Radeon 9550 to 9600 Bios Mod

I bought a Sapphire Radeon 9550 and want to flash to 9600 Pro. The card has Samsung 507 memory. I am curious as to weather there's a difference in Samsung 4.0/5.0. Please clear this up for me

Paul

I flashed card success... but the system bios displays very slowly now... is there a reason for this and or a fix?

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I have this graphics card form GeCube named Radeon 9800 (R360 VPU) 128-bit. The Catalyst states tat its a 9800XT card while the box says it's 9800PRO. So which one do i follow? And how do i flash it with a better BIOS? Hynix memory btw...

And btw GeCUBE sucks. Bought for only 6 months and the fan got spoiled for no reason. Took it out and used my own house fan to blow the computer >_>.

Hi.

I'm trying to replace my Sapphire R9550 128mb (250/200 5.0ns Elixir) bios with Sapphire R9600 NP 128mb (also Elixir 5.0).

I'm not sure what exactly I can/can't do...

Can I get another manufacturer's bios on use it or does it have to be from the same manuf. ?

Does the memory brand have to be the same (in my case, Elixir) ?

For some reason, I was expecting the new device ID to be 4152 but it's actually 4150 on the R9600 NP...

Is that a bad thing? Would that be incompatible, problematic, or slower?

Dear Wizard,

Recently, I have bought sapphire radeon 9550 256mb ddr (USD. 80) and felt unsattisfied, so i'd like to change the card into Saphhire 9600XT which cost only USD. 140.
A couple days ago, i was read an article mentioning about flash 9550 into 9600 pro, instead of buy a new card, i'll take this risk since it much afford then you have to buy a new card.
Please tell me the step by step instruction to flash my card into 9600 pro.
Well, i do not know what kind of memory i have (E.G. Samsung, Hynix, Etc) to looking the 9600 bios,
i also have downloaded some new bios from this site to matches the card (Powercolor 9600pro 256mb, sapphire 9600 pro 256mb ddr). Could you advise which bios will be match properly with my card and how to flash the card. (Step by Step methods).
For your information, i have update my catalyst driver from softmod, and it worked properly.
The default memory of 9550 was 250/200 and it was locked for overclocking, so i installed the driver and my card is able to overclocked. Well, i'm not sattisfying with the changing, instead of using softmod driver, i would extremely pleased if my windows / Ati Tool can detect the existing 9550 to 9600 pro.
Many thanks for your assistance, i was desperately need your help to flash my card.

hi!
i have bought connect3d ati radeon 9550 128mb card,i have read all the post about radeon 9550, people suggesting about overclock the memory speeds, can anybody help me out to tell the whole procedure of how to do it, and what effects will it have afterwards......
please mail me at faisal17pk@hotmail.com, send all the links for the software reguired for that and also about the fan i have to installed on it, as it doesnt have any fan already installed on it ...
i wll be thankful to you...
take carez......
bbye

i have a asus ge/td 128 ,i want to flash to 9600.but it always says "ERROR block protect is not disabled" press "1" to continue
what that means??

This is my second time posting my experience, well yesterday i was curious to finding way how to flash my sapphire radeon 9550, 256mb ddr to 9600 pro. Thanks to this forum, i found that my 9550 is using Hynix 5.0ns, 128bit, well to overclock into 9600pro i need to find the same bios from this site.
After searching the match Bios, i can't find the Bios with the same speed memory (Hynix 5.0), so i turn into Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro, 256mb, 128bit BIOS, and expecting that this kind of Bios might be work.
I started to Boot my computer with Bootdisk and save my old bios with Flashrom parameter. Next, i flash my card with the rename file 9600.bin (you might have to rename the file since MS DOS doesn't recognize long character), well the bios flash begin to start and took a few second to proceed.
After that some messages were appeared in the screen showing the bios flash has been sucessfully changed, also there were a funny tones from the cpu speaker after the flash process.
Well now i get a card based on 9600 pro (450 / 227.5) instead of (250/200) and saving USD. 50 in advantage. Not sattisfied on that changing, i'm using ATiTool to overclocking an overclocked card become (500/250). Well it did work, now i'm able to play any game (including HL2, Doom3) without crash, and the incremental of the FPS is significantly raise.

Well, this is the end of my posting, i hope this tips might be able to help someone with the same problem.

I managed to OC my Club3d 9550 256 -128 to 427/220, for safety I changed to 400/210.
Im very happy with the results now, in BF2 1024/High settings (Lights/Shadows low) Im getting an average of 33 FPS instead of the original 23, ok for me.

Now, I saw a post of a guy saying he got arround 100 FPS in ATITool, there I have an avr of 45 FPS.
Does It have to do with the other hardware involved (CPU) or is there more OC for me to do?
Do I have to flash my Bios, cos softmodding is working fine or?

how i can know the version of my memory if i know is samsung i have a msi rx9550 td256 with fan

wich bios do you used?
reply to diegones1@hotmail.com

Originally Posted by VEGETTO

MSI RX9550-TD256
256mb samsung 5.0ns
i've been able to overclocked to 450mhz core/225mhz memory
thanks for your time again

Originally Posted by Unregistered

how i can know the version of my memory if i know is samsung i have a msi rx9550 td256 with fan

i have the same video card, but i haven't been able to upgraded with any 9600 bios
msi rx9550 td256 is samsung 5.0ns memory

have you been able to make it run under 9600 bios?

Originally Posted by VEGETTO

i have the same video card, but i haven't been able to upgraded with any 9600 bios
msi rx9550 td256 is samsung 5.0ns memory

have you been able to make it run under 9600 bios?

no i haven't but i overclocked it core 486/ mem 224.10 and its perfect i used the softmod drivers and ati tool

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hi i have a 9600se here in front of me (hynix 64 bit) and im wandering if there is some way of modifying a 9600pro bios from 128 bits to 64? can anyone do this or tell me how?

help would be much apreciated

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can i change my msi 9550 256 128bit (250,200) to 9600 pro or xt? It has 256 mb i which bios should i use,there is no 9600 msi with 256 mb,if i flash it will 256 remain?

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use a bios from another manufacturer id flash to a pro if i was u make shure the bios is for ur ram

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how can i flash MSI ATI RADEON 9550 256 mb with fan,(250,200) to 9600,can it be flashed?

should i flash to sapphire non-pro 9600(samsung 5.0 memory like mine on msi 9550 256 mb) or to GeCube
9600 pro (samsung 5.0 also)??

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manufacturer doesnt mater use the one with your mem and the right clocks and mem interface (64bit or 128)

Hi everybody,
i have a sapphire 9550 256 mb flashed with 9600 bios.
Firstly i would say thay i had the maximum performance with a 9550 bios ( with 405 core/220 memory ) : 3480 3dmark03, with omega 2.6.25a drivers.
with the 9600 bios i have less performance, and also i have the pc's bios VEEEEEERY SLOOOOOOW !
It is really a waste of time, each time i want to pass fro 166 -> 200 fsb step by step !!!!
please help me !
if i can't find a solution, i will reverse to 9550 bios ( with this, my sapphire does not run new omegas 5.6 and even original 5.7 ... )

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Hi everybody,
i have a sapphire 9550 256 mb flashed with 9600 bios.
Firstly i would say thay i had the maximum performance with a 9550 bios ( with 405 core/220 memory ) : 3480 3dmark03, with omega 2.6.25a drivers.
with the 9600 bios i have less performance, and also i have the pc's bios VEEEEEERY SLOOOOOOW !
It is really a waste of time, each time i want to pass fro 166 -> 200 fsb step by step !!!!
please help me !
if i can't find a solution, i will reverse to 9550 bios ( with this, my sapphire does not run new omegas 5.6 and even original 5.7 ... )

for the moment the problem does not exist, i flashed yesterday a bios from sapphire 9600 256 mb and my PC hanged.
Now i need a PCI VGA to reflash my 9550 ...

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Originally Posted by Unregistered

Hi everybody,
i have a sapphire 9550 256 mb flashed with 9600 bios.
Firstly i would say thay i had the maximum performance with a 9550 bios ( with 405 core/220 memory ) : 3480 3dmark03, with omega 2.6.25a drivers.
with the 9600 bios i have less performance, and also i have the pc's bios VEEEEEERY SLOOOOOOW !
It is really a waste of time, each time i want to pass fro 166 -> 200 fsb step by step !!!!
please help me !
if i can't find a solution, i will reverse to 9550 bios ( with this, my sapphire does not run new omegas 5.6 and even original 5.7 ... )

the 9600 bios u flashed to may have been for a diferent ram type could that be the case?

Originally Posted by sean478

the 9600 bios u flashed to may have been for a diferent ram type could that be the case?

even if i change just the device ID from 4152 to 4150 with rabit just to let the system recognize 9600xt instead of 9550, the PC's bios becomes tooooooooo slooooooowwwwwwwwwww

9550 bios is a lot better then 9600 upgraded so dont flash you wont get anything goood!

Originally Posted by Unregistered

9550 bios is a lot better then 9600 upgraded so dont flash you wont get anything goood!

Finally i did it !
my 9550 is recognized as a 9600 XT, and the pc's BIOS is no slow no more ...
What i did ?
Just change the device ID to 4152 ( it was 4153 for my 9550 and 4150 for the 9600 bios ).
Now it's ok, but i have temperature problems, because 3dmark2003 hangs up (exit from the program or pc crash ).
Anyway i will sell this card, i have just ordered an asus ASUS V9999LE 12 pipe guaranteed for 146 euros !