Sapphire X800 Pro Vivo Flash Problem

Consilio · Mar 28, 2005, 05:55 AM

Hi guys,

Any help on this would be very appreciated...

I have a Sapphire X800 Pro VIVO Vid card 256mb DDR3 PCI-E.

I successfully flashed the card with the Sapphire X800 XT Bios but when rebooting windows determines the card is now an X800 SE and when using ATI Tool I show only 12 pipelines though the core and memory clocks are both at 500 which is at the XT clock rate.

The card has the yellow adapter, I tried several bios's all with success but they all show the card to be X800 SE after I restart. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?

I saw another post on here where someone was using the wrong version of the flashrom program. ATIflash doesnt work at all, it doesnt recognize the card at all.

I use flashrom, and I think its flashrom16p, any help at all would be appreciated.

Consilio · Mar 28, 2005, 07:08 AM

After further research this doesnt quite make sense.

ATI Tool shows the core to be R423 which is the same as the X800 XT PCI-E.

The driver that window wants to put in is the X800 SE, this is shown to have only 8 pipelines at 425/350 here:

http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/

I am running windows MC 2005 if that makes any difference. Does the bios flash make the card report a different core?

any help appreciated...

Consilio · Mar 28, 2005, 07:19 AM

OK, with a little more research I found an answer here:

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=2420

Looks as though I have a laser cut on the core of the card. Guess I will be getting a conductive pain pen.

GoLLuM4444 · Mar 28, 2005, 10:49 AM

lol "pain pen"

Mar 28, 2005, 05:55 AM	#1
Consilio Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 8 (0.00/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Sapphire X800 Pro Vivo Flash Problem Hi guys, Any help on this would be very appreciated... I have a Sapphire X800 Pro VIVO Vid card 256mb DDR3 PCI-E. I successfully flashed the card with the Sapphire X800 XT Bios but when rebooting windows determines the card is now an X800 SE and when using ATI Tool I show only 12 pipelines though the core and memory clocks are both at 500 which is at the XT clock rate. The card has the yellow adapter, I tried several bios's all with success but they all show the card to be X800 SE after I restart. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? I saw another post on here where someone was using the wrong version of the flashrom program. ATIflash doesnt work at all, it doesnt recognize the card at all. I use flashrom, and I think its flashrom16p, any help at all would be appreciated.

Mar 28, 2005, 07:08 AM	#2
Consilio Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 8 (0.00/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	further info After further research this doesnt quite make sense. ATI Tool shows the core to be R423 which is the same as the X800 XT PCI-E. The driver that window wants to put in is the X800 SE, this is shown to have only 8 pipelines at 425/350 here: http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/ I am running windows MC 2005 if that makes any difference. Does the bios flash make the card report a different core? any help appreciated...

Mar 28, 2005, 07:19 AM	#3
Consilio Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 8 (0.00/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	ok answered my Q OK, with a little more research I found an answer here: http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=2420 Looks as though I have a laser cut on the core of the card. Guess I will be getting a conductive pain pen.

Mar 28, 2005, 10:49 AM	#4
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