X800 Pro VIVO to XT PE Bios Mod

Can i open Pipes in my card ( Powercolor X800GT R480 Core) or not ? #_#

and if i do - how ? :P

thanks

[djbbenn]

Originally Posted by Battousai5000

Can i open Pipes in my card ( Powercolor X800GT R480 Core) or not ? #_#

and if i do - how ? :P

thanks

Are far as people know, no you can't.

-Dan

[MillerDuck]

Has anyone had any experience with this particular card? I am planning on trying the softmod, but wanted to know of any issues/pitfalls that anyone else ran into.

Thanks in advance,
MD

[djbbenn]

Theres probably a 95% chance that you can't mod it. It will have a laser cut (may not, but no one has heard of that before) and most of the PCI-E cards mess up by showing up as a GT and the pipes just don't unlock. You can hardmod, but it still prabably wont work.

-Dan

[MillerDuck]

Originally Posted by djbbenn

Theres probably a 95% chance that you can't mod it. It will have a laser cut (may not, but no one has heard of that before) and most of the PCI-E cards mess up by showing up as a GT and the pipes just don't unlock. You can hardmod, but it still prabably wont work.

-Dan

Thanks for the info, I will post here with my results after I take a shot at it.

MD

[bobyjo]

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=8718993

This is the score of my system with the new flashed video card and the new Patriot XBLK memory.

Quite a bit of improvement over the std X800 XT and the Corsair Value Select Memory.
I am happy with this. Don't see any need to OC any farther.
I have had this board to 296x9 the other day.
The Corsair memory would not hold these settings for over a few hours, then began to reboot.
I checked the temps of the cpu=47c, the video card core=42c, have no idea what the temp of the memory was.
Anyway I have things pretty much the way I want them.

[k800]

have you done 3d mark 05 testing ?

as for the vivo pci-e thing, I tried the 16p pro bios, but no display on the monitor at all..
I will try the XT bios next, my card runs 3d mark 05 fine @ 500/500

Depending on the difficulty and danger I might check whether the pipes are actuall laser cut (?). Anyone have any advice on the removal of the heatsink?

[AceFactor]

Heat it up with a hair dryer, this will make the thermal turn into its liquid state

-Adam

[bobyjo]

I have ran 3DMark05 on the system prior to the new memory.
I have not ran it today.

[djbbenn]

Originally Posted by MillerDuck

Thanks for the info, I will post here with my results after I take a shot at it.

MD

Good luck man.

-Dan

[k800]

I flashed my card to x800 xt. This time it booted up, however, it first recognized as x800 SE, and when I installed the drivers it said either x800 se or gt drivers would be compatible. I forced it to install the x800xt drivers, restarted, but it detected only 12 pipelines in rivatuner.. as predicted i guess. Clocks are 500/500. Tested and confirmed to be within ten points to the 3d Mark 05 performance of a overclocked x800 pro to 500/500.

MillerDuck this may be of some use to you since we are in the same situation


I will try now to look under the heatsink and spy the lasercut!



k800

[MillerDuck]

Did you happen to get yours direct from ATI on their "REFURB" clearance? Mine is still in FedEx's hands. It only cost me $179 so I figure I can abuse it a little to try and make this work.

Hurry up FedEx!!

MD

[k800]

Yes, I did. Cool we will try to work together on this...

Although I couldn't get any video on the 16p pro bios, with the XT bios I was able to get into windows, though it did recognize as an SE or GT. So if you are flashing, be prepared to blind flash back, the flash utility has a nice chime that it plays through the speaker when its done, so that's nice.

[k800]

Millerduck, read this thread: http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread....hreadid=129374

especially the posts by the thread starter, underwind, i think, over the first two pages. What are then your results from his check using rivatuner?, I will post mine when I go home later today.

IOW do you have xxxxfxxx ?

[bobyjo]

My card was purchased from Visiontek.
The Xtasy X800 XT PE line was on backorder for over 6 months. After my order was in for over a month. I cancelled it and took a X800 XT instead.
I had that card within a week after changing the order.
I actually purchased this card for a customer. He got defiant over the fact it was not the PE version. This was after I called him and explained the situation to him.
He stated go ahead and order the card and call me when it arives.
Needless to say, I became a little agrivated and refused to give back the deposit he had put up on the card.
I had witness to verify my calling him and his agreement to take the non PE card.
When I confronted him over this, he threw a fit and stated this guy would agree to say anything for me.
This card cost us $492.50 including shipping to our shop. I flashed the bios to the XT PE version last week.
I do not feel bad over the flashing, the card is performing flawlessly before and after.

[k800]

So I guess that's that =/:

256-bit R423 (12x1) with 256MB DDR3 memory
Reg 00000990: eff37fff
Reg 00000994: fffff71e
Reg 0000099c: 00000660
Reg 0000402c: 000227a4

laser locked & an on-die lock according to Unwinder..

k800

have tried this mod on my X850 Pro VIVO and no success on the pipes, is a new card so not sure if it would work, but having flashed back to my original bios, I can not get the fan on the card to function atall, any ideas why?
thanks
iZonus

[bobyjo]

The card may be damaged.
I don't think the bios would have control over the fan as to wheather the fan runs or not.
I am sure there are controls over fan speeds and temp regulation, but as to the fan not even turning.
I think I would take it back to where you purchased it and exchange for a new one.

cheers, will look into it further and let you kno wat happens, thanks for the responce
iZonus

[MillerDuck]

I will post my RivaTuner results tonight as the card should be here and installed by then.

hey, iZonus here, I posted regarding the fan failure on my card post Bios swapping, well after looking into it a bit more, even after flashing an empty bios, and then my original card bios, under Sisoft Sandra's video system information it recognises the chipset as X850 Platinum Edition even though the bios and the chipset is actually X850 Pro, any ideas how I can return it to its proper state?
cheers.

[Zoors]

Looks great, but im unsure about one thing... I have a Club3D X800PRO VIVO and it has no bios in the list (want the XT PE) so what BIOS could I use, if I could?

[bobyjo]

Run ATI Flash -i this will download a copy of your present bios to the floppy disk.
Then look at the file and write down the size of the bios file.
Say if it is 54kb, then go to SapphireTech and find a new bios file that is 54kb and is a XT PE bios.
That bios will work with your card.

The reason I am suggesting Sapphire Tech, they make most of all the ATI Radeon cards out there. You may get an error about the ID does not match, if that happens then run atiflash biosfile -f.

If you are wondering what I ment by "biosfile", this is where you would type in the exact name of the bios file you are wanting to flash your card with.

This f forces the flash to finish on your card.

[iZonus]

would having used Flashrom instead of ATIFlash caused any problems? I can't see how as your merely just changing the bios file, Have tried a number of Bios files and to no evail, the fan still wont come back on, I have read somewhere that you can get problems with voltage peaks on the board fans, and that the motors can go, to save the hassle of returning the card, I have ordered a Zalman VF700CU and will go that route, was going to get an Arctic Cooling ATI V5 Rev2 Silencer, but it attaches to the cards fan socket, so thought I better not risk it, Thanks tho bobyjo for the advice etc. Kudos

[bobyjo]

I have never used flashrom, so I can't give any advise on that.
I always have used ATIFlash and never had a problem with anything.