Alright. I didn't flash my X850 pro bios properly & I now get a blank screen. I don't have a pci video card handy to correct the bios. I do have onboard graphics but it appears I cannot utilize the onboard when the agp card is plugged in. Is this correct? Thanks for your help.
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Bad video card bios flash.
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Onboard may not work the same for flashing the card, the flash utility may not recognize your PCI-E card being there if you are using onboard. You can give it a try though. In my old system, I couldn't use onboard and PCI-E at the same time, I had to disable one to use the other.
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It's an AGP card. I forgot to mention that.
Doesn't make a difference. I did the same thing back in the day with the same card. I went to the local electronics junk shop, bought a $5 PCI videocard that had 1MB of memory on it from 1995 or whatever, and used it to flash my x850 AGP back to normal.
Well I picked up a temporary pci card to help get my X850pro back from the dead. I installed the pci card alongside the agp card & booted into windows. I removed all ATI drivers, re-booted into safe mode & ran Driver Cleaner 3 times.
I re-booted, entered the bios & changed the disply priority to pci. I then booted to my A: drive. I ran several versions of both flashrom & atiflash. I also had several versions of the bios. Each time I ran the flash utility, I would get "Error 0fl01".
flashrom(atiflash) -f -p 0 biosname.bin = "Error 0FL01 Rom Not Erased"
flashrom(atiflash) -f -p 1 biosname.bin = "Error 0FL01 Adaptor Not Found"
I've also tried -amtel, -sst to no avail. I am hoping I did not hose the card. Thanks for your help.
I re-booted, entered the bios & changed the disply priority to pci. I then booted to my A: drive. I ran several versions of both flashrom & atiflash. I also had several versions of the bios. Each time I ran the flash utility, I would get "Error 0fl01".
flashrom(atiflash) -f -p 0 biosname.bin = "Error 0FL01 Rom Not Erased"
flashrom(atiflash) -f -p 1 biosname.bin = "Error 0FL01 Adaptor Not Found"
I've also tried -amtel, -sst to no avail. I am hoping I did not hose the card. Thanks for your help.
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What did you do the first time to improperly flash your bios? Does atiflash identify the x850? It's strange that you are getting adapter not found.
Actually this thread made me go back and look at my onboard, I think that with onboard, it helps if it is the same manufacturer as your videocard and that allows you to use both. My onboard is Nvidia 6100 so it works with my 8800GT if I set onboard to boot first. Pleasant surprise, now I have 3 monitors going at the same time. And yes, I did do a bios flash to my 8800GT from my onboard video and it worked.
There must be some kind of boot utility that can identify what graphics adapters are installed, I get a feeling that ATI flash isn't seeing your x850.
Actually this thread made me go back and look at my onboard, I think that with onboard, it helps if it is the same manufacturer as your videocard and that allows you to use both. My onboard is Nvidia 6100 so it works with my 8800GT if I set onboard to boot first. Pleasant surprise, now I have 3 monitors going at the same time. And yes, I did do a bios flash to my 8800GT from my onboard video and it worked.
There must be some kind of boot utility that can identify what graphics adapters are installed, I get a feeling that ATI flash isn't seeing your x850.
This is not my main rig. This is a spare rig I have laying around. I used atiwinflash on the original flash. Now the program doesn't open. I'm assuming that's because it doesn't see an ATI card.
P4 2.8 (533 FSB)
1 gig DDR400 ram
ECS PM800-M2 Mobo
I believe the onboard is SiS.
P4 2.8 (533 FSB)
1 gig DDR400 ram
ECS PM800-M2 Mobo
I believe the onboard is SiS.