Easiest way to flash your X800GTO2 via dvd \ cd

Cantus · 6 Nov 2005 at 11:17

Assimilator1 said:
Well I've ordered it ahead of the rest of the bits as the place was running out of this GTO.Probably won't know for a week or 2 how it does ,but will let you know

Great! Keep us informed!

Assimilator1 · 6 Nov 2005 at 23:00

Will do

I've ordered the Opteron 146 & the RAM too now ,gotta get more cash off him before I can order the rest of the bits.

Froomer · 7 Nov 2005 at 21:29

All worked fine for me. ATI tool showing 16pipelines and X850 series card

Immortal_0ne · 8 Nov 2005 at 20:04

what program are you using to see if it has worked? i have put the cd in, pressed 1 it said 16 pipelines, then went to the A: command prompt now what?

Vetare

Immortal_0ne · 8 Nov 2005 at 20:51

ok, used ATI tool and it says 16 piplines enabled

so i will try the tests and post what i got

Blackstar_solar · 10 Nov 2005 at 13:31

Mister_Pister said:
if the bios flash did fail would it be possible to flash the bios back blind without the pci gfx card or will the PC not boot at all?

Was wondering this myself...

locutus12 · 10 Nov 2005 at 19:08

possible, sure, just difficult.

benlanky · 10 Nov 2005 at 22:21

help!!

Received my gto2 today and connected it all up, ran the iso file as per instructions, but it takes it straight to the a/ prompt - not giving me any options first.

I tried typing in the line that you gave but it shows 'invalid command' etc and does nowt!

What am I doing wrong?

Cheers

merkin51 · 10 Nov 2005 at 22:38

Locutus12 - Would your iso work for the Connect3D X800GTO as well, or is it strictly for the X800GTO2 / R480 core? If the later, would you be willing to put together an iso for the Connect3D or would that be too difficult considering you don't have one?

kimandsally · 10 Nov 2005 at 23:09

Hi there I'm not into overclocking graphics cards but I've overclocked cpu's for a few years, I have never played on a pc until recently, thinking of one of these gto2 cards.

What I'd like to know is when you overclock the card after unlocking the pipes do you have to overclock on each boot up or is there a way to make the overclock hold like we do when overclocking cpu's in the bios?

Is there also a way to modify the BIOS flash to increase the timings?

Thanks for the effort you've put into this it all seems very easy to understand with the exception of the overclock bit.

TheTiger · 10 Nov 2005 at 23:14

merkin51 said:
Locutus12 - Would your iso work for the Connect3D X800GTO as well, or is it strictly for the X800GTO2 / R480 core? If the later, would you be willing to put together an iso for the Connect3D or would that be too difficult considering you don't have one?

Look here

Darkwave · 10 Nov 2005 at 23:21

kimandsally said:
Hi there I'm not into overclocking graphics cards but I've overclocked cpu's for a few years, I have never played on a pc until recently, thinking of one of these gto2 cards.

What I'd like to know is when you overclock the card after unlocking the pipes do you have to overclock on each boot up or is there a way to make the overclock hold like we do when overclocking cpu's in the bios?

Is there also a way to modify the BIOS flash to increase the timings?

Thanks for the effort you've put into this it all seems very easy to understand with the exception of the overclock bit.

If you use ATi Tray Tools you can set it to overclock the graphics card every time Windows starts, you can also use the same program to alter timings.

Hope this clears everything up, take my word for it that overclocking a GPU is a hundred times simpler than overclocking a GPU.

benlanky · 10 Nov 2005 at 23:38

heeelllllppp......

I get to the startup screen saying [DR-DOS] A:\>

but what next?

If I enter '1' it says 'command or filename not recognized'

If I enter 'flashrom -f -p 0 x80016p.bin' I get 'command or filename not recognized'

If I then go into windows, it still shows 12 pipes....

merkin51 · 11 Nov 2005 at 07:21

hottiger said:
Look here

Cheers

The guy here said he used Locutus12's iso on a C3D with success:

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showpost.php?p=42209&postcount=867

I'd rather have confirmation from Locutus12 that this is possible though... don't want to screw anything up :/ It'd be a hell of a lot easier doing it this way than having to find / install a bloomin floopy drive!

merkin51 · 11 Nov 2005 at 11:13

locutus12 said:
erm, if you e-mail me the standard connect bios and modded bios then sure, the only reason i havent done it is i havent come across mthe modded bios for the GTO... but basically i can make a fash util for any card now provided people give me the bios update and the original. send them to my e-mail in the trust. oh and yes, using a PCI card should allow you to flash back fine

Sorry to nag Locutus12, but have you had any luck makingan iso for the Connect3D cards? I'd so much rather do it with one of your CDs than the whole floppy + flashrom thing, considering I'm not experienced on that front.

Assimilator1 · 11 Nov 2005 at 19:01

I haven't been able to supplie him an original bios (as I posted) ,so maybe you can?

(got the card now but no mbrd etc)

merkin51 said:
Locutus12 - Would your iso work for the Connect3D X800GTO as well, or is it strictly for the X800GTO2 / R480 core? If the later, would you be willing to put together an iso for the Connect3D or would that be too difficult considering you don't have one?

Check out the post I made further up regarding this exact point & his replie

Exsomnis

Hope this clears everything up, take my word for it that overclocking a GPU is a hundred times simpler than overclocking a GPU.

lol

brightonrvf · 15 Nov 2005 at 16:05

Hi is the link on the first page down?? I have downloaded it but there is nothing inside the .rar folder. If anyone could point me in the direction of file locutius uses I'd be greatly appreciative.

The tech power up site confuses me

locutus12 · 15 Nov 2005 at 18:11

thats because its not an archive. follow the instructions exactly as laid out. dont deviate from them

kimandsally · 15 Nov 2005 at 19:38

Well another success here locutus12, I downloaded your cd followed your instructions and in less than 1 minute it was done.

Thank you for the effort you put in which has know made it so easy for us to do, to be honest I had tried flashing a GPU card a long time ago and gave up I would not have tried this on a brand new card if you hadn't made the files for us.

Thanks agian I really am very pleased with my card which I haven't pushed too far but in ATI tool it goes to 612 / 630 which seems a crazy speed my old x800xl did 452 / 544 and that cost me £235.

brightonrvf · 16 Nov 2005 at 12:43

All done, many thanks, biggest problem was getting my head round there being nothing in the folder (well that I could see). =)

Thank you.