Flashed My 128mb Readon 9800 pro to an XT working great.. Wahoo

[FiLeZz]

Life is good.

This will last me till the SLI boards are out in force..

went from a Retail ATI 9800 pro 128mb to a 9800 XT with a bios flash on the card..

Now I am running as a 9800xt

 

[HonkeyDonk]

Originally posted by: FiLeZz
Life is good.

This will last me till the SLI boards are out in force..

went from a Retail ATI 9800 pro 128mb to a 9800 XT with a bios flash on the card..

Now I am running as a 9800xt

nice man...

have you done any 3dmarks to see if your scores are higher?

edit: oh btw, is it possible to flash a 9600xt to anything higher? That's what I have right now, ATI Radeon 9600XT 128mb.

 

[Doggiedog]

Any threads you can refer to me to?

I haven't been on the HW forums lately.

I'd like to try this myself.

 

[geno]

What's the advantage to running the xt firmware? Is there any such flash for any other cards?

 

[jjones]

Originally posted by: FiLeZz
Life is good.

This will last me till the SLI boards are out in force..

went from a Retail ATI 9800 pro 128mb to a 9800 XT with a bios flash on the card..

Now I am running as a 9800xt

I have a 9800 pro. What does changing the bios to a 9800 xt do for you?

 

[welst10]

What's difference between that and overclocking 9800pro. I overclocked mine to 420/360. if I flash it, will it be even better?

 

[GoodToGo]

Sweet, I want to see it next time you get it by Karsten's Also I have a 9800 AIW, guess I can give it a shot as well

 

[LongCoolMother]

Originally posted by: welst10
What's difference between that and overclocking 9800pro. I overclocked mine to 420/360. if I flash it, will it be even better?

ditto.

 

[FiLeZz]

here are some the bios files

http://koti.mbnet.fi/elixir/Radeon/XT/R360-128/index.html

make sure to match up your ram..

 

[FiLeZz]

More info to figure out if you have a r350 core or a r360 core on your card..

http://www.sxtech.co.uk/cgi-bin/index.pl?starton=http://www.sxtech.co.uk/html/sectthr/flashxt.htm

 

[FiLeZz]

post on flashing the r360 core 9800 pros

http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=332242

 

[MikeMike]

hmm i have an ATI radeon 9800pro, will that work? its not a sapphire. it was from the CompUSSR deal a while ago.

MIKE

 

[Ausm]

Hmm I wonder if that will work on my video card.

Flashed from

9800 non-PRo (Dell Card)---->9800 Pro----->9800 XT ?


Sysadmin

 

[FiLeZz]

how to mackup and restore your bios


http://www.rojakpot.com/default.aspx?location=3&var1=92&var2=9

 

[kalster]

Originally posted by: FiLeZz
More info to figure out if you have a r350 core or a r360 core on your card..

http://www.sxtech.co.uk/cgi-bin/index.pl?starton=http://www.sxtech.co.uk/html/sectthr/flashxt.htm

R350 core

but i have mine overclocked to 420/370

 

[blurredvision]

Sounds as if a bunch of people in this thread are getting ready to fark up their cards........

 

[FiLeZz]

Well it would be one less thing on startup.
and one less registry..
I would much rather overclock via hardware level then software level any day.

Mine is fantastic running great.

I had to try 3 differant bios files before I made out ok.
first few gave me graphic artifacts
Had to get a bios to match my RAM on the card.
I have Hynix ram not samsung

 

[FiLeZz]

From what I understand.
It will work on all brands..
If not its easy to correct anything that goes wrong. By making a backup bios file.

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: blurredvision
Sounds as if a bunch of people in this thread are getting ready to fark up their cards........

Been Running mine OC'ed for 6 months now

Sysadmin

 

[FiLeZz]

Why not try.. Easy to back out..

 

[FiLeZz]

Nahh.. Not that big of a deal..

Follow steps to backup your bios..

make a floppy to auto restore original.
you then have almost no chance of f****ing up the card...

 

[blurredvision]

Originally posted by: FiLeZz
Why not try.. Easy to back out..

Is it? I know it could be done, but seems as if I heard some horror stories of people who tried this, but weren't able to go back.

If so, I take back my previous statement . I just hate to see a bunch of OT commoners who may not know what they're doing mess anything up in their system because it worked for you. Good luck though .

 

[FiLeZz]

Originally posted by: blurredvision

Originally posted by: FiLeZz
Why not try.. Easy to back out..

Is it? I know it could be done, but seems as if I heard some horror stories of people who tried this, but weren't able to go back.

If so, I take back my previous statement . I just hate to see a bunch of OT commoners who may not know what they're doing mess anything up in their system because it worked for you. Good luck though .

It's like anything eles in life without the risk there is no gain..

 

[kalster]

yay for 3 more frames

 

[imported_KirbsAw]

r350 for me