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8800 EFI32 Rom

Well good luck to you guys waiting for the rom. I ended up buying the apple card with the education discount. Besides alot of the other cards out there werent that much cheaper if you factor in the rebates, and I've always had bad luck with those. Well thats with the education discount at least. :cool:
 
I am sure Apple did wait this long to release a card just so many users would feel forced to buy the 8core machines.

In a way that is wrong and a way of screwing us over, but after all Apple is a company, and it needs money to continue making cool gadgets.
Loving a company can be hard sometimes.
 
Has anyone managed to do any type of over-clocking on cards that have an EFI ROM? I would be interested to see if this is possible.
 
Yeah, it's totally possible to overclock the cards. You just use a bios editing program called nibitor and change the clocks on the card just as you would any other graphics card. In fact, you can change many things:2D clocks, 3D clocks, bump up the voltage a bit, and tweak the fan settings.
 
assuming that someone uploads rom from the EFI32 8800gt card and you're able to flash a pc version with the this rom, what power cable do you need to power a PC version of the card inside a mac pro?

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I don't think anyone is going to post it. I think it would have been done already if so.
 
I'm hoping someone gets it and posts it soon. None of the Chicagoland stores have the card in stock, and it looks like the only one that MAY get the card in is the downtown Michigan Ave store. Not an easy store to get to when you don't live downtown.
 
My card arrives tomorrow, I got impatient waiting for the ROM and ordered the card on Sunday.
If someone can give me basic precise instructions on how to make a bootable dos thumbdrive with links to files etc. so I can rip the ROM with my Mac Pro I will be happy to post the ROM. I am a student with finals coming up so don't have a lot of time to research how to do this.
 
I'm not sure the Mac Pro can boot off of a USB thumb drive. I've never had luck with that. If you've got a FAT32 formatted bootcamp drive, you can burn a dos bootable CD and run nvflash and save the ROM onto your bootcamp drive.
 
tobyg said:
I'm not sure the Mac Pro can boot off of a USB thumb drive. I've never had luck with that. If you've got a FAT32 formatted bootcamp drive, you can burn a dos bootable CD and run nvflash and save the ROM onto your bootcamp drive.
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I have a bootcamp drive but it is NTFS w/ XP MCE. If anyone has any other ideas let me know. I do have external Firewire and USB drives availble too if there is some sort of creative way to get this to work if it doesn't take too much time.
 
Using FreeDos is easy, but you need a FAT32 partition. The best way is to add a sata drive with a FAT32 partition. But you could also use Boot Camp to add a FAT32 partition if you got an untouched Mac OS drive. You could also put the card to a PC with FAT32 partition.
USB and DOS is possible but very complicated.

FreeDos boot instructions:
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/5001145/
 
pipomolo42 said:
You could try dumping the rom using Graphiccelerator (http://thomas.perrier.name/graphiccelerator.html).

I'm not sure it will work, but if it does, it will sure be a lot easier.
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Here is the file that was generated with this application, I will try and use nvflash to see if I get the same file.

UPDATE:
on the next page I have the newer file taken with nvflash along with the MD5 of the actual file (not the zip) but they both appear to be the same as the MD5 is the same for both files taken with the two different programs.
 

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Altimeter88 said:
Here is the file that was generated with this application, I will try and use nvflash to see if I get the same file.
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Just from what I looked at the ROM now it looks like it should be correct and is a full dump. I'm going to try and flash my eVGA 8800 GT that has a 128K flash chip when I get home with this ROM and see if it works, I'll let you know.

Thanks for uploading this ROM for us!
 
twitch757 said:
Just from what I looked at the ROM now it looks like it should be correct and is a full dump. I'm going to try and flash my eVGA 8800 GT that has a 128K flash chip when I get home with this ROM and see if it works, I'll let you know.

Thanks for uploading this ROM for us!
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I thought the rom image looked a few k short the ntux rom image was 123k this one is 110k I am not saying it is not right I am just being cautious. I look forward to seing what he gets using nvflash :) Thank you very much for your upload.
 
waremaster said:
I thought the rom image looked a few k short the ntux rom image was 123k this one is 110k I am not saying it is not right I am just being cautious. I look forward to seing what he gets using nvflash :) Thank you very much for your upload.
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I'm chalking that up to 32 bit code vs 64 bit code, usually 64 bit code is a little bit bigger. I was going to make a backup of my original eVGA ROM before I flashed it though, just to be safe.
 
twitch757 said:
I'm chalking that up to 32 bit code vs 64 bit code, usually 64 bit code is a little bit bigger. I was going to make a backup of my original eVGA ROM before I flashed it though, just to be safe.
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which card are you going to flash? is it an EVGA? nevermind just reread your post and see it is and EVGA I have an EVGA as well so i'll have the original rom as well.
 
Can you guys confirm if that ROM actually works because I am having a Bi*^& of a time trying to get nvflash to work to get the rom that route.
I was able to get booted into freedos, change to a FAT32 c: I put in there and run NVflash from the there but when I run nvflash I get a message saying "this can't be run from DOS.
This is the latest NVFlash from mvktech.net so I don't know what the issue is and I am getting tired of messing with this.
If anyone can give me any pointers I will be glad to try it.

Also is there a windows based way of getting the ROM b/c I have a separate hard drive with XP on it for my normal bootcamp so I am open to ideas.
 
Altimeter88 said:
Can you guys confirm if that ROM actually works because I am having a Bi*^& of a time trying to get nvflash to work to get the rom that route.
I was able to get booted into freedos, change to a FAT32 c: I put in there and run NVflash from the there but when I run nvflash I get a message saying "this can't be run from DOS.
This is the latest NVFlash from mvktech.net so I don't know what the issue is and I am getting tired of messing with this.
If anyone can give me any pointers I will be glad to try it.

Also is there a windows based way of getting the ROM b/c I have a separate hard drive with XP on it for my normal bootcamp so I am open to ideas.
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You need to extract that EXE first. Run that EXE in Windows, it should give you an nvflash.exe and cwsdpmi.exe
 
I just flashed my evga card with the rom using nvflash. Everything seems to work fine. Thanks so much Altimeter88 for uploading the rom.
 
I think using the origial nvidia flashing tool should be the best way. Who knows maybe the Nibitor did not save the full rom. It is also good to use the same program to save and restore the rom. (to restore you cannot use Nibitor)
 
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