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Guide to Radeon X800/X850 bios modding

alright thanks. right now i have it clocked at 535/551 and it is idling around 43C, but i have the fan on 'silent mode' which is only 4v instead of 12v, normal speed is almost double 'silent' mode. would you recommend running on normal mode?
 
With 535/550MHz you can flash X850XT BIOS. Without voltmods that is your maximum.
 
flashing to x850xt would benefit me how exactaly?
 
right now im running the x850pro bios w/16pipes unlocked.
 
ok, i just wanted to know what the difference between the two is.
 
beebs said:
alright thanks. right now i have it clocked at 535/551 and it is idling around 43C, but i have the fan on 'silent mode' which is only 4v instead of 12v, normal speed is almost double 'silent' mode. would you recommend running on normal mode?
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recommend running on normal mode/for sure ..that should move your idle temp to 30c and your load temp to 50/55c @ those clocks if true then try the xtpe clocks:D :D
flashing to xt bios will have card run at those speeds from boot up there is also a minor tweek in timeings but you prob wont notice;)
 
i need someone to tell me if im stuck with ddr2 or not.

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can someone tell me what bios i can use with that. its a gecube x800gto 256ddr2 pcie.

is it unlockable by just modifying the bios into a new one using rabit?
 
Can this be modded to 16 pipelines? It's Powercolor X800GTO

DeviceID 5549
Chip R423
Host Interface PCI-E
Memory Size 256
Mem. Type DDR3
Mem. bus width 256
Active pipelines 12
Def. gpu clock 400
Def. mem clock 490
Config DIE Fuses 0xeff7ffff
Config substrate fuses 0xffffff9f
Config ROM fuses 0x861
GB Pipe select 0x2724
 
romulow said:
Can this be modded to 16 pipelines? It's Powercolor X800GTO

DeviceID 5549
Chip R423
Host Interface PCI-E
Memory Size 256
Mem. Type DDR3
Mem. bus width 256
Active pipelines 12
Def. gpu clock 400
Def. mem clock 490
Config DIE Fuses 0xeff7ffff
Config substrate fuses 0xffffff9f
Config ROM fuses 0x861
GB Pipe select 0x2724
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Yes it can be moded to 16 pipe X800GTO, X800XT, X800XT PE or even to X850XT or X850XT PE (only recognized like X850 and with the X850 type Overdrive tab - for that you need special moded BIOS which I have created). Be carefull with the X800XT BIOS and ensure that it is for PCI-E. If your card is VIVO than use X800XT PCI-E BIOS to unlock to 16 pipes and then test for max. core/memory with ATITool. Post the results later on.

Flash in DOS mode using:

atiflash -f -p -newbios 0 x800xt.bin

Success
 
I was wondering if anyone could tell me whether or not I could get 16 pipelines out of this, here are my fuse settings from ATiTool. It's AGP if that makes a difference at all.

Device ID 4A49
Chip name R420
CONFIG_DIE_FUSES 0xFFF3EFFF
CONFIG_SUBSTRATE_FUSES 0xFFFFFF1E
CONFIG_ROM_FUSES 0x20
GB_PIPE_SELECT 0x6E48

here is a link to my bios(original - untouched).
Any help is GREATLY appreciated!
 

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GTmauf said:
I was wondering if anyone could tell me whether or not I could get 16 pipelines out of this, here are my fuse settings from ATiTool. It's AGP if that makes a difference at all.

Device ID 4A49
Chip name R420
CONFIG_DIE_FUSES 0xFFF3EFFF
CONFIG_SUBSTRATE_FUSES 0xFFFFFF1E
CONFIG_ROM_FUSES 0x20
GB_PIPE_SELECT 0x6E48

here is a link to my bios(original - untouched).
Any help is GREATLY appreciated!
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Unfortunately no 16 pipes for that core :cry: .
 
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Bah tis a shame. Oh well it's very nicely OC'd so that will just have to hold me for now, lol. Thank you for your reply.
 
is this it?

I'm not sure if this is the right info but here it is:

Display adapter RADEON X800 GTO (0x5D4F)
Core Name R480
SubVendor Sapphire (P.C. Partner) (174B)
SubDevice 1600
BUS 1
Device 0
Function 0
Base Address 0 C800000C
Base Address 1 00000000
Base Address 2 D0030004
Base Address 3 00000000

Bus Type PCI Express
SMARTGART Installed No

Driver Version 07.1
Release Version 8.33-061220m-040997C-ATI
QuadBuffer Stereo Support No
Catalyst Registry Path
System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{5439985F-4390-4A37-BC0C-B215C8C12944}\0000

______________________________
Clock Information
BIOS VPU 0.00
Current VPU 0.00
BIOS MEM 0.00
Current MEM 0.00

______________________________
Overdrive
Supported No

______________________________
Radeon PCI configuration space
00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F
00 02 10 4F 5D 07 00 10 00 00 00 00 03 08 00 80 00
10 0C 00 00 C8 00 00 00 00 04 00 03 D0 00 00 00 00
20 01 C0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 4B 17 00 16
30 00 00 00 00 50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 01 00 00
40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 4B 17 00 16
50 01 58 02 06 00 00 00 00 10 80 01 00 A0 04 2C 01
60 10 09 00 00 01 AD 00 00 40 00 01 11 00 00 00 00
70 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
80 05 00 80 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 ASIC (Software) Method
Family 56
Emulated Revision 11
Gfx Engine ID 3
VRam Bit Width 256
Installed memory 256

Hardware Information Direct hardware access
Installed memory 256 Mb
Memory Type GDDR3
Memory Width 256 bit
Active Rendering Pipelines 12

______________________________
Radeon Registers
RADEON_BIOS_0_SCRATCH 02000200
RADEON_BIOS_1_SCRATCH 0100C000
RADEON_X_MPLL_REF_FB_DIV 003B4904
RADEON_XCLK_CNTL 00807FFA
RADEON_MCLK_CNTL 00031212
GB_TILE_CONFIG 0001001D
MC_TIMING_CNTL 69668334
MC_SDRAM_MODE_REG 10430000

______________________________
Video BIOS Information
Version 009.010.001.011
Part Number 14745.001
Date 2005/08/23 23:44
Vram Type DDR3

______________________________
Controller Configurations
Controller 0
Active Connections:
-Second Monitor (CRT2) (0) 800x600x75
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

______________________________
EnumDisplays
Display Type 0, Extended Type 1 , Max Resolution 1600x1200
Display Type 0, Extended Type 2 , Max Resolution 1920x1080
Display Type 4, Extended Type 0 , Max Resolution 720x480
Display Type 1, Extended Type 7 , Max Resolution 1024x768
Display Type 3, Extended Type 1 , Max Resolution 1280x1024
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(My ati tray tools version is: 1.2.6.940) A friend told me about using rivatools to see if my card has unlockable pixel pipepines but im not sure if it will work on my card. Any help would be apriciated. I dont want to just try it and loose a card that cost $165 :nutkick: I already used trixx 4 times autoclock. I had to install omega driver because before that on just the desktop the screen would go black randomly. ( Radeon Omega Drivers 3.8.330 (Catalyst 7.1) ) Then it was fixed but so the game doesnt crash I uninstalled it in windows device manager restarted and installed the driver meant for my card ( 7-1_xp_dd_ccc_wdm_enu_40211.exe )I searched for on radeon's website.
 
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this is from rivatuner info

this is from rivatuner info:

$ffffffffff ----------------------------------------------------------------
$ffffffffff Northbridge information
$ffffffffff ----------------------------------------------------------------
$0400000000 Description : Intel Grantsdale
$0400000001 Vendor ID : 8086 (Intel)
$0400000002 Device ID : 2580
$0400000003 AGP bus : not supported
$ffffffffff ----------------------------------------------------------------
$ffffffffff Display adapter information
$ffffffffff ----------------------------------------------------------------
$0000000000 Description : RADEON X800 GTO
$0000000001 Vendor ID : 1002 (ATI)
$0000000002 Device ID : 5d4f
$0000000003 Location : bus 1, device 0, function 0
$0000000004 Bus type : PCIE
$000000000f PCIE link width : 16x supported, 16x selected
$0000000009 Base address 0 : c8000000 (memory range)
$000000000a Base address 1 : none
$000000000b Base address 2 : d0030000 (memory range)
$000000000c Base address 3 : none
$000000000d Base address 4 : 0000c000 (I/O range)
$000000000e Base address 5 : none
$ffffffffff ----------------------------------------------------------------
$ffffffffff ATI specific display adapter information
$ffffffffff ----------------------------------------------------------------
$0900000000 Graphics core : R480 (12pp)
$0900000002 Memory bus : 256-bit
$0900000001 Memory type : DDR3 SGRAM
$0900000003 Memory amount : 256MB
$0900000004 Core clock : 399.214MHz
$0900000005 Memory clock : 489.857MHz (979.714MHz effective)
$0900000006 Reference clock : 27.000MHz
$ffffffffff ----------------------------------------------------------------
$ffffffffff Crossbar memory controller timings
$ffffffffff ----------------------------------------------------------------
$0900000100 WR latency : 1.5
$0900000101 CAS latency : 4
$0900000102 CMD latency : 0.0
$0900000103 STR latency : 1.5
$0900000110 tRCDRD, RAS to CAS read : 7
$0900000111 tRCDWR, RAS to CAS write : 4
$0900000112 tRP , Row precharge : 6
$0900000113 tRAS , Row active : 6
$0900000114 tRRD , Row active to row active command : 6
$0900000115 tR2W , Read to write turnaround : 6
$0900000116 tWR , Write recovery : 7
$0900000117 tW2R , Write to read turnaround : 1
$0900000118 tW2R , Write to read turnaround / same bank : 7
$0900000119 tR2R , Read to read turnaround : 3
 
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Unfortunately your card won't unlock to 16 pipes. But it should overcklock pretty well.
 
perminant oc how

Now im using trixx. I already used autoclock 4 times and fixed the desktop random blackness with omega driver on a fresh OS install then put back the correct driver in the os after setting up. Now im using the temp oc in trixx but when I choose extreme each time it has to find the gpu and memory frequency and takes about 8 minutes to do so. Which ap would you recomend to do all this without needing to wait so long? Maybe I can copy the values and put inside some manual oc ap*? I think I can still use trixx because they have a manual setting but is there a better ap you would recomend?

Actualy I want to go HD because I have a good card and also use it with a ps3 I will be getting but I have no idea where to start.
 
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vectoravtech said:
Now im using trixx. I already used autoclock 4 times and fixed the desktop random blackness with omega driver on a fresh OS install then put back the correct driver in the os after setting up. Now im using the temp oc in trixx but when I choose extreme each time it has to find the gpu and memory frequency and takes about 8 minutes to do so. Which ap would you recomend to do all this without needing to wait so long? Maybe I can copy the values and put inside some manual oc ap*? I think I can still use trixx because they have a manual setting but is there a better ap you would recomend?

Actualy I want to go HD because I have a good card and also use it with a ps3 I will be getting but I have no idea where to start.
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I would recommend to find stable clocks using ATITool. After that to edit the BIOS and to set at minimum 10MHz lower clock for the core and 15-20MHz lower clocks for the memory. Set them in the BIOS and flash that BIOS to your card. Have fun ;) .
 
I copyed the trixx max settings

Heres trixx max settings: core clock 491.46 memory clock 573.94 fan %100 and do I just follow the tut in the beginning of the forum?
 
vectoravtech said:
Heres trixx max settings: core clock 491.46 memory clock 573.94 fan %100 and do I just follow the tut in the beginning of the forum?
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You can set 475MHz on the core and 550MHz on the memory at custom BIOS and to flash it.
 
another prob

Another problem is omega driver I put on a fresh install to stop the desktop from going all black; it fixed the problem but many of my games are crashing after about 30 minutes or an hour. How should I fix this? I'm thinking this old driver cant handle some of the newer games.
 
temps

Temp with everest
Before:



Temperatures:

Motherboard 30 °C (86 °F)

CPU 43 °C (109 °F)

Aux 39 °C (102 °F)

WDC WD2500JD-75HBB0 42 °C (108 °F)



After 3 hours:



Temperatures:

Motherboard 36 °C (97 °F)

CPU 53 °C (127 °F)

Aux 48 °C (118 °F)

WDC WD2500JD-75HBB0 50 °C (122 °F)



This time I used rivatuner not trixx to overclock. BF2 and 2142 are next to test :wtf: I know this has nothing to do with pixelunlocking. :laugh:
 
X850 Pro Agp Vivo 3dconect

Hi There
Have any One have succes doing a Hardmod on the Lazer cut
on a R481chip? in order to enable the extra 4 Pipe?
Tks in advance
Keep up the great Work Dolf ...
:cool:
 
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