wintersun12
New member
Hello!
My first post around here : )
I have the following problem..
I recently got an Asus GTS250 on my hands and tried installing it in an old computer. The PC didn't even POST with this card so I figured the card was busted. Later on I tested the VC on another PC and found out that was not the case.
The PC has a really old motherboard(P5V-VM Ultra) with PCI-e v1.0a and with the latest bios upgrade. It has one of those via chipsets that can't handle pci-e gen2 video cards.. I searched around and found out that people had success with flashing the video card bios (the case was with 8800GT) and 'forcing' it to work as a pcie gen1.
I downloaded NiBiTor (ver 6.0.6 and 5.1 which both have added support for GTS250) and loaded up some random bios for the Asus GTS250, what I found out was that the option to set the pcie generation is disabled (greyed out).. I tried different bioses from different vendors but no luck :/ Loading the card's own bios ended up the same way..
I went ahead and loaded some random bios for the 8800GT just to make sure the option to "set pcie gen" was even available at all, and it was.
I was wondering if anyone around here was in a similar situation and managed to resolve it somehow?
Any help would be really appreciated!
My first post around here : )
I have the following problem..
I recently got an Asus GTS250 on my hands and tried installing it in an old computer. The PC didn't even POST with this card so I figured the card was busted. Later on I tested the VC on another PC and found out that was not the case.
The PC has a really old motherboard(P5V-VM Ultra) with PCI-e v1.0a and with the latest bios upgrade. It has one of those via chipsets that can't handle pci-e gen2 video cards.. I searched around and found out that people had success with flashing the video card bios (the case was with 8800GT) and 'forcing' it to work as a pcie gen1.
I downloaded NiBiTor (ver 6.0.6 and 5.1 which both have added support for GTS250) and loaded up some random bios for the Asus GTS250, what I found out was that the option to set the pcie generation is disabled (greyed out).. I tried different bioses from different vendors but no luck :/ Loading the card's own bios ended up the same way..
I went ahead and loaded some random bios for the 8800GT just to make sure the option to "set pcie gen" was even available at all, and it was.
I was wondering if anyone around here was in a similar situation and managed to resolve it somehow?
Any help would be really appreciated!
