flashed modded GTO² with an XT PE Bios and back, but Fan is dead

Flauschi · Apr 15, 2006

Hello,

first i flashed my GTO² with that modded 16PP Bios (http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/overclocking/vidcard/127).
Everything worked fine, the card still took 16PP and XT PE frequenzy.

After that, i tried an Original Sapphire X850XT PE Bios. Freqenzy and PP was like other XT PE, but the fan didn`t work any more! So i flashed it back to the modefied 16PP Bios, but the fan didn`t work. I tried several other bios, like original ATI XT PE. No Chance, the problem stayed.

flashproggie is modded flashrom.

I read the posts in "articles" forum and i saw no answer or my english is too bad? Sry for that, but i hope for help.

zekrahminator · Apr 15, 2006

try plugging your GPU fan directly into the motherboard to see if it actually still works. If it does, then you blew a fuse on your X800GTO2. If it doesn't, you need a new VGA cooler :laugh:

Flauschi · Apr 15, 2006

hm, his physics and technic is ok

shyet · Apr 15, 2006

Do you use ATITool? Try overriding your fan speeds to a fixed percentage and see if that works.

I have a similar problem as yours, I flashed my GTO2 with a Sapphire X850XT BIOS and the fan didn't spin after (although mines goes back to normal if I flash with the original BIOS). Anyway ATM I'm using the X850XT BIOS using the dynamic setting in ATITool. IMO works even better than the default.

Flauschi · Apr 15, 2006

hi,

how do u flash back? With atiflash or flashrom? Which Version? With parameters: -f -p 0
or -f -p 0 -newbios?
No fan reaction with atitool (0.25b14)

P5y · Apr 15, 2006

my problem is same. I have a X850pro flashed to 16pipe X850XT. My fan doesnt work on boot up. I have to do manual override on ATI Tool inorder to get it to work.

shyet · Apr 15, 2006

I used ATIFlash 3.09

atiflash -p 0 GTO2.BIN -f

Edit: My GTO2 shipped with 16 pipes, using the X800XL BIOS. If you flash with the BIOS I sent, ATITool will recognize it as R430 with 16 pipes.

Flauschi · Apr 15, 2006

no success. I think something went to hell.

P5y · Apr 15, 2006

Have you tried ATI Tool , and set fan on 100% manually. My fan is dead on anything other then 100%.

Also what are peoples opinion on using no fan on a gpu IF you are just in ms dos and w/o fan temperatures are about 40-50 degrees

Flauschi · Apr 15, 2006

yes i tried. No effect.
Also tried: dynamic based and "do not change PWM" in this menue. hmmmm
I got an idea -> i`m going to edit the bios with rabit and change Fan Speed to 100%. Hopefully that will work.

shyet · Apr 15, 2006

Hmm, there has been reports of the stock cooler dying and just stopped working.

zekrahminator said:
try plugging your GPU fan directly into the motherboard to see if it actually still works. If it does, then you blew a fuse on your X800GTO2. If it doesn't, you need a new VGA cooler

Have your tried what he suggested?

P5y · Apr 15, 2006

Ok this is just me being braindead..but is there a wire you can "cut" that connects the fan to card, inorder to make the fan just run continuosly at 100%.

3 wires red black and white....

zekrahminator · Apr 15, 2006

I would try my method first :laugh:

shyet · Apr 15, 2006

P5y said:
Ok this is just me being braindead..but is there a wire you can "cut" that connects the fan to card, inorder to make the fan just run continuosly at 100%.

3 wires red black and white....

zekrahminator said:
I would try my method first

That just reminded me that the fan on the video card has 3 wires/3 pin connector. For some reason I was thinking it only had 2 :banghead:

Scratch was I said :laugh:

Flauschi · Apr 15, 2006

at this time i have no chance to try the fan with an other video card.
Directly to motherboard? The connector is different.

zekrahminator · Apr 15, 2006

yeah, sure. most video card fan power plugs WILL fit into 3-pin motherboard slots. Even 2-pin plugs lol. Just make sure you know which way to do it...use this image as reference for motherboard connector

P5y · Apr 16, 2006

There is one snag about connecting the Fan to your motherboard.

The wire is too short !!

shyet · Apr 16, 2006

You could remove your card from the slot, plug the fan to the motherboard, and still power on your PC. Your PC obviously won't post, but all fans should still spin.

Flauschi · Apr 16, 2006

i did it! He is dead Jim! ;(

shyet · Apr 16, 2006

Flauschi said:
i did it! He is dead Jim! ;(

hmm? You plugged the video card fan directly to the motherboard and the fan doesn't work?

If the fan is the only thing that broke, that's good news, now time to buy a ATI Silencer

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Motherboard	ASRock Extreme4 Gen3
Cooling	Swiftech Apogee XT
Memory	2x4GB 1600MHz 8-8-8-24-1T
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Display(s)	Dell 2209WA
Case	Silverstone Raven 2
Audio Device(s)	X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty
Power Supply	XFX 850W Black Edition
Software	Windows 7 Ultimate x64

Processor	AMD Athlon 3200XP ~ 2205mhz
Motherboard	Asus A7N8X-X
Cooling	Thermal Take Volcano , 2 Case Fans , ATI Silencer 5
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