Sorry. Does this mean the card doesn't have a BIOS chip, or doesn't have a BIOS installed on the chip? I assume the former (no chip at all) can't be flashed and the latter, with chip, CAN be flashed, correct? How does one tell from an eBay listing whether an HP card has a BIOS chip or not?
There are a few recent HP cards coming without a chip. Take a look at the first post, we have seen WX4170 w/o chips. Normally the cards have a chip (because they are identical to the DELL counterparts), but the AMD cards are different, even in function.
The vram chips brand is also important. Check first post. Be aware with elpia and hinyx bfr ones...
But no way you're gonna' find out in the eBay post which vram chips it's got. Need a picture, and where the heqq is it? Same as the BIOS chip? (sounds like it but just being sure) THANKS!
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Would it make sense to donload the 80.04.E8.00.1D flash it and than try again? I know the vram isnt the same either so just shoting in the dark.
I used windows 10 installed on a partition in legacy mode and let it handle it's own drivers automatically. I took cake to only install boot camp drivers when necessary ( like for cirrus sound) and did not mess with the latest web drivers from Nvidia. Seems to run stable. I use windows 10 only for games, so my use case is different than yours.
I had a bad feeling that being UEFI and not Legacy had a part in the troubles. How did you get legacy mode? Did you use an optical drive? My optical drive is dead, and I couldn’t get around that. That’s why I ended up with UEFI. It sounds better than Legacy, but legacy is what we’re after. Ironic
I found some YouTube video and used the dvd drive. Used a dual layer dvd on my windows machine to make a bootable disc. The rest was cake.
Hi Kranny36, I noticed that GRML linux flash usb solution didn't have DHCP activated (in my case). To get the router assigned an IP-Adress to Linux live system I needed to push a few keys on a keyboard connected via usb (some standard cherry or whatever keyboard). I needed to hit
This is not the case! DHCP is activated by default and it has been all the time!
That worked perfectly. Thank you very much!
I like sharing news, but sharing wrong information will confuse the people later on. DCHP is activated and the only thing you have to do is waiting until the machines shows up on your internal router config page.
Sorry Ausdauersportler, but no-one said that DHCP is not activated by default. I am convinced DHCP will work on xanderons boot stick in most cases. But in my case DHCP boot automation doesn't work (maybe network setup or whatever). And I strongly believe there are others also getting stuck at this point for some reason. I found some hints here in that forum. I tried different USB sticks, iMac is always connected via ethernet and I never changed configs on xanderons boot stick. And of course, I waited plenty of minutes to give GRML more than sufficient time to boot completely (went out with the dog i.e.). Situation is still the same and I can proof this easily by looking at GRML on internal display and keeping an eye on router information, only coming up for GRML by using key strokes described. This is not meant to confuse somebody and I really appreciate this thread and all the good work and information, especially your work Ausdauersportler (I am following you for good reasons). I am just glad to help Kranny36. I don't need to get this information on page 1 or in xanderons post.
