First post, by RichB93
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Hi all,
Long time no see! I haven't been around on this forum for quite some time, so hello again! Anyhow, I have recently been looking into Matrox G550 graphics cards, and to my amazement, Matrox still support these things! (They even slapped a PCI-PCIe bridge on one and still flog it to this day!) This made me think... If the card itself is essentially unchanged, except that it has a PCIe bridge on the card, surely the BIOS must be identical when compared to the older hardware, right?
I downloaded the latest BIOS for the PCIe version of this card, and yes, the BIOS looks exactly the same. The initial 32k is the same as the PCI BIOS, with the remaining 96k being new (and presumably either for the bridge chip, or perhaps, if one were to be adventurous and solder a larger flash chip to their card, would provide UEFI support to the ageing card, as this is apparently what the latest BIOS does!)
The last available BIOS for the card was V1.5 b15 (Dated 2006), and the BIOS I have extracted from the new BIOS image is V1.7 b17 (Dated 2014).
I'll let you know how my testing goes...