flashed my vid card back to 1900xt and now no video on boot up - FIXED!

[dalearyous]

so i figured i'd be clever and flash my 1900xt bios to 1900xtx using ATI winflash and i think i screwed it up. computer doesn't recognize 1900 card and when i load CCC there is no display adapter. help

ok so i tried to flash the bios back and after the restart i get no video on bootup. the computer starts up and goes through its normal process but no video. is there a way to restore bios with jumpers or something? i think im screwed.

 

[Soccerman06]

You try the manufacture site?

 

[dalearyous]

changed the post. bigger problems now. no video at all after i tried to flash it back

 

[AznAnarchy99]

all i gota say is good luck

 

[TheRyuu]

So why did you try to flash a card that could OC to XTX speeds?

(and why did you flash an already fast card?, AND are there any reports on a flash being succesful?)

 

[BlacKJesuS]

this is where i sit you down....pat you on the shoulder....look into your eyes...and let you know you screwed up



try to reset cmos...helped me w/ no video

 

[ExtremePVDman]

Originally posted by: dalearyous
so i figured i'd be clever and flash my 1900xt bios to 1900xtx using ATI winflash and i think i screwed it up. computer doesn't recognize 1900 card and when i load CCC there is no display adapter. help

ok so i tried to flash the bios back and after the restart i get no video on bootup. the computer starts up and goes through its normal process but no video. is there a way to restore bios with jumpers or something? i think im screwed.

u flashed a 470 dollar vid card?.... man and I thought I was dumb....

 

[TheRyuu]

I can see myself flashing a 7800GT to get rid of the delta clock, but a X1900???? You'd have to point a gun to my head to make me do that.

 

[dalearyous]

ok ok thanks guys. i take it im ******. not quite sure why i flashed the card, was just messing around.

however i did think of one thing. what if i install another PCI-E card and use that as a display and hope that windows picks up both vid cards so i can flash the 1900xt back to original with the correct bios i guess.

OR

its still within 30 day return policy...but thats last resort

 

[dalearyous]

no other ideas?

 

[TheRyuu]

use a PCI (as in REGULAR PCI) video card and use that so that you can flash the X1900 to the original BACKED UP bios. Did you even back it up? I guess you can also download it from the manufacturers website too.

And I guess another PCIe card will work, not sure why not. But I've always used a backup PCI card.

 

[dalearyous]

yeah i think i might still have an old voodoo 3 lying around. btw tons of people have flashed their 1900xt to xtx without any problems. the main reason because you have more potential overclocking. quite a few found after the flash card overclocks higher

 

[Demoth]

Quite a few people have flashed the 1900XT to a 1900XTX BIOS with no problems. My guess is your BIOS flash was corrupted. Provided you did not backup your old BIOS, in which case the fix is easier, I'd try flashing the BIOS back using a floppy from DOS emulation. Since you have a black screen with the card, simply do every step to prepare for the BIOS flash using another vid card, then have the last command to execute the flash queued up to be exectued upon hitting enter and put in the X1900. I'd turn off detect new hardware in your computer's BIOS first before doing this.

Actually, since your playing around with the card's BIOS anyways, you might as well keep trying to flash the XTX BIOS in it first and see if you can get it working with the better BIOS. You get that working and you'll be golden as there is no reason the 1900XTx BIOS shouldn't work on your card unless you got a really bad draw on the memory capability, in which case an RMA would be best (for you as an overclocker).

If all else fails, return the card, just don't mention the BIOS flash. Since just about everyone who has tried this had no issue, your can assume the card was bad to begin with and not feel guilty.

 

[Powermoloch]

Damn ddue..u oughta back up ur previous BIOS. Sol

 

[dalearyous]

i fixed it. damn yeah it got flashed to 1900xt crossfire edition. but everything seems to be working fine now. im going to flash it back now

just as future reference hereis a really good thread to successfully flash it

edit* i need asus 1900xt bios rom file...can't seem to find one

 

[Killrose]

I had the same problem just recently when I flashed a 9700tx into a 9700non-pro, you are going to have to reflash it blind, and you might want to try a different flash utility. I usually use atiflash, but for some reason had to use ramflash to get mine to go.

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

Just plop an old PCI card in to do the flashing, it works like a charm and shouldn't cost you more than $10 if you don't have one on hand.

 

[dalearyous]

HAH! its now a xtx everything runs fine. you guys were sooo sure i was screwed...lol i was too but whatever

 

[Munky]

I flashed my xt to xtx also, so there's nothing wrong with doing that if you follow the right procedure. And always back up your original bios.

 

[nib95]

Originally posted by: munky
I flashed my xt to xtx also, so there's nothing wrong with doing that if you follow the right procedure. And always back up your original bios.

What if the XT cant cope at XTX speeds?
Even after the bios change, wont that truly mess up the GPU?

because I hear some XT's cant actually OC to XTX speeds.

 

[dalearyous]

its possible. but ive read a ton about this past 3 hours and a lot of people are beginning to think that xtx aren't cherry picked cores...just cards with different bios. i dunno. BTW, with new bios i got another 200 points in 3dmark06 to bring top score without OC to 5681

 

[Munky]

I tested it out before flashing. It ran 650 mhz on the core ok, and the mem reached about 750 - not 775 of the xtx, but since the xtx uses looser timings it had no problems doing 775 once I flashed the bios.

 

[moonboy403]

just reflash your card

 

[dalearyous]

Originally posted by: moonboy403
just reflash your card

im done flashing. its where i want it

 

[BlacKJesuS]

SO would it be dumb to flash my X850XT to pe speeds?