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Postby robbro » Mon Jan 24, 2005 1:24 pm

x800 pro to XT modded by software? think its worth the risk? or not

I was reading on another forum about it but it says you need a different manufacture bios to do it.

http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33766704

Thats the link, what do you people think :shock: :?: , Rob.
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Postby Gecko » Tue Jan 25, 2005 12:21 am

You might want to read first to see if you are one of the lucky ones.
You would also want to make sure you can over clock to the higher speeds without over heating first before you flash.

If you do try it:

How to recover from a bad BIOS flash:
Use an old PCI card to boot your system while your AGP card with the corrupted BIOS is still installed.
Your system should initialize the PCI card first. If this does not happen, remove the AGP card
and turn the computer on with only the PCI card,
go to your BIOS Setup and change the "Init Display First" option to "PCI".
Now reinstall the AGP card. Your system should boot normally with the PCI card as primary display adapter.
You can now re-flash the corrupted BIOS.
Make sure you are flashing the right card by using the -i (ati) or -a (nvidia) command line option.
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Postby robbro » Tue Jan 25, 2005 1:03 am

How can you tell if mines a Vivo card or not?

Mines original ATI Branded x800 pro not third party , dunno wether thats good or bad?
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Postby Gecko » Tue Jan 25, 2005 1:26 am

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Postby robbro » Tue Jan 25, 2005 1:44 am

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