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    Quick question´bout D900C SLI

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by tgass, Apr 2, 2010.

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    Quick question, but long explanation! :D

    Right guys, here is the problem, NP9260 SLI 7950GTX, almost 3 years old was running clean and beautifull till this damn week!

    Running windows 7, the damn OS stucks in the middle of internet surfing.
    I turned it of, went to take a nap, when i come back the mofo screen is all full of those artifacts. My first thought, damn video card got ed up, but i have the second one and i need just to find out which one is going to the trash can. After all the performance impact on my games aren´t going to be huge causa of this loss.

    Well after trying to swich them places, the PC wouldn´t boot, ok fine, but WTH?!?! Leave just one in the Slot A, it boots whit the artifacts on screen, good found the "bad" card. Put the "Good" one in the slot A no BOOT why the hell.

    I am stuck, can you guys gimme some light on this one? Why is the bios not recognizing it? is the "good" card actually the bad one or am i missing something here? :confused: :(
     
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    The card that won't boot in slot A, was it originally in the B slot?
     
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    Correct my friend
     
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    I believe its not booting because that cards vbios is flashed as a slave card. This usually results in the card only working when in the b slot and paired with a primary card.
     
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    Right, thought about something with the Card´s bios too, so i will need to boot with the 2 cards and flash the slave card right?
    I belive i can find the bios here rather ease, right?
    any other mods maybe that i can aply to improve the card a bit too?
    Maybe an improved bios version?


    Sorry, brazilian portuguese speaker here...
     
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    tgass, Apr 5, 2010
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    Eleison Thanatos Eleison

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    I know that Sager does not make the VBIOS public (they don't even give it to us to pass out - our technicians have to send customers directly to Sager). I assume this is a Sager-branded system, since you mentioned it being an NP9260. If your computer is a Sager-branded system, you can email [email protected] to request the VBIOS. If it is not Sager-branded, contact your reseller to see if they can requisition the VBIOS for you.
     
    Eleison, Apr 6, 2010
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    Thank you very much guys, problem solved! yayyyyy

    And as i expected not huge performance hit on the games i play!

    Now i may even try to buy a new video card like the 9800 would be great...
     
    tgass, Apr 7, 2010
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