Here's a site with a collection of pins.
https://web.archive.org/web/20040110103309/ht … .pl/gbm/matrox/

In depth -> dead bios recovery

swaaye wrote on 2021-05-18, 17:23:

Here's a site with a collection of pins.
https://web.archive.org/web/20040110103309/ht … .pl/gbm/matrox/

In depth -> dead bios recovery

I know, there's no PCI version though, i took the gamble and ended up using the AGP version of my card, it worked.

I might have the card you are looking for, though it's not clear to me what PINS dump is supposed to be and how it could be used to recover a card, afaik it's not a BIOS dump.

Could you elaborate more about PINS data and how can it be used?

SSTV2 wrote on 2021-05-20, 16:52:

I might have the card you are looking for, though it's not clear to me what PINS dump is supposed to be and how it could be used to recover a card, afaik it's not a BIOS dump.

Could you elaborate more about PINS data and how can it be used?

Pins are like the ID for the GPU (it's a simple txt file with clock speed, amount of ram etc.), if it doesn't correspond to the BIOS or gets corrupted the GPU will misbehave, apparently this happened a lot with G100\200\400, i took the gamble and used the same version of my card but AGP for the pins, it ended up working perfectly but i would like to have the BIOS and PINS from your PCI version, it's actually impossible to find online.

Attaching a zip file that contains G200 PCI BIOS ver. 1.1 (04/10/99) + PINS data dump in .txt and .bin formats.

I also have a Matrox Millennium G450 Dualhead PCI card, which could be labelled as "misbehaving", it works perfectly in some motherboards and in others - refuses to work completely. I'm currently using a slower G200 in Compaq Prolinea 1600 server PC (it has no AGP) and it so happens that G450 plays dead in it.

Could such weird behavior be attributed to the corrupted PINS data in its BIOS? This whole PINS data corruption issue with Matrox cards is new to me.

Yes it's possible, if a part of the structure of the pins gets corrupted then the GPU will not be recognized, it could also be the motherboard itself though.