x850pro AGP 16p bios, no overclock.

[curlybilly]

Well, i have tried to do that bios myself aswell.
I have changed the "61" to a "60" and loaded and saved the bios with rabit 1.7
and it was exactly the same. I have compared several pages of my bios and his bios
with HexCmp and it was always exactly the same.

But after flashing the BIOS i still have only 12 active pipes.

Since my X850 pro does 520/540 i have downloaded two X850 XT bios for AGP and samsung1.6 and even followed this tutorial to make sure,
that all the pipes will be unlocked, but no success.
I have flashed a bios with the modded flashrom from that site
and with atiflash, but still only 12 pipes.

Even if the last 4 pipelines are broken or something, they can be unlocked, dont they?

What else can i do or did i do something wrong?


EDIT:

5 minutes ago i did the following:

I have made a bootable floppy disk and put the 16p bios from above renamed to "newbios"
and the modded flashrom tool (all 3 files from zip-file) from my link above on the disk.
Then i have booted from the floppy and typed: "flashrom -p 0 newbios.bin".
The flash went fine, but after reboot still only 12 active pipelines - HELP !!!

 

[at2wooden]

Hope you can help me. (first build) I have the Sapphire X800 GTO².
I installed the atitool and it says 12 active pipes. ok.
I downloaded the mod flash and clicked on it.
Rebooted, and it still says 12 active pipes.
Guess I didn't expect it to be this simple.
What didn't I do?

 

[EvilFranky]

Hi, first post here

Was hoping one of you kind gentleman would moddify my Sapphire X800 Pro BIOS to take advantage of the extra 4 pipe lines.

I've already flashed the card with a Sapphire X800 XT PE BIOS, but when it comes to clocking past the default 520/560 I get loads of artifacts.

So I would like to try clocking it with the standard BIOS but with the extra 4 pipes active.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

 

[ShadowFlare]

OK, since I haven't done a mod of that bios yet, here's a 16 pipeline mod for you.

 

[EvilFranky]

Much appreciated. I'm going to go try it now, i'll let you know how it goes

 

[TurboGLH]

I would appreciate it if someone could take a look at this bios and check that it's done correctly. It's just a change on my original, but I'd like someone with more experience to check it out.

 

[curlybilly]

I would appreciate it if someone could take a look at this bios and check that it's done correctly. It's just a change on my original, but I'd like someone with more experience to check it out.

Looks good to me .
I just opened and saved it with RaBiT and it was the same .

Please tell me if you can flash your X850 pro to 16 pipes `cause i couldn`t somehow ...
What manufacturer is your X850 pro ?

 

[TurboGLH]

Looks good to me .
I just opened and saved it with RaBiT and it was the same .

Please tell me if you can flash your X850 pro to 16 pipes `cause i couldn`t somehow ...
What manufacturer is your X850 pro ?

My card is a ATI brand x850pro, vivo agp. It's been working great at 16p since the day I bought it.

 

[dolf]

TurboGLH, please post the original also (it is needed to compare with). What exactly you want to change to?

 

[TurboGLH]

TurboGLH, please post the original also (it is needed to compare with). What exactly you want to change to?

Original I was checking that I had made the correct changes to keep the stock speeds and fan control with all 16pipes opened. I sent a copy to ShadowFlare along with the original and he verified that the change were correct.

 

[curlybilly]

My card is a ATI brand x850pro, vivo agp. It's been working great at 16p since the day I bought it.

OK, thanks.

But why can i not flash my Connect3D X850 pro Vivo AGP to 16 pipes?
I have tried it like 10 times but Everest and AtiTool kept tellin me: 12 pipes active.

Is there anybody out there who did successfully flash a card like mine to 16 pipelines ?!?!

 

[tonedi]

Just on the side.. have a x850 pro vivo which I flashed to a modified x850xtpe bios (clocked down) Ati tool tells me that 16 pipes enabled.. so flash back to the original bios (worried about heat) and I'm back to 12 pipes, thought it was supposed to remember the 16p?

might just leave it at the 520/540 as I have a ati silencer which is working well keeping the temps down.

this is the modified x850xtpe agp bios I used that also has fan control which is clocked down to xt speeds 520/540.
View attachment x850xtpe.zip
Asus P4P800-E Deluxe
Dothan 1.6 @ 2.5
HIS x850 pro vivo @ 520/540
1 Gig Kingston Hyper X

 

[mesue11]

Check my BIOS please

Could someone check this BIOS for me. It is a 850XT AGP BIOS with slightly modified fan control(I set the fan so it comes on a little faster to try to reduce overheating), XT clocking and PE memory timings. Also, I have noticed that most XTPE BIOS's are 57k instead of the 64k for the PRO and XT, and was wondering if that was the source of the "no fan" problem with the other XTPE BIOS's.

 

[grengy009]

is my moddable i have connect3d x850 pro vivo... is that the same bios the samsung 1.6 one on pg 2 or 3?

CONFIG_DIE_FUSES 0xFFFF7FFF
CONFIG_SUBSTRATE_FUSES 0xFFFFFF9E
CONFIG_ROM_FUSES 0x861
GB_PIPE_SELECT 0x227A4

 

[noneed4me2]

tonedi, dont' use modified flashrom or atiflash after flashing in Dos to reflash bios as this is why you go back to 12, i used Winflash, real easy to use and kept my pipes after mod, make sure you check the force box if it says the bios doesn't match. Grengy from your fuses the E at the end means its on die cut so probably no, maybe with hardmod if its lazer cut and a bios flash but i am not sure of success rate on these cards.

 

[night-crawler]

hi there, first i would like to thank nullie, for doing the Connect3D X850Pro AGP VIVO for another user, since i have the same card i'll use this bios too , but now my real question and I know it's a bit off-topic, but here it is, I have WinXP on NTFS file system format, dos it's a pain in the *** so I used Hiren's boot cd 7.6 wich has 3 kinds of NTFS Dos Modes, NONE of them worked for me, since when I tried to use ATIflash, it just gave me an error that it needed more extended memory, i needed an extra 30Kb of memory to run ATIFlash under NTFS-DOS.... so my question, what should I use to flash this bios??? what program and what syntax should I use, this would be a great help

Tks all [[]]

 

[TurboGLH]

hi there, first i would like to thank ShadowFlare, for doing the Connect3D X850Pro AGP VIVO for another user, since i have the same card i'll use this bios too , but now my real question and I know it's a bit off-topic, but here it is, I have WinXP on NTFS file system format, dos it's a pain in the *** so I used Hiren's boot cd 7.6 wich has 3 kinds of NTFS Dos Modes, NONE of them worked for me, since when I tried to use ATIflash, it just gave me an error that it needed more extended memory, i needed an extra 30Kb of memory to run ATIFlash under NTFS-DOS.... so my question, what should I use to flash this bios??? what program and what syntax should I use, this would be a great help

Tks all [[]]

I don't have a floppy in my system, so I used a flash drive, formated as a win98 boot disk using a HP format tool. Copy over the new bios and the flashrom, set the boot order to use the flash rom first and your off. If you want I can post copies of the hp tool (it can format almost any size flash drive with the system files of your choice) and the win98 system files. If you dont have a flash drive then you could always make a bootable cd with the flashrom and the bios on it, just make sure to include a dump of the original on the disk just in case.

 

[night-crawler]

hi tks for the answer, yes i do have a flash drive, but my MB doesn't support USB unit boot, have lots of options, CDROM HDD floppy network ZIP but no USB or anything like that so i think i'll have to stick to Boot CD, but if you could post where to get that HP tool i would be gratefull, since it's always nice to have those kinds of tools, for fixing someone's PC, so for the boot cd what should i do? what's the process to make a Bootable CD that works in NTFS? i just need to put there flashrom?
I never really understood how to make boot disk's, it was always windows that did it for me, or i downloaded from internet, I do know that i need specific files in it (the kind win98 had)
but that's all...

tks again

 

[grengy009]

noneed4me2 are you sure?... if i flash it , it wont change anything? ... no performance boosters?

 

[TurboGLH]

hi tks for the answer, yes i do have a flash drive, but my MB doesn't support USB unit boot, have lots of options, CDROM HDD floppy network ZIP but no USB or anything like that so i think i'll have to stick to Boot CD, but if you could post where to get that HP tool i would be gratefull, since it's always nice to have those kinds of tools, for fixing someone's PC, so for the boot cd what should i do? what's the process to make a Bootable CD that works in NTFS? i just need to put there flashrom?
I never really understood how to make boot disk's, it was always windows that did it for me, or i downloaded from internet, I do know that i need specific files in it (the kind win98 had)
but that's all...

tks again

My mb is like that. It doesn't show any options to boot off of usb, but you can still do it. In order to do it on my system you have to plug in the drive, start the system, enter the bios, select Hard Drive as the first boot device, then enter the boot order menu that allows you to select which HD to try and boot off of first and I can select the flash drive. Try that and see if it will work for you. I've linked to a zip that contains the install for the HP format program, a copy of the Win98 system files and a copy of the modded flashrom that you can use to flash a new bios without the -newbios command. As far as the NTFS issue, you don't need a disk that supports ntfs, you won't be accessing the HD as all the files you need should be on the disk you booted off of. Post back if you have more questions.

http://www.savefile.com/files.php?fid=5845643

 

[luis_pedro_Sato]

hello y also have the connect3d x850pro and y cant get it to unlock the 16 pipes.
Hive tryed like 10 times whit 10 diferente bios.
And when I get to win I allways get 12 pipes

 

[TurboGLH]

hello y also have the connect3d x850pro and y cant get it to unlock the 16 pipes.
Hive tryed like 10 times whit 10 diferente bios.
And when I get to win I allways get 12 pipes

Lets see.... AGP or PCI-E? If AGP what flashrom have you been using? Post a screen shot from atitool, like in this thread so we can see how the fuses are set.Link

 

[luis_pedro_Sato]

Its AGP from connect 3d. Version VIVIO.
I just bought a gpu bloc for WC. From nowone I just put the xt ou xtpe bios whitout puting the pro again.
Later wednesday Il post the ATITOOL pic

 

[night-crawler]

TurboGLH tks for the tips, you where right, i wasn't thinking that i didn't need to access the hard disk, one floppy drive solve the problem, i'm now running C3d X850 PRO VIVO @ 16Pipes no problem, with the BIOS that nullie modded, so no need for Flashrom, or the 2 steps with ATI Flash, 1 simple step with ATIFlash -p 0 C3DModded.bin -f -newbios, and i was ready to go, for all the support in this forum, tks to all.

luis_pedro_satto x850 was bought at the same local store that mine was, but probably some time later, first AGP to arrive at store where 16pipes ready to go (mine), seems that the second group of x850 that arrived a few weeks latter wasn't, still if you want luis_satto, i can give you the C3D modded bios with the 16pipes activated if you want to try, you know where to find me (aquapc-forum)

 

[noneed4me2]

Hope you can help me. (first build) I have the Sapphire X800 GTO².
I installed the atitool and it says 12 active pipes. ok.
I downloaded the mod flash and clicked on it.
Rebooted, and it still says 12 active pipes.
Guess I didn't expect it to be this simple.
What didn't I do?

you use the flasrom on a bootdisk , and flash it in dos not windows, or try this http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=5796