How long should this take? I wasn't quite ready to do it, but I accidentally hit the button anyway, I know I have the right BIOS selected, but as soon as I hit the button the system froze. I assume this is to prevent windows from interfering in the process, but it's been a few minutes. I don't want to cut it off, because if it's still flash I don't want to kill the card. What should I do?
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XT PE flash windows
- Thread starter Obi_Kwiet
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If it's frozen, then the only thing left to do would be reboot. If you're card displays no video or you get post codes, try the following.
what you'll need to do is get a dos disk (I assume you've got a working machine available since you're posting). Plenty of them can be found on the internet (in fact, I think bootdisk.com may have one). Get the dos-based ATI flash tools (Pretty sure TechPowerUp has them available for d/l). Get the original bios for your card and put it on the floppy with dos and the atiflash util.
Do one of two things now...set the floppy up to automatically force flash your card on bootup....or use a PCI video card to see what you're doing.
I always flash eeproms in dos mode, and especially not when the system is overclocked. It's quite possible that your card is NOT ruined, just that windows locked up while flashing and thus the eeprom has a corrupt image on it. Forcing the atiflash tool to flash the eeprom should bring it back to life.
After your card displays video again, you can try to re-flash the PE bios but I'd suggest doing it in dos if possible.
I don't have an x1800xt yet (be about a week or 2) so I'm not THAT familiar with flashing it. I have flashed my X800XL and a 9600XT though, and the same thing you're describing happened to my 9600xt while flashing. Doing the above brought the card back to life and is still being used in a mediapc
what you'll need to do is get a dos disk (I assume you've got a working machine available since you're posting). Plenty of them can be found on the internet (in fact, I think bootdisk.com may have one). Get the dos-based ATI flash tools (Pretty sure TechPowerUp has them available for d/l). Get the original bios for your card and put it on the floppy with dos and the atiflash util.
Do one of two things now...set the floppy up to automatically force flash your card on bootup....or use a PCI video card to see what you're doing.
I always flash eeproms in dos mode, and especially not when the system is overclocked. It's quite possible that your card is NOT ruined, just that windows locked up while flashing and thus the eeprom has a corrupt image on it. Forcing the atiflash tool to flash the eeprom should bring it back to life.
After your card displays video again, you can try to re-flash the PE bios but I'd suggest doing it in dos if possible.
I don't have an x1800xt yet (be about a week or 2) so I'm not THAT familiar with flashing it. I have flashed my X800XL and a 9600XT though, and the same thing you're describing happened to my 9600xt while flashing. Doing the above brought the card back to life and is still being used in a mediapc
Actually it was under clocked a tad at the time. It didn't actually do any flashing. I remember that I still had a PCIE video card around so if anything did go wrong I could always boot up with that, flash it back and the problem would be solved. But as it was nothing happened at all. I'll be flashing in DOS in the future then I guess.
Thanks!
Thanks!