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X800 Pro VIVO mod 12P to 16P

eckybud

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W1zzard said:
check with atitool ...

nothing special has to be done when using the 16p bios
Hi Wizzard 2 things m8 1st how do i post!!! 2nd ive bought a x800pro that seems to have problems when using 3d it has lines when booting then seems perfect in windows but if i try a movie i have 4 sets of vertical lines and when i try fear half my screen is black and when it starts all hell breaks loose ive checked via ati tool its using 12 pipelines Q:do some pros only use 8??? gives a shout if you can help.
Cheers :toast:
 

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Hi, I'm a first poster here. My Powercolor Pro VIVO card has had nothing but problems after the mod was done more than 6 months ago. Any game will freeze in less than a minute. On the rare occasion it will make it back to Windows with the VPU recover. Every other time the screen will lockup, show a whole variety of colours, then it just turns off.

The problem is isolated to the video card as it shows the same symptoms in both PCs in my sig. Both formatted a couple of times each to ensure it isn't drivers or a Windows bug.

Card is an AGP Powercolor X800 Pro VIVO. It was flashed a while ago to XTPE using the Gigabyte BIOS. After a short period the card froze up quite a bit, even when the clocks were dropped to 475/900, so I flashed it back to Pro, and the freezing disappeared.

A week later I tried again. Loaded the Gigabyte, then used the Powercolor XTPE GC16 to update it. This time I got a bit lucky and it seemed to work at 515/560.

Now I'm back at square one again. It won't work at any speed and it's really driving me :banghead:

Should I try another BIOS or does this card fail the softmod test?
 
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Utetopia, I seem to recall reading that certain Powercolor cards have 1.6ns ram and 2.0ns ram. You might want to look at all your ram chips to see if that is your situation. It would certainly cause problems using a 1.6ns bios.
 

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Worth a try with another bios?? ok will give it a go and let you know.
 

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Excuse me for bothering, and for my poor english!
I've tried to loork around here before, but i cannot find a specific situation analog to mine's...
So I chose this thread to post, hoping any guy can give me some answer.

My card is a Sapphire X800Pro VIVO Limited Edition PCI-Express
Looking the card, it seems to have 2ns Samsung RAM

I've tried to flash many bioses, but until now I wasn't be able to unlock the 16 pipes...
Anyone know what is the best Bios, and the best method to do that with my card?

Yesterday I've tried ATI.X800PROVIVO16P.256.Samsung20_040730.bin which seems to me the perfect solution for a "not-hardcore" mod, but i got black-screen...I need to flash back to original using one PCI card...

Thank you in advance for any help!
 

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w00t!!!!



finally did it, finally pushed the enter button for the last time, lol.. I must have tried 5 different BIOS before trying the BIOS that was the same make as my card, lol...

So yes, it was successful, 12p to 16p, no problems so far.

usually gets 300+ fps in ATItool, roflmaooooo :D
The card is running at 520/590 on stock cooling, no artifacting, but theres one problem. If I OC past 520 on my core speed, my system locks and reboots. Not quite sure why. No artifacts on the screen, it just reboots. Heat? 62c load... hrmm..

In 3dmark05 I got 6455.. Im trying for 7k, but I doubt ill get it without new RAM or some new cooling on this card.

Proc is 4.2GHz.. :D :D :D what a blessing of a processor, haha... and its on air too... 1gb PC3500.. umm yea..

X800XT PE!!!! :rockout:
 

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Hi new here. I have a HIS ICQ X800 Pro w/ 2ns mem non-VIVO. However the GPU is *not* laser cut. It would appear I can mod the card to activate 16 pipes. Is there a BIOS out there I can flash my card with that won't fry the memory. The max I can push the mem on this card is 495. :banghead: The GPU will clock all the way up to 550+ though it gets unstable if I push it higher (low voltage, heat doesn't exceed 55C). I've seen some similar BIOS' out there but they assume your card is a VIVO and the memory timings are different. My card does not have the RAGE chip.
 

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Use ATITool to get the fuses data and post it on the fuses data thread. To get it, hold shift while you click on settings.
 

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woo got my 3dmark score up to 6906... :-D a bit of volt modding gets you a long way in life.. ;-)
 

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X800 Pro (NOT VIVO) to XT possible?

http://www.lostcircuits.com/video/asus_x800/4.shtml

I would like a comment from Wizzard on this. If i understand correctly the article suggests that also NON VIVO cards can be modded to 16p as long as the chip version is xxxx.1
First you bridge the laser cut with a 2b pencil and then flash the XT bin (perhaps the 500/500 version so that the card will work for sure?)

After that you reinstall the drivers BUT NOT the multimedia part as explained in the last sentences in here http://www.lostcircuits.com/video/asus_x800/5.shtml

So basically when you suggest that your mod is ONLY possible for VIVO cards would it be because of the absence of the Rage Theater and the consequent reboot in the non VIVO cards (that can be overrided by not installing the multimedia drivers)?
 

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Ionlab said:
So basically when you suggest that your mod is ONLY possible for VIVO cards would it be because of the absence of the Rage Theater and the consequent reboot in the non VIVO cards (that can be overrided by not installing the multimedia drivers)?
No, that wasn't the reason. It was because the actual gpu was different such that it could be unlocked.
 

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OK thanks for the post. Do you have any idea which one from the X800 XT bios file i should use in order to unlock my AX800 Pro (Non Vivo) card? (Perhaps by the method described in the links i posted earlier or a different method i dont know of).
Or is there no hope of unlocking the 4 pipelines at all?
 

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not gonna read through this whole thing...

i just have a question... ALL vivo's can unlock correct? so if i was gonna buy a 850pro vivo, i can unlock it 100%? anyone have a fail %?
 

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Shawdowkull-

I have an x850 pro vivo agp, im probably going to try it at some point, but no not all of them unlock, but there is a high chance that it WILL unlock
 

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hi, i just got a gecube x800pro vivo agp.... is it safe to unlock this to 16p using the stock cooler from gecube?
 
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Hi reueljoab.My Gecube x800pro vivio did come 1,6mem so look if you have that too and my card is running core 532 and mem 562.But i nerver did get 16pipes to work they unlock ok but when i use a 3d the computer freezes.My core has following data :215RADCGA11F
GB8837.1
0425AA
Taiwan
Good luck whit the mod.
 

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thanks x800, i'll try to see what can i get from modding my card.
 

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reueljoab said:
hi, i just got a gecube x800pro vivo agp.... is it safe to unlock this to 16p using the stock cooler from gecube?
yes its safe to unlock, check ATI tool fuses or w/e first to see if you can unlock or not
 

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BIOHazard87 said:
yes its safe to unlock, check ATI tool fuses or w/e first to see if you can unlock or not

what's the indication in the ATI tool fuses if it can be safely unlock or not?
 

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if you have those 2 red F's (they wont be red for you, they will be black), you can unlock
 

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You might have seen my other thread but my Sapphire ATI Radeon X800pro VIVO gets detected as a X800GT after X800XT bios are flashed to the card, what could be the problem? and it only has 12 pixel pipelines.
 
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Hi ranger do you have r420 core on yuor sapphire card , what is atitool say.!
 

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BIOHazard87 said:
if you have those 2 red F's (they wont be red for you, they will be black), you can unlock

thanks... but my card has already 16 active pipelines... it is a gecube x800pro vivo. i tried to find the max core and max mem, and it reach the x800xt's stock speed without any errors. does this mean that i can easily softmod this to x800xt?
 
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OK you got 16 pipes if it can handle 520 core / 573 mem it should be safe flash to xt speeds.
My gecube x800pro vivo runs core 532/580 mem but my pipes are broken becuse when i mod the card to have 16pipes active but cant run any games or 3d applications.
To reueljoab is yuor card pcie or agp and what are the atitool telling you about the fuses.you can allways try the x800 p16 moded bios and go back if it dosent work.
 

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