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Old Mar 19, 2004, 06:48 PM   #1
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9800XT 128MB RAM Bios files for 9800SE/NP/PRO/AIW
Hi all


Its about time we all had a nice home for these bios files. for all 9800SE/NP/Pro owners with 128MB ram
that want to take a shot at flashing to XT.

DriverHeaven Bios download page

9800Pro users read this Link first.

9800SE/NP/Pro AIW owners download BIOS file from: HERE. (thanks to Pale_Freak)


[color=red]Cat 4.9 drivers for 9800SE flashed to 9800XT[/color]: moded ATI CAT4.9 for all 9800SE flashed to 9800XT

Good luck to all.
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Old Mar 19, 2004, 07:53 PM   #2
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Hey I got Inferon Memory Will it still work?
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Old Mar 19, 2004, 07:55 PM   #3
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AWWWW HELL LET'S GO!
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Old Mar 19, 2004, 07:56 PM   #4
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Wait I'm going to wait a bit
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ive never done any flashing befor lol i got a Sapphire ati radeon 9800 pro 128 mb will it work? can someon exlplain to me how to change them@?#
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Old Mar 19, 2004, 08:19 PM   #6
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I want to know the success rate and if I use the building bootable dos maker will i be able to back up? and if so how will i restore it from that?
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Old Mar 19, 2004, 08:35 PM   #7
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NM!!!! I NEED TO READ DIRECTION! ANY WHO I AM GOING FOR IT! I got readon 9100 pci ready. My only question is how do i boot from the backup if it goes boom. I will have to underclock it cus i can't get to those speed but let's go!
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NM!!!! I NEED TO READ DIRECTION! ANY WHO I AM GOING FOR IT! I got readon 9100 pci ready. My only question is how do i boot from the backup if it goes boom. I will have to underclock it cus i can't get to those speed but let's go!
no prblem - if the AGP card doesnt boot meaning that the flash went bad- then you pull it out put in the PCI card set your Motherboard settings to init display from PCI/AGP instead of AGP/PCI and then you shut down and put the AGP back in - only you leave the screen connected to the PCI card. that way the pc boots and see whats going on and then you just reflash with the original bios you backed up.

the success rates are very good for gigaCube and PowerColor 9800SE cards with 256 bit memory bus.
as for Np/Pro cards they are also good - even better then SE. as they usually come with faster memory chips.

you should all do your first flash using the same brand bios as your card - if you cant find one then use the gigacube - usually works on all cards.

as for memory chips other then hynix and Samsung. I have no idea haven't heard of any that worked as they are usually very slow memory chips.

hope this helps..if you have any more questions dont be shy - and ask away.

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Old Mar 19, 2004, 09:11 PM   #9
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Well it worked!!!! but to be careful i quickly underclocked it a bit and i will push it up to see that this memory can do. THANKS!!!!
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I will grab a Vga silencer and a ram heat sink and again THANKS! Any way I get get a pic of a the vga attached?
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Old Mar 19, 2004, 09:31 PM   #11
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I am posting too much. Ok what the difference between the two powercolors. Also I installed the omega drivers and it corrupted my screen. This did not happen until i installed it so i am retring with new cats.
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WELL!! It was omega drivers reacting with new cats. I am going to retry flash!
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WELL! inferon memory sucks i need to find specific flashes
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So, we use the Gigacube bios if we have a Sapphire 9800 Pro 128? Mine was origionally a Sapphire 9800 Non-Pro and I flashed it to Pro. Last night I tested it using the ATI Tool and it started getting artifacts at 425/390 with stock heatsink and no ramsinks, so I think I'm ok to flash it if I can use the Gigacube Bios. Ordered some ramsinks and a Arctic VGA cooler last night also.

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Hey I got Inferon Memory Will it still work?
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AWWWW HELL LET'S GO!
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NM!!!! I NEED TO READ DIRECTION! ANY WHO I AM GOING FOR IT! I got readon 9100 pci ready. My only question is how do i boot from the backup if it goes boom. I will have to underclock it cus i can't get to those speed but let's go!
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I will grab a Vga silencer and a ram heat sink and again THANKS! Any way I get get a pic of a the vga attached?
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I am posting too much. Ok what the difference between the two powercolors. Also I installed the omega drivers and it corrupted my screen. This did not happen until i installed it so i am retring with new cats.
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WELL!! It was omega drivers reacting with new cats. I am going to retry flash!
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WELL! inferon memory sucks i need to find specific flashes
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Ok what the difference between the two powercolors. Also I installed the omega drivers and it corrupted my screen. This did not happen until i installed it so i am retring with new cats.
Only has 2ns ram "golden card" and other has normal 2.8ns samsung GC2a? What card have u got?
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This site hosts atiTool - really quick artifact tester, many, many bioses, and is a good resource for this topic:
http://forums.ocfaq.com/forumdisplay.php?f=35

Also the power colour differences are being discussed here:
http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?t=15898
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So, we use the Gigacube bios if we have a Sapphire 9800 Pro 128? Mine was origionally a Sapphire 9800 Non-Pro and I flashed it to Pro. Last night I tested it using the ATI Tool and it started getting artifacts at 425/390 with stock heatsink and no ramsinks, so I think I'm ok to flash it if I can use the Gigacube Bios. Ordered some ramsinks and a Arctic VGA cooler last night also.

Thanks.
Yes you can try the GigaCube 9800XT bios on your card to upgrade it.

BTW: I just installed FARCRY FULL retail game on my rig - and people I thought my card was good?! after playing for 2 hours - while on 1280X1024 with all settings at MAX I started to get artifacts in the shape of lines and shit from the scenery - so I switched over to windows used Rivatunner to underclock my card to 380/650MHz and the game came back to normal...then I played for a nother hour and the card started to artifact again - so again I downclocked it to 360/630Mhz and every thing was fine. I touched the card after 3 hours of playing and I was burning HOT and I have VGA Silencer installed along with MEM heat sinks and 3 80mm Fans on the card. an still didn't help.

I I suggthink I have to upgrade the cooling for the RAMDAC and volt controler as they were the ones that became very hot.

i suggest that any one planning on upgrading or flashing use FARCRY to test the card - since it uses DirectX9.0b to run, it sqeezes the life out of any card playing the game...if your card can hold it for 2-3 then your OK.

again Best of Luck
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Does it help overclocking after you flash it into your 9800/9800pro card?
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Old Mar 20, 2004, 10:49 AM   #21
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Does it help overclocking after you flash it into your 9800/9800pro card?
yes - very much so...my 9800SE could o/c to a max core speed of 410Mhz on original bios
but with the XT bios I can now O/C to stable XT rate 412 and the max rate has gone up to 460Mhz.
at 470MHz the card might hang on heavy greaphics or benchmarks. meaning I got 50Mhz out of the card because of the flash.
as for the memory went up from 680Mhz to 790Mhz stable.

the thing is that Xt bios has much more optimized routines and better timings so the card is stable at higher rates.

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Hey Guys.......................

I'm assuming this is not meant for the ATI AIW 9800Pro 128mg Video Cards??
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No its not.. last I've heard it doesnt work on AIW. there was a posting on the former known forum 3Dmaxx of some one that tried it and falied.

I think it disabled the AIM properties and turned the card to reguler XT or something or failed completly meaning the card didnt boot. in both cases not worth doing.

sorry man . if I come across a bios that works for you I'll post a link to it.

do you think you can send me a copy of your original AIW bios. maybe I can mod it for you.
if your willing to take the chance of flashing the card.
use flashrom.exe -s 0 backup.rom


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works fine so far .. but my old 9800SE isn't able to run with 8 pipelines .. so the Aquamark3 performance raises only from 21,xxx to 22,xxx but better than nothing
Used the Powercolor.9800XT.128MB.Samsung.E-Die.bin (my PowerColor has Hynix - but works fine)
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works fine so far .. but my old 9800SE isn't able to run with 8 pipelines .. so the Aquamark3 performance raises only from 21,xxx to 22,xxx but better than nothing
Used the Powercolor.9800XT.128MB.Samsung.E-Die.bin (my PowerColor has Hynix - but works fine)
as you said, its better then nothing. :-)
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Doesnt the 9800xt have a different core than the 9800pro/np/se? r360 vs r350??
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All right...I know one of you smart people can help me with this. What brand of memory does my card have? Here's what Sandra tells me about it.

Primary Display Driver (display)
Video Adapter
Model RADEON 9800 PRO
Chipset RADEON 9800 AGP (0x4E48)
RAMDAC Internal DAC(400MHz)
Video BIOS BK-ATI VER008.004.008.018
VGA Compatible No
Total Memory 256MB (255MB Video) (118MB AGP)
Texture Memory 373MB
Supports DIME Texturing Yes


AGP Capabilities
Version 3.00
Command Queue Length 256
Fast-Writes Enabled No
Isochronous Mode Enabled No
Addressing Enabled 32-bit
Data Transfer Modes Support 4x 8x
Current Data Transfer Rate 8x


Video BIOS
Date 03/04/04
Version 2304.848

I'm looking at flashing this bios to see what happens. I'm not really too sure how much of an increase I'll see in performance if I do but thought it would be entertaining at least. I'm currently running my clocks at 412/365. What do you guys think?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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All right...I know one of you smart people can help me with this. What brand of memory does my card have? Here's what Sandra tells me about it.

Primary Display Driver (display)
Video Adapter
Model RADEON 9800 PRO
Chipset RADEON 9800 AGP (0x4E48)
RAMDAC Internal DAC(400MHz)
Video BIOS BK-ATI VER008.004.008.018
VGA Compatible No
Total Memory 256MB (255MB Video) (118MB AGP)
Texture Memory 373MB
Supports DIME Texturing Yes


AGP Capabilities
Version 3.00
Command Queue Length 256
Fast-Writes Enabled No
Isochronous Mode Enabled No
Addressing Enabled 32-bit
Data Transfer Modes Support 4x 8x
Current Data Transfer Rate 8x


Video BIOS
Date 03/04/04
Version 2304.848

I'm looking at flashing this bios to see what happens. I'm not really too sure how much of an increase I'll see in performance if I do but thought it would be entertaining at least. I'm currently running my clocks at 412/365. What do you guys think?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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Well it tells us nothing...to find out what memory chips you have - you need to take out the card from the PC and take a look at all the writings on one of the 8 memory chips (those black square chips around the core) if you dont see them than maybe they have heat sinks on them meaning that you wont be able to find out with out taking off one of them - I dont think its some thing worth doing.

in any case you have 256MB ram on you card meaning you cannot I repeat you CANNOT use the XT bios files we have posted here.
if you still want to have a go at flashing the card I can send you an XT bios for 256MB ram card. like yours.
drop me an email and I'll send you one.

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And if you have radlinker install it will tell you the memory in the info. I know of edit. Sorry get a mod to delete them if you want. Want I would like to know is if I can use samsung bios with inferon memory? Nm that I found some inferon bios from gigabyte tring them out. And Hey Look EDIT! WOOW!
I am going to install xt bios now.
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Oh No!!!! I am posting oh well if you need inferon or AIW bios check here. http://my.tbaytel.net/panthor/bioses.htm Inferon at the bottom and AIW in the middle.
Here AIW http://my.tbaytel.net/panthor/files/...MB.Samsung.bin
I do not know if these work I just found them.
Inferon here http://my.tbaytel.net/panthor/files/...e.Infineon.bin
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