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Bfg 5950 Bios

i swear id give my left nut for the BIOS from their BFG 5950..as long as the VIVO works :p
Someone has to have the bios fromt his thing or even a 5900ultra !!!
if youve got either the 5900ultra or 5950 please let me know and ill host it on my wussy ass ISP "webspace"
 
Doesnt that Leadtek one work? My BFG 5900 will be here Monday. I dont care about the ViVo though, I just want the 5900U or 5950 speed from it.
 
Originally posted by Visable-assassin
i swear id give my left nut for the BIOS from their BFG 5950..as long as the VIVO works :p
Someone has to have the bios fromt his thing or even a 5900ultra !!!
if youve got either the 5900ultra or 5950 please let me know and ill host it on my wussy ass ISP "webspace"
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Lol..I don't know about giving any body parts for the a file but yeah it would be pretty cool to have the BFG version. :D
 
Originally posted by RaZeR
Yes, it works.
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yes what works? flashing a BFG to a leadtek and having the VIVO work? if so then ill try it...but i want my god damn VIVO !
 
If it has a Phillips chip on it, then VIVO should still work, since the Leadtek card follows the reference design as well, with the exception of the cooler. The only time that VIVO and TV-out problems arise is when you try to flash a 59XX card that doesn't have the Phillips SA7108 chip on it with a bios of a card that has the SA7108 chip. The GFFX 59XX's that don't have the Phillips SA7108 chip on them use the on die TV-out encoder built into the NV3X. This and the amount and type of RAM, and cooling solutions are the only differences between various GFFX 59XX's.

So to sum it up as long as you flash a 59XX card that has a Phillips SA7108 chip on it with a bios from a card that has a Phillips SA7108 on it, VIVO should still work.

The TV related problems arise when you try to flash a board without the Phillips chip with a bios from a board that has the Phillips chip or vice versa.
 
Originally posted by Particleman
If it has a Phillips chip on it, then VIVO should still work, since the Leadtek card follows the reference design as well, with the exception of the cooler. The only time that VIVO and TV-out problems arise is when you try to flash a 59XX card that doesn't have the Phillips SA7108 chip on it with a bios of a card that has the SA7108 chip. The GFFX 59XX's that don't have the Phillips SA7108 chip on them use the on die TV-out encoder built into the NV3X. This and the amount and type of RAM, and cooling solutions are the only differences between various GFFX 59XX's.

So to sum it up as long as you flash a 59XX card that has a Phillips SA7108 chip on it with a bios from a card that has a Phillips SA7108 on it, VIVO should still work.

The TV related problems arise when you try to flash a board without the Phillips chip with a bios from a board that has the Phillips chip or vice versa.
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interesting..so can you tell us right off what chip the BFG is useing? And which should be flashed to..the leadtek?
 
The Leadtek 5950 has a philips SA7108. If your BFG 59XX has VIVO it should have it the philips chip as well. To make sure you can check your board, the philips chip looks like this:
http://www.firingsquad.com/media/article_image.asp?fs_article_id=1396&pic_id=24

If your board has a empty square of pins where the phillips chip goes like the ASUS in this picture, then you will need to find a bios from a board that doesn't have this chip on it if you want TV-out to continue to function.
http://www.firingsquad.com/media/article_image.asp?fs_article_id=1307&pic_id=03

Comparing the two boards in the second picture you can see the difference between a card which has the chip (the reference board in that picture) and one that doesn't (the ASUS).
 
Originally posted by Particleman
The Leadtek 5950 has a philips SA7108. If your BFG 59XX has VIVO it should have it the philips chip as well. To make sure you can check your board, the philips chip looks like this:
http://www.firingsquad.com/media/article_image.asp?fs_article_id=1396&pic_id=24

If your board has a empty square of pins where the phillips chip goes like the ASUS in this picture, then you will need to find a bios from a board that doesn't have this chip on it if you want TV-out to continue to function.
http://www.firingsquad.com/media/article_image.asp?fs_article_id=1307&pic_id=03

Comparing the two boards in the second picture you can see the difference between a card which has the chip (the reference board in that picture) and one that doesn't (the ASUS).
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yeah ive got the phillips chip. I did the leadtek flash last night.
it allowed me to get a whopping 20mhz on my core over what I normally got and a pathetic 25mhz on my ram LOL so i just flashed it back to the origanal BFG5900 bios and left it
 
I thought the bios flashed it to 5900U or 5950 speeds, whichever bios you picked.
 
Originally posted by fallguy
I thought the bios flashed it to 5900U or 5950 speeds, whichever bios you picked.
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you are correct :)
but people pick the 5950 since you can get a higher OC due to the increased voltage....even though it is slight
 
Ok, I misunderstood you. With the bios flash, you are at 475/475, correct? Thats the default 5950 speeds if Im not mistaken.

So you can get just 20Mhz core, and 25Mhz higher on the memory with the flash. What are yout top overclocking speeds, with and without the flash?
 
Originally posted by fallguy
Ok, I misunderstood you. With the bios flash, you are at 475/475, correct? Thats the default 5950 speeds if Im not mistaken.

So you can get just 20Mhz core, and 25Mhz higher on the memory with the flash. What are yout top overclocking speeds, with and without the flash?
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I just read what I posted last night my wording is all fucked up.
My stock 5900 does 470/965 before the flash so with the flash (475/950) I gain an extra 5mhz on my core..and nothing on my ram (remember 965>950) and after the flash (while useing stock 5950 speeds) I can do 490 on the core (20mhz over my stock 5900) and only 990 on the ram
(itll do 995 memory but artifacts after about an hour of play)

so a whopping 20mhz over what my stock 5900 was allready giving me on the core and 25 on the ram...whoopidy doo LOL
perhaps later when I decide to WC it ill volt mod it and go to town :)
hope that makes sense to ya
 
Originally posted by fallguy
Understood now. I may not flash mine then.
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well results vary bro.
you may get some wicked ass OC where as mine just wasnt really worth a damn. You'll never know till you try it out man :)
Besides if I dont like how mines running...ill just buy the next NV card out.
 
Well, its for my daughters SFF case. I have a 9800XT in my machine.

Ive never flashed a card, and neither of my PC's have a floppy in them. I do have another that does.. just doesnt have any ram in it. Ill probably use it to try and flash, if I do.
 
Originally posted by fallguy
Well, its for my daughters SFF case. I have a 9800XT in my machine.

Ive never flashed a card, and neither of my PC's have a floppy in them. I do have another that does.. just doesnt have any ram in it. Ill probably use it to try and flash, if I do.
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Flashes are easy man, I remember flashing my GF2 GTS to a GF2 PRO then modifying the BIOS to OC it past GF2 ultra specs...lost my video out with that card...but the bitch still screams pretty well :)
 
I just aquired a Leadtek 5900U vivo ..I just might try this flash ..:)
 
I flashed my gainward, and had pretty good results. The speeds are in my sig.

The max core speed before the flash was about 480
 
Looks like I wont be doing any flashing... the card doesnt want to do anything 3D. Whenever I try.. just get a black screen. Probably the small PSU in this SFF, but then my 9800XT worked fine in there. :sigh:
 
Originally posted by fallguy
Looks like I wont be doing any flashing... the card doesnt want to do anything 3D. Whenever I try.. just get a black screen. Probably the small PSU in this SFF, but then my 9800XT worked fine in there. :sigh:
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I know what you mean. I had a 5700 Ultra working in my loaded SFF HTPC (512MB, P4 2.66GHz, 120GB, WinTV PVR250, 4x DVD burner) and the system wouldn't up power on with an AIW 9700 Pro installed, even after I unplugged everything but the AIW 9700 Pro, CPU and memory. And the HTPC had a 230W PSU in it.
 
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