Bois is LOCKED......

CRaNeO · Nov 12, 2004, 02:51 AM

I dont why I can not flash my bois. I used flashrom to upgrade my 9600 pro bois, then I found bois is locked. how can I unlock it?
I typed "flashrom -p 0 XXX.rom -f -sst" in the command line
it said "fail to erase".....
Then I typed"flashrom -i" to check the status of bois. It is locked.
I have no experience about flash graphic card bois......

MythicaL · Nov 12, 2004, 04:03 AM

Hmm, might wanna get some more experience with this, because if you flash your BIOS wrong, there's a good change you'll be screwed and will have to get a new card/BIOS chip. Same goes for mainboard BIOSes.

CRaNeO · Nov 12, 2004, 04:22 AM

Thanks, I just wanna upgrade my 9600 pro to XT. and somebody made it, so I think I can do it too. but now I found it was not easy. can you give me some advice on it?

MythicaL · Nov 12, 2004, 09:51 AM

I wish I could help there, but I haven't flashed a GPU BIOS before either. I don't have an upgradable card =(

davidnsibs · Nov 12, 2004, 11:31 AM

i dont reccommend flashing your bios until youve read up on the subject + are confident on what your doing. anyway, when you say you typed it in the command line, do you mean in a dos promt in windows? what you need to do is create a bootable floppy with a program called atiflash on it. try googleing for the program or theres probably a thread here somewhere about it. youll then want to back up your old bios just in case with the command

atiflash -s 0 originalBIOS.bin <- that's a zero before the originalBIOS

then to flash the new one

atiflash -f -p 0 BIOSname.bin <- that's a zero before the BIOSname

obviously you need to include the new xt bios you wish to flash on the disc and BIOSname.bin is the name of that file

id read up on how to use atiflash before doing anything though, and know how to flash your old one back if things dont work out before starting