So, say I flashed the BIOS of an AGP x800 with a PCIE bios?

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arkk

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Am I fuxed? Any one ever do this? All I know is I think I flashed my ATI Radeon x800 Pro *AGP* card with a PCIE bios. I didn't know it was a PCI Express bios. Right now I am on a PCI video card, a Riva TNT, lol. I can't even get anything on the screen when the x800 pro is in the PC, even if the BIOS is set to boot from PCI.

Help please, lol.
 
arkk said:
Am I fuxed? Any one ever do this? All I know is I think I flashed my ATI Radeon x800 Pro *AGP* card with a PCIE bios. I didn't know it was a PCI Express bios. Right now I am on a PCI video card, a Riva TNT, lol. I can't even get anything on the screen when the x800 pro is in the PC, even if the BIOS is set to boot from PCI.

Help please, lol.
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Leave the PCI card in, put the AGP card back in. Boot, and reflash the BIOS on the card with the proper version.
 
That is the problem. If I have the AGP card in(x800), no matter whether power is connected to it or not, the computer will not boot. I get nothing on the screen booting from the PCI card with the x800 in the AGP slot. Also, I tried this in 2 computers thinking maybe it was the power supply, and it still did not work. I also disconnected all fans, hard drive and cd-rom and it still wont boot. I ALSO tried a different AGP card in the slot while booting from the PCI card, and it DOES work, as long as it is not the x800.

Would just wrongly flashing the bios make this happen? Moral of the story is, if that x800 is in the AGP slot, no matter what I do I cannot boot.
 
arkk said:
Would just wrongly flashing the bios make this happen? Moral of the story is, if that x800 is in the AGP slot, no matter what I do I cannot boot.
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Nope, the "moral of the story" is don't flash your AGP card with a PCI-Express card bios. :D

*runs off cliff*
 
SPARTAN VI said:
Nope, the "moral of the story" is don't flash your AGP card with a PCI-Express card bios. :D

If you have a friend with a PCI-E rig, maybe he can flash it back for you?
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It would be hard to shove the AGP card into the PCI-E slot. :)

:D :p :eek:
 
in your bios...

Change settings so you let PCI display power on the computer...
 
I am 99% certain you've bricked that card... Good news is an AGP X800 is not *THAT* expensive.... ($200 even so, give or take).

is it under warranty? Maybe call the manufacturer and see if they can reflash it?

Other thing you can do (unethical and illegal though) is to go buy an X800 EXACTLY like yours - locally in retail, then take home unbox, replace card, return to point of purchase saying it wont boot in your PC.

Not that I am recommending that... Just saying...
 
Binford said:
I am 99% certain you've bricked that card... Good news is an AGP X800 is not *THAT* expensive.... ($200 even so, give or take).

is it under warranty? Maybe call the manufacturer and see if they can reflash it?

Other thing you can do (unethical and illegal though) is to go buy an X800 EXACTLY like yours - locally in retail, then take home unbox, replace card, return to point of purchase saying it wont boot in your PC.

Not that I am recommending that... Just saying...
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Try to find a retail X800 these days :D
 
Marvelous said:
in your bios...

Change settings so you let PCI display power on the computer...
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Did you try this? I have not used a computer with AGP in a long time, but there should be a setting in the BIOS to set the display device priority, basically tells the computer what to use if there are two cards present, boot up with the TNT, look and see if your bios has this feature, and if it is set on AGP, change it to PCI. Then put the x800 back in, and pray that it boots (with the TNT as the primary and the ati in) and try to reflash it.

Sorry to tell you though, but your card is most likely bricked.
 
Dude what have you done ?

I have done this on countless occasions but you have to have a 2nd agp card !
Pull the card you have in the slot out ,put the second agp card in (thats good ),
hook it up to the monitor boot the pc ,shut the pc down ,remove good agp card ,
replace with hybrid pcie x64 & use to be good AGP card (just kidding ) by then you must
have your floppy ready to go inserted into the drive with correct firmware for that card
(also make shur it's all hooked up to the monitor) ,and boot-up and do a blind flash and it will work (and please
don't tell me you don't have a floppy drive ) good luck.
 
MOC said:
Dude what have you done ?

I have done this on countless occasions but you have to have a 2nd agp card !
Pull the card you have in the slot out ,put the second agp card in (thats good ),
hook it up to the monitor boot the pc ,shut the pc down ,remove good agp card ,
replace with hybrid pcie x64 & use to be good AGP card (just kidding ) by then you must
have your floppy ready to go inserted into the drive with correct firmware for that card
(also make shur it's all hooked up to the monitor) ,and boot-up and do a blind flash and it will work (and please
don't tell me you don't have a floppy drive ) good luck.
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i'm with MOC on this one. blind flash should do it.
 
MOC I tried that, it did not work. The problem is that when the card I screwed up is in the actual AGP slot, the monitor, and seemingly the PC, never even kick in. The power turns on, fans spinning, drives humming, but theres never any connection. Whereas when I have my other AGP card or PCI card in, the monitor turns on within seconds. With the x800 I broke(it seems), the monitor light will just keep on blinking.

I set an autoexec on a floppy and even tried disabling the cd-rom and hard drive so it only had that to boot from. No go. It will not boot from the floppy. My PC acts like it is in limbo.

I guess the fact that an AGP card which is my VGA adapter having a bios that makes it think its a PCIE card is just totally throwing off the motherboard.
 
If its unfixable maybe I'll post it in the For Sale section for like 50 bucks if someone thinks they can do it, lol.
 
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