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Flash firmware of x1900xtx?

Dodge777

Dodge777

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Hi all,

Having problems with my pc at the mo. Sometimes when starting up the mointor doesn't come out of powersave, yet I head the windows chimes so I know everything is working. It obviously means that the gpu didn't initialise properly. I've had the system for a year and it's worked flawlessly until the last few months where it has started doing this. I've tested the monitor, so it's not that and I doubt it's the PSU since it's 600W and should have no problem with powering my kit. One solution I got advised to try was to flash the firmware for the graphics card. Does anyone know how I'd go about doing that?!?!

Please help! Thanks!
 
Yeah, it works no problems. Games are a synch, movies (including high definition), etc are fine. It's only when the power is turned off for about an hour or longer that it has problems coming out of powersave.

I've got the latest catalyst drivers, bios, etc. The one thing I did do this morning was to tick the option in the catalyst control panel to "reduce DVI frequency on high resolution displays." Maybe that'll help?
 
Yip, using vista 32 bit. Here's the latest update. Turned off my computer for a few hours this afternoon to test whether it was the dvi frequency and it turns out it wasn't. Just the same blank screen. So that's another thing to add to the list. I ran 3dmark06 just to test the graphics card (twice!) and it worked fine both times, no problems.

This just gets weirder and weirder.
 
Sounds like the PSU can't handle the initial power-draw on startup.

Does it always start on the second attempt when cold? If so, I'd try another psu.
 
Cyber-Mav said:
its vista problem. wait for new drivers.
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It's a vista problem?! Are you sure? Coz I'm dual booting vista and XP. So are you saying if I was to remove Vista, the problem would go away? Now that you come to mention it, the problem did start happening around the time I installed Vista... hmm...

Sir Random said:
Sounds like the PSU can't handle the initial power-draw on startup.

Does it always start on the second attempt when cold? If so, I'd try another psu.
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Not always. Sometimes I have to unplug the power cable and wait a while, or try a few times before the screen will actually come out of power save.

Cyber-Mav said:
why is this thread called flash firmware of x1900xtx? did you flash the firmware of your card then get these issues?
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Only called the thread that because that's what someone recommend I do to sort the problem out, but apparently that's not what I should be doing!
 
Just had a look in the bios and there doesn't seem to be an option like that. I looked carefully! One or two options referring to PEG bugger length, PEG root control, PEG link mode, etc. They're all set to auto.

The thing is, before Vista came along, I never had this problem, and the bios was set to how it is now. So would it really be something in the bios?

How about this... I've got three harddrives at the mo. Should I remove the one with vista on it and see if that makes a difference?
 
If it doesn't even display the POST screen (bios settings) when its not working then removing vista wont help. Do you turn your monitor off when you turn your PC off or do you let it go on standby? It might be that after a long time the monitor is refusing to come out of standby when it gets sent a signal by the graphics card.

I doubt very much you have any hardware issues at all. It's either a monitor issue or a bios settings issue (is it set to initialise the graphics on PEG first or PCI?).
 
Dureth said:
Do you turn your monitor off when you turn your PC off or do you let it go on standby?
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No, I don't turn it off. I just leave the monitor as is. I might try that tonight actually. I'll turn off the monitor when I go to bed and then turn it on when I wake up and see if that makes a different.

With regards to the bios... It's set to PCI express first, then PCI, which is correct, right?

EDIT: Just wanted to thank everyone for the help so far. It's hugely appreciated.
 
Hi there

I have the exact same problem my sapphire 1900XTX when turning on my pc it will boot but will not display the screen i have just recently upgraded my psu (hiper 580) as i was told that that was the problem but my new 700W tagan has not solved the problem either. I upgade cpu and mobo a couple of months ago and it did it on the old and the new hardware.

I have tryed many thing like using the other dvi slot or leaving the monitor off all night but none seem to work.
 
Catman05 said:
Hi there

I have the exact same problem my sapphire 1900XTX when turning on my pc it will boot but will not display the screen i have just recently upgraded my psu (hiper 580) as i was told that that was the problem but my new 700W tagan has not solved the problem either. I upgade cpu and mobo a couple of months ago and it did it on the old and the new hardware.

I have tryed many thing like using the other dvi slot or leaving the monitor off all night but none seem to work.
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what operating system are you using?
 
Dureth said:
Do you turn your monitor off when you turn your PC off or do you let it go on standby?
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Hope I'm not speaking too soon, but in the last few days I've taken your advice and it seems to have solved the problem. Can't believe it was something so simple. Obviously the pc has a hard time bringing the monitor out of power save after long periods. I don't think it's the actual monitor though as the problem persisted when I tried a friend's monitor. Weird.

So by turning off the monitor when I go to bed and only turning it on when I switch on the computer in the morning, the problem seems to have gone. But watch this space.
 
99% chance it will be the monitor, If the GFX card can not see an active monitor it will not re-initalize the GFX card/driver, ( had issues with ATI cards running LCD TV's on resume from standby before, Nvidia does not seem to suffer possibly because they don't use quite as efficient power management)

Can be proved very simply by useing something like ATI Tray tools and setting up a hot key to re-initialize the GFX driver...simply hit the hotkey after comming out of standby

Vista has more advanced power management than XP but above may work for it also
 
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