X800gt Help Please!

[Deleted member 26726]

Hi there im new here

And i need HELP! I recently read a a review HERE saying an x800gt can be flashed to an X800 Xt to enable 16 pipelines. anyway i did this and now the card is not working at all the cooler and everything else works but the monitor remains on standby! PLEASE SOME1 HELP!!!!!!!!!!

 

[giorgos th.]

an X800GT?i dont think so.

 

[Deleted member 26726]

so is it fukd? can i nt no way flash it back to x800gt model??

 

[giorgos th.]

you can do it if you have a pci card or by blind flashing.

 

[Deleted member 26726]

i have a pci mate but i can c nothing on the screen!

 

[Azn Tr14dZ]

Hmm... you should get a cheap PCI graphics card if you want to flash it.

 

[Juggernaut1987]

Dude! Never EVER! flash a card without making perfectly clear for yourself what you are going to do. Get a guide on how to do it and make notes for yourself. Now you are f'ed.

Put your PCI card in. Get into your bios: "set init disp PCI" or something alike.
That will force the system to use a PCI card first and AGP second,result: a working screen.
Now boot up and flash your backup bios back (which you are supposed to have made)

 

[Deleted member 26726]

sorry but i dnt understand the init pci bit can you expalin further please mate

Maybe like a step by step if its not too much of a problem!

Plus i do have a backkup bios

Only thing when i do insert the PCIE card the computer starts up but the monitor stays on standy!

PLEASE HELP!

 

[BEAST7777]

SAME problem... everything works but monitor stays on standby

 

[Juggernaut1987]

I dont know which exact bios setting you need. Its a setting which tells the bios which graphics card to use first. PCI or AGP (not PCIE). Select PCI and connect your monitor to that card(it shouldnt be connected to the dead card).

Found this for the setting:
"Init Display First

Options : AGP, PCI

If you are using more than one graphics card, this function enables you to select whether to use the AGP graphics card or the PCI graphics card as the primary graphics card. This is useful for users who install more than one graphics card but only use a single monitor. This will enable them to select whether to boot the system using the AGP graphics card or the PCI graphics card.

If you are only using one graphics card, then the BIOS will detect it as such and boot it up as normal, irrespective of what you set the option as. However, there may be a slight reduction in initialization time if you set this function to its proper setting. That means if you only use an AGP graphics card, then setting Init Display First to AGP may reduce boot-up time a little."

The setting is probably located at Integrated Peripherals.

 

[Deleted member 26726]

x800

hi

i am currently using the onboard graphics

i have tried to boot the computer with the x800 inside while connected to the onboard but it says "incompatible configuration this computer has an onboard graphics card"

so i really AM lost!

 

[Deleted member 26726]

sorry ADD in graphics card

 

[Juggernaut1987]

You must be more clear. Are you using your onboard card now? Then set up the bios to boot from the on board one first (with the x800 inside ofcourse). Its a simple bios setting.

 

[Deleted member 26726]

x800

hi mate

no this dont work i have tried to do change the bios setting but it simply WONT let me start up with the onboard graphics card when i have an add in (x800)

any other ideas?

do you know how to blind flash it back ??

because the monitor jus stays on standy but i can logg in blindly and i hear the login sound etc etc

 

[Juggernaut1987]

Im very sorry to hear that. A blind reflash is like it says: Blind so you have to know what to type. Make a boot floppy with the "modded flashrom" program on it. You probably can use the floppy you used to flash the first time.

Boot from the floppy

flashrom.exe "enter"

flashrom.exe -f -p 0 backup.bin "enter"

Youll here a jingle when everything worked out.

Good luck!

 

[Deleted member 26726]

x800

just one thing mate i flashed using winflash so i flashed it using windows

last question

how do i make a boot floppy?? i do not have a floppy drive can i make a boot cd??

i have also tried using flashrom but noticed it doesnt work in windows?? do you know y?

 

[Pinchy]

Flashrom is a utility that u can only use while starting up windows.

To make a bootable CD, use a program like Nero and burn a CD that will start up with windows (there is an option when you go to create a data CD but it may be under advanced options). Once you go throught the wizard, make sure you add the flashrom.exe as well as the original BIOS you want to flash back to. You can do all of this with your onboard card, even if it means taking the X800 out

Now, turn off your comp and put the X800 back in, then turn back on with the CD in the drive (make sure that your CD drive is set to start up before any other disk).

As your comp starts up, you should get directed to a page that looks like code. Wait a little while until you can start typing. Once you can, type the name of your CD drive (for example, D: if your CD drive is D) and hit enter.

Now type: flashrom.exe -f -p 0 backup.bin and hit enter (where backup.bin is the name of your backed up bios that you burned onto the CD) It should do some more stuff, then you should get the jingle. Once you get the jingle, take out the CD, turn off your comp and start it as you normally would to see if the card is back to normal.

Hope this helps

Cheers
Pinchy

 

[Batou1986]

have u tryed starting windows in vga mode press f8 before windows starts and go into vga mode it might work might not if it does try to enable you x88 as default display and install drivers

 

[Deleted member 26726]

x800

O MY FUKING GOD!!!!!!!!!

PINCHY u clever FUKING BASTARRDDDDD!

thank you!

problem FIXED

you have saved me around £150 becasue i thought thats it i killed IT! so i was looking at the x850 platinum!

anyway thanks for your help!

does anyone here know if i can unlock any more pipes on this card its the sapphire radeon 256mg pci-e. it has the R423 core but i hear that it is ACTAULLY the R480? or 30? but Ati jus started etching R423 on it.

Does anyone know of any falshes to unlock pipes??

 

[Juggernaut1987]

I wouldnt recommend you flashing your card again. But you can post your fuses data here: http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=5367

I told you the same as pinchy assuming that you had a bootdisk available. Its just common knowledge you should have before flashing your vid-bios.