[plug] reset nVidia card to factory defaults??

[Denis Brown]

At 03:43 PM 22/11/2007, Gavin Chester wrote:
>On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 09:49 +0900, Denis Brown wrote:
>-snip-
>
> > I will write to the openSuSE forum and to the good nVidia folks with a 
> view
> > to discovering a fix or some utility / utilities that will help restore 
> the
> > card.
>
>Good final step, but before then ...
>
> >    And I do have another card (nVidia 7800) that I can use to get the
> > box running in the meantime - but hopefully I will not wind up, as Arie
> > implied, with two dud cards through misadventure.
>
>FWIW, I find the best/only way to resolve problems is to have two of any
>one thing and experiment as you are going to do. But, I would hesitate
>to try flashing the video bios as the way to tackle the problem :-/.
>Chop and change the two cards as you are proposing to isolate/narrow the
>problem. Eg., boot your box with a spare, working card first to check
>there are no mb problems. This assumes they are both capable of using
>the same slot. If not, try and diagnose the problem card using sax to
>configure it as your secondary card. Then if successful revert to using
>it as your only card. Try it with the standard drivers long before
>considering the NVidia ones.

Thanks, Gavin.

That sounds like a nice way to travel - using the "odd" card as 
secondary.   I'll see what I can discover tomorrow.   Have also subscribed 
to the nvnews forum and to opensuse list so will see what pops up there.

Appreciate your suggestions!
Denis