Flashing Video Card

Yeah, there's a file called a .ima

I don't understand how I'm supposed to make a bootable image with flashrom or whatever. How come I can't open the flashrom in windows? Ugh, so confusing!
 
ive done it with cds but never with dvds ,

i think its simular ,

read up in the nero manual on making bootable cds/dvds
 
bobrownik said:
ive done it with cds but never with dvds ,

i think its simular ,

read up in the nero manual on making bootable cds/dvds
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Alright I just tried and it didn't work. I couldn't locate any of the files on the disc.

Here is what I did:
I opened Nero SmartStart and clicked the advanced checkbox.
I went to the data section and hit create bootable DVD
On the menu that popped up I hit the image file then selected C:\Program Files\Nero\Nero 7\Core\DosBootimage.IMA
I hit new
I dragged the files (Flashrom.exe, Sapphire.X800GTO2_16P.Samsung16.bin, FLASHROM.ROM, FLASHROM.CHG) into the box
I burned the DVD
I booted it up
Let it load into DOS
in the A:\ directory (the default one that it put me in), I typed this exactly:
atiflash -f -p Sapphire.X800GTO2_16P.Samsung16.bin
And it loaded for a second
then it said files not found or dont exist blah blah blah

So I used the cd command and the dir command to explore the disc, but I didn't find anything that I put on there.

what am I doing wrong?
 
chameleoneel said:
making bootable cd's or dvd's is needlessly unclear.

its much easier to use a usb flash drive. that's how I do my flashing. I did this same mod on my connect 3d x800 GTO http://www.techpowerup.com/articles//overclocking/vidcard/34/5

or, you could make a bootable dos partition, which is pretty easy as well. the hard part is getting a copy of dos. and even that isn't too bad.

http://www.techpowerup.com/articles//overclocking/vidcard/34/6
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Agreed! I'm getting some help right now from the guys on the forum. Unfortunately for me I don't have any USB flash drives and my internet speed isn't exactly up to par for downloading a copy of dos. :(
 
I finally got it working.

ANYBODY HAVING PROBLEMS WITH BURNING BOOT CDS/DVDS FOR THIS MOD:
Download this file and open it with Nero Burning ROM. For CD's, go to the top right corner and select CD. For DVD, go to the top right corner and select DVD.

Go to bios and set the boot order to set the CD/DVD drive first.
Insert the disc
Boot from disc
Type 'dir' without quotes.
Look for the bottom .bin file (It will be like GTO25089.bin or something like that with numbers at the end)
Type flashrom -f -p 0 'insertbinnamehere'.bin
Let it flash the video card to 16 pipes.

Your done!
 
awesome!

though i use a usb flash drive, i downloaded this on principle.
just in case someone i know needs it.
 
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