Help!!! Can't Program Using Pins

[akira88]

Help! I've been reading up on how to program and overclock using pins, but have been unsuccessful, the message I get is " unable to open bios input file", I've tried almost everything i.e. different progbios files, I'm running out of ideas and would apprecitate it if anybody would be able to help me. I'm using a retail G400 max, one of the very early versions (2x agp only). Below is my pins dump using mxinfo if it helps (when I tried to program I actually used the pins dump from progbios). Thanks in advance.

; Warning: this PInS dump may be incomplete.
; Verify it before using it with Progbios !!!
Fill: 0 127 0xFF
;loc size val desc
0 2 0x412E ; "PIN"
2 1 0x80 ; Struct length
3 1 0xFF ;
4 2 0x0401 ;
6 2 0xCB2E ;
8 2 0x0006 ;
10 2 0x0700 ;
12 16 'ABY79149' ;
28 6 '105' ;
34 2 0x38A1 ;
36 2 0xFFF0 ;
38 1 90 ; Max SClk VCO freq/4
39 1 90 ; Max PClk VCO freq/4
40 1 90 ; Max CRTC1 PClk/4 8bpp
41 1 90 ; Max CRTC1 PClk/4 16bpp
42 1 90 ; Max CRTC1 PClk/4 24bpp
43 1 90 ; Max CRTC1 PClk/4 32bpp
44 1 34 ; Max CRTC2 PClk/4 16bpp
45 1 34 ; Max CRTC2 PClk/4 32bpp
46 4 0 ;
50 1 0x3F ;
51 1 0xFF ; VGA1 PClk
52 1 0xFF ; VGA2 PClk
53 1 0xC2 ;
54 1 0xFF ;
55 1 82 ; VGA GClk
56 1 41 ; VGA SClk/4
57 4 0x0190A419 ; VGA OP3
61 4 0x20049911 ; VGA MCTLWTST
65 1 150 ; 2D GClk
66 1 75 ; 2D SClk
67 4 0x019B8419 ; 2D OPT3
71 4 0x20049511 ; 2D MCTLWTST
75 1 150 ; 3D GClk
76 1 75 ; 3D SClk
77 4 0x019B8419 ; 3D OPT3
81 4 0x20049511 ; 3D MCTLWTST
85 1 0xFF ; GClk derate
86 2 0x0C88 ;
88 2 0x0C88 ;
90 1 0xEE ; Video Ctrl
91 2 0x2CFE ; FO1
93 2 0xFFF9 ; FO2

:filetype CONDOR
:PCBinfo 906-01
:SubsystemVendorId 0x2179102b

[Venturer]

Have you used the correct syntax?
Download the lastest BIOS pack from Matrox (2.08) and try this syntax:

PROGBIOS -i auto -s YOURPINSFILENAME.TXT -k

-k parameter force bios programming

-DO IT IN PURE DOS MODE (If you have Win9x OS use F8 at startup; do not load EMM386 or HYMEM).
-Diable all VIDEO BIOS CACHING options in your motherboard bios.

Hope this will work!

[Venturer]

Mmmmm i think you have modified wrong values in your PINS.TXT file.
Look loc 71 and 81. It should be
0x20049911 and not 0x20049511

For overclocking the card you had to change only loc 65,66 ; 75,76
150 is the default graphic chip clock (2d and 3d modes).

Here it s a correct PINS dump for your model (105): http://www1.mahoroba.ne.jp/~youichi/pin/G4MA105.TXT

Also the correct Subsys ID for G400MAX is 217D!
2179 is the SubSys ID for normal G400

[akira88]

Thanks, Venturer for your help, I found the problem was that I forgot to include the bin files associated with the bios 2.08. Now I'm running at 160/220 . But I'm getting weird results in 3dmark2000, I'm getting a score of 100, and in 3dmark2001 it says that it couldn't give me a score since it was not able to run enough tests. If anybody is having the same problems with 3dmark let me know, I'm running w2k with 5.52 drivers, and directx8.0a, amd athlon 700 mhz, k7m mainboard.