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!
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Originally posted by honza.cermak
Hi,
thank for your solutions. I updated BIOS of my G4 MX460 with reference one and TV-out works even with Detonators 40.71.
But I have problem with playing video on TV. When I try to play DivX movie, then on monitor I can see picture of the movie but on TV I can see only window of player and in the place of picture is just black square. It happens with MediaPlayer 9, Win DVD 4.0 etc..
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I also had this problem with an ATI card that had tvout and dual head VGA outputs. I discovered rather quickly that I had to go into ATI's control panel and switch the roles of the monitor and tv. Windows allocates most system resources, including video support, to the primary display. DirectX, GL, etc. and so forth. I could not get DivX movies to play on both simultaneously, but I was able to get video playing on whichever one I was using by selecting either the tv or monitor to be the primary display. If I remember correctly, the G4MX460 also has this option in their control panel as well. hope that helps

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