ATI 8500LE to 9100 BIOS Flash..

[aircooled]

Just flashed my 8500LE (3.3ns RAM) to 9100 275/275. 3Dmark scores are the same. Havent tried TV Out yet but I here some are having trouble with it.

Anyone else triy this flash yet? Any real benifits? So far it didn't seem worth it. I backed up my original BIOS just in case..

 

[spanky]

u could check the link to rage3d in this thread

 

[SickBeast]

i did this mod and it fixed some compatibility issues for me, and smartgart stopped disabling my agp.

 

[NEVERwinter]

yeah.. i did it. It removes my card's VIVO features.. so i flasehd back to R8500.
but it seems that some peaople gain improvements while some ppl don't, check the page at rage3d.

 

[majewski9]

I dont want to risk the jeporady of my 8500 for a flash that wont give me any performance gain.

 

[Lizardman]

I flashed my 8500le to a retail 8500. I think that is the smart way to go.

 

[Lugies15]

I flashed my 8500 and I had a bunch of artifacts so I switched back.

 

[tenoc]

Flashed my retail 8500.

No performance gain, but now I have a brand-new 9100!

 

[Budman]

Originally posted by: tenoc
Flashed my retail 8500.

No performance gain, but now I have a brand-new 9100!

Same here,I flashed my Sapphire 8500LE 128 meg with a Sapphire 9100 bios & all went well.

But I did notice I can oc the ram much higher than before.

So I am happy with my new 9100.

 

[TimeKeeper]

I got the flash program that able to force flash 52k 9100 bios into the 48K 8500 card.
However, before I flash I used Bios Editor 1.1D change its default Bios from 275/275 to 290/290.

After reboot, I reinstall the Cat3 driver. There isn't any improvement in 3Dmark, but it seems to has softer tone of image quality in UT2003.

 

[tenoc]

Oops, it flummoxed my dual monitor setup, so now I'm back to an 8500. :disgust: