X800 Pro VIVO to XT PE Bios Mod

[Urlyin]

Btw..

Do I have to use gigabyte bios perhaps??

If the Flashrom by W1zzard didn't do it... I am not sure the Gigabyte will ... It's worth a try though ... I don't recall any of the AGP cards having the lazer cut and having it for 5 months as well ... have you tried to uninstall and reinstall the ATI cats? It should have worked, does your card have the Rage Theater chip on the back? ...

 

[Urlyin]

I just got a sapphire x800 pro vivo card to replace my 9800 pro. I removed my 9800 pro from my mb and put the x800 in and started up. I loaded up ati tool and tested core and memory at xt speeds without any problems. I then flashed the bios to ATI x800xt pe. When I check the pipes in ati tool, I saw that it was now reporting 16 pipes, however when I started the scan for artifacts test, my computer froze immediately. I rebooted and decided to start up quake3 to see if it would have any problems, it froze immediately and I got an ATI GPU error after a few seconds. I flashed it back to x800 pro bios and have been running it for a couple of days without any problems. I just can't figure out why I can't do anything after flashing to xt. I tried the regular xt bios and had the same problem. I flash the xt pe bios again and underclocked the core and mem back to pro speeds. same lockup problem. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

With the Original BIOS do some testing and see if the card can handle the XT or XT PE speeds ... I have yet to see a Pro VIVO not handle at least the XT speeds of 500/500 ... or like you said run the XT PE BIOS at the Pro speeds ...

 

[EC]

tried that

I reloaded the original bios and had not problems at either xt or xt pe speeds. I loaded the XT PE bios and I can't start up the ati tool artifact test at any speed, pro speeds or less even. I loaded the new ATI drivers that came out yesterday and it didn't improve my problem. I'm at a loss here. I haven't seen or heard of anyone having a problem with this mod. Any additional help would be much appreciated.

 

[Urlyin]

I reloaded the original bios and had not problems at either xt or xt pe speeds. I loaded the XT PE bios and I can't start up the ati tool artifact test at any speed, pro speeds or less even. I loaded the new ATI drivers that came out yesterday and it didn't improve my problem. I'm at a loss here. I haven't seen or heard of anyone having a problem with this mod. Any additional help would be much appreciated.

Your right I have not heard of anyone having issues like that either... Which BIOS have you tried? ATI XT PE and one of the XT BIOS ... are you using the flashrom tool from W1zzard? First use the empty.bin BIOS and then flash it to a Sapphire XT 500/500 bios or try the 16pipe Pro VIVO BIOS ... IMPORTANT that you have the Sapphire and empty BIOS on the disk to flash the Sapphire BIOS right after you use the empty.bin BIOS ...

 

[Unregistered]

who got also a sapphire x 800 or know sth about my problem?thx

 

[Mr. Pipi]

sorry,it was me who asked that question.i forgot to log in.

 

[Unregistered]

If the Flashrom by W1zzard didn't do it... I am not sure the Gigabyte will ... It's worth a try though ... I don't recall any of the AGP cards having the lazer cut and having it for 5 months as well ... have you tried to uninstall and reinstall the ATI cats? It should have worked, does your card have the Rage Theater chip on the back? ...

I have tried the softmodded drivers but with no success... and my card have the Rage Theater chip on the back!!!
I will try to uninstall my drivers and try the originals!!!!

btw...
I have a powercolor x800pro agp card!!!!
Does that make any sense to you???

 

[LouieV]

Are my video card temps within the acceptable range?

I bought one of BB ATI X800 Pros being sold by COMPUSA. I started this business by flashing the card with the X800 Pro VIVO/16P bios to enable the 4 extra pipelines. No problems, worked great.

Well after running artifact tests on my card for 5-6 hours using ATITool set at 520/560. I haven't received any artifacts/errors. So I decided to flash to the ATI X800 XT/PE bios and like before, the flash went perfect, no problems encountered.

After re-installing my video drivers, the card is recognized as a X800 XT/PE and the drivers load with no problem.

Video card temps are at 35C (idle) and 54C (at load) after 2 hours of playing UT2004 and Brothers in Arms. Also, after 3 more hours of testing, temps are staying at 53C/54C (at load) and I haven't received any errors with any other game or program I've tried.

From what I've read in this thread, 54C is well within the acceptable heat range for this video card at load. Will someone please correct me, if I am not understanding this right.

I used the modified flashrom 237 and ATI XT/PE Bios files that are linked at the beginning of this thread. I not 100% sure about the temps, but so far, I think this has worked great.

A big thanks to Wizzard for sharing your modified flashrom tool & knowledge.

 

[djbbenn]

Back tracking to 12p

use modified flashrom and flash your original bios back to get 12p

So w1zzard you can flash back 12p? because i did the mod and my card artifacts like crazy now!! I tried to go back to orginal just by flashing the old bios but the 16p are still enabled... plz help!! thx

 

[chrisnic0]

Newbie help

hi guys was looking for a little help im a newbie so bear with me.
Ive got a gigabyte x800 pro vivo, and i have 16 already enabled out of the box.
I was wondering what i do now in terms of flashing the bios. (ive never done this b4)
Also can u use other companys bios over gigabyte as the gigabyte X800 XT only runs at 500 500 and i was looking for 520 560?
thanks for ur help
Nico

 

[Unregistered]

hi guys was looking for a little help im a newbie so bear with me.
Ive got a gigabyte x800 pro vivo, and i have 16 already enabled out of the box.
I was wondering what i do now in terms of flashing the bios. (ive never done this b4)
Also can u use other companys bios over gigabyte as the gigabyte X800 XT only runs at 500 500 and i was looking for 520 560?
thanks for ur help
Nico

If u have the 16p already enabled u don;t have to flash the bios. u can download atitool and just overclock to those speeds. Hope it helps

Dan

 

[Unregistered]

x800 pro sapphire flashed to ati x800 16p ati tool shows 16 pipelines. will post back after a few hours of hl2.

 

[Unregistered]

Ok it all looks stable no artifacts

 

[Unregistered]

question

x800 pro sapphire flashed to ati x800 16p ati tool shows 16 pipelines. will post back after a few hours of hl2.

Is that AGP or PCI-E? Thanks.

 

[Unregistered]

Recommendation for MSI x800PRO 256 VIVO Please

I have an MSI x800 PRO VIVO AGP card. I've confirmed that it has the Samsung 1.6ns memory. Unfortunately, it begins to show artifacts in ATITool a bit lower than 560 on the memory clock.

Is my best option to use the ATI x800 PRO VIVO 16p BIOS and then overclock from there?

Or, would I want to use the MSI x800 XT PE BIOS and underclock from there?

Also, how do I save my current BIOS, or is that an option inlcuded in the modified flashrom utility?

Thanks!

 

[Unregistered]

I have an MSI x800 PRO VIVO AGP card. I've confirmed that it has the Samsung 1.6ns memory. Unfortunately, it begins to show artifacts in ATITool a bit lower than 560 on the memory clock.

Is my best option to use the ATI x800 PRO VIVO 16p BIOS and then overclock from there?

Or, would I want to use the MSI x800 XT PE BIOS and underclock from there?

Also, how do I save my current BIOS, or is that an option inlcuded in the modified flashrom utility?

Thanks!

Answered my own questions with a little more research. I dumped the old BIOS with the atiflash utility. Then, I flashed it with the MSI x800 XT PE BIOS. As expected, I had a few artifacts at 520/560, but still stable. So, I just reflashed my old BIOS without using the "-newbios" command line with atiflash. Now, I've got the original OEM BIOS and 16 pipelines enabled. I can overclock from the factory defaults, now.

The only odd thing is that my CPU fan maxes out on bootup now. I have to run corecenter and apply CoolnQuiet to get it to auto-adjust. I wouldn't have expected a video BIOS flash to mess with the system fan speeds... Guess I'll have to investigate that, now. I never used to run CoreCenter at all, but now I have to click apply for C&Q everytime I restart the machine if I don't want all the fans maxed constantly.

 

[intoruble]

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Hi I have a Sapphire X800pro which i modded to X800XT PE about 3 months ago, I also added an ATI4silencer/cooler to the card, which has run happily for about 3/4 months at stock speeds.. now however the card has started crashing or the screen has started to break down into either big purple or yellow blocks and sometimes a white grid all over the screen, after about half an hours use - i'm being told that there is an error with my Graphics accelerator, and that VPU is resetting the card. Is my card burnt out? or can this be fixed

Thanks in advance..

 

[introuble]

got it sorted thanks for all your help you kind people...

 

[Unregistered]

Which bios, and where?

I just got a x800 pro vivo pci-e today. Just wondering where I can download a x800 XT/PE PCI-E bios.

 

[nixus]

x850 Pro Vivo?

I just got a x800 pro vivo pci-e today. Just wondering where I can download a x800 XT/PE PCI-E bios.

There is a link on the upper left side of this site's home page (www.techpowerup.com) to a list of ATI bios files.

Does anyone know if this can be done on an x850 Pro Vivo? I have one (PCI-E) but I have not had any success in getting the last pipe quad unlocked. I'd just like to know if there is any point in continuing to try. If not - fine - but if there is a chance then I will continue to research it.

Any comments or advice would be appreciated.

 

[I love ATI]

so, can someone tell me which brands have X800 Pros PCI-Express cards that don't have laser cut pipelines? I hear a lot of them do and I don't want to get one that I wouldn't be able to flash.

 

[Unregistered]

I just got a x800 pro vivo pci-e today. Just wondering where I can download a x800 XT/PE PCI-E bios.

I couldn't find one ether man! I finally found a Asus one, I uploaded it to my geocities site here. Heres the link:

http://www.geocities.com/kraytdragon2003/AsusX800XTPEPCIe256MBSamsung-Rev01.zip

Good luck man and let me know how it works. BTW, what brand is your card?

 

[nixus]

I couldn't find one ether man! I finally found a Asus one, I uploaded it to my geocities site here. Heres the link:

http://www.geocities.com/kraytdragon2003/AsusX800XTPEPCIe256MBSamsung-Rev01.zip

Good luck man and let me know how it works. BTW, what brand is your card?

There are x800 xt pci-e bios files on this site!
http://www.techpowerup.com/bios/

Do a search (ctrl-f) for x800 xt - there are at least two. I stopped searching after that because I don't need it. You can also find some at mvtech.net.

 

[Unregistered]

no, I was talking about finding a X800XT PE, you know, the Platinum Edition. There aren't any officail PCI-E versions of this card. Thats why it took me forever to find a BIOS for one. I think someone just took a X800XT BIOS, changed the clock speeds and what it shows up as in Windows. Trust me, search newegg.com and you won't find a X800XT PE PCI-Express card.

 

[nixus]

I'm not sure what you mean by "official" - if you mean you cannot find them at the sites of manufacturers then perhaps you are correct, but I believe these at this link are dumps contributed by users with those cards:
http://www.mvktech.net/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=26&func=selectfolder&filecatid=8