ATI Radeon 9550 Overclocking and BIOS modding FAQ Guide

hjv2006 · Jan 25, 2006

Jimmy 2004, thanks for your attention and help. The only thing i can do is use the ati tools to overclock especially the core and the mem clock too i think. Maybe i can increase about 20% my card to play normally quake 4. Tell me one more thing if you please.
I have no cooler in my card, it´s something grey. Well, it´s importante to put a better cooling and which cooler fix there.
thanks for all your attention

Jimmy 2004 · Jan 25, 2006

I'm not an expert on cooling, my 9550 came with a fansink, sounds like yours is only a heatsink, but if you have no form of fan on you card, I'd strongly advise getting some extra cooling... I'm afraid that isn't my strong point, I don't know which coolers to use so either take a look around the forums or search google.

megaX · Jan 31, 2006

Jimmy 2004,
I triyed to flash my Gigabyte R9550 256MB up to R9600pro But I am not abale to Flash it.
its giving me an error , that the bios is not matched with the card.
need help .

mikechinym · Feb 4, 2006

try using the bios in thos forum and when download, use the cd image to flush your bios

megaX · Feb 5, 2006

I tryed most of bios in this forums but nothing changed > about the CD image I didnt anderstand what did you mean please tell me more about it.
thanks .

Jimmy 2004 · Feb 5, 2006

megaX said:
I triyed to flash my Gigabyte R9550 256MB up to R9600pro But I am not abale to Flash it. its giving me an error , that the bios is not matched with the card.
need help .

1) Is your card still working, or has the flash killed it?
2) Are you sure you are trying to flash the correct card and don't have a PCI card in as well or something?

megaX · Feb 5, 2006

sory for late .
no the card still working and Iam sure I have the correct bios bin, but but Its givin me that the bios is protected or some thing like that.
by other I culd not find the same ram cause my ram is hynix 5 but I foud hynix 4 and a member said to me its will work.
is there any thing wrong?
and I have a PCI vga card .

mikechinym · Feb 8, 2006

when u download the bios from this forum,
first; click on the "advanced" link
2nd; a window will pop up,then select the third choice(if i am not mistaken)you can see there is a choice written download as a iso/image(burn to cd) in the list.
3rd; get ready a cd-rw,burn into it
4th; restart your pc and boot from cd-rom
5th; in the dos,there are 2 choice,start dos or flash with xxxbios(normally i use the 2nd one)
6th; after flsah succesfully,u should hear a sound from the casing speaker
finally restart
hope this help u

du · Feb 10, 2006

Someone have the ASUS 9550GE/TD 128M original BIOS?
I can't find it on the net after I flashed my card to R9600(400/200)!

One more question,is there any software that can edit the bios backup file to change it's name and memory timing

Death · Feb 20, 2006

asus 9550 to 9600

hi, i have an asus radeon 9550 and i tried to flash it`s bios to 9600 with flashrom. It doesn`t work :banghead:

, i receive an error like that:

Serial ROM
Bios DeviceID = 0X4152
ASIC DeviceID = 0X4153
Existing memcfg = 0x6140
New memcfg = 0x2940
Existing SSID = 0x0090
New SSID = 0XC01A
Existing BIOS P/N = 113-AA66100-104
New BIOS P/N = 113-AA00
Flash type = ST M25P05/c
Error: data not erased
ERROR 0FL01: press '1' to continue

then i modified ti`s original bios (250/200 @ 475/300 core/mem) and tied to write that bios and i receive this:

Serial ROM
Bios DeviceID = 0X4152
ASIC DeviceID = 0X4152
Existing memcfg = 0x6140
New memcfg = 0x6140
Existing SSID = 0x0090
New SSID = 0X0090
Existing BIOS P/N = 113-AA66100-104
New BIOS P/N = 113-AA66100-104
Flash type = ST M25P05/c
Error: data not erased
ERROR 0FL01: press '1' to continue

Is it possible that bios is write protected, and if it is how can i break that protection, is any soft i can use, please can someone help me...

maxo · Feb 22, 2006

which bios should i use?

I have an sapphire radeon 9550 256 MB
Device ID 4153
Chip type RV350
Mem bus 128-bit
256MB RAM
Active Pipes 4
Samsung Memory 5.0
I can over clock my GPU from 250/stock to over 360 i havent tried any higher ram only goes to about 215 MHZ above that artifacts will apear

Anyway which 9600 bios would be good for this card?

MyName · Feb 25, 2006

9600XT preformance for 1/3 of the price

Gigabyte 9550 before voltmod 480/270, with vmods it now works at 630/290 :rockout:

@ 1.6v on core (dont go as high for daily use. Go to 1.4-1.5 volts max

). To bad that I kinda F-ed it up before and am geting mad artifacts even on stock speeds (as seen on the this picture ).

Pics of the mod:

Big pic

Soposed Vdd vmod:

Big pic

Vgpu sensing points:

Big pic

Overall view:

Big pic

Don't forget about cooling (Zalman 6000 AlCu socketA cooler and termaltake ramsinks):

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Fans (5v for day to day use, 7v for gaming, 12v for benching):

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ATI tool:

Big pic

About flashing the Gigabyte: I don't have any idea what I did that alowed me to flash, but after the first flash I haven't had any problems with flashing. Oh, and I use ATI winflash with a Gigabyte 9600 pro bios (beter score when benchmarking, becouse of the ram timings. I have tried to mod the original 9550 bios with the 9600 timings and gets the same benchmark resaults as the 9600 pro bios).

MyName · Feb 25, 2006

maxo said:
I have an sapphire radeon 9550 256 MB
Device ID 4153
Chip type RV350
Mem bus 128-bit
256MB RAM
Active Pipes 4
Samsung Memory 5.0
I can over clock my GPU from 250/stock to over 360 i havent tried any higher ram only goes to about 215 MHZ above that artifacts will apear

Anyway which 9600 bios would be good for this card?

GeCube 9600 Pro 256 MB bios but download one moded to 360MHz core clock speed (or try if your card works at the 9600 pro 398MHz).
Don't expect too much from you'r ram becouse it's made to work at 200MHz.

ferynov · Feb 27, 2006

nice

i recomended to buy gecube 9550xt default OC in windows as 9600.

hacker85 · Mar 6, 2006

When i flash bios for my Gigabyte (GV-R955128D) it says: (Error: block protect not disabled, status=OE, ERROR OFL01). what i can do?

hacker85 · Mar 6, 2006

megaX said:
I have a GigaByte R9550 256Mb 125bit With hynix 5.0 250/200*2
can I Flash it with a R9600 non-pro or XT bios with Hynix 4.0 rams?
cause i didnt find a R9600 non -pro or XT with a same ram.
sorry for bad english.
Romania

ai rezolvat treaba???

MyName · Mar 7, 2006

Try flashing in window and/or try diferent 9600 bioses (have you tried reflashing it with a original bios?).

Ketxxx · Mar 7, 2006

hacker85 said:
When i flash bios for my Gigabyte (GV-R955128D) it says: (Error: block protect not disabled, status=OE, ERROR OFL01). what i can do?

you can try forcing the flash with flashrom, forcing a flash is simple, the full command is;

Flashrom -p -f 0 *BIOSfilenamehere*.rom\bin

you can download flashrom from my guide post number 9

mk_ln · Mar 7, 2006

Ketxxx said:
you can try forcing the flash with flashrom, forcing a flash is simple, the full command is;

Flashrom -p -f 0 *BIOSfilenamehere*.rom\bin

you can download flashrom from my guide post number 9

i understand how the "-f" is supposed to force the flash, however, ive noticed that many ppl, as well as myself, have found that the -f command isnt enough. i forget if it was on this thread or another, but the command used was:

flashrom -f -p -sst 0 "biosName.bin"

and i was able to flash it, tho it was not successful (i just got a blank screen). but i was still able to flash back. hope this helps.

jjnissanpatfan · Mar 11, 2006

sorry for that i thought i was in the right page wrong one thank you for letting me know.And hopefully i'll break 10000 TY JIMMY

Jimmy 2004 · Mar 11, 2006

jjnissanpatfan said:
Hey there people i just upgraded to his x1800xt 256 And so far with catlist 6.2 and ati tool.Should i be able to get more???for that score 720 core 850 memory.and i'm using a amd 3200 winny@2.1 thats all i can get lame i know.

Can I ask why you posted this in a thread titled "ATI Radeon 9550 Overclocking and BIOS modding FAQ Guide"?!!!!

I think you should probably post somewhere more relevant to get help :wtf:

darkado · Mar 17, 2006

i have a 3d connect ati radeon 128 and i overclocked it feom 250/200 to 425/255, is that good?

mastercm · Mar 21, 2006

I come from Indonesia and have GV-R955128D.The default clock is 250/195.75, the memory
is hynix 4ns.After read this thread i try OC my R9550 with AtiTool to 419/257, with 3Dmark03 v3.6.0
the score is 3519 (default 2250). After that i was think to reflash it with R9600 BIOS.I try Bios
gigabyte R9600 and flash it with atiwinflash,atiflash,flash, but it doesn't work.Then i read more this thread
,thanks to Toane, with command : flashrom -p -f -sst 0 biosfilename.bin, my R9550 turn to
9600 XT (398.25/202.5).I was use GV-R96P128DE F3 Bios.With 3DMark 03 v3.6.0 the score is 3036,Aquamark 25890,3Dmark05 1528.For now
i just use standard heatsink with 40mm fan that i screw on heatsink and no heatsink on memory, i just
put a 80mm fan beside the card.I was plan to OC it,but i want install a good heatsink on my gpu and memory.
Is there any idea what is the suitable heatsink(with fan)?thanks before, and i'm sorry if my
english bad.My 9550 that turns to 9600 :
General
Display adapter Radeon 9600XT (4152)
Core Name RV350/RV360
SubVendor GigaByte (1458)
SubDevice 4022
BUS 2
Device 0
Function 0
Base Address 0 D0000008
Base Address 1 0000D001
Base Address 2 E1000000
Base Address 3 00000000
Catalyst Registry Path
System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{2173E021-F7E9-44A5-8B45-54C0494D0307}\0000
______________________________
Clock Information
BIOS VPU 398,00
Current VPU 398,25
BIOS MEM 203,00
Current MEM 202,50
______________________________
Radeon PCI configuration space
00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F
00 02 10 52 41 07 00 B0 02 00 00 00 03 08 20 80 00
10 08 00 00 D0 01 D0 00 00 00 00 00 E1 00 00 00 00
20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 58 14 22 40
30 00 00 00 00 58 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 13 01 08 00
40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 58 14 22 40
50 01 00 02 06 00 00 00 00 02 50 30 00 1B 02 00 FF
60 12 43 00 1F 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
70 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
80 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
90 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
A0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
B0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
C0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
D0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
E0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
F0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
______________________________
Hardware Information
Installed memory 128 Mb
Memory Type DDR SDRAM
Memory Width 128 bit
Active Rendering Pipelines 4
______________________________
ASIC details
Family 45
Emulated Revision 3
Gfx Engine ID 3
______________________________
Radeon Registers
RADEON_BIOS_0_SCRATCH 00040004
RADEON_BIOS_1_SCRATCH 0200C000
RADEON_X_MPLL_REF_FB_DIV 003B1E04
RADEON_XCLK_CNTL 00A07FFA
RADEON_MCLK_CNTL 00031212
GB_TILE_CONFIG 00010011
MC_TIMING_CNTL 1A291111
MC_SDRAM_MODE_REG 31320032
______________________________
Video BIOS Information
Version 008.017D.033.00
Part Number BK-ATI VER008.017D.033.000
Date 2005/05/03 11:58
______________________________
Controller Configurations
Controller 0
Active Connections:
-Monitor (CRT1) (0) 800x600x60
Controller 1
Active Connections:
No Active Connections
______________________________
Displays supported by adapter
0 (1) Monitor (CRT1)
1 (2) Second Monitor (CRT2)
2 (4) Component Video Output
3 (8) TV
4 (16) Digital Flat Panel

Jimmy 2004 · Mar 21, 2006

400/200 isn't 9600XT speed??!!

stex6109 · Mar 23, 2006

Ok here's what happened! I have an AGP 256MB ATI 9550 vid card. I got Oblivion yesterday and wanted to try and overclock it. So I downloaded the SoftMod Catalyst 6.3 v6.14.10.6601 and installed it. I then install ATI-Tool and ran it. I cranked my core speed up 10 Mhz from 249.75 to 259.75 and exited the program. Then I ran Oblivion and the game ran fine so I exited the game and started ATI-Tool back up. I now clicked Test Max Core button and it began its testing. Everything was fine until it reach the speed of 370.25 MHZ at which point it stopped rendering the Direct3d image in the window. I was worried so I clicked abort and all of the sudden my monitor went blank! :eek:

I checked the cables and such and finally reset my computer. But to my disappointment on restart the monitor was still blank. I then proceeded to move the video card into another computer I have next to me which has everything else the same mainboard ,ram ,ect. The affect was the same the video card won't do anything anymore, it won't even display the BIOS on startup anymore regardless of which computer it is put in. Is it fried? What the hell happened? I never changed the BIOS or anything. This is not the cheaper 9550 either, I paid about $160 for it. Any suggestions or comments?

System Name	Jimmy 2004's PC
Processor	S754 AMD Athlon64 3200+ @ 2640MHz
Motherboard	ASUS K8N
Cooling	AC Freezer 64 Pro + Zalman VF1000 + 5x120mm Antec TriCool Case Fans
Memory	1GB Kingston PC3200 (2x512MB)
Video Card(s)	Saphire 256MB X800 GTO @ 450MHz/560MHz (Core/Memory)
Storage	500GB Western Digital SATA II + 80GB Maxtor DiamondMax SATA
Display(s)	Digimate 17" TFT (1280x1024)
Case	Antec P182
Audio Device(s)	Audigy 4 + Creative Inspire T7900 7.1 Speakers
Power Supply	Corsair HX520W
Software	Windows XP Home

System Name	Jimmy 2004's PC
Processor	S754 AMD Athlon64 3200+ @ 2640MHz
Motherboard	ASUS K8N
Cooling	AC Freezer 64 Pro + Zalman VF1000 + 5x120mm Antec TriCool Case Fans
Memory	1GB Kingston PC3200 (2x512MB)
Video Card(s)	Saphire 256MB X800 GTO @ 450MHz/560MHz (Core/Memory)
Storage	500GB Western Digital SATA II + 80GB Maxtor DiamondMax SATA
Display(s)	Digimate 17" TFT (1280x1024)
Case	Antec P182
Audio Device(s)	Audigy 4 + Creative Inspire T7900 7.1 Speakers
Power Supply	Corsair HX520W
Software	Windows XP Home

Processor	AMD Sempron 3000+ @ 9x270 (2430MHz)
Motherboard	DFI Lanparty UT GB250
Cooling	Zalman 9500cu
Memory	OCZ Premier & Twinmos winbond DDR400 256MB @ DDR486 cl2.0-2-2-5
Video Card(s)	ATI Radeon 9800 np @ 9800 pro @ 432/342
Storage	Maxtor 160GB S-ATA, WD 80GB ATA100
Display(s)	LG 15" LCD
Case	Noname Mid tower
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	ProComp 430W

Processor	AMD Sempron 3000+ @ 9x270 (2430MHz)
Motherboard	DFI Lanparty UT GB250
Cooling	Zalman 9500cu
Memory	OCZ Premier & Twinmos winbond DDR400 256MB @ DDR486 cl2.0-2-2-5
Video Card(s)	ATI Radeon 9800 np @ 9800 pro @ 432/342
Storage	Maxtor 160GB S-ATA, WD 80GB ATA100
Display(s)	LG 15" LCD
Case	Noname Mid tower
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	ProComp 430W

Processor	AMD Sempron 3000+ @ 9x270 (2430MHz)
Motherboard	DFI Lanparty UT GB250
Cooling	Zalman 9500cu
Memory	OCZ Premier & Twinmos winbond DDR400 256MB @ DDR486 cl2.0-2-2-5
Video Card(s)	ATI Radeon 9800 np @ 9800 pro @ 432/342
Storage	Maxtor 160GB S-ATA, WD 80GB ATA100
Display(s)	LG 15" LCD
Case	Noname Mid tower
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	ProComp 430W

System Name	Ravens Talon
Processor	AMD R7 3700X @ 4.4GHz 1.3v
Motherboard	MSI X570 Tomahawk
Cooling	Modded 240mm Coolermaster Liquidmaster
Memory	2x16GB Klevv BoltX 3600MHz & custom timings
Video Card(s)	Powercolor 6800XT Red Devil
Storage	250GB Asgard SSD, 1TB Integral SSD, 2TB Seagate Barracuda
Display(s)	27" BenQ Mobiuz
Case	NZXT Phantom 530
Audio Device(s)	Asus Xonar DX 7.1 PCI-E
Power Supply	1000w Supernova
Software	Windows 10 x64
Benchmark Scores	Fast. I don't need epeen.

Processor	Intel Core i7-970 @ 4.02
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD5
Cooling	Cooler Master Hyper 212+ (dual fans)
Memory	12GB Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz
Video Card(s)	MSI GTX 465 TWIN FROZR II GE flashed to GTX 470 + PNY GTX470 (SLI)
Storage	1x Intel 80GB G2, 1x 320 series 160GB SSD, + 11 other drives totaling a bit over 12TB
Display(s)	Samsung 2693 + ASUS VW266H
Case	Silverstone TJ07-BW
Audio Device(s)	Logitech Z5500
Power Supply	Corsair HX850 - Modular
Software	XP PRO x86, Vista Ult. x64, Win7 Ult. x64

System Name	Money Guilt / immortal X58
Processor	5600X / X5660
Motherboard	MSI B550 GAMING PLUS / MSI-x58-PLAT
Cooling	Cooler Master - Hyper 212 / Monsoon 3 Dual 120 fans
Memory	OLOy WarHawk 2x8 / 2x4 gig Gskill 1600
Video Card(s)	EVGA 3060 Ti FTW3 / R9 290 Powercolor PCS+
Storage	Crucial P5 1TB / 128gig Samsung D830 2x1 Terabyte Seagates Raid0
Display(s)	VIOTEK 32-In 2560x1440 Curved 144Hz / Acer 22in 1920x1080 120Hertz
Case	NZXT - H510 Compact / Thermaltake V9 Black Edition
Audio Device(s)	Soundblaster Audigy FX
Power Supply	CORSAIR - RM Series 750W / Ocz 700 Modular
Mouse	G403 / basic
Keyboard	G15 / basic
Software	Windows 10
Benchmark Scores	http://www.3dmark.com/spy/18067733, http://www.3dmark.com/fs/24836348 http://www.3dmark.com/fs/11606

Processor	AMD AthlonXP (Barton core) 3000+ @ 3200+
Motherboard	EpOX-8RDA3I
Cooling	LED fan
Memory	2x512 Samsung DDR 400
Video Card(s)	ATI Radeon 9550 @ 450/265
Storage	Maxtor Diamond 160 GB
Display(s)	LG FlatronEZ T710B
Case	My mod
Audio Device(s)	Audigy 2
Power Supply	400W
Software	Pro Evolution Soccer 5

Processor	Athlon XP 2200+ @2400+ (163x12)
Motherboard	A7N8X-X
Memory	Visipro 3x256MB PC 3200
Video Card(s)	GV-R955128D
Storage	Seagate 40Gb 7200
Case	SP
Power Supply	SP Codegen 350W

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