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Title: How to update my voodoo5 bios?
Post by: skypoem on 16 August 2003, 23:01:22
voodoo5 pci with dvi£¬ now its bios is ver1.11

i want to update to bios1.18 with dvi enable.

when i used flash program, it can't identify my v5's eprom.

how can i do for it?
Title: How to update my voodoo5 bios?
Post by: ArchAngelCD on 17 August 2003, 04:25:31
If you are trying to flash your BIOS from a DOS window within WinXP, it won't work. You have to boot your PC from a boot disk and then flash the BIOS.
Title: How to update my voodoo5 bios?
Post by: skypoem on 17 August 2003, 06:00:11
I just do it in dos after reboot with a boot cd...

my maiboard is nforce2, perhaps...
Title: How to update my voodoo5 bios?
Post by: ROTOR on 17 August 2003, 14:40:04
if you have a little patience I say all the programs to you and what you must do for flash your BIOS.

and the steps one by one.
Title: How to update my voodoo5 bios?
Post by: skypoem on 17 August 2003, 17:23:22
thank you, rotor

can you tell me how to do?

i have the files, flash.exe,dos3gw.exe,pci-sd.rom, need more?
Title: How to update my voodoo5 bios?
Post by: ArchAngelCD on 18 August 2003, 00:05:42
You CAN NOT do the flash in a DOS window if you boot to WinXP. You will need to boot to DOS, Win95 or Win98. Ues a boot disk and then do the flash.
If you don't have a boot disk you can get and OS boot disk you want from here.
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

Good luck.
Title: How to update my voodoo5 bios?
Post by: skypoem on 18 August 2003, 07:58:21
i boot my pc with a boot disc...but it's not useful
Title: How to update my voodoo5 bios?
Post by: ArchAngelCD on 18 August 2003, 08:06:23
Where did you get your flash utility and BIOS file?
You might have an older flash utility.
To be sure, goto Stanto's site and get what you need there.
http://welcome.to/3dfxbios
Don't forget to read the FAQ section first because most questions are answered there.
Title: How to update my voodoo5 bios?
Post by: skypoem on 18 August 2003, 11:33:18
i juse got bios file from this web and flash my bios according the FAQ, and failed.
Title: How to update my voodoo5 bios?
Post by: Nightbird on 18 August 2003, 11:51:47
a question : your card, is it a Mac version ?


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Title: How to update my voodoo5 bios?
Post by: skypoem on 18 August 2003, 16:43:27
perhaps it's a mac version card, but it works well in windows xp.
and the version of bios is 1.11
Title: How to update my voodoo5 bios?
Post by: InSomNiaN on 20 August 2003, 09:36:19
"i want to update to bios1.18 with dvi enable"
Cannot do that. 1.18 bios is only for the AGP cards.

"when i used flash program, it can't identify my v5's eprom."
Most likely because u r using an AGP bios update on a pci card


AFAIK only the mac V5 had a DVI output......which u could do a bios flash to work on pc.

:)

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Title: How to update my voodoo5 bios?
Post by: skypoem on 20 August 2003, 17:43:30
the 1.18 bios with digital output can be used on pci card...

Title: How to update my voodoo5 bios?
Post by: ROTOR on 05 September 2003, 21:04:09
in the page http://welcome.to/3dfxbios it tell how to update your bios if you don´t undertand it.

1º you have a boot disk (Windows 98 SE).

2º you have a flash utility "dos4gw.exe" & the Bios file in other disk.

3º Reboot & insert the boot disk, choose" no cd compatibility" & wait to it finish

4º copy the flash utility & the bios file to Ramdisk,

5º execute the bios utility & flash your bios , wait about 20-30 seconts to finish.

6º reboot.

I believe that that is everything