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5-6.  BIOS Flashing Utility 

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NOTE: When you use the flash utility to flash the BIOS, the screen will be blank for 
about 10 seconds. This is a normal situation, not a malfunction. Do not reboot your 
computer during this period, or you may cause the flash to fail. 

Reboot your computer into DOS environment, or open a Windows

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window to the DOS prompt. 
 
Insert the Installation CD into your CD-ROM drive. 

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Copy CWSDPMI.EXE and NVFLASH.EXE to a new directory from path 
D:\NVFLASH. (D: refers to the CD-ROM drive letter) 

Copy the new BIOS binary file to the new directory. 

Change to the new directory and type the following command: 
NVFLASH –F [Filename]. ([Filename] refers to the name of BIOS binary file.) 
Then press the “Enter” key. The program will begin flashing your display card 
BIOS. 

When the flash is complete (the screen will display images again), you must 
reboot your computer system to make flash take effect. 

The following commands are for the NVIDIA Flash ROM programming utility V4.46, 
for your reference only. 

NVIDIA Flash ROM utility v4.46 Command List: 

 
Usage:  
nvflash [commands] [rom filename] 

 

 

Use a single dash ("-") to use the single letter version of a command (second column below). 
Use a double dash ("--") to use the longer descriptive version of a command (first column 
below). 
Use equals ("=") to specify parameters, with separating commas (","). 

 

Sample usage: 
nvflash --index=1 nv30nz.rom 
 
Commands: 
file 

f <filename>  Flash the ROM using <filename> (no confirmation), then do 

compare and ~CRC32. 

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