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Failed BIOS FLASH - need a bit of help

Regalk

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Hi all
First let me say that this is an excellent site, forum and all. Keep up the good work.
Well I got a bit too aggressive and flashed my HIS Radeon X800GT to X800GTO and failed halfway - cannot read the video bios rom anymore.
I am not one to give up
I managed to get a copy of the HIS original Radeon BIOS X800GT by trusted old googling
So far I have been able to do at least this
Asus A8R-MVP corssfire Motherboard (brand spanking new and lovin it)
Sapphire Radeon is in the blue PCI-E slot (second) - needed to boot otherwise I have a blank screen with the HIS
HIS RADEON is in the Black PCI-E slot
I would like to do a DOS flash using ATIFlash utility
Problem is I do not know which PCI-e is 0 (in the command line below) or which is 1 and I do not want to screw up my Sapphire by flashing the wrong card
ATIFLASH -p -f 0 HIS X800GT.rom
Any suggestions
 

Regalk

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Looking at the manual
Blue PCI-e = master so I assume this is 0
Black PCI-e = secondary which should be 1
AM I correct?
 

Regalk

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OK its up and working - thanks to my trusted old PCi Vodoo3. Now I can set up my A8R-MVP system. I remembered this was the way to reflash (DOS environment) and confirmed on these forums..
Master = 0
secondary = 1

On the A8N-E since only 1 PCI-E "0" s/b used.
 
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