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Re:FastPhotoStyle from Nvidia by mtreis86 on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @07:19AM (#16428883)
There is a work around. A number of GeForce cards gave the exact same chipset as a Quadro card but with a resistor pulling down an external pin. That resistor can be changed to make the card identify as a Quadro.

http://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/hacking-nvidia-cards-into-...

Apparently this can also be done from software

http://archive.techarp.com/showarticleefc1.html

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Re:FastPhotoStyle from Nvidia by exDM69 on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @07:45AM (#16429020)
This is just spoofing the PCI VID:PID numbers to the driver and relying on driver bugs(?) to function. You could do the same with a few lines of kernel hacks far easier than soldering. It does not enable any features that are fused off in the hardware. This setup is not reliable.

Also, these posts are from 2008 and 2013, 5 and 10 years old. These hacks probably don't work any more.

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