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Asus A8V-VM bios mod. Replace VGA rom

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 12:29 pm
by dman_15
Hi, This is my first post her so bear with me!

I just purchased the Asus A8V-VM motherbard along with a 19" widescreen monitior (1440x900)
The onboard graphics allegedly supports resolutions up to 2048 x 1536 but this requires vbios 2.28.00

http://www.sis.com/support/support_faqs_4.htm

The newest ASUS motherboard bios does not contain this vga rom. Because of this i cannot access anything beyond 1280x1024. Powerstrip doesn't work either.

What I think I need to do is hack two bioses together,

This ASUS one which I'm currently using:

http://support.asus.com/download/downlo ... del=A8V-VM

And this Foxconn one which contains the 2.28.00 vbios

http://www.foxconnchannel.com/EN-US/ser ... 1GXK8MB-RS

I want to rip the vbios from the foxcon and reassemble it into the Asus bios.
What tools/utils will i need to do this, (extracting and compiling the components of the bios) and more importantly do you think it would work?

Thanks in advance

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 1:47 pm
by Denniss
It won't help to flash your motherboard containing VIA/S3 OnBoard VGA with a SIS VGA ROM.
You'll probably end up with a dead board.

Try to update to the latest VGA drivers VIA/S3 offer, maybe there'ssomething new.