Sapphire X800 Pro Vivo Flash Problem

[Consilio]

Hi guys,

Any help on this would be very appreciated...

I have a Sapphire X800 Pro VIVO Vid card 256mb DDR3 PCI-E.

I successfully flashed the card with the Sapphire X800 XT Bios but when rebooting windows determines the card is now an X800 SE and when using ATI Tool I show only 12 pipelines though the core and memory clocks are both at 500 which is at the XT clock rate.

The card has the yellow adapter, I tried several bios's all with success but they all show the card to be X800 SE after I restart. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?

I saw another post on here where someone was using the wrong version of the flashrom program. ATIflash doesnt work at all, it doesnt recognize the card at all.

I use flashrom, and I think its flashrom16p, any help at all would be appreciated.

 

[Consilio]

further info

After further research this doesnt quite make sense.

ATI Tool shows the core to be R423 which is the same as the X800 XT PCI-E.

The driver that window wants to put in is the X800 SE, this is shown to have only 8 pipelines at 425/350 here:

http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/


I am running windows MC 2005 if that makes any difference. Does the bios flash make the card report a different core?



any help appreciated...

 

[Consilio]

ok answered my Q

OK, with a little more research I found an answer here:

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=2420

Looks as though I have a laser cut on the core of the card. Guess I will be getting a conductive pain pen.

 

[GoLLuM4444]

lol "pain pen"