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First post, by GL1zdA

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I'm playing recently with the DVI ports of old (pre GeForce 6) nVidia cards and I was looking for VGA BIOS updates for some old cards. Currently I'm looking specifically for some Gainward GeForce4 MX440 8x BIOS. They were once available at Gainward's FTP, but are long gone. I've found some 440 8x BIOSes either on archive.org or on vgamuseum.info, but unfortunately they are incompatible with my card. Maybe someone mirrored the Gainward website more thoroughly than archive.org or mirrored their FTP?

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Reply 1 of 4, by chrismeyer6

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Have you tired Techpowerup they have quite the selection of GPU BIOS's and they go back quite aways.

Reply 2 of 4, by GL1zdA

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Unfortunately, these go back to the GeForce 6xxx series, just 1 generation above of what I need. In the meantime I've found a collection of whitebunny BIOSes which contained one (noname GeForce 5500) useful for me. I wish someone backed up the mvktech.net collection. Or at least a contact to Mavke, maybe he has a backup.

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Reply 3 of 4, by Thermalwrong

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Heh that was me, I made a tidy version of the Internet Archive's record of the BIOS files from Whitebunny's site. That one wasn't so bad because it was a pretty simple site that didn't use a CMS or FTP. Sadly mvktech's site essentially blocked Internet Archive from downloading anything so from what I can tell there's no actual files stored on the Internet Archive that can be retrieved.

If anyone remembers sites where Nvidia BIOS files were located I can check it out. For an example, it looks like there's a really complete archive of old ATI Radeon BIOS files here on an archive of Techpowerup:
Files: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.techp … erup.com/bios/*
Metadata: http://web.archive.org/web/20060203053430/htt … werup.com/bios/

I didn't notice your link either, that's interesting - here's the full lot of what's archived: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://driver.ga … n/Nvidia/Bios/*
To get them all, you should check out Wayback-Machine-Downloader, I use it through WSL2 and a 2-day old fork of that code fixed a problem so it's now super useful for downloading huge numbers of files from the archive.

What card do you have? I have a couple of the low profile Gainward MX440 cards but they're probably not the 8x ones and may even be MX440-SE

Reply 4 of 4, by GL1zdA

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Yes, I've seen the Gainward BIOSes, unfortunately they are not "late enough" for my case. My Gainward is the GeForce4 PowerPack! Pro/600-8X, the one with 64 MB of 128-bit memory.

I'm trying to make some cards compatible with my new display (Lenovo P40w-20, via DVI to HDMI), because they boot with a "black screen". I think I've pinpointed when nVidia cards started to be "more compatible", but sadly I can't find a MX440 8x BIOS young enough for my 2 cards. I've only had success with a no name FX5200 which I've flashed with another generic but late FX 5200 BIOS, and it started to work right from the POST screen.

I might try a MX4000 BIOS later, though I doubt it will work, since these had a 64-bit memory bandwidth and with a 64-bit MX440 I've seen only 32 MB RAM on my Gainward.

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