Tuxi

Hi.

Im trying to softmod my 8800GT into a Quadro, as my dad needs a GPU for CAD and such. So far I have found out that my RivaTuner has no NVStrap tab, so I cant do it through there. Although I have found some information considering bios modding to make this card a Quadro.

Though Im a little worried cause my card isnt actually a reference one, its a Gigabyte. So Im going to post a few pics and I hope that people could help me out with this.

Thank you

Edit: Using 195.62 drivers, 2.24c Rivatuner and W7 64bit edition...

Edit2: And some links: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/sho...php?t=17995195 and http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/lof...p/t134631.html

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Interpolation

I came across this OCN Howto for bios flashing Nvidia cards when I was looking to flash my 8800GT to a SSC version. Maybe it could be of some help. http://www.overclock.net/nvidia/1498...-flashing.html

Techpowerup has a fairly wide selection of VGA bios's available for download. Likely you'll find the appropriate quadro bios in their archives. http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/

Good luck!

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tha d0ctor

you won't be able to turn it into a quadro because it is an 8800GT and uses the G92 chip. you could flash the bios to a higher voltage and overclock it or you could do a hardware volt mod of the VGPU and overclock it to around 900/2200/1200 if you are lucky and have excellent cooling. The extra 400+mhz of shaders should help with CUDA but an 8800GT isn't going to be as efficient as a top of the line quaddro card, no enough shaders

also you stopped being able to unlock extra shaders and stuff after the 6*** o 7*** nvidia series that probably explains the nvstrap

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Tuxi

OK. So I made a bootable USB stick and tried flashing it into FX3700. As mentioned: didnt work.. Any advices on the Rivatuners NVStrapper tab thingie?

+Rep to Interpolation, never managed to make a bootable USB stick until now

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Here these links might be helpful to you:

http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=539

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/lof...p/t134631.html

And this is where I got it from:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/sho...php?t=17995195

I have seen this done in a past issue of Maximum PC as well so I am sure it can be done with a little modification to the drivers. Good luck!

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Tuxi

Thank you but those links are already posted here

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Sorry I guess I should have read the entire post. ill dig through my past issues of MPC and see if I cant get the info on how to do it for you

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Tuxi

That would be great thank you Right now Im just wondering why the NVStrapper tab is missing because there are people who have 8800GT and managed to convert it into FX3700 with Rivatuner... Ahh, so frustrating.

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tha d0ctor

you won't be able to do anything with Nvstrap, just reflash the bios

the last nvidia cards you could unlock pixel pipelines and shaders were the nvidia 6800 series, since then they stopped locking certain parts of the card with software.. i.e. you cna no longer unlock stuff with rivatuner

good luck bios flashing is generally pretty easy, from what I read this give you a little boost in how it renders CAD

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Tuxi

This is not about unlocking parts. This about making the drivers think I have a FX3700 when I could install Quadro drivers. The drivers make the difference here I think..

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