vga bios flash need help bad

[formatking]

i tried to flash my gainward geforce4 ti4200 today with the latest vga bios . i did it the way gainward explained and somehow all went wrong .when i flashed it mayed the ten beeps and had erased the eeprom and then it just hung there . i could not doing anything it was frozen no keyboard use at all. i had to shut it down cause nothing seemed to help .now i just get a black screen the pc can start up but the card is not working now.
does anyone know how to come back from this black screen of death.?
i need help bad.

 

[Nights_L]

oh man, this is bad
I don't really know how to help, but I heard some people told me that you will need a PCI video card with you, and start computer with it, then re-flash your Ti4200 again with that card, I don't really know the detail, but you will need a PCI card for sure, that's all I can help for now, some experts here will help you much more than I do, prepare a pen and to copy them down~

 

[GeneticWeapon]

The first thing I'm gunna ask you is...did you back up your old bios....your probably going to say NO...also, I've flashed a few video bios's(my own two days ago) and NEVER had/seen/heard of the keyboard locking up...I mean, your in dos...how can that happen?....you did flash in dos didnt you?. I think you used the wrong .bin file. If your card was an ATi card I could help you alot more...your deffinately gunna need a pci video card to get out of this mess. Even if you have to buy a cheapo one and return it.
Anyone reading this, please listen....if you mis-type ANYTHING during a video card bios flash, your going to have major headaches...
If your going to flash a Radeon card, download the latest version of ATiflash, download the .bin file you need(bios)
format a floppy and tick the tab that says copy system files.
Once you have a bootable floppy, copy the ATiflash.exe program to it, then copy your particular .bin file to it.
Set your system bios to boot from floppy.....restart..
After reboot, you'll be in dos-world...
Type= "atiflash -s 0 originalBIOS.bin" and press enter..
That will dump your old bios and save it to the floppy.
To flash to the new bios...type
"atiflash -f -p 0 biosname.bin" press enter and reboot
your done..save the floppy somewhere safe because it contains your original bios.

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[formatking]

i didnt back it up and i wish i would have left it alone,but that was then and this is now.i do have a few old pci cards.how do i go about reflashing using a pci card? i would need to know what to type when i get back in to the nvflash program. hope you guys can help me.

 

[formatking]

i installed the pci video card and now can see in the dos mode. i tried to flash from here with the pci card installed. this is what the command line looks like
A:\>nvflash -f gftiaa00.rom -u
nvidia flash rom utility
version 4.15
chip namen=nv25 (253h), vendor id=10de, deviceid=0253
opened g4tiaa00.rom successfully.
checking supported eeprom...
eeprom man,id,decode (9d,1b) : pmc 39lv512 3.0-3.6 64kx8, byte
rom file and chip pci vendor , device ids match.
Warning: romfile subsytem id (1219), doesnt match
chip pci subsystem id (ffff)
display will go blank for about ten seconds durning software eeprom erase.
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and then that cursor just blinks and nothing happens. any idea what to do now?

 

[formatking]

does anyone out there know how to fix a bad vga flash?

 

[JimmyDean]

From what that thing is saying it looks like the bios that you got is bad, try to get a new one then reflash using pci card

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[formatking]

i have the newest and the only one i could get from gainwards website. how do you get the pci card to flash the agp? is there anything special i have to type in the dos prompt?

 

[Nights_L]

ok, I don't know exactly how to do, but that's what I think you can do, keep it in mind and see how people would reply before doing so
I used an ATI's card, so I use ATI flash
usually, when I need to type in Dos, this is last command I typed: "atiflash -p 0 new_bios.rom r"
new_bios.rom is the rom I'm flashing to it, and r is for restart computer immediatly after flashing
the 0 there stands for "Device 0" I believe, the primary VGA adapter of computer
when you use a PCI's card to flash a second card (AGP card), I believe it's "1" instead of "0"
so it would be "atiflash -p 1 new_bios.rom r"
that's how I will try, but I'm not sure if it's right or wrong..

 

[formatking]

*bump*

has anyone ever come across this problem, and fix it?
i know there has to be a way to get this working..