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Mulder
03-04-2006, 02:51 PM
I have read the main thread about unlocking GTO cards but I couldnt find a mention of my particular card in there.

I have a PCI-E HIS X800GTO ICEQII Turbo card. It has an R480 core (according to ATI Tool) and a power connector.

http://img105.imageshack.us/img105/7729/untitled6km.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

It looks like I can flash this to 16 pipes but I don't know which bios to use. (I'm not sure if it has 2.0ns or 1.6ns chips)

Can someone help me out please?
mmx
03-04-2006, 03:52 PM
You are lucky, it lookls like you can flush it to 16P,The memory type looks like this: K4J553230F-GC20 (16) if the last mumber on the memory is 20 than you hawe 2.0ns or if you hawe 16 than is 1.6ns. Good Luck!!!!
Mulder
03-04-2006, 04:03 PM
I dont suppose there's any way to tell which type of memory I have without removing the heatspreader? How do the bioses for 2.0 and 1.6 memory differ anyway? Memory timings?
mmx
03-04-2006, 04:07 PM
dump the bios whit atitool, and send me tha bios and ill tell you.
Mulder
03-04-2006, 04:11 PM
Here it is: http://rapidshare.de/files/14676404/HISGTObios.bin.html
mmx
03-04-2006, 04:27 PM
Flush this bios(http://rapidshare.de/files/14677570/hisgto16p.rom.html) (is your old bios but whit 16p) whit the command: atiflash -p 0 -newbios hisgto16p.rom -f
Good Luck
Mulder
03-04-2006, 04:35 PM
Why is the file a .rom not a .bin? Does it make any difference?
mmx
03-04-2006, 04:37 PM
No no just flush it!! Atitool dump the bios whit **.bin while rabit wich i used to change your bios saves **.rom.
Mulder
03-04-2006, 08:11 PM
Well it flashed successfully, thanks for your help!

Here's my 3dMark05 scores:

400/490/12pp: 4544
500/500/12pp: 5225
400/490/16pp: 5104
500/500/16pp: 5820
500/590/16pp: 6185

I think the memory may be able to go a little higher but any higher on the core results in a crash and hard reeboot.

It hits 64 degrees max when scanning for artifacts with ATI Tool.
sadisticflirt
06-03-2006, 03:54 AM
I would like to do this with my x800. It's the same card and I'm sure the same bios. I matched up mulders screenshot of ati tool with mine and everything lined up. I am not sure how to dump the bios though. The button in ati tool is grayed out...
Azn Tr14dZ
06-03-2006, 04:13 AM
Mulder, is your memory 2.0ns or 1.6ns?
sadisticflirt
06-03-2006, 08:42 PM
Bump
Mulder
06-03-2006, 08:47 PM
I'm sorry i don't know why your dump bios button would be greyed out, maybe you could pm mmx about this? I dunno about the memory either, I don't really want to take off the heatspreader to look at it.
dolf
06-03-2006, 11:50 PM
If you have problems with ATITool get the BIOS in DOS mode using atiflash.
sadisticflirt
06-04-2006, 08:06 AM
thanks for the advice dolf...any tips on doing that? I'm just doing a good old uninstall of my graphics drivers followed by driver cleaner pro and now just want to unlock those 16 pipes....after I get the bios backed up, how would I flash it seeing that I do not own a floppy drive? I have the Ultimate Boot Disc "collection" on a cd but I don't think that would help me save a back up bios because I am sure the disc would not be able to be written too.
dolf
06-04-2006, 10:49 AM
Look if necessary uninstall and install the video card in the slot again. Install ATITool again or try with ATI Tray Tools. It has the same option.
sadisticflirt
06-04-2006, 05:12 PM
I was able to dump the bios with ati tray tools and now that program tells me I have 540+ fps in the 3d render whereas atitool gives me 12-13fps in it's rendering window...