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    Nvidia 9800m GTS Original Bios Needed

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by ryanreed1990, Jun 22, 2009.

  1. ryanreed1990

    ryanreed1990 Newbie

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    hello, a friend of mine gave me his gateway p-7805u because he flashed the graphic cards bios to an overclocked one and the graphics card has been buggy ever since, if anyone could link me or upload the original bios so i can reflash it i would greatly appreciate it.
     
    ryanreed1990, Jun 22, 2009
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  2. narsnail

    narsnail Notebook Prophet

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    cant be done, the BIOS is shadowed, everything is locked down so tight in these machines. There is no way you could even flash it in the first place. I had this problem with my desktop last week, it had crazy artifacts for a while and then i had to keep restarting until i got the "boot to last good know configuration" option while booting.

    I tried to flash the BIOS from an 8800m GTS to an 8800MGTX back when I had my 6860FX, same machines, different names.

    Is it buggy at start up or just when windows is at the desktop?
     
    narsnail, Jun 22, 2009
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    Why in the world would have have flash the VBIOS just to OC the card, instead of just use nvidia tool :eek:

    Unfortunately i dont have a 9800 BIOS to give you, but you might can convince someone with a 7805/7801/7808 to dump their VBIOS into a file for you. Though honestly not many people are willing to mess with their VBIOS (especially on a laptop with a soldered on GPU)
     
    Kamin_Majere, Jun 22, 2009
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    The problem is its not an MXM card, so there is no separate BIOS in which you can mess around with.

    Possibly flashing the Gateway system BIOS will solve your issues?

    HERE is the link for the BIOS, just re-flash it and it should effect the VBIOS as well
     
    narsnail, Jun 22, 2009
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    NARSNAIL!!!!
    lol been a while mate.

    Ok so it was it was due to the MXM connection that we couldnt flash to the 8800GTX? I had always thought it was because we couldnt find a non-MXM 8800GTX.

    Puts a new spin on the situation now that i realized ive been thinking about it backwards.
     
    Kamin_Majere, Jun 22, 2009
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    Haha yea it has been a long time since ive been here :)

    From what I remember I couldnt even touch the vBIOS cause it claimed it was shadowed every time I tried to flash it, which is the stupid Phoenix BIOS' doing.

    I think re-flashing the Gateway system BIOS will fix the problems though, I recall seeing the VGA adapter section when I had the Phoenix BIOS editor and was looking through the BIOS.
     
    narsnail, Jun 22, 2009
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  7. ryanreed1990

    ryanreed1990 Newbie

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    thank you for the info i have flashed the gateway bios and it seemed to have made it worse now, instead of it just being buggy when veiwing the desktop its now buggy from the boot screen any info or help trouble shooting this problem would be greatly appreciated
     
    ryanreed1990, Jun 22, 2009
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    TANWare Just This Side of Senile, I think. Super Moderator

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    Sorry but what do you mean about "Buggy"? Is it screen artifacts or?????
     
    TANWare, Jun 22, 2009
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  9. ryanreed1990

    ryanreed1990 Newbie

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    there are green pixels going diagonal across the screen, it only happens when running on external power not on battery
     
    ryanreed1990, Jun 22, 2009
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    wow that is weird....it does this all the time or only on the desktop?
     
    narsnail, Jun 23, 2009
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    it start after windows loads the desktop
     
    ryanreed1990, Jun 23, 2009
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    hmmm so weird.....try re-flashing to a different BIOS? check the gateway site, they should have at least one that is different from the one I gave you. If it doesnt work this time around im going to say return it?
     
    narsnail, Jun 23, 2009
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    i think i have found my problem i scanned my vram using burn in test and it seems i have corrupted vram is there any way to fix it without having to get a new motherboard?
     
    ryanreed1990, Jun 23, 2009
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    im afraid not, that should be a manufacturer defect or the like, and will be replaced for free, as long as they feel you have not tampered with it physically or anything.
     
    narsnail, Jun 23, 2009
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    ryanreed1990 Newbie

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    i contacted gateway and they said its a refurbished machine and gave me a number to call, so i called it and the guy said they have to replace my laptop so im mailing the old one to them tomorrow and i should have a new one in 2 weeks
     
    ryanreed1990, Jun 24, 2009
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  16. narsnail

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    Yea there is no way they can trace that you messed with the BIOS,well they can,but they wont, should be no troubles.
     
    narsnail, Jun 24, 2009
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    Im kind of dipping into the BIOS flashing but Ive got a question. If their isnt a separate BIOS for the GPU then why dose GPUZ let me dump the Bios?
     
    Infiniteone, Jul 1, 2009
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    Eh anyone know if you can flash your card to a 260m gtx?
     
    puterg33k, Jul 3, 2009
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    Im pretty sure you cannot, plus the clock speed is lower than that of the 9800M GTS so I would think it would only hurt your performance. The 260 is better because it physically has twice as many procs but lower clock speed.
     
    Infiniteone, Jul 3, 2009
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    just got my replace laptop today and so far seems to be perfect *knock on wood* man i love this thing
     
    ryanreed1990, Jul 21, 2009
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  21. narsnail

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    perfect, glad that it worked out trouble free.
     
    narsnail, Jul 21, 2009
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