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I flashed my X1900 Crossfire with an X1300 bios

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nice one.......lol
 

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ATI's flashing programs query the device ID to know which GPU to expect

Could you of edited the program to identify the the new ID code?
 
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Anyone ever figure out what the extra molex connectors are for the on these cards however?
 

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Could you of edited the program to identify the the new ID code?

yep i looked into that as well but it was more complicated because i would have to find all places and there are also some places where it checks for 42** which are extremely hard to find
 

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good thing you had the skillz to recover from that lol.

i flashed an 9800 with 9500bios, but i was able to recover that by hot swaping cards using an old card i had laying around (ati something or other) i know, hotswaping cards for such reasions isnt the best idea but i was depret, i wanted my 9800se>pro@xt back :p
 
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so you fixed it already? gnar dude

you'da had the fastest x1300 evah
 
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humm, i remmber when u could rename ur card in the 9800 days, i made mine say it was a 9600 and had people freaking out on another forum (they where all posers i wanted to mess with them ;) )
 
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Oh dear... I can't imagine someone like W1zzard doing something like this T_T.

EDIT: I did something this stupid once... backing up data on my mobile rack drive, it then finished (I thought) and I PULLED THE MOBILE RACK OUT WHILE THE PC WAS ON. Saving grace was that the data wasnt lost, but I had to merge some files (lol half an EXE) together.
 
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Thats much easier then what Im doing. I unsolder the 8 pin EEPROM and hot flash it on another card then solder the EEPROM back. THank for finding a easier way.
 
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Heh now figure out how to flash my x1300 to a x1950! And make it WORK! :)
 

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First of all, I had bad flash on my X1900XTX with X1950 PRO bios.

I was curios about this atiflash options:

-scansii , siireset and siiuprog

My card was reporting this:
atiflash -ai -sst
Adapter 0 (BN=01, DN=00, PCIID=72C1102, SSID=E190174B )

ASIC Family : RV5XX
FLASH TYPE : SiI 1930
Firmware Version : 0.0
Firmware Variant : 0

And then I've done that:
atiflash -p 0 orig.rom -siiresrt=1 -siiuprog=1 -scansii
Actually that reported fail and that 0% was flashed but probably it was enough.


After this I've tried your method as above didn't work and I think I've screwed my card.
I used your pin reset method and mange to flash back to original bios.
Now the card is working and booting up but I've got serious screen corruption.

Any ideas ?
Thing is that just before that pin flash I've tried normal flash:
 
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Look for a small 8 pin chip like this-


It could be a st chip,maybe 25PXXXXX number.

Can you post a pic of the back of your card?
 
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Try asking w1zzard.that is a differant eeprom to the ones on the 1900/1950 cards.
 

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ok thank you, i will write w1zzard a PM
I have a idea:
If i connect the Output of the eeprom with ground, then the voltage on Output is 0V and this is like the eeprom is empty. And then i can flash the original bios and otherwrite so the old data.
Is it possible that that work?
 
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