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Flashing video cards

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suprropmp

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Somebody enlighten me on how this works.. for example I've seen people talk about flashing 9800 pro to a 9800 xt, how does that work?
 
Same thing as flashing the motherboard, but with a BIOS for the video card. Very risky in my opinion. If your flash goes bad, you won't be able to RMA it.
 
Originally posted by suprropmp
why would it go bad? sorry I've never flashed anything before....
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How could it go bad?

Let me count the ways: (and no, not all of these have happened to me)

-Trip on power cord mid-flash.
-Power outage mid-flash.
-Short something out inside pc during flash, resetting pc.
-Flash new, buggy firmware the day it comes out.
-Flash wrong firmware to card.
-Flash what appears to be right firmware to card, only to learn later that there are several suble different hardware versions of card, each with own unique firmware. (well, it was unique before, anyway)
-Flash corrupted firmware to card (bad download)
-God reaches down and lays the smack down on ya for going against the rules (swear this one's happened to me more than once)

did i miss any, guys?
 
Ignad - I think you forgot the meteor shower, alien invasion and sunami hazzards but other than that, you got it covered :D

Flashing can be very risky but if you prepare a DOS boot disk with a copy of the original VC BIOS on it an write an autoexec to automatically flash, you should be OK if you have a problem. A PCI VC can also save your butt if you have a bad flash. Just remember that as said before, you still could kill the card.
 
It can always be un-done. (i already have one) but you can always go the the store and buy a cheap 8-meg PCI video card, they are like $10 now. Then flash back, provided you were smart enough to back up your original firmware.
 
ok so to recap:

1) back up original firmware, with autoexec file on a floppy
2) flash 9800pro with 9800xt firmware and hope it works


that should do it, right?
 
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