What's an 'Engineering Release\" VGA Bios??

Hi there,
i've just built a system with a K7N2G-ILSR. The first system message after POST is 'CR17VGA BIOS-Engineering Release-Not for Production Use'
Is this a board for beta testers?
Can I flash the VGA Bios with a newer version?

Fill out an online technical support form at:
http://www.msicomputer.com/msiforms/c_problem_desc_form3.asp.
Explain that you have a reference BIOS, and that you need to upgrade to the latest revision. I did this for my 6200 that had the same problem; within one business day, MSI emailed me a new BIOS.
Good luck!

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VGA Bios states "Engineering Release"

Hi Folks,
I recently installed the K7N2G-LISR MB for a family member. After delivery I noticed the message in the VGA Bios of "Engineering Sample, not for production use" in the POST. Now, before I get my shorts in a twist, is this refering to the MB or can this be resolved by updating the BIOS? I got the board from a local shop with a good history. Any thoughts?
Thanks!

Fill out an online technical support form at:
http://www.msicomputer.com/msiforms/c_problem_desc_form3.asp.
Explain that you have a reference BIOS, and that you need to upgrade to the latest revision. I did this for my 6200 that had the same problem; within one business day, MSI emailed me a new BIOS. For those of you that have the MSI NX6200AX 128, you can download the BIOS they sent me from my website:
[Deleted]
[Edited since you are spaming and we do not know if this file is legit. - Richard]

T520 - video bios posts as "engineering release"

I set my T520 to "discrete only" graphics and the video bios now posts before the system bios. But it says "Engineering Release - Not For Production use". This video bios (75.19.53.00.00) sounds more like a pre-production beta than what I'd expect in a business laptop.
Lenovo - is there a version of the video bios that isn't a beta?
Link to image
Moderator note: image larger than 50k converted to link per forum rules: Lenovo Community Participation Rules

Thanks for highlighting this. Will bring it up to engineering for their assistance.
*Non Lenovo employee*
I have a Y2P (i5) ... Feel free to ping me if you want me to test some applications with your Y2P if you have the same model. I don't mind keep doing recovery on it if needed .... =)

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!

[NX6200AX-TD128] Firmware: engineering release not for production use

Hi,
i just got my MSI NX6200AX-TD128 (602-V011-010) card
B0505000867
and it shows this bootup firmware info:
BIOS 5.44.A2.02.00 engineering release not for production use
Why is MSI selling these cards with a firmware like this?
Why there is no updated firmware for download?
(searched here: http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/download/dld/spt_dld_detail.php?UID=679&kind=2 )
Where can i download a retail fw?
TIA
TIA

Quote from: fabianzd on 07-August-05, 20:58:50
This is a user to user forum and MSI does not read or participate in these forums.
You need to contact MSI directly to get answers about this BIOS...
I see... thank you.
Quote from: fabianzd on 07-August-05, 20:58:50
But... why overclock a 6200 video card??? I really doubt that you get a better performance in games or 3D app's with this video card.
Quote from: Richard on 07-August-05, 22:20:30
Trying to overclock a 6200 is like trying to Supe up a Yugo. What is the point, there is nothing you could do to it, to make it play today's games.
Take Care,
Richard
here are some articles about overclocking the 6200:
6200 (NV43):
http://www.digital-daily.com/video/peredelki/
A6200 (NV44A):
http://www.digital-daily.com/video/nv-gf6200agp-roundup/
too bad that i found these articles after i spent my money.
next time i'll do some research before buying and not after... :P
later.

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

Trying coreboot...vga bios issue

hi. I'm giving coreboot a try, but i've found a couple of problems.
Now, the documentation says if i dont have an external VGA adapter (PCI, AGP, PCIe), i need to add the VGA BIOS.
this is the page with the procedures: http://www.coreboot.org/VGA_support
My MoBo is the Gigabyte GA-MA785GMT-UD2H (Award BIOS), which has an on-board VGA. So i guess that means i have to add the bios.
first theres is the option of specify directly the path, filename, vendor_id and device_id. but i dont have the faintest idea about what path and filename are.
The first method to get it is a program called bios_extract, which i've compiled and run (according to the doc, ./bios_extract hdmag217.rom), without any success, it does not find the file hdmag217.rom
I tried too a former software called awardeco, but it says it doesnt find via.rom
Another method is a direct copy of the bios via dd. So i guess bios ROM it's supposed to be mapped into RAM.
In order to know the sizer of the rom i need to check /proc/iomem and look for ROM. Well it doesnt appear ROM anywhere.
The VGA on-board is an ATI HD4200. Is it possible it is taken as a pci card although is built on the mobo?
I dont wanna flash the bios without having everything clear, so i wanted to make sure first.
cheers.
Last edited by Viper_Scull (2011-03-23 18:48:08)

You need to do this after restoring your BIOS:
# cat /proc/iomem | grep 'Video ROM' | (read m; m=${m/ :*}; s=${m/-*}; e=${m/*-}; \
dd if=/dev/mem of=vgabios.bin bs=1c skip=$[0x$s] count=$[$[0x$e]-$[0x$s]+1])
(That is one line, copy and paste the whole thing). Credit: coreboot wiki

KT6 Delta (MS-6590 V2) hangs @ Testing VGA BIOS

Hiya,
My sons machine has been running extremely well for about 4 months or so but started playing up a couple of days ago - to put it simply, the display would corrupt, produce a chequerboarding (usually pink and green) effect and occasionally blank out altogether :(
Eventually, the machine refused to start at all - I checked the D-Bracket and it showed that the machine was hanging at the Testing VGA BIOS stage.
We replaced the motherboard and the machine is now fine. My question is simple really - the components that were used with the MSI board are now in use with the replacement board so that shows that they are OK so, what could cause the MSI board to hang at this stage ? Is it the board thats faulty ? It`s only about 5 months old and has performed flawlessly until now.
TIA

As promised - here is the hardware list
2.20 gigahertz AMD Athlon XP
Board: http://www.abit.com.tw/ AN7
AOPEN CD-ROM drive
TDK CD-ROM drive
3.5" Floppy drive
Maxtor Hard drive 81.96 GB
WDC Hard drive 40.02 GB
1024 Megabytes Installed Memory
Standard floppy disk controller
NVIDIA NForce MCP2 IDE Controller
Primary IDE Channel [Controller]
Secondary IDE Channel [Controller]
RADEON 9800 PRO [Display adapter]
RADEON 9800 PRO - Secondary [Display adapter]
Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller
Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller
NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) Audio
NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) Audio Codec Interface
NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) MCP Audio Processing Unit (Dolby(R) Digital)
1394 Net Adapter
NETGEAR MA101 USB Adapter
NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Controller
OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
PS/2 Compatible Mouse
USB Root Hub
USB Root Hub

Computer Freezes when testing VGA Bios

I have a K8T Neo-FIS2R, AMD 64 3200, 1GB Kingmax ram, PNY GF4 Ti 4200, WinXP SP1.
One day I left my computer on for ten hours, when I came back the computer was was still on but nothing was working, I restarted the computer and it stopped at "testing VGA Bios" and didn't continue. I had problems with my power supply when I first built my computer, so I got a Enermax 460W (yes I plugged in the 12V too). That didn't work. I was wondering if there was something wrong with my motherboard and/or my videocard.
I hate Tech support.

Test with another videocard...see what happens....

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.

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.

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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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)

List of VGA bios'

Im looking for a list of downloadable vga bios' (particularly for my 8850). the live update cant get a list of available bios' from the server. ive searched the site and i cant find it. i found a reference to this in an earlier post, but i want to see a list of all available bios'

Thoroughly, and testing worked only on the listed values. I tried vbetest -m 357 with no success. And I remembered to add 512 before typing the value in the command line.
I consider it strange, because, fbset makes it just work, but a bit late, and in effect during the bootup the screen first changes resolution to 1024x768, then, after running fbset, to 1440x900

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!

What's an 'Engineering Release\" VGA Bios??

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