AGP4LIfe? wrote on 2025-01-17, 23:06:

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Hello!

I have what I believe to be a bios corruption issue with an old Stealth II G460 SDRAM AGP card.

However I cannot find the bios anywhere on the interwebs! Does anyone have a bios file I can have / get to?
Version 1.12 is what's on the card, but I should be able to use any bios version at 1.12 or above (1.14/1.16/1.18)

Much appreciated.

Cheers!

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From vgamuseum - https://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/cpu/item … -g460-intel-740 - not sure on version

PC Hoarder Patrol wrote on 2025-01-19, 07:24:

AGP4LIfe? wrote on 2025-01-17, 23:06:

Hello! […]
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Hello!

I have what I believe to be a bios corruption issue with an old Stealth II G460 SDRAM AGP card.

However I cannot find the bios anywhere on the interwebs! Does anyone have a bios file I can have / get to?
Version 1.12 is what's on the card, but I should be able to use any bios version at 1.12 or above (1.14/1.16/1.18)

Much appreciated.

Cheers!

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From vgamuseum - https://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/cpu/item … -g460-intel-740 - not sure on version

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Thank you!! I'll give it a shot. I have only used .rom is the past so .vbi is a new file extension for me. Do you happen to know what program takes .vbi extenion files? I'll look around.

AGP4LIfe? wrote on 2025-01-20, 15:25:

PC Hoarder Patrol wrote on 2025-01-19, 07:24:

AGP4LIfe? wrote on 2025-01-17, 23:06:

Hello! […]
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Hello!

I have what I believe to be a bios corruption issue with an old Stealth II G460 SDRAM AGP card.

However I cannot find the bios anywhere on the interwebs! Does anyone have a bios file I can have / get to?
Version 1.12 is what's on the card, but I should be able to use any bios version at 1.12 or above (1.14/1.16/1.18)

Much appreciated.

Cheers!

The attachment PXL_20250117_231056022.jpg is no longer available

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From vgamuseum - https://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/cpu/item … -g460-intel-740 - not sure on version

The attachment 575_i740.zip is no longer available

Thank you!! I'll give it a shot. I have only used .rom is the past so .vbi is a new file extension for me. Do you happen to know what program takes .vbi extenion files? I'll look around.

Think .vbi files are vBIOS saves with the NSSI utility

Pc Hoarder Patrol is right.
I think you can rename to .rom but the issue is that most of the times nssi export video bios with errors, there was a old topic explaining it. So it won't probably work, I had the same issue with a virge dx wxported bios.

I just acquired one of these cards as well - and believe I have bitrot as well with the vBIOS. Windows detects it when I have a PCI card in and I can install drivers for it, and I can extend the display in Windows 98 and verify it is displaying correctly.

I downloaded the vBIOS in the link provided - but what software do I use to flash a vBIOS? Will Uniflash work?

FIXED WITHOUT DESOLDERING BIOS.

Update for anyone in the future who has same bitrot issue with the Diamond Stealth II G460 AGP (Intel i740). It was a pain to find the correct file, but someone had the original Diamond flash files on an FTP after some sleuthing.

https://ftp.zx.net.nz/pub/archive/ftp.dyu.edu … 60/flash114.exe
https://ftp.zx.net.nz/pub/archive/ftp.dyu.edu … 60/460nt115.exe
https://ftp.zx.net.nz/pub/archive/ftp.dyu.edu … 60/flash116.exe

1.) FTP links are listed above for 1.14/1.15/1.16 BIOS files (Mine was a 1.14)
2.) Format a floppy disk, copy the system files to make it bootable
3.) Run the executable, it will copy vflash.exe, the BIOS, RAMI740 and a few other files to the disk
4.) Boot with just the broken card (no secondary card is needed) as it loads the VGA BIOS into RAM, as specified in the copied AUTOEXEC.BAT file because the RAMI740 loads the VGA BIOS into RAM
5.) At which point, your display should turn on once the RAMI740.exe is loaded
6.) The vflash process will then start and the VGA BIOS will then be flashed to the video card
7.) Reboot and works like a charm now, no desoldering needed.