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[Ketxxx]

Can only do email, Xpertvision dont have offices in the UK They have some in Germany tho.. joy. Do I write in english or German? Hmm..

 

[Formula350]

Make em work, use English lol

 

[Ketxxx]

lol good point. might make em just gimme what I want anyway cos they cant understand everything in the email haha

 

[Ketxxx]

Ok after a little elaborate story making, here is what I come up with;

"I bought a X1950 Pro super, but I'm having monitor signal problems. After doing some Googling I found a support artical on the ATi website explaining the problem is caused by older monitors. ATi have sent me a BIOS addressing the problem I'm having but I'm unable to update the X1950 Pro with the new BIOS. Using ATi Winflash 1.14 I keep getting an error saying "cannot erase ROM", So I was wondering is there any graphics card BIOS update program I need from yourselves to be able to flash the new BIOS?"

Sound innocent enough?

 

[Formula350]

Maybe add the link so they can see, which I'm sure they KNOW but hey lol Possibly toss in the fact you tried the 2 DOS programs as well to no avail. The end sentence is slick though Since the tech support probably wouldn't know wtf to do, then they'd ask the real techs what is used! GL with it.

 

[Namslas90]

Ok after a little elaborate story making, here is what I come up with;

"I bought a X1950 Pro super, but I'm having monitor signal problems. After doing some Googling I found a support artical on the ATi website explaining the problem is caused by older monitors. ATi have sent me a BIOS addressing the problem I'm having but I'm unable to update the X1950 Pro with the new BIOS. Using ATi Winflash 1.14 I keep getting an error saying "cannot erase ROM", So I was wondering is there any graphics card BIOS update program I need from yourselves to be able to flash the new BIOS?"

Sound innocent enough?

Het Ket, try here post # 9 is problem with "cannot erase ROM", post #10 with solution;

http://www.sapphiretech.com/en/forums/showthread.php?p=52146

continue onto page 2 and you should have it.

 

[Ketxxx]

Ta for the link Nams, from what I read so far the only thing I could try would be to uninstall my chipset & VC drivers, install some slightly older drivers I have for my nf590, install VC drivers again then try using ATi winflash. I'm not sure how I could still get the unable to erase ROM error even from a pure DOS environment.. but its worth a shot.

Formula; I thought about adding the point of from DOS as well, but didnt want to give them too many details in case they cotton on to I just want to get away from their crappy BIOS

 

[Formula350]

Yea I thought about that as well.

Just to help your already really good english: Cotton is a material from a plant used to make clothing, bed sheets, blankets, etc. You want "Caught On". Caught is derived from Catch. (Hope you don't take offense to this :\)

 

[Grings]

http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/phrasal-verbs/cotton+on.html

Ket IS english

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar_nazi

^this is a joke by the way

 

[dolf]

Ketxxx, I would suggest you (if you are correct with the command line) to try flashing but on other MOBO. Just use a friends PC to flash the card. Probably you will succeed .

 

[Formula350]

http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/phrasal-verbs/cotton+on.html

Ket IS english

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar_nazi

^this is a joke by the way

Oh damn, HAHAHAHAHAH! And I thought I was up on my Britt/English slang too
<-- Me

 

[Ketxxx]

lol

dolf, I cant use a m8s PC as as most my m8s are still on AGP X850s :\ My last 1950 flashed fine on my system, so I dont know what the replacement card wouldnt like. One thing I am gonna try is moving the card to the 2nd PCI-E slot to see if that works.

 

[dolf]

That also could work. But if not try to find somebody with PCI-E board and then try again.

 

[Formula350]

I agree, it wouldn't hurt to try it in a friends PC quick.

 

[Ketxxx]

I would if any m8 had PCI-E, but as far as I'm aware none do.. Sucks to be me right now.

 

[Formula350]

Go to the local electronics store and buy a new BIOS and solder it on LOL (Joking of course)

 

[Ketxxx]

lol dont suggest things like that around me, I'm likely to do it

 

[Formula350]

>_>


<_<

 

[Ketxxx]

Muhahahaa, yes, I'm a bit crazy I ripped my Crosshair mobo apart before I even fired it up to improve its heatpipe system

 

[dolf]

Go to the local electronics store and buy a new BIOS and solder it on LOL (Joking of course)

It isn't so bad idea because the EEPROM should be very cheap but it have to be the last resort. You can use old card like a proggrammer for your EEPROMs and you can flash whatever BIOS you want. That card could be also AGP (you can use your m8s PCs).

 

[Formula350]

haha take an old 9500 or something, flash it with the BIOS you want, take it off and resolder it to your 1950 Insta-working video card! (*cough* if you did it right)

 

[Ketxxx]

Problem solved, flashing is now doable

 

[Formula350]

Problem solved, flashing is now doable

What did you do to get it flashed?

 

[Ketxxx]

I forced atmel parameters.

 

[Formula350]

They must have replied to your email then?