Radeon 9550 to 9600 Bios Mod

[Clubvibe]

The flash worked great! I used the Sapphire Radeon 9600 pro 128 MB 400 / 230 bios and i believe this settings are stable.

I suppose i don't have to put on an extra cooler on the card. if not please tell me.
I'll run Ati tool if i can get it even faster without damaging anything.

 

[Unregistered]

will this mod work with the xtasy edition of the 9550

 

[Unregistered11]

Yeah what do us visiontek owners with the 64bit piplining download?

 

[Clubvibe]

64bit can't be flashed. sorry

 

[Unregistered]

they cant be flashes to the 64bit version of the 9600? I am using the Hinx chip.

 

[Unregistered]

How about the 9600SE edtions most of those are 64bit cant we upgrade to those or are we still screwed?

 

[CLU]

I have read a few different articles on OCing the 9550 all of them said they were doing it without added cooling.(other than a heat sink) i have a ati radeon AGP 256mb card, it only has a heat sink. is adding a fan not needed when OCing this card? should i add one to be safe.
Also it is recomended that i make a backup of the bios befor i flash it to a 9600. it says that i can can do this with ati tool but i can't figure out how.
thanks

 

[testuser]

I have tried to make my abit radeon v9550 with zalman video cooler a v9600 but my video card
gives now a black screen and i can't undo it.
Can someone help me

 

[CLU]

ok fine, i figured out how to dump my bios with ati tool, and cooling isnt my number one problem so how bout i ask a new question.
does it matter what 9600 bios i flash my card too? i know that i must use a 256mb one but does it matter if a use a powercolor or Gigabyte. should i use a pro or xt? also atitool has setting unduse misc. to disable the clock lock, if i do this is it even necesary to flash the bios?

 

[ati.bob]

The brand preference of the BIOS is not really important.. but some manufacturer's BIOS might have been tweaked.. but largely it's unimportant.. and you are recommended to only use a 9600 Non-Pro/Pro BIOS since the XT BIOS supports an RV360 GPU chip and is largely incompatible with a RV350 chip.. after flashing the BIOS, it is not necessary to put the "disable clock lock" option in ATITool since most flashed BIOS comes with unlocked clock control.. if you can overclock your card and maintain it after you run some games.. it's OK to leave the setting unchecked..

 

[CLU]

well i flashed my bios, tyhen rebooted. all i get is a black screen
used a pci card to boot up and write this post. how do flash it back or to another bios. if i make a new boot disk and doo the same thing will it work? or will it try yo rewrite the bios on this old 7200. if that happens i cant get back here for more help. on a side note now that i am in windows i can enable the 9550 now recognized as a 9600 and extend my desktop onto it, but as i said it will not show me anything on boot

 

[ati.bob]

do you back up your old 9550 BIOS? if you do, just make a bootable floppy and put both the FlashROM application and your BIOS file into it.. then when it reboots.. type flashrom -i where it will list out a list of display adapters on your system.. then.. look for the device ID (0 or 1).. locate the device ID for your 9550 graphic card.. it should have a chip ID of "RV350".. then.. remember the ID and type flashrom -p -f "device ID" "bios file"

 

[CLU]

whew thanks. ok everything is back to normal.too normal, i still cant oc the card, is there any hope for me? should i try another bios or try the softmod road?

 

[ati.bob]

you should try another BIOS.. from a different manufacturer.. preferbly a 9600 Non-PRO/9600 PRO BIOS..

 

[Unregistered11]

Anyone find a bios that is 64bits?

 

[ati.bob]

Use a 9600SE BIOS.. it should function of 64-bit 9550 cards..

 

[CLU]

things just keep getting worse
well i tryed 3 bios' now and no luck, in fact i have had the worst luck. after having to pull the agp card out to reboot on the PCI the third time i decided to flash back to the 9550 and quit for the day. heres where i screwd up big time and forgot to put the agp card back in and i accidentaly flashed my pci card to a 9550. now i have put my old radeon back in so i could make this post. how can a flash my pci 7200 back to a 7200?

 

[ReconCX]

LOL I did the EXACT same thing when i screwed up my card. if you have onboard video, then it's a life saver, just reflash it back to a 7200.. I learned however, NOT to use another ATI card as my PCI backup because of this. My 7000 never fully recovered (very bad artifacting, but boots up so i can reflash my 9550) so I returned it within 14 days =D

Now i'm on ebay looking at a VooDoo 5 5500 PCI... dual chip...mmmm... want a piece of history =)

 

[CLU]

saddly no onboard video. Right now i am using an old all-in-wonder radeon. i found a bios image on some site that i think will work for my 7200, but now i am worried that i will flash the allinwonder with the 7200 bios. could you tell me the comands to use with flashrom so i can make sure i flash the pci card and not the agp?

 

[CLU]

well i got the PCI 7200 working again so its back to square one. however i am now getting a "fuzzy" display any geusses on how to fix this?

 

[ReconCX]

somehow, i think it's probably damaged. I just don't think a 7200 with it's 150/150x2 i think? can handle an instant jump to 250/200x2, not to mention the memory timings, and the voltage. Especially if you don't active cooling (I only seen passive on 7xxx series cards) You're lucky it still works ^_^

 

[CLU]

i can't find a 9600 bios that will work on my 9550, am i doing somthing wrong, i just flash it useing the cd image from the bios collection

 

[ati.bob]

Hmm.. if every BIOS can't help.. maybe you should just dump your current BIOS (I espect you have already done that?) and edit it using RaBit..

 

[E71]

Unknown chips?

Hi. I'm new to overclocking in general and quite frankly scared to death of losing my budget graphics card since I can't afford another but I really really would like to overclock it to 9600. It's a Sapphire 9550 128Mb and I'm afraid the memory chips on it aren't of any brand I've come across on your site. It's 'elexir' brand. Does that mean I can't follow your guide to flashing it into a 9600 ?

Thanks

 

[ati.bob]

Yeah, just go ahead and choose a different manufacturer for your RAM chips.. some might work, but some might not.. just remember to stick with the speed what your card can handle..

by the way, how fast is your card's memory chip? 5ns? 4ns?