Flashing Geforce2 GTS bios?

[JeffDogg1979]

I purchased a Powercolor 64mb Geforce GTS card about a month ago.

After some checking with powerstrip, I found that my core clocking on the card was at 200mhz, but my memory was clocked at 366mhz(33mhz above the default).

I have been having some difficulty playing games with my new athlon with this card in(Grim Fandango, Diablo2, Blood, Outlaws), they won't play for long before crashing or just rebooting the system, so someone suggested flashing the video card BIOS.

The BIOS for the video card is dated around mid-year 2000(I'm at work, don't have the exact date in front of me). Powercolor doesn't supply Bios images on their website, does Nvidia supply a generic BIOS image? Is this something I should do?

I have all the latest/appropriate drivers install for my mobo, vid card, all service packs are applied to win2k, DirectX is up-to-date, etc.

 

[Y23KC]

I've got a Visiontek geforce2 gts 32mb card that I flashed the bios on. If you do this, you can only use reference (beta) drivers which most people already do. I overclock mine to 235mhz/360mhz and everything runs fine. Any higher memory clock, and I get bad screen artifacts. I suggest you download the latest beta drivers (12.90 I believe) and use coolbits (an overclocking tool made for geforce cards. You can download it here.) Then I suggest you UNDERCLOCK it (I know this sounds stupid, but it will run more stable if that's what you are looking for.) If you want to flash the bios, you can download it here. You will need the latest bios, and under tools, you'll need nvflash and dos4gw. If you need help with flashing, you can go here. Hope this helps.