x1600 AGP problems :(

[Catalight]

Ok I just purchaced a Sapphire Radeon x1600 pro AGP recently...
Went to sapphire's website, updated drivers, runs nicely. There is a small problem though, when I boot my computer, I get flickery white lines. Its not that big a deal, except on sapphire's homepage, there is an updated bios that fixes the problem...

So I download winflash, it freezes my computer everytime I try to open it (tryed different versions to).
So I then made a bootdisc with Flashrom. I type flashrom -s 0 name.rom and I get this error "adapter 0 not found". Same error when I try to flash the bios, even if I try to force the flash, I get the same error. I then downloaded ATIflash, which doesnt seem to work at all, I type in the same command to backup my bios, except it grinds for about 3 seconds, then nothing, just a cursor and I can't type. Then I typed flashrom -i, and I got "ATI video adapter not found".

The card is definatly there and works great. I would really like to be able to flash the bios, and every single method seems to fail on me. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Catalight]

bump

 

[Mrage]

I am having the EXACT same problem. If I come across a solution, I will post it here for you

 

[gR3iF]

find out what slot your agp port is it may be 1 or 2
so then it wuld be flahsrom.exe -s 1
try out then you get it

 

[le011]

hi
i have the same card but didnt try ti flash yet.
can you post heare your scors in some bechmarks
to compere the cards

 

[cjoyce1980]

1st option: Winflash

1.) Download the appropritae BIOS
2.) Start WinFlash 1.10 in Windows
3.) Open the BIOS file you downloaded.
4.) Click on update Bios
5.) restart computer system after successful flash.

2nd option: ATIflash

1.) Download the appropritae BIOS
2.) boot into DOS mode with boot diskette
3.) command to dump BIOS:
flashrom -s 0 biosname.bin or
flashrom -s 1 biosname.bin
4.) command to flash new bios:
flashrom -p 0 biosname or
flashrom -p 1 biosname
5.) Restart computer system

Try to use winflash first than flashing in DOS.

 

[Catalight]

I do appreciate your help joyce, but you helped me with nothing...
If you read my post, winflash freezes my computer, and ATIflash does not find a video adapter on 0,1,2,3,4,5, etc...

 

[le011]

yes same problem heare- cant do nothing whit the bios update
grrrr sapphir for this card

 

[Mad-Matt]

Might be worth checking you motherboard bios to check that there are no bios shadowing or caching options enabled.

 

[le011]

I USE Rabit bios edotor and thats the log he give me:
-- RaBiT v.2.0.0 build 616 started --
> RaBiT driver v.2.0.2 is ready
-- Your ATi video adapter low level info --
Vendor: 0x1002, SubVendor: 0x174B (Sapphire Technology Ltd.)
Device: 0x71C2 (RV530), SubSystem: 0x0850
On Board EEPROM: No ROM
Active pipelines: 4, GB_TILE_CONFIG = 0x01010011
GB_PIPE_SELECT = 0x000001E4
-- Memory bus and clocking info --
Memory: 128 bits, 256 Mb
Memory Vendor ID = 0xFFFFFFFF
Core clock = 499.50 MHz
Memory clock = 405.00 MHz
-- Active memory timings --
tCL = 05
tRcdRD = 05
tRcdWR = 02
tRP = 05
tRRD = 02
tR2W = 06
MemRR = 3B
tRFC = 1D

its says:On Board EEPROM: No ROM-what thats mean?is that the reason i cant flash?

 

[le011]

when i try to flash whit atiwinflash thats the massage i get:canot erase rom
in dos icant flash to-help needed!!!!!

 

[CrazyCat]

Try this Click !!!
Use the atiflash with command -p -f -atmel 0 filerom.rom