X800GTO2 AUTOMATED FLASH UTILITY Via DVD\CD... Very easy :)

[locutus12]

Edit: Important. The Initial Flashrom Had An Error When Flashing Back To 12 Pipes, This Has Been Fixed But You Will Need To Redownload The Iso And Make A New Boot Cd. Sorry For The Trouble.

 

[noneed4me2]

need iso bad

Hi locutus,your work on the GTO2 iso has been neat to read about, i noticed you posted that your working on an iso for the connect3d gto, i bought this card and have had no luck flashing with other utilities and ISO's from other folks. The main problem for me is the unlocking of the old bios. Every thing required according to techpower and ATItool shows that i meet the requirements fior the 16p mod,any luck on the ISO yet. I will try it if you can confirm at least one success prior to usage. I just got this card so if there is a problem i will just exchange it .hanks.

 

[locutus12]

working on it now, will have it built by tommorrow night, although i am going to need someone to test it on...

 

[noneed4me2]

I have built in pci e ATI x200 so i guess i would be willing to try it. getting this new pc stretched our budget pretty tight and it seemed the connect3d gto was the best graphics card price and performance wise for me me. plays doom 3 demo on high quality no problem but like most wouldn't mind squeezing out some extra fps, especialy considering that i up the cards value just buy adding 4 extra pipes. I dont have a floppy drive and have had problems making a dos cd with the neccesary added files to actually unlock the bios. this other iso i found at techpower can get me into dos and i can use the flashrom to identifie the r423 core and such but i can't get passed the lockout. tried winflash to unlock it and it flashes the modified bios from techpower but won't unlock. I am afraid of trying the gigabyte technique or other means as some of the directions are kinda technical. I am not totally unfamiliar with command line techniques but worried about frying my nice new graohics card.

 

[Reebtoor]

Another satisfied customer with the flash utility. All went as expected. Thanks for simplifying things, Locutus!

 

[kaqo]

I have a Sapphire X800GTO with the R480core but 2ns memory, though the memory still overclocked nicely to 553 and the core to 573 with the stock cooler its rock stable and no artifacts.

I was just wondering if this flash would work on my card since its a Sapphire GTO with R480 core. about 4400 3dmark05 points stock, overclocked with 12pipes i get almost 5700. 16 pipes should get me a pretty nice performance boost..

One other thing, If the flash fails can i use another PCI-X card instead of a PCI card since my DFI Ultra-D supports two PCI-X cards non sli? I cant see why not but am hoping someone knows for shure

Thanks in advance

 

[locutus12]

i couldnt say for certain, i believe the roms only gonna work on the GTO2 but your welcome to try it as provided you have a copy of your old bios and know how to manually flash it back without the ISO i made (as the default bios on thats for the GTO2) you should be ok. as for 2nd your second PCI-E socket (PCI-X is a very old extended PCI socket for server boards, many people get this wrong but now you know more than they do ) if you have a spair PCI-E card to use then i think it would work.

 

[ShadowFlare]

You shouldn't have any problems at all using the bios from the GTO2 on any card with an R480 chip. You should still make a backup of your original, though, even if you never use it again and know that you won't. Since you have a Sapphire GTO I think it is the exact same bios as on your card (except modified to 16 pipelines), but besides that the bios from the GTO2 even works on a Powercolor X800 GT, as I mentioned in this thread: http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=6056 and as seen here: http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=6046&page=2#post41377 As mentioned in those threads, the Powercolor X800 GT (or any other X800 GT with an R480 chip) actually even benefits from it, but it is probably the only card that does, since it is likely the only card with an R480 that is set in the bios as R423.

 

[locutus12]

You shouldn't have any problems at all using the bios from the GTO2 on any card with an R480 chip. You should still make a backup of your original, though, even if you never use it again and know that you won't. Since you have a Sapphire GTO I think it is the exact same bios as on your card (except modified to 16 pipelines), but besides that the bios from the GTO2 even works on a Powercolor X800 GT, as I mentioned in this thread: http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=6056 and as seen here: http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=6046&page=2#post41377 As mentioned in those threads, the Powercolor X800 GT (or any other X800 GT with an R480 chip) actually even benefits from it, but it is probably the only card that does, since it is likely the only card with an R480 that is set in the bios as R423.

thats not strictly true. the bios for the GTO2 has specific code for 1.6ns ram and as he has 2ns it may not work. but i hope it does for him...

 

[ShadowFlare]

thats not strictly true. the bios for the GTO2 has specific code for 1.6ns ram and as he has 2ns it may not work. but i hope it does for him...

Ah, one more thing that you should see from those posts. If you take a look at the posts by the person who tried it, you will notice that they have 2.0 ns memory on their card. They even posted the code shown on their memory to confirm it.

The bios from the GTO2 is basically guaranteed to work on any card with an R480 chip, since it has the lowest clock speeds out of any card with an R480 chip.

 

[noneed4me2]

Success ah sweet success

Hey Locutus you are the man. Chalk up one more connect3d gto to 16p. I wasn't sure if you modified the flash iso or not but when i burned it i noticed the c3d bios file so i thought what the hell i'll give it a shot.First i uninstalled all my drivers and ATi software Flashed without a problem; said successfull on first try so I used ATItool and it showed my card as an x800/850 with 16 active pipelines, then i reinstalled the drivers and tried overclocking. Started artifacting pretty low arond 435/510 so i used winflash and reflashed my saved bios from my previous attempt and reinstalled all my drivers. ATItool dropped the the x850 name and just recognized it as an x800 pro series card with a r423 chip (i was so excited i didnt bother to check what chip it saw before i used winflash). Retried overclocking and got it up to 506/513 without any artifacts and set the base fan speeds higher and ran 3dmark03 and gained 1500 points to a score of 11306. Haven't run any other games, benchmarks or tried anymore aggressive overclocking but i am sure it can go higher. I did an earlier max overclock on the core with ATItool and got it all the way up to 627/543 before it crashed and restarted my pc. Want to be carefull from now on cause i just turned my $184 card into a $300 plus card. Also i connected the power adapter when i installed it even though it said it wasn't required. This is though most fun i have had modding and such since i first got into computers. BIG thanks to techpowerup and all other forum posters for giving me all the free advice even if you weren't aware of it. You guys are an excellent community of geniuses willing to push the envelope of technolgy just for the fun of it. Will post more results after i tooled around with my "NEW" card some more!!

 

[noneed4me2]

Just tried out 520/540 clock without a problem and a 3dmark05 score of 5914 another 1000+ point gain from 4805 on mt previous pipe settings. Just out of curiosity will my benchmark scores improve any with more ram? I plan on adding 1gb of pc3200 2x512 dual channel aound xmas.
heres my some of my log file
2005-10-22 23:57:18 ATITool v0.24 started.
2005-10-22 23:57:18 Detected GPU Chip: R423 (5549), 12 Pipelines, 256 MB
2005-10-22 23:57:18 Temperature monitoring: LM63 detected
2005-10-23 00:03:46 Application terminated.
2005-10-23 00:10:50 ATITool v0.24 started.
2005-10-23 00:10:50 Detected GPU Chip: R423 (5549), 12 Pipelines, 256 MB
2005-10-23 00:10:50 Temperature monitoring: LM63 detected
2005-10-23 00:11:08 Application terminated.
2005-10-23 00:20:57 ATITool v0.24 started.
2005-10-23 00:20:57 Detected GPU Chip: R423 (5549), 12 Pipelines, 256 MB
2005-10-23 00:20:57 Temperature monitoring: LM63 detected
2005-10-23 02:16:46 Scan for Artifacts started... Core: 398.25 Mhz Memory: 492.75 Mhz
005-10-28 11:12:58 Clocks set to: 607.50 / 492.75
2005-10-28 11:13:41 Clocks set to: 614.25 / 492.75
2005-10-28 11:13:44 Clocks set to: 621.00 / 492.75
2005-10-28 11:13:47 Clocks set to: 627.75 / 492.75
2005-10-28 11:45:02 Clocks set to: 398.25 / 573.75
2005-10-28 11:45:05 Clocks set to: 398.25 / 580.50
2005-10-28 11:45:08 Clocks set to: 398.25 / 587.25
2005-11-01 17:42:04 ATITool v0.24 started.
2005-11-01 17:42:04 Detected GPU Chip: R423 (5549), 16 Pipelines, 256 MB
2005-11-01 17:42:04 Temperature monitoring: LM63 detected
2005-11-01 18:58:32 Clocks set to: 519.75 / 540.00

 

[kaqo]

I have a spare x300SE 64Mb i can use.. It got a whopping 981 points in 05 But i didnt buy it for gaming anyway...

I should be able to make a backup and flash the bios back "the old way", i flashed my 9500Pro at some point when it was still a very good card Any links to a good tutorial on how to use a flash tool though? Might be worth checking before i start messing around just to be on the safe side... Oh and wich flash tool do you recommend? I think i used ATIflash or something back then.

 

[dpadmore]

Hi

I am a bit confused now, so there is a separate iso available for the Connect3d GTO flash? if so could someone post a link as I too would like to give it a whirl.

Cheers

 

[dolf]

For all of you that succeed with modding to 16 pipes, please post your ATITool fuse results here and eventually there: http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=5367 I will help to those who wants to choose the "right" card's brand.

 

[noneed4me2]

i am new to posting how do you post the fuse data i kno how to look it up in ATItool thats how i checked my own compatability but am unsure how to get a picture of it to post.

 

[colboky]

Thanks for helping me out guys. I have the same card as noneed4me Connect3d gto and i went through hell to get it to mod to 16 pipes until he pointed out this thread. Noneed4me2 could you please describe what you did after u have used this Iso "re flashed my saved bios from my previous attempt" where could i get that bios or how i can mod one. This is what happened to me. I installed the card tried every bios i could find nothing worked and in the process windows died. So i flashed back to original bios formatted reinstalled fresh windows and atitools and to my surprise it showed that i had 16Unlocked pipes. That's not the end of it i flashed the original bios again which was a success but it still showed 16 pipes. I than continued to install the rest of the drivers and restart after each one and check ati tools. After i installed the sound card drivers which is a audigy 2 Value atitools showed 12pipes again no mather what i did so i flashed it again with the modified bios on this site still 12 pipes flashed it again with the powercolour bios same. Than i burned a cd with the image by locotus12 and hurray i had 16 pipes ever since. Anybody has an idea as to what is going on.

Oh and after i flashed the card with the Iso here my card shows
Chip Type R480
Config_Dye_Fueses 0XEFF7FFFF
Config_substrate_Fueses 0XFFFFFF9F

 

[noneed4me2]

Did you save your original bios before modding? i am not sure if you have a problem. Did you benchmark or try out any games? Also i used atitool artifact checker after i flashed with the ISO and had major artifacting but after i flashed back to saved bios ,it kept the 16p and was able to overclock with no issue. You say that after the flash ATItool shows your chip as a r480, man you are lucky if thats true, mine always showed as a r423, i double checked my log file to be sure. Just be sure to watch your mem clocks as my card (and i ssume yours)uses samsung 2.0ns instead of the x850 PE 1.6ns. Congrats if your card works great after the flash, and i haven't had much of response from Locutus12 since the flash but nonetheless am eternally greatful for his and everone else's help in the forum. i will check back if you need more help and point you in the right direction if you have any issues.

 

[nortius_maximus]

hey locutus12

just so you know for your stats my gto2 appears to have gave up.

i had 16 pipes thanks to you, and 518/520 ati tray tools.

i noticed some artifacts in FEAR after 30 hours (total not non-stop)
so i checked it out in tray tools and i got artifacts all the time could not get to 1sec.
so i under clocked it to the max 320/391, but still artifacts.

flashed back to 12 pipes, still artifacts even when underclocked as above.

you say i won't have any trouble RMAing it, i hope your right.

i will be using your utility when my new card arrives, thanks alot for it i enjoyed fear an max while it lasted.

i also saw a reveiw where they removed the heatsink and you could see how rough the contact surfaces were so i bought a lapping kit, glad it bust before the lapping kit arrived.

thanks

 

[Vergo]

Has anyone tried flashing a Sapphire X850XT or Sapphire X850XT PE bios on this card??
Maybe, if you've got sparetime left, you can make another bootable cdrom image with these 2 options available
Something Like
1/ Flash to 16pixelshaders
2/ Flash back to original X800GTO² bios
3/ Flash to X850XT (!Advanced users only)
4/ Flash to X850XT PE (!Advanced users only)

Something like that?

Edit/ For the record: mine does 535/597 with Zalman vf700-cu @ 5V

 

[NEU-NEU]

By the lord, please tell me there are online shops on the Europe continent selling that graphic card! I badly need one. I found one predenting they sell GTO² cards but they are actually normal GTO. I found another that is only shipping them in the US. Then another one only shipping in the UK. God.. I feel like I will never get it or and that all the stocks will be definately out!

I'm actually living in Belgium. So any seller will do as long they're shipping to my country!

 

[outrunner]

Overclockers have them in stock, I don't know if they ship to Belgium http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/X800PCI_Series.html

 

[Roybin]

hi, noneed4me2 and colboky, where did you guys find that iso which has c3d.bin file for C3D GTO overlocking? I also downloaded it today from the first post link of this thread. After I burn the CD, reboot, dir, I did not find the bios file for c3d. Did locutus change it back?
noneed4me2, if you still keep that iso for c3d GTO card, could you please email a copy to me? Thanks very much. my email wheretobe@gmail.com

By the way, thanks for the work by locutus. Have you done the iso for Connect3D GTo card? my computer does not have sloppy drive too. I do want boot from CD and give a try. Thanks

 

[NEU-NEU]

Thank you Outrunner. I just ordered mine through their website. Now, what kind of cooler should i use to make this baby run at a decent temperature? (with the obvious fact that i'm gonna overclock it to XT PE) Will it work perfectly with its curent fan? or should i better change it for something better? If yes, i would like something as much silent than efficient (watercooling excluded). I just know nothing about coolers so i might need a bit help to find the right one for it. I am mainly aiming for silence, since i'll put it inside a Sonata chase on an ASUS A8N-sli premium (fanless) motherboard. Do you guys have any advice?

 

[Roybin]

Thanks noneed4me, I got your iso file. It is a little bit different with the one I downloaded from the link of this thread. I guess the op has changed it sometime. Anyway I will try it now and post my results later.