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bios flash x800 pro to XT

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Luca25

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So back in the heyday of the 9x00 series, all the rage was in flashing cards with different bioses (bioses, biosi...what is the correct plural?), thus getting a better card for a lower price. After cracking the core on my 9800xt, I bought an x800pro, and heard that this too was flashable to an XT (or XT-PE?). I was wondering what the procedure for this was.
 
Soo...AGP card or PCI-E? I assume AGP. Good man. That's the first requirement.
Now. Standard Pro version, or the Pro VIVO edition?

==|Here, our story takes a turn for the different. The unknown must be known, and decisions must be made accordingly. Follow, and be amazed...|==

Story 1
VIVO, edition, eh? Well, second pat on the back. Now, all you must do for this is follow this simple guide, complete with pictures. Good luck, and enjoy your beast. I did...video card wasn't bad either... ;)

Story 2
Oh, didn't spend the extra to grab that VIVO, eh? Shame on you. VIVO is actually an acronym for "well worth the extra moulah, you cheap Grecian". Well. Sometimes. Anyway, if you were unfortunate enought to skimp where it counts, you're going to have to rip out the conducive pen, and follow this not-so-simple but entirely manageable guide. Ah, dont get too violent when scraping away the rubber epoxy over the top of the transistors....fully borks your card like a giraffe in a glove. Or something like that.

Either way, you've got some fairly nice chances of hitting the 16-pipes. I've done 4, and 3 worked. The other one overclocked like a cracker once I gave it a few volt-mods and some water on top.
 
banGerprawN i have story 1 as indicated in my sig and i also posted the link in your story1
anyway if the flash fails is the card bonked?. I do have several pci cards in the house so maybe could recover that way. the other issue i was wondering about is say the unlocked 4 pipes are bad can you reflash with original bios and go back to just 12?
to the original poster im not trying to hijack your thread but i have the same questions.
 
Luca25 said:
So back in the heyday of the 9x00 series, all the rage was in flashing cards with different bioses (bioses, biosi...what is the correct plural?), thus getting a better card for a lower price. After cracking the core on my 9800xt, I bought an x800pro, and heard that this too was flashable to an XT (or XT-PE?). I was wondering what the procedure for this was.
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jesus, bios is an acronym BASIC INPUT OUTPUT SYSTEM. why r u even trying to apply the latin rule of plurals on an acronym? lol the word is BIOSes
 
flynlr said:
banGerprawN i have story 1 as indicated in my sig and i also posted the link in your story1
anyway if the flash fails is the card bonked?. I do have several pci cards in the house so maybe could recover that way. the other issue i was wondering about is say the unlocked 4 pipes are bad can you reflash with original bios and go back to just 12?
to the original poster im not trying to hijack your thread but i have the same questions.
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Yeah if you use the method he posted you should be able to go back to 12 pipelines just fine, its certainly worth trying though. My X800 pro did 550/570 on 16 pipes ;).
 
DarkBahamut said:
Yeah if you use the method he posted you should be able to go back to 12 pipelines just fine, its certainly worth trying though. My X800 pro did 550/570 on 16 pipes ;).
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well i have my current 12pipe card at 520/500 3dmark05 5291 im not sure i even need the improved speed but it would be [H] if i could get xt or xt-pe speeds on this puppy
:D
 
It shouldnt be that hard on the card. The clocks are really close (I have overclocked mine higher than xt), and the biggest difference is 12 vs 16 pipelines..

Im going to try mine when I get home :)
I got it from bestbuy last weekend, so if I fuck up, I can just play stupid and exchange it :cool:

OH OH OH OH AHOH AHHHHOOOOO!!!! MORE POWER!
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oh crap it seems i gotta reconnect my gdamm floppy drive to get this working.
 
OMFG i did the unlock via floppy flash and now 3d mark 05 is 6113 that was at 529/550
got 16 pipes fer free ok just 4 more but wow. and watching the temps during this it maxed at 55c
 
SWEET.
I was waiting for somebody to post on this who has done it.
Im going to do it as soon as I get home from work :)
 
flynlr said:
OMFG i did the unlock via floppy flash and now 3d mark 05 is 6113 that was at 529/550
got 16 pipes fer free ok just 4 more but wow. and watching the temps during this it maxed at 55c
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Yeah, sure is a great mod of the VIVOs. I ran my VIVO at the flashed 16 pipes and 550 core for a year and it ran great. Temps were alittle toasty on the stock cooler though (80C) so i used an AC silencer.
 
Be careful if quality is an absolute with you.

I flashed my Elsa x800 pro VIVO to 16 pipes and found it to be stable at 520c/540m in all games (BF2, HL2, D3, DS2).

Occasionally, glitches like a big pink pixel will appear in a sky texture that doesn't change even if you downclock the card.

I think many of us concluded that ATI was really binning hard to even GET the XT PE to market (paperlaunch, really), and many of the VIVOs had some glitchy pipes.

But, that being said, I can afford any card fortunately....but I like to get stuff free even more, SO in my box it stays.

We'll see about the R520.

Johnny Mo
 
I tried with mine a little earlier with no luck. I was "successful" in flashing it to x850xt from pro but it still only registered as having 12 pipes :(

Luckly it was absolutly no hassle getting it back to stock pro and it runs fine now.
 
lloose said:
I tried with mine a little earlier with no luck. I was "successful" in flashing it to x850xt from pro but it still only registered as having 12 pipes :(

Luckly it was absolutly no hassle getting it back to stock pro and it runs fine now.
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They musta been hard-locked then. Follow the 2nd link I posted up above to try and unlock it still.
 
i tried 3 times to get the 16 pipes then I re read the guide and noticed the -newbios part doh! that did the trick.
 
much thanks, will try in a few minutes, when my computer decides to recognize the card...

see, my 9800xt being dead, i couldnt uninstall the old driver, but instaleld the new card and it boots, but we get NOOOOTHING on the screen...any ideas?

btw, banGerprawN is the man, we share a similar sense of humor, high five.
 
Luca25 said:
much thanks, will try in a few minutes, when my computer decides to recognize the card...

see, my 9800xt being dead, i couldnt uninstall the old driver, but instaleld the new card and it boots, but we get NOOOOTHING on the screen...any ideas?

btw, banGerprawN is the man, we share a similar sense of humor, high five.
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lmao. Thanks, lol. Who da man?!
Anyway. It's probably just freaking out over the new card, as you hadnt uninstalled the old drivers. Try booting into safe mode (press F8 before windows starts to boot), uninstalling the drivers using DriverCleaner (run it twice), then boot back into standard windows, and give it all a shot again.
The fact that you can POST but not boot Windows just cries out driver problem.
 
I hate to hijhack, but can you flash an PCI-E x800Pro Vivo to XTPE speeds/pipes?
 
Skin said:
I hate to hijhack, but can you flash an PCI-E x800Pro Vivo to XTPE speeds/pipes?
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I had a huge-ass discussion (read : argument) about this a while back. Many people said "No, no you can not." while I said "See my 16-pipes of goodness and weep."
Long story short, I've only done 1 PCI-E flash, and I had to do the hard mod and check the core type at the same time.
This one...I offer no assurances or links on.
 
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