I _NEED_ a favor, very simple, very easy.

I've ordered a video card used off a forum, it's a 5900 Ultra, but is bios flashed as a 5900 vanilla. I need a BIOS image of a 256mb geforce 5900 Ultra to make this card work the way it's supposed to.

I dont think this is illegal, as I actually own the card, and the guy that had it before me attempted to flash it to a 5950, but failed, and lost the original BIOS. All he could apparently find is a 5900 plain made by Asus with 128mb ram. Naturally, I want the extra 128mb, and faster default clocks. Anywho, if you have one, and are willing to go through the (fairly easy) steps of copying your BIOS, please email me at alienb@localnetsys.com

FM: if you wouldnt mind leaving this in General for a day or so, then bumping it to OT, thanks.

I don't have that card and was unable to quickly find what you are looking for, but if all else fails:

http://www.cluboverclocker.com/guides/5900_Flash_Mod/

Aye, thank you. I read that, and have been ALL over google, but my card wont take the Leadtek BIOS that most cards will. My card is an actual made-by-nVIdia engineering reference board, and doesnt have the VIVO function, which makes it pretty rare. I'm hoping someone else has a early-run 5900U also, as all of the first second-gen (short) 5900U's were made by nVidia (or their manufacturer,) that would work with my card.

Thanks for any help anyone can give.

http://alienb.localnetsys.com/images/5900u.jpg
<edit> This is the card, (sorry for the blurry image) Note the lack of a Philips TV encoder chip to the immediate left of the fan, and the green (denoting an engineering sample) ramsinks.</edit>

So you've seen this page?
http://whitebunny.demon.nl/hardware/chipset_nvidia.html

Yup. That BIOS image doesnt support my Silicon Image TV-out encoder, and has some sort of issue with the fan speed control that I havnt figured out.

try dropping nvidia a line, they are usually quite helpful.

Hmm...maybe I should.

Hmm. I have a 5900 Ultra nvidia engineering reference board. I'm not sure if I have "release" bios though, a lot of these free cards often have beta bios. But I could theoretically dump it out, I guess, if someone pointed me to a bios dump program. Mine doesn't look quite like yours, my heatsink is about twice as large, and doesn't have any fancy nvidia graphics on it.

EDIT: I specifically have BIOS 4.35.20.23.03. It also says "TV Encoder Type: Integrated [MV]", but I don't think I have any sort of TV-out at all on the board.

That'd be awesome John, the dump program is here:
http://whitebunny.demon.nl/download?file=dumpbios_1.0.zip

Just run it apparently, and it makes a .bin file, if you could email it to me at alienb@localnetsys.com, that'd be fantastic.

That version of the BIOS isnt that old either.

<edit> I'm also not really worried about the TV-Out function, I just want the fan speed control to be stable (well...working)</edit>