Radeon 8500 OEM>Retail Flash file HERE

[Silversinksam]

Guys Ed and Joe were kind enough to put my Radeon article on the Front page today,

If you have an OEM Radeon 8500 and have 3.6ns memory and you check your Vmem (read article) and it turns out to be running 3.50volts then The bios flash may be for you.

Pinky was kind enough to allow me to post the Bios Flash on his FTP server full of utilities (http://www.aoafiles.com)

Direct link to the Flash file, when you see Pinky thank him for hosting it :) (http://www.aoafiles.com/dafiles/Video_Card_Files/ATI_Video_Cards/ATI_Overclocking_Programs/FlashRadeon8500.zip )


Personally I havent Flashed my card yet as I dont mind running Powerstrip to get 300/300


I hope you enjoyed that article as many of you made that information regarding the OEM/Retail enigma possible by contributing to the Bios database found HERE (http://forums.overclockers.ws/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=51887)



FlashRadeon8500.zip
The complete flashpackage for your Radeon 8500 OEM/LE and Retail cards. Inclosed alle BIOS versions in RETAIL, OEM, PAL and NTSC. Please use the loader for starting, type just in plain DOS:"start.exe". The menu does the rest and makes backup of your BIOS, verify BIOSses and flash the correct one, by just selecting the proper one! Many thanks to John Hoek, for making this possible! The program was created with the pflashrom from ATi Technologie's. All copyrights belong to them. The program was not edited, a launcher was added.

-credit to Exclamation Download for the file


More information regarding how to can be found here (http://www.home.zonnet.nl/Hoek89/)




:eek: Happy Holidays to you all :rolleyes:

[Vovan]

Thanks for Info, i think i will try it.

By the way, if you have some time, look through this russian site, that has TONS of stuff for all Radeons:
www.radeon.ru

[Wega!]

I can't decide whatever I should flash or not. I think I could be able to hit at least 290MHz with the extra voltage.... I'm running 284MHz now...

Nice article Sam ;)

[Silversinksam]

Thanks Walter, appreciate the kind words,

I strongly suggest that you dont try the Flash utility as 4ns Ram shouldnt be run at the Flash settings, if you decide to go for it anyway, say a prayer and face West towards the overclocking Gods and be sure to make a back up of your current video card bios.

:eek:


PS, Vovan

How am I supposed to know what they are saying at
http://www.radeon.ru/


My Russian reading skills never developted :)


Im pretty sure this says Never mod a Radeon after drinking 4 bottles of Stoli

Ìû çàíèìàåìñÿ îïòèìèçàöèåé äðàéâåðîâ äëÿ âèäåîàäàïòåðîâ Radeon, ñîñòàâëÿÿ ñáîðíûå äðàéâåðû èç ôàéëîâ òåõ âåðñèé, íà êîòîðûõ äîñòèãàåòñÿ ëó÷øàÿ ïðîèçâîäèòåëüíîñòü â ñâîåì

:)

[Wega!]

Ok, well I asked this question at Rage3d too, and they are also suggesting that I don't flash, so I think I'll drop it or at least wait. 284Mhz isn't bad either.... Now I just need to get a better cooler on the core, because it's only hitting 270MHz stable. I wish I could get a Alpha like your's Sam, but I can't buy them here in Denmark.... :mad:

[Pinky]

You'll want to update the direct file link as we've done some housecleaning recently and changes our directory structure ;)

[Silversinksam]

Originally posted by Pinky
You'll want to update the direct file link as we've done some housecleaning recently and changes our directory structure ;)

Damn you Pinky :D a good friend would have updated that for me......like I dont have enough to do :)

[Pinky]

Originally posted by Silversinksam


Damn you Pinky :D a good friend would have updated that for me......like I dont have enough to do :)

You only have to moderate the entire classifieds, it can't be that tough :rolleyes:

and so you know I would have but if I remember right there were several files and I prolly would have picked the wrong one :eh?:

and if there is only one then there will soon be 2 lol :p CYA!!

[jstutman]

pinky, i do thank you for this hosting. if i purchase a radeon 8500, what are my odds of reseiving one that can be flashed?