GeniusInABottle
Limp Gawd
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- Jul 5, 2004
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Like everyone else with a 6800nu, after the results from RivaTuner came out I was a bit disappointed at the exceedingly low success rates of the 16 pipe mod. On top of that, Unwinder went on to say that he was 99.9% sure that no amout of BIOS flashing would fix the cards that were unmoddable, and I took his word as law.
Well, earlier this morning I stumble across this post over at guru3d:
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=107639
Reading through it, I was obviously very skeptical, but decided to go ahead and give it a shot. I downloaded the BIOS referanced in his post, flashed, and reinstalled the drivers. Fired up RivaTuner, fully expecting to be disappointed and it reported..
16x1, 5vp
Oh dear..
Still not believing my luck, I went ahead and ran the 3dMark03 Multi-Texture Fill Rate test.
Score Before Flash: 4112.1
Score After Flash: 5418.6
Again, to my surprise everything checked out. I now have 16 fully functional pipes on my ASUS V9999 GE 6800NU, and couldn't be happier.
Since I'm guessing I'll be getting a barrage of questions, heres the exact process I went through:
1. Read through the previously linked thread.
2. Downloaded the BIOS referanced in the thread. (GeForce 6800 Ultra 5.40.02.03.00 from www.NVPlanet.com)
3. Edited the BIOS (using OmniExtremeEditFX) to my stock V9999 clocks of 350mhz core / 500mhz memory, just in case.
4. Opened up a command line window. Yes, I flashed from windows.
5. Used NVFlash442 to flash the BIOS. (nvflash442 -p -u -2 biosname.rom)
6. Rebooted and reinstalled the videocard drivers (66.32, if it means anything)
7. Rebooted again, ran RivaTuner to check on pipe status. (report: 16x1, 5vp)
8. Ran the 3DMark03 Multi-Texture Fill Rate test. (showed an increased of greater than 1000 points, with absolutely no overclock)
9. Posted this post.
**UPDATE** It gets better, I just went into RivaTuner and gave unlocking my 6th Vertex Unit a shot and was successful. Apparently this BIOS lets everything physically on the chip work. I now have a fully functional 16x1,6vp NV40.
Well, earlier this morning I stumble across this post over at guru3d:
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=107639
Reading through it, I was obviously very skeptical, but decided to go ahead and give it a shot. I downloaded the BIOS referanced in his post, flashed, and reinstalled the drivers. Fired up RivaTuner, fully expecting to be disappointed and it reported..
16x1, 5vp
Oh dear..
Still not believing my luck, I went ahead and ran the 3dMark03 Multi-Texture Fill Rate test.
Score Before Flash: 4112.1
Score After Flash: 5418.6
Again, to my surprise everything checked out. I now have 16 fully functional pipes on my ASUS V9999 GE 6800NU, and couldn't be happier.
Since I'm guessing I'll be getting a barrage of questions, heres the exact process I went through:
1. Read through the previously linked thread.
2. Downloaded the BIOS referanced in the thread. (GeForce 6800 Ultra 5.40.02.03.00 from www.NVPlanet.com)
3. Edited the BIOS (using OmniExtremeEditFX) to my stock V9999 clocks of 350mhz core / 500mhz memory, just in case.
4. Opened up a command line window. Yes, I flashed from windows.
5. Used NVFlash442 to flash the BIOS. (nvflash442 -p -u -2 biosname.rom)
6. Rebooted and reinstalled the videocard drivers (66.32, if it means anything)
7. Rebooted again, ran RivaTuner to check on pipe status. (report: 16x1, 5vp)
8. Ran the 3DMark03 Multi-Texture Fill Rate test. (showed an increased of greater than 1000 points, with absolutely no overclock)
9. Posted this post.
**UPDATE** It gets better, I just went into RivaTuner and gave unlocking my 6th Vertex Unit a shot and was successful. Apparently this BIOS lets everything physically on the chip work. I now have a fully functional 16x1,6vp NV40.