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Unusual problem, Do i need to flash bios on pci millenium 2?
OK... the story goes...
I was new to pc's and advised by a 'friend' to flash my bios. So i did, but though windows and not through dos. DASH IT!!
my bios broke.. and i had no image on boot up, on windows however, it worked fine more or less>
Matrox support said to ship it back to them and they would flash the bios for me, but the arrival of my brand new MARVEL G200, cooled my jets a little and it is still lying around at home in a box somewhere...
FLASH FORWARD to the year 2000, and I haev a max, due to be replaced this weekend by a RT2000, FLEX combo YAY
and it suddenly occurs to me, that i could put the old millenium 2<bless it> in the old grey box in there as well, by a second hand monitor and away i go with to monitors and a TV preview screen WOW.
Now i know using 2 cards, windows only reads the bios of the initaling card <i think anyway> so that would be the flex, and the millenium 2 would be detected through windows and then run ok.
OR.. do i need to flash and fix the bios somehow... and if so Can anyone help me do it...
I know that matrox have a funky Emergency disc thingy now, but on closer inspection it seems that it backs of the bios FROM your card to use in an emergency, and of course mine doesnt have one cos i erased it <oops>
So i guess i would beed someone to do it for me? and then email me the disc.. and then i could start my machine with the Millenium 2 in and the floppy and all would be well.
That is IF it needs a bios to use it what i want to use it for.
am i making any sense...
if anyone can help, <or even dechiper my mad ramblings so others may understand and then maybe help>
i would really appreciate it... Thanks..
Colin
I was new to pc's and advised by a 'friend' to flash my bios. So i did, but though windows and not through dos. DASH IT!!
my bios broke.. and i had no image on boot up, on windows however, it worked fine more or less>
Matrox support said to ship it back to them and they would flash the bios for me, but the arrival of my brand new MARVEL G200, cooled my jets a little and it is still lying around at home in a box somewhere...
FLASH FORWARD to the year 2000, and I haev a max, due to be replaced this weekend by a RT2000, FLEX combo YAY
and it suddenly occurs to me, that i could put the old millenium 2<bless it> in the old grey box in there as well, by a second hand monitor and away i go with to monitors and a TV preview screen WOW.
Now i know using 2 cards, windows only reads the bios of the initaling card <i think anyway> so that would be the flex, and the millenium 2 would be detected through windows and then run ok.
OR.. do i need to flash and fix the bios somehow... and if so Can anyone help me do it...
I know that matrox have a funky Emergency disc thingy now, but on closer inspection it seems that it backs of the bios FROM your card to use in an emergency, and of course mine doesnt have one cos i erased it <oops>
So i guess i would beed someone to do it for me? and then email me the disc.. and then i could start my machine with the Millenium 2 in and the floppy and all would be well.
That is IF it needs a bios to use it what i want to use it for.
am i making any sense...
if anyone can help, <or even dechiper my mad ramblings so others may understand and then maybe help>
i would really appreciate it... Thanks..
Colin