how to flash your video card for mac pro

#HOW TO FLASH YOUR VIDEO CARD FOR MAC PRO HOW TO#
#HOW TO FLASH YOUR VIDEO CARD FOR MAC PRO WINDOWS#

A boot-able 3.5″ Floppy disk (you can acquire here).

Nvlfash or ATI Flash +BIOS burnt on the boot able CD/DVD disk, or on a separate CD/DVD disk.

This is not Recommended because you cannot back up the VGA’s BIOS.

A Boot-able CD/DVD disk with flashing utility and upgraded BIOS burnt to it, or two CD/DVD disks one for booting into DOS, the other with flashing utility and BIOS.

Not recommended but you can use this method

Lastly, you will need your BIOS/Firmware you are upgrading to.

Lastly, you will need your BIOS/Firmware you are upgrading too.

Nvlfash or ATI Flash (depends on your card you are flashing, I will do both manufacturers of video cards).

A good idea is to keep this flash drive below 8 Gig’s. This drive has to be formatted with a FAT 16/32 file system, otherwise DOS will not recognize it. No, you cannot use a Blue Ray drive and boot into DOS, been there tried that.

A CD/DVD drive (yes you can use a burner).

A DOS boot-able CD/DVD disk (You can get the images HERE or you can look HERE).

Recommended Items I will be using this step for this guide, as it is faster, easier ,and more reliable By having this “Back Up” video card will relieve us having to use the ancient floppy drive. It does not matter what manufacturer or if it’s a PCI-E or PCI. It is not required, but I seriously recommend a back up video card. A floppy drive (Ribbon type) hooked up and ready to go for just in case if all else fails. You can use just a USB flash drive, but that USB flash drive has to be able to boot into DOS mode, I found it easier just to use a boot-able CD/DVD, and use a USB flash drive, then it is trying to make a USB flash drive DOS boot-able.

#HOW TO FLASH YOUR VIDEO CARD FOR MAC PRO WINDOWS#

I like to use a USB flash drive that is formatted to a FAT 32 file system, and a Windows 98 DOS boot disk. We will be needing some items to ensure this flashing goes smooth as possible. Things We Will Needįirst things first, before any BIOS flashing takes place. What makes this type of flashing more nerve racking we do not know when to reboot the computer, because we cannot see anything hence why it is called “Blind Flashing.”, Does not assume for any responsibility for your actions when regarding flashing your video card. One of these ways is somewhat unorthodox this way is called “Blind Flashing” or what I like to call “A Wing and a Prayer Flashing”, because we have no idea if the flash took hold until we reboot the computer. On today’s computers, anything can happen to us during our most vulnerable time. Video cards we can recover if we used the wrong BIOS, if we had a power failure, to having catastrophic computer failure during the flashing process. Unlike motherboards when you have a failed flash this normally renders that motherboard dead, or bricked.

#HOW TO FLASH YOUR VIDEO CARD FOR MAC PRO HOW TO#

This guide is all about how to do that, and also recover from a bad video card flashing. I flash the video card(s) BIOS inside of DOS mode, and yes you can still load into a Windows 98/ME DOS mode on today’s current hardware. Another area I make sure that I don’t do is flash the video card with in the Window’s GUI. No matter what I was doing or what I was going to do to my video card BIOS, I always made a back up of the original BIOS from the video card itself before I made any attempt on modifying or flashing my video card with another video card BIOS. I have been using other manufacturer’s BIOS’, and then flash my video cards BIOS to get more overclockability. I have been tweaking the video cards BIOS for years now. It is not only us overclockers flashing our video card’s BIOS, this day and age just about everyone has, had to, or will need to flash the BIOS of their video card. We as overclockers been modifying the video card’s BIOS or using other modified BIOS’ for years now. this is for both manufacturers Nvidia and ATI.Įverything in our computer has some form of a BIOS/Firmware. A simple but effective guide on flashing your video card’s BIOS.

How to flash your video card for mac pro