Radeon X1800GTO@XT MOD (12P to 16P)

[cell]

pls

ppl this is the best forum but since im new here and dont know muck about soft mods and i just got my PowerColor x1800GTO 256mb yesturday i have a question.

I vant to unlock those pipelines to 16 instead of 12 but i dont want to clock the GPU or memory so should i change my voltage too or not and if someone could explain to me the whole process i would be forever thankfull.

Thx.

 

[bchivers]

Which bios do I use for a HIS X1800GTO IceQ3 Turbo 256mb

 

[dolf]

ppl this is the best forum but since im new here and dont know muck about soft mods and i just got my PowerColor x1800GTO 256mb yesturday i have a question.

I vant to unlock those pipelines to 16 instead of 12 but i dont want to clock the GPU or memory so should i change my voltage too or not and if someone could explain to me the whole process i would be forever thankfull.

Thx.

Open ATITool and find the fuse section. What is your GB_PIPE_SELECT? Post the result here.

The same for you Bchivers.

 

[bchivers]

Open ATITool and find the fuse section. What is your GB_PIPE_SELECT? Post the result here.

The same for you Bchivers.

Mine is OX27E4
I found this bios on the first page, will it work with my card or is there a better one, thanks.

yea, using ATITool it reads all 16 pipes. Before it would read 12. It reads them correctly and the performance gain matches.

heres my current bios running at 600/600 with 16 pipes unlocked. It should work with any GTO since it uses a gto bios... GTO600600.zip

 

[hagr]

I cant get my 4 last pipelines opened.... Can anyone help me? I got a Powercolor Radeon x1800GTO, I have tried with several BIOSes but I cant get them to work.... can those 4 may be lazercutted?

 

[ace80]

@ bchivers

The bios on the first page is of a His x1800gto but not the turbo iceq3 edition.
This should work ok but the voltages and clocks were changed to attain a default of 600/600. I have the turbo iceq3 and it worked on mine.

If however u just want to unlock the pipes, i've attached my origonal bios modded to 16 pipes, default clocks of 520/500 and default voltages.

 

[bchivers]

@ bchivers

The bios on the first page is of a His x1800gto but not the turbo iceq3 edition.
This should work ok but the voltages and clocks were changed to attain a default of 600/600. I have the turbo iceq3 and it worked on mine.

If however u just want to unlock the pipes, i've attached my origonal bios modded to 16 pipes, default clocks of 520/500 and default voltages.

I flashed it with the one on the first page and so far all is well. Thanks for your help.

 

[ace80]

I flashed it with the one on the first page and so far all is well. Thanks for your help.

no probs man, which version of atitool are u using to oc?
beta14 has no monitoring-although for me it does as i spliced an xl bios with my origonal.
beta15 had monitoring but no oc capabilities
i havent tried any of the pre betas that wizz is working on at the mo though.

 

[bchivers]

no probs man, which version of atitool are u using to oc?
beta14 has no monitoring-although for me it does as i spliced an xl bios with my origonal.
beta15 had monitoring but no oc capabilities
i havent tried any of the pre betas that wizz is working on at the mo though.

I am using beta 14, didn't know there was a 15 out. I will look for it because I would like to have the monitoring. I use overclocker to OC it with.

 

[kn0ppers]

hey guys im new to this forum pls help me! i flashed my connect3d x1800gto bios 3 times, 2 times successfully, the last time it wrote the false device id... 0x7000 instead of 0x710A. now i cant install drivers or reflash it, because i get the error "ati adapter not found". but the card is working, however. how can i flash the card? are there device id simulators or something like that so i can force winflash, atiflash or flashrom to write bios to my card? help me pls! thx

 

[bchivers]

hey guys im new to this forum pls help me! i flashed my connect3d x1800gto bios 3 times, 2 times successfully, the last time it wrote the false device id... 0x7000 instead of 0x710A. now i cant install drivers or reflash it, because i get the error "ati adapter not found". but the card is working, however. how can i flash the card? are there device id simulators or something like that so i can force winflash, atiflash or flashrom to write bios to my card? help me pls! thx

I don't know if this will work but it may be worth a try. The link is copied off the first page of this thread.http://www.ocforums.com/showpost.php?p=4457340&postcount=45
Good luck.

 

[kn0ppers]

thx bchivers for your help but that unfortunatelly doesnt work . i cant flash with atiflash or flashrom, because those tools check the device id and refuse to work if it is false. thats my problem so far. it was my own fault to play with the device numbers in RabiT, I certainly did forget to reset my changes there, and i used the bios file with the wrong device id to flash my card...
Now thats why im searching for an emulator or something like that to get a bios backup on my card working. there must be an opportunity to rewrite the bios of my card, im sure! i hope at least someone knows one .

EDIT: i forgot to post my results before my 3. false flashing.

it was an connect3d x1800gto, i used the bios from the first page of this thread to get the quad pipe working. and IT WORKED fine, atitool showed 16 pipelines and i could overclock it to ca. 570 mhz (mem and clock) without editing voltage and memory settings! then i modified this bios file to 1.3v and the memory settings of the connect3d x1800xt (cas latency etc.) and i got the clock to 600/702 mhz (core/mem). i was really happy and then i modified the bios file the last time, to get the core and mem clock into bios. but i was too stupid to reset my "test"-changes of the device id field in RabiT, so i got my card to view windows and all other applications the false device id. thats great, isnt it? its great to know that this 1800gto_to_xt card is working in the background, but i cant play without drivers xD

 

[dolf]

You have some options:

1. Try with: atiflash -f -p -sst 0 bios.bin
2. Try with: atiflash -f -p -st 0 bios.bin
3. Try to flash it on other PC (other MOBO)

 

[kn0ppers]

now i tried using atiflash with both ... -st and ... -sst but atiflash also says "adapter not found"

 

[pt]

0xAD4E - gb pipe select

is my card unlockable?

 

[Tatty_Two]

Is that a new one PT?

 

[hagr]

mine says: 0x12BB4

Is my card unlockable, and if it is, what BIOS should I use?

hope I can unlock it

 

[pt]

Is that a new one PT?

no, the same, but i never tried to unlock it
until now
is it unlockable?

 

[dolf]

0xAD4E - gb pipe select

is my card unlockable?

I consider that it couldn't be unlocked .

The same for Hagr with GB_PIPE_SELECT 0x12BB4 .

All those cards which will unlock to 16 pipes should have:

GB_PIPE_SELECT 0x27E4 or 0x3FE4 (on X1900GT with PRO core)

After the flash to 16 pipes 0x27E4 will probably changes to 0x3FE4.

 

[pt]

I consider that it couldn't be unlocked .

The same for Hagr with GB_PIPE_SELECT 0x12BB4 .

All those cards which will unlock to 16 pipes should have:

GB_PIPE_SELECT 0x27E4 or 0x3FE4 (on X1900GT with PRO core)

After the flash to 16 pipes 0x27E4 will probably changes to 0x3FE4.

?
it's a x1800gto not a x1900gt

it has the r430 core

 

[dolf]

?
it's a x1800gto not a x1900gt

it has the r430 core

X1800 has R520 core not R430 .

 

[pt]

X1800 has R520 core not R430 .

is was confunding with the x8.. series
it's a r520
no chances to unlock it then?

 

[hagr]

I consider that it couldn't be unlocked .

The same for Hagr with GB_PIPE_SELECT 0x12BB4 .

All those cards which will unlock to 16 pipes should have:

GB_PIPE_SELECT 0x27E4 or 0x3FE4 (on X1900GT with PRO core)

After the flash to 16 pipes 0x27E4 will probably changes to 0x3FE4.

No chances then? shit.. I thought the PowerColor would be unlock able... well well... no ways to change it from 0x12BB4 to 0x27E4 or 0x3FE4? (probably a stupid question tough)

I`m sorry about my bad English...

 

[vitesse]

I tried to mod my powerclor x1800gto with my own bios and with bios from cron noen of the two activated 16 pipeline (when I go to ati tool it say 12).

my gb_pipe_select say 0x227e4

I used atiwinflash for flashing the bios (it worked) used HXD to modify my own bios and RaBit for lowering voltage of cron bios.

Does I make something wrong? It's is possible to mod a Powercolor? I seem to have the same card as Arg, not the same gp_pipe_select.

 

[chron]

Well it might just be impossible for that card. The HIS cards were the ones that had the most success at unlocking.

Look on the bright side though, the card has voltages that can be changed without hard modding so getting a REALLY big overclock from the card is easy with the rite ammount of cooling. Good luck.