Old Ti4200 Where can I find firmwares?

[jodhas]

I have a Ti4200 that is very picky on which motherboard it likes to work with.

The current BIOS is from 2002 and I'm looking to see if a new firmware will do the trick.

Can someone point me toward a website where I can download video card firmwares?
Also, I ran Sisoft Sandra and I couldn't find out the manufacturer of the video card. Can someone direct me as to how I can find out the manufacturer of the video card? (I typed in all the partnumbers and pcb numbers on google and couldn't find any match)

Thanks.

 

[MichaelD]

Judging by your sig, you're a person who has a decent grasp of performance/enthusiast computing...you know what you're doing.

So...you've got an old AGP video card...and a mid-level one at that...and that card has seen better days and you want to flash the bios in hopes of using it in another system.

I'd bet the reason it's "flaky" is that the thermal paste b/t the GPU and the HS has dried up. Remove the HS and clean off the old paste with rubbing alcohol. Apply some new paste (preferably AS5 but anything new will do) and re-attach the HS. I'll bet it's much better after this operation.

On the odd chance it's not...throw the damn thing away, please.

 

[Foxery]

I don't think software can tell you the manufacturer, other than by snooping in the existing BIOS to see if that particular vendor wrote their own. And even that's unlikely. Isn't there a logo on the side of the card?

I don't see any section on nVidia's web site for BIOSes. Even still, I'm not sure what you mean by "picky about motherboards," but a BIOS flash is unlikely to help anyway... If you need this computer to have an appropriate video card, you can pick up a GeForce 5 or 6 series card for $50 and be done with it.

 

[kmmatney]

Here is something you can try to get the manufacturer. When your computer first boots up, there is a list of devices that goes across the screen. Each device has an 8 digit code, which will identify the manufacturer. No idea where to get frimware for cards that old - it sounds like the card is defective.

 

[Lorne]

Nvidia does have the drivers for that card on there website, You have to dig for them of course, But you can also try 3DGuru, They have a list of the best working ones for older gfx cards.