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Video Card Bios Flash - Will this work?

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Soldur

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Today I received my BbATI x850 Pro 256 mb AGP card, quite a difference from the old 9800 Pro! :)

It came clocked at 500/500, so far I have been able to keep it running stable with no artifacts over a multi-hour gaming session at 590/610.

The next logical step for me to try in my performance hungry mind would be to flash the bios and try to unlock the exta 4 pipelines. I have verifed this can be done to some of the x850Pro VIVO cards (which mine is) by flashing them with the X850XT bios.

The only X850XT AGP bios I can find appears to be for the boards that have the Samsung 1.6 chips on them. I looked up the memory chips on my board and they appear to be the Samsung 2.0 chips. I am also a bit confused because even though I have the Samsung 2.0 chips, I can run them as fast or faster than the Samsung 1.6 chips. Will this bios work for my card, or am I going to mess it up by trying to load it?
 
Dont bother, download and install riva turner and see if you can simply unlock the pipes with that
 
With a spare PCI card you can always flash back if it goes wrong. I had to do that when I had a bad flash on a 6800GT. There's no way to destroy the card with a bad flash.
 
If you attach you stock bios I can mod it to open the extra pipelines for you. That will also keep fan control enabled, using the xt/xt pe bios on a pro card kills fan control. The only way to get it back is to use the -f option to force the xt flash, then reflash the pro bios without the -f, that leaves the pipeline section alone but rewrites the section that has the fan control routine.
 
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