X800 Pro VIVO to XT PE Bios Mod

schwill · May 13, 2005

I have a ati x800 pro vivo, and flashed the bios to x800 xt pe, everything goes good. ati tool shows im runnin 16 pipes, fps are way up, but I am getting some ugly vertical lines all over my monitor. Uninstalled all drivers, lines go away, reinstall drivers, lines come back. Tried several different bios from the site, same problem. The lines are no where to be seen when i am running 12 pipes at pro and xt speeds. Is this a problem with the drivers, the card, the bios, or what?

schwill · May 13, 2005

update, the lines are only visible when i am on the windows desktop. When I load a game (I used Risk II), the lines dissappear, and the graphics work flawlessly. This is sounding more and more like a problem with the drivers I used, which are new stock catalyst drivers. I have uniinstalled and reinstalled the drivers in every imaginabable order, but still no success. I have just reinstalled windows and have not been able to connect to the internet to download sp2 or direct x c yet, could this be contributing to the problems? ANyone have any ideas?

gR3iF · May 13, 2005

hm u have to have dx 9 to let the driver work,
sp2 isnt necessary but it includes dx 9 so install it fast

djbbenn · May 13, 2005

schwill said:
I have a ati x800 pro vivo, and flashed the bios to x800 xt pe, everything goes good. ati tool shows im runnin 16 pipes, fps are way up, but I am getting some ugly vertical lines all over my monitor. Uninstalled all drivers, lines go away, reinstall drivers, lines come back. Tried several different bios from the site, same problem. The lines are no where to be seen when i am running 12 pipes at pro and xt speeds. Is this a problem with the drivers, the card, the bios, or what?

I had a very simular problem. The mod seemed to work great. Nothing looked wrong, Atitool had no errors and temps were good. But as soon as I played a game I got the checkard board effect. I tried uninstalling the drivers. I played a game with just windows drivers and the blocks were gone. But it didn't work with the offical drivers installed. Put it back to 12p at XT PE speeds and it worked great. Must be deffective pipes for me, but it sounds to be the opposite for you were you get it in windows and not games. :confused:

-Dan

gR3iF · May 13, 2005

for him it might be better

or ati was just doing some kind og thing?
maybe try dna or omega driver just to see if they are gone.

Unregistered · May 16, 2005

wait, and you guys are all using the PCI-Express version?

schwill · May 16, 2005

I tried the omega drivers, and still the same problem. I am assuming that I got a card with bad pipes. My x800 is agp(in response to previous post)

djbbenn · May 16, 2005

Same here, got AGP.

-Dan

dnile · May 17, 2005

Well, I can confirm another success with this mod - I got a Powercolor X800 pro vivo, and after running the various 3DMarks, I flashed the bios using the modified flashrom program. I used the Powercolor X800XT-PE bios, just because my card was Powercolor to begin with. After I restarted and reinstalled drivers, I opened ATITool to confirm, and now my card is running at X800XT-PE speeds (520/560) with 16 active pipelives. The highest temperature it's ever been to is 67C, and that's at 66% fan speed, using the automatic settings. All this with stock cooling. Before I bought it, I had some concerns about the number of people having to buy 3rd party coolers, but I looked at pictures of the X800 pro vivo and the X800XT-PE, and they use exactly the same cooling anyway, at least the Powercolor ones do. I figured then, that with a bit of luck, my card should run at XT-PE speeds with stock cooling - and it did, so I guess I was just lucky.

Good luck to anyone else who tries this mod.

nixus · May 17, 2005

Was that AGP or PCI-E?

gR3iF · May 17, 2005

agp stands for advanced graphic port
and pci express is an port for a new type of cards which gives u a theoretic performance boost

Eigner · May 17, 2005

x800pro 12p @16p

Hi
My new power Color X800 pro can't run at 560mhz on mem - only 552mhz, so I have to just do the 16pixel line flash. How do I do that?
1) how/which files do I need to make the boot disk for WinXP SP2
2) Which flash software?
3) Which flash file?

Thanks.

djbbenn · May 17, 2005

Eigner said:
Hi
My new power Color X800 pro can't run at 560mhz on mem - only 552mhz, so I have to just do the 16pixel line flash. How do I do that?
1) how/which files do I need to make the boot disk for WinXP SP2
2) Which flash software?
3) Which flash file?

Thanks.

Well if you flash the XT PE bios you can just clock it down a bit. Or you can use the X800pro 16p bios. For a bootdisk I used drdflash.exe . For the flashrom . And for the bios, you can either use th XT PE bios or the X800pro16p bios found here . If you use the XT PE bios makesure you turn the mem clocks down if your card can't handle it. Flashing instructions are here . And save you orginal bios first. Is your card a VIVO? Becuase it has to be to unlock the pipes. Hope it helps.

-Dan

gR3iF · May 17, 2005

or unlock the pipes manuall

djbbenn · May 17, 2005

You mean hardmod gR3iF?

-Dan

gR3iF · May 17, 2005

jup i did one yesterday night

S) i was bored and so i tried but it worked

djbbenn · May 17, 2005

Nice.

-Dan

Unregistered · May 18, 2005

gR3iF said:
jup i did one yesterday night S) i was bored and so i tried but it worked

Cool... Can you briefly describe your method? Did you do any cutting or just connect the dots?

Do you know anything about the x800se cards as far as unlocking pipes go? They come with 8 enabled but should have 16 and seem to ramp up well when overclocked.

Eigner · May 18, 2005

x800pro 12p @16p

Hi.. its a vivo. ill try your guide in a moment - hopefully it will work

Unregistered · May 18, 2005

djbbenn said:
Well if you flash the XT PE bios you can just clock it down a bit. Or you can use the X800pro 16p bios. For a bootdisk I used drdflash.exe . For the flashrom . And for the bios, you can either use th XT PE bios or the X800pro16p bios found here . If you use the XT PE bios makesure you turn the mem clocks down if your card can't handle it. Flashing instructions are here . And save you orginal bios first. Is your card a VIVO? Becuase it has to be to unlock the pipes. Hope it helps.

-Dan

Thx.. It took about 3 mins and now I have 16Pixel pipelines. great! and the core clock speeds are atleast xt - unfortunately my mems could only go to 552mhz - just 8mhz from xt pe - but what the **** its all right anyway

djbbenn · May 18, 2005

That extra 8MHz wont make any difference to what you see. It might give your mem another .5Gb/s bandwidth, but you wont notice it. The pipes are the main thing and where you get them, your set.

-Dan

dnile · May 19, 2005

My card is an AGP card, Nixus - I managed to get an increase of about 1200 in 3DMark05 after doing the mod. At the moment I'm getting about 6000, but that's because I can't overclock my processor and run the XT-PE at the same time - need a beefier power supply.

Aksu · May 20, 2005

thanks

i initially had some difficulty with the proper bios (I have a Asus X800 Pro TVD) - but after trying the ati bios, and uninstalling all drivers with driver cleaner and installing the latest catalyst 5.4 - everything is running smoothly - im waiting for my ati silencer rev 4 to see if i can up the frequenciess - ive had about a 1000 increase in 3d mark 05.

I would like to whoever came up with this and those who keep on giving advice - you guys are awesome - peace.

nixus · May 21, 2005

Aksu said:
i initially had some difficulty with the proper bios (I have a Asus X800 Pro TVD) - but after trying the ati bios, and uninstalling all drivers with driver cleaner and installing the latest catalyst 5.4 - everything is running smoothly - im waiting for my ati silencer rev 4 to see if i can up the frequenciess - ive had about a 1000 increase in 3d mark 05.

I would like to whoever came up with this and those who keep on giving advice - you guys are awesome - peace.

AGP or PCI-Express? I'm curious about the success rate for pci-e since that's the kind of board I have.

Thanks!

Unregistered · May 22, 2005

Strange... Artifacts

Hi..

I have just bought a Gecube x800PRO Vivo AGP card. It clocked just fine, 520/553 aproxx.

I have tried to falsh the bios to ATI 16 pipes, no clocking and now with ATI x800xt pe bios.

HL2/CSS, doom3, warhammer 40000 runs great, but I get artifacs in 3dmark 2001 SE, and ATI tool. They are like squares in the background in ATI tool, looks nasty. What can i do?? Do I have broken pipes?? My card doesn't complaine running x800 pro 520/560, in any test??

Please help me.

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Display(s)	Asus 24inch Lcd
Case	Coolermaster Cosmos S
Audio Device(s)	Creative X-fi with Teufel Magnum Power Edition
Power Supply	Coolermaster 700W Silent Pro Gold
Software	Linux?^^ ;P Windows 7 64bit

Processor	AMD 5800x
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Cooling	Custom Water Loop
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Display(s)	27" AOC AG271QX
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Audio Device(s)	SoundBlaster AE-7
Power Supply	EVGA SuperNova 750
Software	Windows 10

Processor	Intel I7 2600k@ 4.5
Motherboard	Gigabyte p67 ud4 b3
Cooling	AC Cuplex kryos Hf
Memory	8096 Exceleram 1600@ 1333 Cl9 1.35v
Video Card(s)	Palit Gtx570@950/1900@1.063v
Storage	Ocz Vertex 3 120gb, 2tb Seagate 7200rpm s-ata3
Display(s)	Asus 24inch Lcd
Case	Coolermaster Cosmos S
Audio Device(s)	Creative X-fi with Teufel Magnum Power Edition
Power Supply	Coolermaster 700W Silent Pro Gold
Software	Linux?^^ ;P Windows 7 64bit

Processor	AMD 5800x
Motherboard	ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero
Cooling	Custom Water Loop
Memory	32GB G.Skill Trident Z neo
Video Card(s)	Sapphire Vega 64
Storage	Sabrent Rocket 4 NVMEs / SSDs
Display(s)	27" AOC AG271QX
Case	Phanteks Enthoo Evolve
Audio Device(s)	SoundBlaster AE-7
Power Supply	EVGA SuperNova 750
Software	Windows 10

Processor	Intel I7 2600k@ 4.5
Motherboard	Gigabyte p67 ud4 b3
Cooling	AC Cuplex kryos Hf
Memory	8096 Exceleram 1600@ 1333 Cl9 1.35v
Video Card(s)	Palit Gtx570@950/1900@1.063v
Storage	Ocz Vertex 3 120gb, 2tb Seagate 7200rpm s-ata3
Display(s)	Asus 24inch Lcd
Case	Coolermaster Cosmos S
Audio Device(s)	Creative X-fi with Teufel Magnum Power Edition
Power Supply	Coolermaster 700W Silent Pro Gold
Software	Linux?^^ ;P Windows 7 64bit

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