Radeon 9550 to 9600 Bios Mod

[Unregistered]

Posts: n/a Sapphire 9550 256 to 9600Pro 256

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"Hey peeps, After spending the last 4 hours looking through these posts I am still edgy about bios flashes. Can the sapphire 9550 256MB actually be flashed to a sapphire 9600Pro 256MB with little effort? Even though there are differences in the mem being 5ns and 4ns respectively. There are some posts up that are helpful but hard to understand clearly. I'll keep hammering at the thread to find info but some clear info would be great"


I also have this particular card. However, after reading 17 pages of this thread i am none the wiser. Can anyone give me specific instructions for the Sapphire Radeon 9550 with 256mb. Any help would be much appreciated.

Hello guys, I have Sapphire 9550 256MB too... so if somebody could help us about the flash, we'll be very grateful. THANK YOU!!!

 

[ati.bob]

Read the first few post before asking any more questions..

http://forum.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=463&page=1&pp=10

 

[DigitriX]

Read the first few post before asking any more questions..

http://forum.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=463&page=1&pp=10

I have the same Sapphire 9550 256MB (Memory: Mezzo, or something like that... 5ns) and I can't see anything about that?!? I have one simple question: What BIOS should I use? Just tell me the right BIOS for that video card. Thank you.

 

[ati.bob]

Here's a few 9600 Non-Pro/Pro 256MB BIOSes that you can try..

http://www.techpowerup.com/bios/?search=9600+256&Submit=Search

I'd suggest the Powercolor BIOS, but you could try others too if you had any problem, just get a PCI card, plug it in, then boot up with the PCI card and re-flash your AGP card..

 

[Unregistered]

Sapphire 9550 256Mb flashed fine for me.

I have the same Sapphire 9550 256MB (Memory: Mezzo, or something like that... 5ns) and I can't see anything about that?!? I have one simple question: What BIOS should I use? Just tell me the right BIOS for that video card. Thank you.

I have just flashed my Sapphire 9550 256Mb card with the Sapphire 9600 Pro 256Mb bios.

My 9550 has Samsung chips and a clear fan.

Works a dream.


BIOS used was: http://www.techpowerup.com/bios/Sapphire.9600PRO.256.Samsung40.040826.bin

Sapphire 9600 Pro 256 MB -- Aug 26th 2004 7:49 PM -- Oct 21st 2004 4:09 PM -- 400 / 227.5 -- Samsung 4.0

 

[DigitriX]

I have just flashed my Sapphire 9550 256Mb card with the Sapphire 9600 Pro 256Mb bios.

My 9550 has Samsung chips and a clear fan.

Works a dream.


BIOS used was: http://www.techpowerup.com/bios/Sapphire.9600PRO.256.Samsung40.040826.bin

Sapphire 9600 Pro 256 MB -- Aug 26th 2004 7:49 PM -- Oct 21st 2004 4:09 PM -- 400 / 227.5 -- Samsung 4.0

Good, but mine has Mezzo 5ns chips.... should I try the Samsung 4ns ?

 

[WEmaniac]

a newbie question

Anyone got experience on how to flash ''sapphire 9550-samsung 5.0ns'' with cooling fan to a 9660pro? Which Bios suits this card better and how fast it could possibly become. By the way, I have no floppy disk drive on my computer, therefore is there any way to boot into DOS mode without it to run the Flashrom command? Looking forward to get help from any of you knowing that, cheers!!

 

[tornadof111]

sapphire 9550 128/128

hi all,
today i've bought R9550 by sapphire with HYNIX chip, i would like flash it in 9600pro, but i can't find 9600pro bios with same memory chip. Can you help me?

 

[Gustavo]

Hi all.

I would like that the users of the Gigabyte Radeon 9550 tried this BIOS.
http://america.giga-byte.com/VGA/FileList/BIOS/bios_r96p7de_f11.exe

This BIOS belongs to Gigabyte ATI RADEON 9600 PRO, model GV-R96P128DE
http://tw.giga-byte.com/VGA/Products/Products_GV-R96P128DE.htm

Look, the same PCB of the 9550(and TSOP memory).
http://tw.giga-byte.com/VGA/Products/Products_GV-R955128D.htm
http://images10.newegg.com/productimage/14-125-141-02.JPG
http://images10.newegg.com/productimage/14-125-169-02.JPG

I think that you were trying to use the BIOS of the model GV-R96P128D. It's completely different.
http://tw.giga-byte.com/VGA/Products/Products_GV-R96P128D.htm

If someone use the BIOS that I indicate and work correctly, please inform here. Thanks.

And sorry about my English.

 

[Unregistered]

Good, but mine has Mezzo 5ns chips.... should I try the Samsung 4ns ?

The chip son my card are Samsung 5ns, and the bios I used was noted as being for 4ns Samsung chips. If you Mezzo chips are good enough then they should be OK, but all I can say is try it an see. If your card frys dont blame me )

 

[Unregistered]

Anyone got experience on how to flash ''sapphire 9550-samsung 5.0ns'' with cooling fan to a 9660pro? Which Bios suits this card better and how fast it could possibly become. By the way, I have no floppy disk drive on my computer, therefore is there any way to boot into DOS mode without it to run the Flashrom command? Looking forward to get help from any of you knowing that, cheers!!

If you have a USB Key you can probably set this up as boot disk. See http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/overclocking/vidcard/107 for info on flashing the bios and the potential spped improvements.

My chips are 5ns Samsungs and I previously posted this message:

I have just flashed my Sapphire 9550 256Mb card with the Sapphire 9600 Pro 256Mb bios.
My 9550 has Samsung chips and a clear fan.
Works a dream.

BIOS used was: http://www.techpowerup.com/bios/Sap...ng40.040826.bin
Sapphire 9600 Pro 256 MB -- Aug 26th 2004 7:49 PM -- Oct 21st 2004 4:09 PM -- 400 / 227.5 -- Samsung 4.0

 

[mibrion]

Sorry for asking again but after reading all the messages i don't know what to do...sorry for beeing a newby....
I have the gecube r9550 Gu-c3p card ...i saw that the Gu-C3 is the one that evrybody like but i still wanna know if i can do something to mine ...
thanks

 

[3gpaBko]

I have the same card as Gustavo
I`ve tired using different bios, but no result, after flashing my card become dead and PC didn`t run.
Could somebody help me to choose the propper bios for this card.

I`ve this card this card
GV-R955128D
Memmory: Hynix 4ns
Clocks: 250/200

Best regrads

 

[Unregistered]

I have an ati 9550 256 mb. I want to upgrade to a 9600 pro model but i dont know which bios of 9600 pro i have to download . I have samsung 5.0. I think there are no bios upgrade for my graphic card. Thx

 

[ReconCX]

I hate to break it to you but chances are, if your 9550 doesn't even have active cooling then it's gonna be hard to do anything to it.

 

[dbo7]

i have msi 9550 128 bit with 128 mb and my core and memory are 250/200 . but it doesn't have a fan on heat sink it came without fan. so my question is if i try to flash it to 9600 series will i need a fan ? or can i just use without one?

 

[Buell]

excuse me, but to thing maids change the bios of the 9550 with that of the 9600 if it then is possible modify the timing of the card simply using Rabit on the original bios?

 

[darkmith]

HI, first i'd like to introduce myself: my name is Pedro Asborno, currently living in Argetina and i have recently bought a Connect3D ati radeon 9550 with 128MB DDR.

I'd like to know wich bios i should use, because i've read the entire post but only saw one post referring to connect3D cards and couldn't figure out whi bios to use

Thanks for reading and even more if you can help!

be the way, members can also mail me so i'll be glad to read and reply your mails!

Greetings, Pedro E. Asborno

Ps: sorry if my english is bad

 

[javier]

i´m a newbie, so my apologies in advance for any inconvenience i may say:

i´ve got a powercolor 9550 256mb and read lots of posts about having it flashed to a 9600pro or even a xt, will the stock fans in my 9550 resist the heat increase??

Wouldn´t it be wiser to just remove the overclocking lock with modded drivers and see how much extra speed you can get of your card, and then use the averclocked settings only when in 3d applications??

and, is there really any diffrence between a 9550 and a 9600pro, besides from the core and mem frequencies? does the latter do something special (shaders, etc) that the 9550 can´t??

too many questions, i know. Sorry for my poor english and thanks

 

[darkmith]

i've managed to OC my Connect3d radeon 9550 now it's working at 450mhz core an 230mhz mem, i used atitool and it rocks!

 

[Me3124]

Is it possible to make a gecube 9550 EXTREME into a 9600XT ?







Thanks, Me

 

[ReconCX]

please please please SEARCH for the answer to this question! I believe I have answered this question about 2 million times!

You CANNOT flash your 9550 into a 9600XT because the 9600XT features a temperature probe that the 9550 does not have!

Besides, most of the 9550's can't even reach 9600XT speeds (500/300x2).

Just use ATITool to max your speeds...

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I'm about || this close to writing a faq for the 9550....

 

[Unregistered]

...
Just use ATITool to max your speeds...
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I have a Gigabyte GV-R955128D 9550 and had issues using ATI tool. It worked fine for changing the clocks but if I put the system in standby or hibernate, the video would not become active after I brought the system back up. This was true both with the stock BIOS and after successfully flashing the card with a BIOS posted early in this thread.

I eventually tried the Omega drivers and Radlinker and as long as I don't use the "Advanced" clock settings, I don't see the fail to resume issue. I've only tried this with the modded BIOS settings but I suspect it would also be true with the stock BIOS. Running on XP.

The BIOS I used was posted by batteryone on page 5 of this thread. The default settings gave some artifacts when testing with ATI Tool but no visible artifacts in bechmarks. The CD that came with the card didn't have the flash tool on it but I found a 9600 BIOS download on Gigabytes site that included the flask tool. I used the BIOS posted by batteryone and NOT the 9600 BIOS I dowloaded from Gigabyte.

I also added a 50 mm fan that I just crazy glued to the heat sink to keep temps down. I'm running it at 391.5/243 and ATI Tool doesn't show any artifacts in extended testing. I can go higher without visible artifacts in benchmarks but the ATI Tool test detects some. The modded BIOS defaults were something like 406/262.

Pretty decent bang for the buck for a $60 delivered price...

Mike

Mike

 

[GoLLuM4444]

please please please SEARCH for the answer to this question! I believe I have answered this question about 2 million times!

You CANNOT flash your 9550 into a 9600XT because the 9600XT features a temperature probe that the 9550 does not have!

Besides, most of the 9550's can't even reach 9600XT speeds (500/300x2).

Just use ATITool to max your speeds...

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I'm about || this close to writing a faq for the 9550....

lol I hear you.

 

[Florin]

Mike, I have a Gigabyte GV-R955128D 9550 too!

I have 2 questions:
1. Did you use some special glue(I'm thinking at the heat(so it will not melt)...and if something will be wrong with the card - warranty) or it's not important ?

2. Did you use some heatsink for the memory or it was not necessary!


Everyone:
By the way....i notice that everyone with this kind of card had hynix memory.....My radeon has "Samsung"
For cooling...i found something from TITAN- COOLER VGA TITAN TTC-CUV2AB / RHS
http://www.titan-cd.com/english/vga.asp

What do you think?...


Best regards,
Florin