Flashing 8800GT into GEN1 PCIE from GEN2 possible?

[SottaM]

hey bro did you solve your problem? i saw the same problem reported by bluetooth @ ocworkbench, and it seems that the easiest way to solve it's asking eVGA a GEN1 bios, plus flashing your 8800GT with that bios! If ASUS would do it, why eVGA wouldn't? good luck.

link@ocworkbench

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aah btw to flash your nvidia vga you could use the NBiTor @ mvktech .. there you should also find a guide/faq about using it, anyway you're only going to use it if evga send to you a modified 88gt GEN1 bios .. last but not least good luck again

[optimummind]

hey bro did you solve your problem? i saw the same problem reported by bluetooth @ ocworkbench, and it seems that the easiest way to solve it's asking eVGA a GEN1 bios, plus flashing your 8800GT with that bios! If ASUS would do it, why eVGA wouldn't? good luck.

link@ocworkbench

edit:
aah btw to flash your nvidia vga you could use the NBiTor @ mvktech .. there you should also find a guide/faq about using it, anyway you're only going to use it if evga send to you a modified 88gt GEN1 bios .. last but not least good luck again

Not yet. But I did receive a modified GEN1 Asus 8800GT BIOS from a HardOCP forum member who got his Inno3D card working on the 775Dual-VSTA. I edited the clock speeds to match the eVGA 8800GT KO and I'm gonna flash it llater tonight.

I'm still waiting on the eVGA tech support guy. He said he submitted the BIOS to some overseas engineering group who will modify the BIOS for me.

-Optimummind

[optimummind]

Here's an update. Not wanting to wait for eVGA, I went ahead and flashed my eVGA 8800GT KO with a modified Asus 8800GT GEN1 BIOS.

Now, I'm able to use the 8800GT on my ASRock 775Dual-VSTA.

I finished running some benchmarks on the Gigabyte DS3R abd I'm gonna run them too on the ASRock mobo to determine how much performance I'm losing due to the PCIE x4 limitation.

-Optimummind