Problem Updating my VGA BIOS

Hello.
I am having a problem updating my VGA Bios. I can download it, buyt when I go to install it, I get an error and it tries to send to Microsoft. It has something to do with the VGA Bios Flasher.
I have a GeForce FX 5900 TD-128. It shows the bios there, but has a problem installing the new version of the bios. I am not sure why.
Is there any reason why this is happening?

I am surprised there is even a BIOS revision for that card.
Generally there is no reason to update the VGA BIOS unless you have an exact reason to do so. If there is no documentation to support this from the vendor then I woould not touch it with a ten foot pole.
I have explained this in several posts already, if you'd like to search for it.
Perhaps it's a good reason that it won't work!
don't be the guinea pig

Similar Messages

MS-6215 Video Standby problem - need new VGA BIOS

MSI Tech Support please respond to this----
I have issues with the Video on the MS-6215 (MS-6351) board. I originally had a version 1 PCB that had numerous stability issues, BUT it worked just fine when connect to the Composite Video Out only and NOT the VGA out. In other words, I had it connected to a TV for a HTPC-type setup. But, they finally fixed some of the issues and I updated the BIOS, well, with that BIOS they included a new Intel i815 VGA BIOS. It only now occurs to me that is important. Well, So now I can turn the computer on and use it on the TV, but once I have it go to standby (any form S1, S3, etc), the video will not return on wake up and the system is completely unresponsive.
MSI graciously *after 5 months of fighting to hear back from them* RMA'd the board and provided me with a Ver 5 PCB. Still the same Video problem. THe latest BIOS still includes a VERY old, and perhaps very buggy VGA BIOS.
There is a much more recent (and have been SEVERAL since the one included in your downloadable mobo BIOS) of the VGA BIOS available at intel's website.
I am convinced that it is simply the VGA BIOS that needs to be updated. COULD YOU PLEASE Integrate Intel's newest 815 VGA BIOS into an update so that the system is usable. Its a pain to have to leave it on 24x7. when I only really need it to wake up when I need files off it or want to use the HTPC functions.
The latest version intel has is 2682 dated 7/18/2002
The version you included is 2462. mobo bios dated 10/23/2001
link to Intel's version - http://ftp://aiedownload.intel.com/df-support/4657/a08/win2k_xp67.zip
it is found in the vbios folder.
THANK YOU!!!
JIm Depew
jdepew [at] bigfoot.com

Thank you wonkanoby - maybe this will finally clear up the issue. I can't imagine it is all that hard to integrate the new Video BIOS and up the version number to 2.1
Please, someone in MSI's BIOS building dept, take 15 minutes out and fix a very blatant problem - it will make me and perhaps many other users VERY HAPPY!

Problem updating 845PE Max BIOS

I could not update bios from 3.30 to 3.40
During programming flash, it stops in the middle of progressive bar and shows programming
error message.
Do you know why? ;(

flash protection on in bios
ntfs on drive
http://www.msi.com.tw/html/support/bios/note/ntfs.htm

VGA Bios update problem

I keep getting the error "Can not find the VGA BIOS State." when ever I try to update the bios. I can't find any information about it anywhere either.

Do not try to update your VGA BIOS, it is not like a motherboard. Live Update has been known to render cards useless. Consider yourself lucky, you may have had a brush with death.
Take a look or do a search of this forum and you will see what I mean.

Failed vga bios update

I used the liveupdate 3 to update my vga bios and when it rebooted the computer the videocard wont work now. I flipped the twinbios to the safe mode but nothing happened. When i put my old card in it works fine. Any suggestions?

Nope, I don't think so, not on the Dongle unless MSI is doing something I do not know about.
The Jumper is located on the card itself, please refer to the manual for the location.
If you have flashed the wrong BIOS:
The MSI cards have a dual bios feature.
Move the jumper to 2'nd position (there is only one jumper on the cards).
Boot with the secondary bios
Move jumper back while system is up and running
Use live update again (the backup bios is not being overwritten since you moved the jumper back).

What's with updating VGA bios? Is this necessary if your hardware is fine?

How much improvement does it do really? Does it make the images look better? Does the fps improve fignificantly, if at all? Does it make the card cooler? Some treat it like a wonder cure. Is it?

VGA BIOS update is only issued to address a particular issue, you should only update it if absolutely necessary!!
Updating your VGA BIOS won't make your card faster, run cooler, or make images look better. But if it goes wrong, it will make your card dead!

MSI Geforce 4 TI4400 and Update VGA BIOS

Hi all !
My Home PC is offline (no netcard, no modem)
How can I update the VGA BIOS for MSI Geforce 4 TI400-VTD (8871) ???
Can someone send me link ???
Thanks
Regards
Peter

Read this:
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/e_service/forum/viewindex.php?threadid=4399&boardid=9&styleid=1
Don't do it!.

VGA Bios questions...

My VGA card is MSI FX5600-TD256.
Here are my questions:
1)Which is the latest Bios version for my card? My current version is 4.31.20.39.00. Is there a newer one? Searching through the web I found another version including this text in the read me file:
Quote
MSI GeForce FX BIOS
Name : GeForce FX 5600 BIOS
Version : 4.31.20.69.00 Ultra : No
2)Is it worth updating the bios? (I have restart problems probably caused by graphics card...)
3)Which is the proccess I have to follow to update it? (Just copy the .rom file in a disk and boot from that disk??)
4)Why in MSI site there are no VGA Bios files?
5)How do I back up my current VGA bios version?
Thanks in advance...

If MSI live Update finds no BIOS upgrade then there is no BIOS upgrade available. Even if there is one available, I don't recommend updating VGA BIOS unless there is a known documented issue relating to your problem. As far as I know there is no issue currently. I have not come across this issue in these forums either.
I don't have any answers to your restart problem since you did not provide any details of this restart problem. I cannot guarantee I would even if you did, but do so anyway.
I never update VGA BIOS's so I can't help you on backing up your current VGA BIOS. Someone else will have to step in for that.
The MSI site doesn't archive VGA BIOS files for the public. MSI only updates the original VGA BIOS from nVidia in circumstances such as when they decide to use a different RAM package than specified from nVidia spec. Oftentimes I see users reporting that MSI Live Update hosed their VGA BIOS after an update and in a few circumstances I have been able to request the original BIOS file.
Again, it's not worth updating the VGA BIOS as they get it right the first time and they hardly ever deviate from the original nVidia BIOS unless a certain RAM package is used for say an OEM version of the card or a performance version where they may use a faster package etc.
I recommend looking elsewhere for your restart problem.

Where is the Vga bios?

I have MSI Ti4200 8X 128 Mb. VTP (MS-8889)
Where is the Vga bios for this card? (Original or updated)

Sorry for my English.
I haven't any problem whit this card. And I don't need upgrade the bios.
But I want to seen in "Archives" if this product is not very unusual. This is a support.
I take my answer.
Thanks a lot.
Quote
Originally posted by maesus
Hi,
It is not very unusual this product does not appear in MSI main website. Have you tried other country's MSI websites?
The difference between this and other Ti4200-8x is it has dual VGA output compare to others' VGA + DVI.
Have you tried Live-Update?
May I know why do you need the VGA BIOS? Is the card flawed? Is the RAM on the card running slower? Is there any artifacts? If you don't have this problem, you don't need to update any VGA BIOS.

K8MM-V 7142 updated vga bios

i have a couple of system using k8mm-v board which has VIA/S3 UnichromePro IGP, recently we have upgraded most monitor to 17"/19" Wide screeen LCD, here the problem come, the onboard vga bios does not support those wxga resolution like 1440x900 or 1650x1024, google around found this is related to vga bios issue, not driver. i have updated those system to ver 1A bios, vga bios seems remain the unchanged. is there any service/beta bios available to fix this problem? tq.

these are only low end sempron powered (tats the whole point for all-in-one board) office station which only do basic office documents/spreadsheets work & internet browsing, nothing more nothing less. pretty no point buying new display card for this. even a 5 years old 845g onboard display driving the wide screen lcd without any problem (their vga bios updated with driver though).

VGA BIOS UPDATE

I have a MS-8866 Geforce4 mx 440 card. I am wondering if there is a vga bios update available. I still have the one comes with the card(I think 07.00T)

I recently used the live update software that came with my card and it said i could use a new VGA bios. Cautiously i continued by the letter and now I have a computer with a G4MX440SE-T that doesn't work. If any one out there knows a fix I'll will forever be grateful!
Asus A7N8X Del
AMD 1800+
MSI G4MX440SE-T
Corsair 2x256

Where is msi vga bios update for GF4 Ti cards?

It seems like many other card vendors are updating the bios on their GF4 cards for better performance. My friend got a nice performance boost on his winfast from a bios update. Everytime I search on MSI Live Update (I have to update Live Update...whats up with so many versions of a simple download utility) it says there are no vga bios updates for my GF4/4400. I read on these forums that .25 (I think) was a disaster and trashed everybodys cards. Is there news on an improved update?

Msi are going to be last, and then if they release new bios for G4Ti cards.
Don´t you now they suck, I would sell my card right now if I could.
I'm using Asus DVCR for TV because Wincoder with my version did not support full screen window.
I got fantastic stupid tips from MSI support, because my MSI-CLOCK and 3D!Turbo don't work. And it still not work with XP.
If I had 1$ for hour that i had spent to this card trying to let work right. I could get better card from other vendor. I will never get anything with MSI stamp. I'ts better to spent more money and save time for better thinks.
Regards
Finnbogi

VGA bios - Geforce 4 MX 460 VTP

Hi
How download the VGA Bios for my Geforce 4 MX 460 VTP ???
thanks

you have to use Live Update to search any BIOS image. However, i dont recommend you to do this because Live update is known to make die video boards. If you have any problem related to BIOS, it is better to keep dealing with those problems instead of getting a death video card. Anyway if you really want to flash the BIOS, first look for a green jumper on the card. It is the TwinBIOS function, to recover original BIOS without losing the video card. If you dont have this jumper, then i STRONGLY recommend not to flash your video card BIOS!
AMD AthlonXP 2000+
ASUS A7A266 1012 BIOS AGP 4X
8907-TD128 FX 5200 2d=200 MHz 3D=290 MHz, memory 525 MHz
256 MB DDR SDRAM PC2700U Elixir CAS 2
300 W PSU (no problems!)
Windows 2k & XP
6630 3Dmarks 2001
1438 3Dmarks 2003 (without Futuremark patch)

Looking for VGA BIOS [8800GT-T2D512E-OC]

I am looking for latest VGA BIOS for MSI 8800GT-T2D512E-OC since this card is not detected by my Motherboard and MSI Live Update BSODs on launch using my friends system.

Quote from: Stu on 30-December-07, 20:53:31
decalpha,
Did you phone, email, or use the online support request form? (http://support.msi.com.tw)
Don't forget, it is holiday period, so reply might take a while longer.
For support requests submitted at the link above, you have to go back to that page to see any response
Support request was logged online @ (http://support.msi.com.tw) on 4th of December stating this problem.
In the mean time I had to flash my Motherboard BIOS as requested by support among other things.
And last week I was asked to flash the VGA BIOS which requires a different system. But, MSI LIVE update would BSOD on launch.
Anyway, as you said the delay in reply may be due to holiday season. Guess, will have to wait for some more time.
Hopefully I wouldn't have to return the card.

Downloadable VGA Bios?

I cannot use LiveUpdate to update the bios of my graphics card as I don't have internet access at my home.
Is there any downloadable version of VGA Bios for MSI graphics card?
I'm using Geforce4 MX440 SE ( MS-8878 )
TQ!

Actually I have problem turning on SBA and Fastwrite. I'm using K7T Turbo2(MS-6330 Ver5.0) motherboard.
When I run some benchmarking program (eg. 3D Mark 2001), the status of sideband addressing (SBA) and fastwrite (FW) of both the card and motherboard are shown as follow:
Graphics Card:
SBA: not supported
FW: supported but not enabled
Motherboard:
SBA: supported but not enabled
FW: not supported
I tried very hard to force the SBA features using variety of software (Rivatuner, PowerStrip), but all failed.
Is it possible to force on either (or both) features? I heard that there are ways to force the features in low-level.
Helps & Advices pls!
TQ!

Problem Updating my VGA BIOS

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for