My 8800GT no longer worked in my PC (home built PC with Intel motherboard and BIOS), but YMMV.
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My 8800GT no longer worked in my PC (home built PC with Intel motherboard and BIOS), but YMMV.
Interesting. Thanks for the info. I don't have a PC so I won't be able to test this myself...
I had no problems here after I had flashed it; that was actually how I stress-tested the card a bit. This was using an MCS G33T-M2 using Windows XP. If it's not working in standard PC then there is a problem with the flash/card because Windows (and most Linux installs, for that matter) do not even know the EFI driver exists; they just use the BIOS routines.
That's what I thought... But I guess it's still safer to keep a copy of the original firmware around.
Woot! Everything went fine once I used a late enough version of nvflash (5.57).
I flashed an eVGA 8800GT (512-P3-N801-AR) on my Mac Pro using the freedos image and putting nvflash and the mp8800gt.rom posted earlier onto a BootCamp Assistant made partition.
I flashed an eVGA 8800GT (512-P3-N801-AR) on my Mac Pro using the freedos image and putting nvflash and the mp8800gt.rom posted earlier onto a BootCamp Assistant made partition.
Yep, my card works fine in both my standard PC and my Mac Pro in both XP and Vista.
When I first booted into XP via BootCamp after installing the eVGA 8800GT I got nothing but a black screen. I can't remember exactly what I had to do to get XP to recognize the new card -- I think I had to boot XP in Safe Mode and manually tell XP to use the new video adapter.
Anyway, maybe someone else who is more proficient in Windows can help you out with this. It's a simple fix and the card will work fine once you have it set-up correctly.
If you had the 2600 installed, boot into windows with the original card installed and uninstall the drivers for the 2600. Now put the 8800gt back in (take the 2600 out) and boot into windows again... the 8800 will be recognized and then just install the nvidia drivers (it will ask to reboot again). Then it should work just fine, at least mine did. Windows has an issue running both the nvidia card and the ati card side by side I believe.
Yes. It worked fine for me right from the beginning (well, right after I did the flash).
Not a single hiccup here. I received the EVGA card before the Mac. I had already repartitioned my SATA drives and a couple ATAs to GUID while waiting on Fed-Ex. I ran the MacPro for about six hours to make sure all was well, then installed three more SATA drives and the EVGA 8800GT. The flash was over in a flash and an hour later I had XP Pro 32 bit running on drive three and using all three displays. Another hour and Fusion was running in Unity mode.
I have two displays connected to the ATI 2600 and the main connected to the 8800. I did let Auto Update install the latest nVidia drivers in XP. I haven't had a problem spanning three displays with the 8800 and 2600 in XP Pro. Unfortunately, Fusion only supports one display, they need to work on that... along with allowing the VM to access Mac drives.
Look at the Leadtek card that has the problem, it's an 8800GTS, not an 8800gt. Probably wouldn't have a problem if it was a GT. From my flashing experience, if you are interested in flashing a PC 8800GT for your Mac, I suggest you do it quickly. The card manufacturers will undoubtedly change their design before long and the flash probably won't work with the newer cards. Just look at the PC nVidia 7800GS, they went with a different core and those newer cards can't be used in a Mac. It's getting very difficult to find an 'older' PC 7800 that can be flashed for the Mac. Same thing will probably happen with the 8800.
Cheers.
I have two displays connected to the ATI 2600 and the main connected to the 8800. I did let Auto Update install the latest nVidia drivers in XP. I haven't had a problem spanning three displays with the 8800 and 2600 in XP Pro. Unfortunately, Fusion only supports one display, they need to work on that... along with allowing the VM to access Mac drives.
Look at the Leadtek card that has the problem, it's an 8800GTS, not an 8800gt. Probably wouldn't have a problem if it was a GT. From my flashing experience, if you are interested in flashing a PC 8800GT for your Mac, I suggest you do it quickly. The card manufacturers will undoubtedly change their design before long and the flash probably won't work with the newer cards. Just look at the PC nVidia 7800GS, they went with a different core and those newer cards can't be used in a Mac. It's getting very difficult to find an 'older' PC 7800 that can be flashed for the Mac. Same thing will probably happen with the 8800.
Cheers.
I just installed Bootcamp this weekend. The flashed eVGA 8800GT works flawlessly. The games I've installed so far (Halflife 2 Orange Box, STALKER, Far Cry, AvP2, Doom 3, FEAR, FEAR Extraction Point) all work great and all with maxed out settings at 1920x1200. I'll be installing Bioshock, Crysis, and Call of Duty 4 in a bit as well.
Greetings everyone,
Has anybody posted the roms for the 8800gt for the 2006 MacPro's yet? Does the same process hold true for this version? Thanks
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Nevermind I found the other posts talking about this...sorry!
Has anybody posted the roms for the 8800gt for the 2006 MacPro's yet? Does the same process hold true for this version? Thanks
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Nevermind I found the other posts talking about this...sorry!
THanks, I followed your instruction to to put all files onto the CD using UltraISO worked perfectly.. I tried to use PowerISO since I got that installed but the iso it made created checksum error.
Thanks for all the info. But I wonder, is there any reason this wouldn't work on a GTX? I mean 512 is great, but why not 768? Just wondering.
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If you did a bit research you would know that the Geforce 8800 GTX is based off a different chip and thus cannot use the ROM for the Geforce 8800 GT.
Not quite. The newer 8800 GTX's (512mb variants) use the same G92 chip in the 8800 GT. It's the older 8800 GTX's (768mb) that use the G80 chip.
I'm sorry, you must mean the Geforce 9800 GTX or are confusing the Geforce 8800 GTS 512MB with an GTX.
The only desktop parts using the G92 chip is the Geforce 8800 GT and Geforce 8800 GTS 512MB.
Oops, yes you're right. 8800 GTX is still G80 I believe. Too many damn cards.
I think I was doing a little of both, confusing the GTS and the 9800 GTX.
going to Best buy today to pick-up P/N BFGR88512GTOCE. Hoping for a black PCB. Ill let you guys know what I find.
Gigabyte GeForce 8800 GT
Has anyone had any success with this card? --> GV-NX88T512HP
I've never flashed a card before and I'm a bit nervous about doing this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Has anyone had any success with this card? --> GV-NX88T512HP
I've never flashed a card before and I'm a bit nervous about doing this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Has anyone had any success with this card? --> GV-NX88T512HP
I've never flashed a card before and I'm a bit nervous about doing this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Well, I just answered my question. This card WILL NOT work as it has EEPROM size of 64k. Luckily I did not spend any money on it as it was given to me by a friend. Time to return it as I can't use it anyway.