Tutorial on how to use RBE (Radeon BIOS Editor)

Date: 2008-08-21 20:45:30

The CCC profile editor

This has nothing to do with BIOS modding. It was a seperate program by me but I decided to integrate it into RBE. You can enter the CCC profile editor by clicking on "Profile editor..." at the bottom of the program at any time.



The CCC profile editor can be used to access several "hidden" features of the Catalyst Control Center profile system.
As you can see, it supports up to four video cards. Just click on "Load profile..." at the bottom left of the window. The open file dialog will automatically browse to the location the ATI CCC saves its profiles to by default. Open a profile you made by yourself or just the standard profile named "Profiles.xml". You can enter values for each card you have seperately now.
The most interesting slots seem to be "Fan speed (percent)" and the clock rates, of course. First of all, change "Fan speed algorithm" to "Manual" in order to make your changed fan speed work. Enter any fan duty you like, then. As already mentioned in section 3.5, when enabling Overdrive in the CCC, fan control doesn't work any more. With the CCC profile editor, you can at least set a fan duty you like.
The clock settings can be changed also. Please note that they are given in 10 KHz units, not MHz. However, these values can't exceed the Overdrive limit.

Other things about RBE

Whenever you get into struggle, see if there is one of the blue linked hints inside the program on the problematic topic you're into. Click and read it carefully. For any further questions, read the FAQ (frequently asked questions) first. Many questions I usually get are answered there already. To access it, simply click on the "FAQ..." button at the bottom of the program at any time.

You can easily check if there is a more recent version of RBE available (besides checking at TechPowerUp.com, where you are always welcome). Just click "Check for new RBE version..." at the bottom of the program at any time. If there is a newer version, RBE offers to open the download page directly. Please note: No information about your system or anything similar is uploaded when you click that button. It just downloads a file containing the newest version information.

To acquire the latest version of WinFlash, click "Get WinFlash!" at the bottom of the program at any time.

In the program's menu bar, just click "Tutorial on how to use RBE (websource)..." to quickly find this tutorial, by the way.

To access information on the program (and also a nice animated effect with Ruby's beautiful mouth), click "About..." at the bottom of the program at any time:



You can see a list of people who helped me developing and mostly testing the program. Thanks to all of you again!
You can also click on my eMail address if you have any questions that were not answered in this tutorial. Preferably, click on the TechPowerUp logo in RBE's main window to access the forum. You can ask questions there or read answers to questions asked before, maybe even matching your question.
You can also click on "Make a donation" to support RBE and enabling me to buy video cards for developing and testing RBE in the future.

Saving the modified BIOS file

Click on "Save BIOS..." at the bottom left of the program or press Alt+S or click "File... Save BIOS..." in the menu bar to save the BIOS. A save dialog will come up suggesting a name constructed out of several clock settings. You can accept this name or enter a new one, your choice. After pressing "save", the BIOS file is saved and ready to be flashed onto the video card.

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