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Dec 30, 2002, 08:02 PM
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Tweeker
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Bios Flashing
Bios Flashing
I am attempting to flash my Radeon 9700 bios from 133-94206-101 to 113-94206-102, and my bios is locked, is there anyway to get arround that without pulling my card out and phisicaly altering it? My System: Via VPSB P4PB 400FL INTEL P4 2.8 @ 2.8 1024mb Samsung PC2700 Maxtor 40gb 7200 rpm ata 133 IBM 80gb 7200 rpm ata 100 ATI Radeon 9700 pro GCE-8240B cdrw; Pioneer DVD-116 ATI tvwonder Creative soundblaster Audigy 2 ('') Last edited by Blazer; Jan 2, 2003 at 12:09 AM. |
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Dec 30, 2002, 10:43 PM
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Banned
Join Date: Nov 2002
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What do you mean your bios is locked? for some reason you can't flash it or it's overclocking locked?
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Dec 30, 2002, 10:54 PM
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Tweeker
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Bios Flashing
I mean that I can't flash my bios, because the bios is locked according to the atiflash utility.The actual error messege that I get is "Serial Flash Rom is locked"
My System: Via VPSB P4PB 400FL INTEL P4 2.8 @ 2.8 1024mb Samsung PC2700 Maxtor 40gb 7200 rpm ata 133 IBM 80gb 7200 rpm ata 100 ATI Radeon 9700 pro GCE-8240B cdrw; Pioneer DVD-116 ATI tvwonder Creative soundblaster Audigy 2 ('') Last edited by Blazer; Dec 31, 2002 at 12:44 AM. |
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Dec 31, 2002, 03:51 PM
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Elite Bastard
Join Date: May 2002
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Did you exactly follow the flashing instructions at Omegacorner?
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Dec 31, 2002, 09:54 PM
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Tweeker
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Yes, I did follow the directions on Omega's page exactly, and if i use the gigabyte flash, I get "ERROR 0FL01" , so I don't know what to do. (:
My System: Via VPSB P4PB 400FL INTEL P4 2.8 @ 2.8 1024mb Samsung PC2700 Maxtor 40gb 7200 rpm ata 133 IBM 80gb 7200 rpm ata 100 ATI Radeon 9700 pro GCE-8240B cdrw; Pioneer DVD-116 ATI tvwonder Creative soundblaster Audigy 2 ('') Last edited by Blazer; Dec 31, 2002 at 11:40 PM. |
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Jan 5, 2003, 12:07 PM
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Tweeker
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I finally got it flashed, I forgot to uninstall the drivers in windows first.
My System: Via VPSB P4PB 400FL INTEL P4 2.8 @ 2.8 1024mb Samsung PC2700 Maxtor 40gb 7200 rpm ata 133 IBM 80gb 7200 rpm ata 100 ATI Radeon 9700 pro GCE-8240B cdrw; Pioneer DVD-116 ATI tvwonder Creative soundblaster Audigy 2 ('  ') |
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Jan 7, 2003, 03:33 AM
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Elite Bastard
Join Date: May 2002
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Ummm what would Windows drivers have to do with flashing the BIOS in DOS?
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Jan 7, 2003, 12:48 PM
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Tweeker
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I don't know, but it worked, I now have the 102 bios
My System: Via VPSB P4PB 400FL INTEL P4 2.8 @ 2.8 1024mb Samsung PC2700 Maxtor 40gb 7200 rpm ata 133 IBM 80gb 7200 rpm ata 100 ATI Radeon 9700 pro GCE-8240B cdrw; Pioneer DVD-116 ATI tvwonder Creative soundblaster Audigy 2 ('') |
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Jan 7, 2003, 01:20 PM
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Just One Sick-Lizard
Join Date: Jul 2002
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rofl
 wow u uninstall something totally unrelated & it works by magic hhhmmmmmmm! me thinks problem was between keyboard & chair lol |
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Jan 14, 2003, 06:18 AM
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DriverHeaven Newbie
Join Date: Dec 2002
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says in instructions to uninstall the drivers.....
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Jan 15, 2003, 02:32 PM
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DriverHeaven Extreme Member
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Is there any benefit to flashing to the 102 BIOS? I've got the 101 BIOS now, I'm just wondering if it'll make a difference in performance or if there are bug fixes or anything.
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Jan 15, 2003, 03:09 PM
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Tweeker
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no, there isn't any benifit to flashing the bios in this case, I just like to have the most current on my system, but there have been reports that the old bios was uncompatable with some chipsets.
My System: Via VPSB P4PB 400FL INTEL P4 2.8 @ 2.8 1024mb Samsung PC2700 Maxtor 40gb 7200 rpm ata 133 IBM 80gb 7200 rpm ata 100 ATI Radeon 9700 pro GCE-8240B cdrw; Pioneer DVD-116 ATI tvwonder Creative soundblaster Audigy 2 ('  ') |
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Jan 15, 2003, 04:25 PM
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DriverHeaven Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2002
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The only reason you should update your bios is if your card is giving you trouble. The updated bios will not give you more speed or pay the pizza man for you or anything like that
, but it will resolve compatibility issues, like Blazer has already stated. |
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Jan 15, 2003, 06:15 PM
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DriverHeaven Extreme Member
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Think it might fix the D3D stutter?
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Jan 16, 2003, 12:55 AM
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DriverHeaven Extreme Member
Join Date: Jan 2003
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OK well tried to flash my BIOS and got a DOS/4GW pagefault using ATIFLASH. SO i figured I would try flashrom. Flashrom doesn't detect an ATI adapter! I've got an FIC radeon 9700PRO OEM. ATIFLASH finds it but I get a pagefault so no go there, and Flashrom thinks it's not an ATI adapter. WTF???? Anybody got any ideas or another util I can try? Thanks all.
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Jan 16, 2003, 05:51 PM
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DriverHeaven Newbie
Join Date: Jan 2003
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Hi there.
Ive got the same problem with flashrom like the user above. But Im in deep deep trouble with my gfxcard its a connect3D 9000 pro and ive tried to flash the bios with atiflash and got this message at the end of flashing : ERROR : TIMEOUT :POLL ROM IDLE AFTER BULK ERASE. wtf does that mean???? and now my card aint working  |
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Jan 17, 2003, 07:41 AM
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DriverHeaven Newbie
Join Date: Jan 2003
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ok, i´ve solve this problem by dl gigabytes flashrom from omegacorner.com and now i can flash my bios weird that atiflash wont work?????
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