Desparately Seeking Bios

mbh831 · Mar 17, 2003, 05:08 PM

Not sure exactly which forum to put this in, but anyway....
I am in desperate need of an all-in-wonder radeon 32DDR bios--NOT 7500 AIW, but the original AIW Radeon 32 DDR. I cannot find this ANYWHERE, and, of course, ATI will not give it to me...don't even know why I called them.... I had at one time saved a backup of it, but that was many HDD formats ago, and it's been lost in the shuffle. I'm having all kinds of graphics (especially text) anomalies, and I really feel my bios is corrupt. I just want to reflash with a known good bios and pray that helps. If anyone knows where I can get a copy, or if anybody has this card and can extract the bios for me, I'd be eternally greatful. Thanks to any that can help here on DriverHeaven/

DallasStar · Mar 17, 2003, 08:08 PM

are you overclocking the card at all? this kind of thing can also be caused because of excessive overclocking.

mbh831 · Mar 17, 2003, 08:11 PM

I have modified the clock speed in bios a LONG time ago by I think 15 mhz or so...I thought about that, but since the card's warranty is void anyway, I figured I;d try the bios anyway, and maybe put the clock back to stock speed while I'm in the bios....

DallasStar · Mar 17, 2003, 08:15 PM

well, try lowering your clock speeds via a tweaker just as an experiment since you cannot find a bios at the moment.

mbh831 · Mar 18, 2003, 02:45 PM

...that's a pretty good idea. I did try as you suggested, no luck though. I think it's the bios, (though I don't know how it would become corrupted). I say that because it's mainly the text that is all whack (in the pure dos environment too). Am I wrong, or aren't those characters stored in the card bios...?

DallasStar · Mar 18, 2003, 06:36 PM

As a last resort, you may want to try lowering hardware acceleration...