I was messing with the BIOS. I know, it's a no no but I was trying to enable Side Band Addressing using Ray Adams nvidia bios editor. The program works great except SBA is somehow tied to fastwrites. If you don't mess with SBA it's a great little program. When I enabled SBA and found it unstable, I reloaded my original bios that I saved but fastwrites are now gone. I probably didn't save it the right way. The system tells me FW's are no longer supported by the video card hardware which is bull because they were. Even swaped cards between machines and it's definately the card.
If anybody out there owns a PNY GF3 Ti200 could you please download these two programs and send me an untaited copy of the PNY Ti200 bios at maap@erols.com. This will in NO WAY affect your bios. It just mirrors it.
This is the best way and the way I should have backed mine up in the first place is;
Get a copy of NVFLASH.EXE :
link :
http://www.x-bios.3dgames.ru/module...ame=nvflash.zip
and a copy of DOS4GW.exe
link:
http://www.x-bios.3dgames.ru/module...name=dos4gw.zip
Run then from the same directory in in pure dos mode like this (-b is for backup):
dos4gw nvflash -b<filename> i.e. dos4gw nvflash -bpnyti200.rom or what ever you want to call it.
I know there are some PNY GF3 Ti200 owners out there, could you please lend this bonehead a hand. I've learned my lesson. Thanks.........
Oh and for those of you that don't think Fast Writes do anything, my 3dmark 2001 scores dropped from 7860 to 6430 just by having fast writes disabled so tell me it doesn't make a difference.
If anybody out there owns a PNY GF3 Ti200 could you please download these two programs and send me an untaited copy of the PNY Ti200 bios at maap@erols.com. This will in NO WAY affect your bios. It just mirrors it.
This is the best way and the way I should have backed mine up in the first place is;
Get a copy of NVFLASH.EXE :
link :
http://www.x-bios.3dgames.ru/module...ame=nvflash.zip
and a copy of DOS4GW.exe
link:
http://www.x-bios.3dgames.ru/module...name=dos4gw.zip
Run then from the same directory in in pure dos mode like this (-b is for backup):
dos4gw nvflash -b<filename> i.e. dos4gw nvflash -bpnyti200.rom or what ever you want to call it.
I know there are some PNY GF3 Ti200 owners out there, could you please lend this bonehead a hand. I've learned my lesson. Thanks.........
Oh and for those of you that don't think Fast Writes do anything, my 3dmark 2001 scores dropped from 7860 to 6430 just by having fast writes disabled so tell me it doesn't make a difference.