Bad x1800XT bios flash

[Juic3]

Hello, a friend of mine did a bad flash(x1800XT PE) to an sapphire x1800XT, when the PC starts up the fan stays at 100% and thats it, how can he fix the bad flash ? Using a PCI video card and flashing the original bios ?

He already tried it on a board with an integrated video card but it still wont bootup.

 

[yogurt_21]

http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/overclocking/vidcard/34
read this article yes you'll need the original bios, a pci card, and a floppy.
http://www.techpowerup.com/articles//overclocking/vidcard/34/3
http://www.techpowerup.com/articles//overclocking/vidcard/34/8
http://www.techpowerup.com/articles//overclocking/vidcard/34/12
these are the three pages from the article that you'll need to read.
good luck!

 

[Juic3]

http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/overclocking/vidcard/34
read this article yes you'll need the original bios, a pci card, and a floppy.
http://www.techpowerup.com/articles//overclocking/vidcard/34/3
http://www.techpowerup.com/articles//overclocking/vidcard/34/8
http://www.techpowerup.com/articles//overclocking/vidcard/34/12
these are the three pages from the article that you'll need to read.
good luck!

Appreciate the help, thanx buddy!

 

[djordan]

Hi - I flashed a Connect 3d card x1800xt with the X1800xt Saphire PE bios, and this didn't work out -When I restarted the PC, hi had strange dos characters and windows won't boot.

I put in another PCI-e card -a X1950 and reflash back to the orginal bios using the Windows version of ATIflash - however the card will not work.

I can not display anything using the card. If I have a second card, Windows sees the VGA adapters - but it won't install the drivers.

ATIflash (Windows and a DOS verions using a USB memory stick boot) can not see the adapater !!! Is the card fried !!! Please help me !!

I followed the steps above - but still can not get this card to work... it's only 4 weeks old !! I feel very silly for trying this !!

Thanks,

 

[WarEagleAU]

you might have fried the chip when you flashed the bios. Im seriously hoping that is not the case and you are just overlooking something. Perhaps someone else might be able to help you more.

 

[dolf]

Hello, a friend of mine did a bad flash(x1800XT PE) to an sapphire x1800XT, when the PC starts up the fan stays at 100% and thats it, how can he fix the bad flash ? Using a PCI video card and flashing the original bios ?

He already tried it on a board with an integrated video card but it still wont bootup.

It seems that you need that: http://reference.techpowerup.com/Fixing_a_completely_gone_wrong_ATI_BIOS_flash

Using that method for sure you can revive your card if something else isn't damaged.