X800 Pro VIVO to XT PE Bios Mod

[Carterhawk]

I just tried out hte SVIDEO from my cable box to the card, and the quality....not so hot, WinTV composite is better quality. Lots of bad artifacts on cartoons, and the brightness goes way to high on its own. any thoughts?

ati tool fan control...right, but how did you get the bios to capture that so the fan doesnt shut off like it does using the bios from the collection?

 

[Vrgn86]

I flashed with the x850xt bios to unlock the pipes. Then flashed back to my orig
without the -newbios switch, retains the unlocked pipes but restores fan control
and timings.I then used RaBit to edit timings,clocks,and device ID. Flashed using modded bios
and dumped the bios from AtiTool for you.Just so you know. I have two of these cards,
Both are using this bios with the XT speeds with no problems for serveral days now.
No heat problems atifacts etc...Great performance for the price of the cards and a few minutes
to flash the bios.True x850XT.I get 6110 in 3dmark05.

I am sorry to say that I have'nt used the VIVO features yet, so I have no feedback for you on that.

 

[DarkTrooper]

Hi,
I just orderd a MSI X850 Pro VIVO a couple of days ago. After I read this report and thread to the modding, I am conserning to apply it to my card, but I am not sure if I should or should not... So here a couple of questions:
1 There was somebody in the Thread that wanted to mod the MSI 850 Pro VIVO... did you do it and was it sucessfull ?
2 Any one got a count on how many mods wend bad ?
3 Like mentioned above, does the VIVO still work ?
4 did some one use the winflash tool (on the side with the bios files) ?
5 any good prayers known to help ?

Thanks !

Marc


Just in case ur wondering why I'm kind of careful:
I "lost" (black screen/no boot) my new Sapphire 9800Pro after 2 months of normal usage (no modding) and the store first let me hang, and then disappeared.... and the support of Sapphire is more than pore and expensive as hell, so much for my warrantie.
So now after 5 month of trying to get my card repaired or replaced, I gave up and decided do buy a new card (rather then giving Sapphire my money). If I lose this one, I will be go insane and bankrupt ;-).

 

[Vrgn86]

Hi,
I can't say about the MSI cards, mine are BBA.
I am going to play with VIVO, I will let yall know when I check it out.

 

[funkioto]

just need to check..

Is this mod only for AGP cards?

thanks

 

[djbbenn]

just need to check..

Is this mod only for AGP cards?

thanks

Yes it only works on AGP version. All the PCI-E versions have on-die locks. I believe in very rare cases people have succeded with the PCI-E version. But non are confirmed. Every time someone here has tried with a PCI-E version, they failed.

-Dan

 

[magusbr]

Hello everybody, i was wondering if anyone had any success modding the Sapphire X850 PRO VIVO PCI-E to a X850XT.

Thanks.

 

[bobyjo]

I've got another question: How can I find out, which latency my ram has?
The chips are covered with a plate and I don't want to unplug it

Check your receipt where you purchased them.
Go to the mfg website and look up the specs of that part #.

If that does not get you the info you want?
Call the tech support for the memory, ask.

 

[InitialG]

FYI everyone I recently purchased an X850 Pro VIVO AGP and it seems that the mod has been stopped by ATI, no combination of flashes can unlock my card, here are my fuse numbers

CONFIG_DIE_FUSES 0xFFFFBFFF
CONFIG_SUBSTRATE_FUSES 0xFFFFFF9E



EDIT: Don't know if this makes a differences but according to ATITool my chip is an R481

 

[zOaib]

for all the above folks who seem to have recently purchased the ati cards , should have considered the asus x800 pro vivio agp or pci express , cause it mods so freakin easily i ahd no problems whatsoever , and mine clocks stable at the specs mentioned in my setup below ................ the only thing i needed was an ATI SILENCER 4 rev2 for the damn thing .

P.S x800 pe xt is not that slower than an x850 xt pe , the specs are minutely more on the x850 .

 

[InitialG]

for all the above folks who seem to have recently purchased the ati cards , should have considered the asus x800 pro vivio agp or pci express , cause it mods so freakin easily i ahd no problems whatsoever , and mine clocks stable at the specs mentioned in my setup below ................ the only thing i needed was an ATI SILENCER 4 rev2 for the damn thing .

P.S x800 pe xt is not that slower than an x850 xt pe , the specs are minutely more on the x850 .

I'm not really disappointed, the card runs great with my Arctic Cooler 5 (590/594), it just would be nice to have 16p.

I should have researched more but I bought the card on an impulse and it will hold me over until I build a new system in a year or so.

 

[sniviler]

INITIALG, whats your bios date, ? mines 2-8-05 its a BBA X850 pro agp vivo.

 

[InitialG]

INITIALG, whats your bios date, ? mines 2-8-05 its a BBA X850 pro agp vivo.

Don't know what the original one is because I stupidly deleted, If it helps any I bought my card in october so it should be a later card I think. This may just affect the first party cards because mine is an ATI

 

[sniviler]

Don't know what the original one is because I stupidly deleted, If it helps any I bought my card in october so it should be a later card I think. This may just affect the first party cards because mine is an ATI

i bought my card from YESMICRO.COM 2 weeks ago.

 

[coldfusion245]

Question

Hi, I've recently tried performing this mod on my Sapphire X800 Pro VIVO PCIE. However, I can't seem to get all 16 pipes to work. I've used the modded flashrom and everything, but ATItool still says it has only 12 pipes.

I couldnt use the X800XT PE BIOS because my card would only go up to 520/540 before green and yellow dots appeared on the screen, so I downloaded the ATI X800 Pro VIVO 16P PCIE bios. The flash goes through smoothly, but doesnt seem to open all the pipes.

I'm not sure if this might be the cause, but I've flashed several different BIOSes into my card before finally arriving at this one. First I used a Sapphire X800 XT which didn't work (it came out as a X800 SE), and then I flashed the X800 Pro 16P one while preserving the ROM BIOS settings, and finally I flashed it again without preserving the BIOS settings.

Any suggestions?

 

[InitialG]

Hi, I've recently tried performing this mod on my Sapphire X800 Pro VIVO PCIE. However, I can't seem to get all 16 pipes to work. I've used the modded flashrom and everything, but ATItool still says it has only 12 pipes.

I couldnt use the X800XT PE BIOS because my card would only go up to 520/540 before green and yellow dots appeared on the screen, so I downloaded the ATI X800 Pro VIVO 16P PCIE bios. The flash goes through smoothly, but doesnt seem to open all the pipes.

I'm not sure if this might be the cause, but I've flashed several different BIOSes into my card before finally arriving at this one. First I used a Sapphire X800 XT which didn't work (it came out as a X800 SE), and then I flashed the X800 Pro 16P one while preserving the ROM BIOS settings, and finally I flashed it again without preserving the BIOS settings.

Any suggestions?

PCIE cards can't be modded (or at least haven't been modded successfully to date)

 

[coldfusion245]

The modified flashrom has been updated on Jan 03 2005 to support both AGP and PCI-Express X800 Pro VIVO cards. The mod is the same, just get a X800 XT PE PCI-E BIOS when flashing a PCI-E card.

The article says it should work for PCIE though.

 

[djbbenn]

All the PCI-E versions have on-die locks. I believe in very rare cases people have succeded with the PCI-E version. But non are confirmed. Every time someone here has tried with a PCI-E version, they failed.

-Dan

 

[DarkTrooper]

MSI to Connect3D

Hi I have just talked to my dealer, who said the MSI X850Pro AGP 256MB I orderd is not in stock anymore and he cant get a date when it will be available to him again. So he offerd me the same model from Connect3d. Since I dont wont to wait any longer, I agreed to take that one. Now I read that normaly the Connect3d has the 1.6 ns GDDR modules on it, but in an other Forum (forumdeluxx.de) I read that some people have goten newer Cards that hat only the 2.0 ns modules and that the pipes were laser cut on those models (VIVO Cards).
Now I am not so sure if this was a good idea...
Has any one got any Information on this ? Are they cuting the pipes hard in new models and switching to the 2.0 ns Memory ?

Thx and Greetings

Marc

 

[Plushpants]

HIS x850 pro vivo agp unlock?

Anyone had success unlocking the extra pipes with the HIS x850 pro vivo agp?...thinking about buying one except all this talk of newer cards being impossible to unlock has made me think twice about it...

Cheers

 

[raiden]

@DarkTrooper

Yes, that true, i have bought a Connect3d x850 Pro VIVO AGP Card and i was disappointed to see that Connect3d has models with 2.0ns memory chips. These cards have definitely a lasercut :shadedshu

Greets raiden

I think MSI is the better choice

 

[Gregor]

I have bought Club3d x800pro vivo graphic card and i have tryed everything to unlock last 4 pipelines and couldnt do it. I have used atiflash, flashrom, ati bios for 16 pipelines and XT PE, club3d bios for XT PE and atitool stil shows me that i have active only 12 pipelines.

Can anyone help me plz?
My card cant go to XT PE MHz s cause i got stock cooling.

Has anyone unlocked 16 pipelines on this Club3d card?

plz help!

Thanks

 

[NoObStIcK]

Hay guys, recently I just bought GeCube x800 pro agp vivo, it says i got 12 active pipelines so I need to flash it to enable the other 4 pipes, but today I just use ATI tool and overclock it to the PE speed, and run the artifacts, found no artifacts for around 10 mins.....but then the temperature got up to 68!, is that normal? and so does that mean I should get a better cooler??

 

[farns]

x850 pro to X850xt PE

Success...Used XT PE AGP bios and forced using modded flashrom.
No laser cut on board, reached 540/590 x 16 pipes but card ran very hot.
Fixed with Arctic Cooling ATI 5 fan...

Max temp 63C....
Idle 43C....

 

[dolf]

Gregor, do the fuse research and post results here. How to do read here: http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=5367. Your card is AGP and should be moddable to 16 pipes.

Good luck