upgrade an FX5900 to a 5950

I have found a way of upgrading the BIOS of the geforce FX 5900 Ultra
(256mb) card to the 5950 Ultra. This is not supported and may not work with
your card, I have posted it here for referrence, please ensure you back up
your current BIOS before proceeding.

Firstly you have to have an MSDOS boot disk, pop on over to www.bootdisk.com
and snaffle their BIOS flashing disk.

Secondly you need to pay a visit to www.leadtek.com and download the BIOS
for the Geforce FX A380 / A360 series (filename = A380U BIOS.ZIP)

Once you have these 2 items, build the disk by running the utility then copy
over the BIOS flashing program to it.

Reboot your PC with the floppy in the drive. At the prompt, issue the
commands as follows:

WFFLASH.EXE -S --- IMPORTANT, backs up old BIOS
WFFLASH.EXE NM A380U~1.rom --- make sure filenames match, do a DIR if
unsure

wait until the prompt returns (in brown!) then reboot, you will get a
winfast VGA screen and Windows will redetect your card as a 5950!

NOTE - DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK, INFORMATION ONLY!!!!!!!

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"Mark Scott" wrote in message
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I have found a way of upgrading the BIOS of the geforce FX 5900 Ultra
(256mb) card to the 5950 Ultra. This is not supported and may not work
with
your card, I have posted it here for referrence, please ensure you back up
your current BIOS before proceeding.

Firstly you have to have an MSDOS boot disk, pop on over to
www.bootdisk.com
and snaffle their BIOS flashing disk.

Secondly you need to pay a visit to www.leadtek.com and download the BIOS
for the Geforce FX A380 / A360 series (filename = A380U BIOS.ZIP)

Once you have these 2 items, build the disk by running the utility then
copy
over the BIOS flashing program to it.

Reboot your PC with the floppy in the drive. At the prompt, issue the
commands as follows:

WFFLASH.EXE -S --- IMPORTANT, backs up old BIOS
WFFLASH.EXE NM A380U~1.rom --- make sure filenames match, do a DIR if
unsure

wait until the prompt returns (in brown!) then reboot, you will get a
winfast VGA screen and Windows will redetect your card as a 5950!

NOTE - DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK, INFORMATION ONLY!!!!!!!

awfully sorry, ng retention is crap on my ISP

"" wrote in message
...
The internet must be really slow at your location... Or maybe your clock
is
3-4 days off between... This is a few days old topic already overdisscused
in any 3d forum including this newsgroup...


"Mark Scott" wrote in message
...
I have found a way of upgrading the BIOS of the geforce FX 5900 Ultra
(256mb) card to the 5950 Ultra. This is not supported and may not work
with
your card, I have posted it here for referrence, please ensure you back
up
your current BIOS before proceeding.

Firstly you have to have an MSDOS boot disk, pop on over to
www.bootdisk.com
and snaffle their BIOS flashing disk.

Secondly you need to pay a visit to www.leadtek.com and download the
BIOS
for the Geforce FX A380 / A360 series (filename = A380U BIOS.ZIP)

Once you have these 2 items, build the disk by running the utility then
copy
over the BIOS flashing program to it.

Reboot your PC with the floppy in the drive. At the prompt, issue the
commands as follows:

WFFLASH.EXE -S --- IMPORTANT, backs up old BIOS
WFFLASH.EXE NM A380U~1.rom --- make sure filenames match, do a DIR if
unsure

wait until the prompt returns (in brown!) then reboot, you will get a
winfast VGA screen and Windows will redetect your card as a 5950!

NOTE - DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK, INFORMATION ONLY!!!!!!!

No problem PNY 5900U to Leadtek A380 success here
"Mark Scott" wrote in message
...
awfully sorry, ng retention is crap on my ISP

"" wrote in message
...
The internet must be really slow at your location... Or maybe your clock
is
3-4 days off between... This is a few days old topic already
overdisscused
in any 3d forum including this newsgroup...


"Mark Scott" wrote in message
...
I have found a way of upgrading the BIOS of the geforce FX 5900 Ultra
(256mb) card to the 5950 Ultra. This is not supported and may not work
with
your card, I have posted it here for referrence, please ensure you back
up
your current BIOS before proceeding.

Firstly you have to have an MSDOS boot disk, pop on over to
www.bootdisk.com
and snaffle their BIOS flashing disk.

Secondly you need to pay a visit to www.leadtek.com and download the
BIOS
for the Geforce FX A380 / A360 series (filename = A380U BIOS.ZIP)

Once you have these 2 items, build the disk by running the utility then
copy
over the BIOS flashing program to it.

Reboot your PC with the floppy in the drive. At the prompt, issue the
commands as follows:

WFFLASH.EXE -S --- IMPORTANT, backs up old BIOS
WFFLASH.EXE NM A380U~1.rom --- make sure filenames match, do a DIR if
unsure

wait until the prompt returns (in brown!) then reboot, you will get a
winfast VGA screen and Windows will redetect your card as a 5950!

NOTE - DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK, INFORMATION ONLY!!!!!!!