Dimension. The original
BIOS version for the card is 2.05.13.03 so I thought about updating
it.
I managed to locate an updated BIOS, version 3.05.00.10 and loaded
this with VGABIOS.EXE to test compatability. That went OK so I decided
to flash the card BIOS. Having made a backup of the original BIOS, I
flashed the card with the new BIOS using nVFlash and that went OK.
The problem is that, during POST, the video card is now reporting 16
MB of RAM instead of 32 MB, as the previous BIOS did. In the end I had
to re-flash the card with the original BIOS as the card was unusable
under Windows 98 SE.
Why is the amount of RAM being incorrectly reported? I'd love to be
able to get a newer BIOS working because, when loaded with
VGABIOS.EXE, I noticed some performance improvement.
Regards
Daniel Lam