Flash Radeon X1900 Mac Video card?

[jmell]

I have a Mac Radeon X1900 PCIe card that I want to try to flash it to a PC Bios.
I also want to first to save the curent mac bios so that I can flash it back.
I downloaded the ATITool but I do not see anyway to back up the curent bios.
I also do not know what program to use to flash the card to PC.
Any help?
I'm a newbe at flashing. I guess that you can tell that.

 

[jmell]

Why would I want to flash this card to PC??

I have 50 of these cards that are Mac version but I'm restricted so that I have to flash them to be PC before I can sell them.
I tried to boot my PC with the card in the PCIe slot and a none flash PCI card in the PCI slot. I get 6 beeps and the PC will not boot.

The card is good and does run in the Mac Pro intel.

Will I have to flash the card in a Mac using the PC Bios?

Or
????
any help from anyone?

 

[willpower101]

Bump.

So far it seems everyone is able to flash pc to mac,

http://www.google.com/search?q=flas...&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&ie=&oe=

But no one has figured out how to flash mac to pc.

Seriously guys?

It can't be that hard to go backwards

 

[Solaris17]

It can't be that hard to go backwards

then do it

also dont bump a thread from 3 years ago

 

[DaMulta]

If I remember right, you have to remove a pin. I could so be wrong on that tho, because that was so long ago now.

When you flash be sure to use -newbios as one of the options.

Edit-a thread from 3 years ago haha

 

[willpower101]

then do it

also dont bump a thread from 3 years ago

Yes you are correct, I should abandon a thread with a high link rank from google which has possible relevant information and start a completely new thread for the exact same topic just because of the age.

Ok. i'll do that

 

[erocker]

Yes you are correct, I should abandon a thread with a high link rank from google which has possible relevant information and start a completely new thread for the exact same topic just because of the age.

Ok. i'll do that

No, really... That isn't necessary. I would think you would have to use a PC with one video card for display and the Mac x1900 in the 2nd PCI-E slot. From there force flash it using ATiFlash.

 

[willpower101]

I appreciate the tip on -newbios, but I tried that and it's no more sucessful than the normal flash command. there's still a bunch of garbage on the screen.

It seems to me that since the mac bios people were flashing on the pc cards was a custom modified one, then there would need to be some sort of modification the other way around as well. However I have almost no experience editing firmware's and am not sure what exactly they did.

here's the thread: http://strangedogs.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=experiments&action=display&thread=1330&page=5

 

[erocker]

c:\atiflash -f -p 1 yourbiosname.rom -f is the force flash command.

 

[DaMulta]

c:\atiflash -f -p 1 yourbiosname.rom -f is the force flash command.

Don't forget -newbios otherwise if any voltages change it won't change without that comand.

 

[erocker]

Don't forget -newbios otherwise if any voltages change it won't change without that comand.

Nah, voltage will change with the new bios. No need for the -newbios command. I've done it and never needed to use it.

 

[DaMulta]

Maybe it has changed from what it used to be. I remember you had to use to have to use it.

 

[willpower101]

c:\atiflash -f -p 1 yourbiosname.rom -f is the force flash command.

Don't forget to atiflash -ai first to make sure you're flashing the right card in case you have a pci or onboard ati (i do.)

I'll upload some pics real quick of what it's doing after the flash.