2900 bios clock tool

[mandelore]

Hi all, well, over at the foxconn forums shamino has created a clock tool for editing bios's from the 2900 graphics cards.

I have also inquired about the problems getting past 1.35 volts within the bios so hopefully there will be some sort of solution, but this tool rox, allows changes to 2d/3d clocks etc..

so if you know your good at 900mhz core 3d, you can just go set it.

http://resources.vr-zone.com/Shamino/QuantumForce2900BiosEditor.exe

Respect to Shamino

Edit: TO FLASH YOUR CARD (warning, may kill your card, burn ur house down, kill endangered species etc if ur not careful, just a warning)

1) get atiflash: http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/748/.html

2) make a bootable dos floppy disk, or usb stick:

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/330/HP_USB_Stick_Formatting_Tool.html (usb stick)

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Boot-Manager-Disk/My-BootDisk.shtml (floppy disk)

3) make a copy of your bios, duplacate for backup purposes, use this tool:

http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/BIOS_Saver.exe

4) once u make a boot disk/usb stick, copy atiflash and your modified bios to the disk its self.

5)restart computer, select in bios to start via usb drive, or the floppy drive and boot into the dos disk.

6)at the command prompt, type:

atiflash -p 0 -newbios xxxxbios.rom -f (with xxxxbios.rom being your new bios)

7)restart and enjoy

 

[nflesher87]

bookmarked

I haven't gotten my 2nd 2900 in yet, will I be able to make these adjustments with them both installed in crossfire or should I do each individually?

 

[mandelore]

You will simply need to dump the bios, edit using the tool and reflash using the

atiflash -p 0 -newbios xxxxxbios.rom -f

and

atiflash -p 1 -newbios xxxxxbios.rom -f

within dos
I am able to modify the bios's to run at higher voltages, but cant get past 1.35v,l which is sucking atm coz my card still runs cool under load


This would be an awesome tool for forcing crossfire cards to run at an overclocked level

 

[nflesher87]

0 and 1 being the two cards?

either way I'm going to be testing them out individually for max clocks at voltages with safe temps (just have stock coolers)
I may be able to start working on it tm but I'm not sure, I just got in the Antec TPQ 1KW yesterday so I can't wait to see how this system does with it

 

[mandelore]

0 and 1 being the two cards?

either way I'm going to be testing them out individually for max clocks at voltages with safe temps (just have stock coolers)
I may be able to start working on it tm but I'm not sure, I just got in the Antec TPQ 1KW yesterday so I can't wait to see how this system does with it

yes, 0 is card one, 1 is card two. good luck mate!

just flashed my card to 930 core/1200 memory @ 1.35 volts.

can do more, but not gonna bother till i get more volts coz i wanna see at least 980 core, and hoping for 1k core

heres the success of my flash

 

[Sasqui]

^^ Drool...

 

[nflesher87]

holy shiznit mand. I think you got a golden 2900

are you benching at each setting to see the differences?

 

[mandelore]

im trying to bench, my opty 185 is crashing my benchies, its not very stable tbh. But i successfully ran 3dmark05/06 at those clocks and it passed, its just my cpu is SO flakey. check out the improvement i got in the opengl fur benchmark:

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=40981&page=8

that was just at 925 core, got ~ 200 points more

 

[DaMulta]

DUDE whats your 3dmark score?

 

[glenboy]

hi mandelore what are you doing to change the 3dvoltage to 1.35 volt thanks

 

[EastCoasthandle]

I tried it, even though I could edit my .rom file to the desired clock rate ati win flash errored when I hit the "program" button. Saying it couldn't find some "V" bios option.

 

[mandelore]

DUDE whats your 3dmark score?

not worth posting put it this way.. 50mhz cpu increase yields me 500 points more. and hell can i get my cpu stable again. dunno whats goin on. I will have a range of 3dmark scores when my new cpu and mobo arrives.

this card is heavily bottlenecked and its rather frustrating

however, ill be getting my new mobo, and a cheapo x2 cpu b4 getting my phenom, so maybe i can clock the shit out of the x2 4000+ nd get somewhere near 3ghz, who knows

I have literally spent ALL day trying to get my cpu to run 3dmark 06 at 3.02ghz like my current scores run, but i cant, it keeps crashing, I know its not the gpu coz that passes at a lower cpu clock

 

[TheMailMan78]

How high do you think I could get with a stock cooler on one of these?

 

[mandelore]

I tried it, even though I could edit my .rom file to the desired clock rate ati win flash errored when I hit the "program" button. Saying it couldn't find some "V" bios option.

u need to use atiflash in dos to flash ur bios

and for changing the voltages, see this thread to get an idea what i did:

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=44862

 

[DaMulta]

I tried it, even though I could edit my .rom file to the desired clock rate ati win flash errored when I hit the "program" button. Saying it couldn't find some "V" bios option.

Do the DOS with -newbios to enter in new voltage settings.

 

[mandelore]

stock cooling.. eek, not v high tbh, it would simply fry with any amount of voltage increase i believe, either that or just not work.

it would, however, be safe to flash to your max air cooled overclock

 

[mandelore]

Do the DOS with -newbios to enter in new voltage settings.

yes, in dos type

atiflash -p -0 -newbios xxx.rom -f

 

[DaMulta]

stock cooling.. eek, not v high tbh, it would simply fry with any amount of voltage increase i believe, either that or just not work.

it would, however, be safe to flash to your max air cooled overclock

Pff I seen a ATi person flash a HD2900 at 900Mhz with the stock cooler for everyday normal use. I don't think it's that hgih for it/

 

[TheMailMan78]

stock cooling.. eek, not v high tbh, it would simply fry with any amount of voltage increase i believe, either that or just not work.

it would, however, be safe to flash to your max air cooled overclock

Without highjacking your thread could you PM me or post a link?

"Pff I seen a ATi person flash a HD2900 at 900Mhz with the stock cooler for everyday normal use. I don't think it's that hgih for it/"
TALK TO ME BABY!

 

[mandelore]

Pff I seen a ATi person flash a HD2900 at 900Mhz with the stock cooler for everyday normal use. I don't think it's that hgih for it/

I was kinda refering to large voltage increases with stock cooling...

but if a card can handle 900 on stock, then theres no reason not to flash it
actually, I suppose stock cooling, "may" handle the 1.2v bios, just depends on what it currently runs at and how well u feel about a hot card

@ Themailman: for the original thread on tpu about finding the modded bios's, look here:

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=44611

 

[DaMulta]

Of course that was with a modded Bios with more Voltage.

There is no link I seen it happen.

 

[Exceededgoku]

when I use the modded bios with more voltage (as in anything past 1.25v) i get crashes and artifacts at stock even though my card is happily going along at load at 60oC (maximum!). I get more stable overclocks at stock voltage :S, anyone else have this issue?

 

[EastCoasthandle]

What dos? Are you talking about the dos popup screen in XP or do I need to do something else? I get the notion that term "DOS" is used a bit more loosely here.

Do I need to boot into dos? If so, what are the steps to do it?
After I get to dos, what do I need to do (step by step)?
What's the deal about voltage? Why is it necessary to change it?

A lot of information is missing here. I believe a step by step post is needed to make sure we are all on the same page.

 

[DaMulta]

Go to my computer in windows and
format the floppy into a bootable disc.

Next you are going to need the new bios, and ATIFlash 3.43.. Copy the bios that matches
your memory, and
the BIOS flash utility over to your bootable floppy disc.

Then restart your computer. Make it boot off the floppy drive. You should boot up in DOS.

Type this command in to begin your flash.

atiflash -p 0 -newbios 2900xt.bin -f

If you have a second card(Crossfire) type this in too flash it as well.

atiflash -p 1 -newbios 2900xt.bin -f

 

[mandelore]

What dos? Are you talking about the dos popup screen in XP or do I need to do something else? I get the notion that term "DOS" is used a bit more loosely here.

Do I need to boot into dos? If so, what are the steps to do it?
After I get to dos, what do I need to do (step by step)?
What's the deal about voltage? Why is it necessary to change it?

A lot of information is missing here. I believe a step by step post is needed to make sure we are all on the same page.

check first post, I added instructions