Bios flashing killed my FX5900U, any hope?

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

I tried flashing my PNY FX5900U, now its dead. I tried to re-flash it in another PC and booted the PC off the integrated video. NVflash said a display card wasn't present and wasn't able to try.

Have I just thrown my money away, is there any hope to recover this very decent card? I just bought the god damn thing....

 

[MustISO]

Have you tried to flash it back to the original BIOS?

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

"I tried to re-flash it in another PC and booted the PC off the integrated video. NVflash said a display card wasn't present and wasn't able to try."

It doesn't initialize, so i'm not aware* of any means of flashing the drive with a secondary display card because it seems NVflash will only look at the primary adapter.

 

[THUGSROOK]

do a blind flash in its original system.

putting the commands in a autoexec.bat will be very helpful

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

i don't have a floppy drive in this computer,i guess i better dust one off. unless someone has the link to a win98 boot disk in zip form so i can copy and paste the files onto my USB thumb drive?

 

[Creig]

If you still have step-by-step directions on how to flash your card, you could try reflashing blind. Just put your bootable floppy back in, boot the sytem and let it go until the floppy activity light shows that the drive has stopped loading. Then SLOWLY follow the step-by-step directions allowing plenty of time between each step to make sure it has completed the previous instructions. Once you're done, reboot the system. And cross your fingers.

I would make a NEW flash floppy on your spare system using a different floppy and downloading a new copy of the BIOS (double checking that it's the correct one for your card) just to be sure it wasn't a bad sector on the floppy.


edit - oops! You posted the critical "I have no floppy drive" info while I was typing. I would just hook one up temporarily. It would be the easiest option.

 

[cbehnken]

Yes, I am very tired of Windows not included a utility to create a CD boot disk easily. I know ALOT of people who either don't have floppy drivers or yanked them and threw them away. There are junk, even back when it was all we had.

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

well, my PC won't boot at all when this cards in it...

am i sh*t out of luck?

 

[Rankor]

if you have a pci video card (big IF), you can set the bios to initial display off the PCI and flash the card that way.

PCI card as initial display while AGP card installed. nVFlash should detect both video cards and will prompt w/c one to choose: (0) AGP card or (1) PCI card. Select 0 and it should flash the agp card.

Good luck.

 

[Jeff7]

Do nvflash /? to get a list of all the command switches. Maybe there's something there that'll allow you to force it to flash a certain card.

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

"if you have a pci video card (big IF), you can set the bios to initial display off the PCI and flash the card that way."

i tried this, when the cards in my main rig the computer won't boot at all. i also tried the card in my XPC with the onboard video. it would boot but nvflash wouldn't see it


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[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: AWhackWhiteBoy
"if you have a pci video card (big IF), you can set the bios to initial display off the PCI and flash the card that way."

i tried this, when the cards in my main rig the computer won't boot at all. i also tried the card in my XPC with the onboard video. it would boot but nvflash wouldn't see it


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Onboard video usually shares the AGP bus, not the PCI bus. So if your computer supports busmastering, whenever a AGP video card is placed in the AGP slot, it automatically disables the onboard AGP video. Not all computers do this, but it should be given thought.

 

[ZanatosFox]

Bump for ya

 

[nick1985]

yet another dead video card do to flashing...