How do I flash the bios on my video card?

[IWillRule]

I have Nvidia TNT2 M64, how do upgrade my bios?

 

[MGMorden]

You could go to the website of the manufacturer and get a flash program from there. Or you could go to zoiah.m3dzone.com and look at the stuff they have there. They've got very detailed instructions. Good luck. Of course you might not necessarily need a new bios. It usually doesn't change a whole heck of a lot of things and if you mess the card up doing the flash it can be a real pain to get it straight again (although it is a lot easier to fix a bad vcard flash than a bad mobo flash).

 

[holdencommodore]

Be VERY careful. I lost my Intel 740 by doing a BIOS flash - we has a blackout (I know that it is hard to believe)...
He, he, he, at least now I've got a VideoExcel TNT2 M64 now!!
PS..
How do you recover the card from a bad BIOS flash??

 

[MGMorden]

To recover you can put in an old PCI video card, take out the AGP, set the motherboard bios to boot PCI video first, and then put the AGP card back in (leave PCI in as well). boot up the computer to a dos prompt. Since you set the mb bios to boot from the pci card you will get output from that card with the agp card still in the system. You then get a good working video card bios for the agp card and flash it. Flash programs detect the proper card to flash so you can usually flash a good bios back to the agp card and fix it.