Another Radeon 8500 Flash question

[thecondor]

OK. I have an OEM card with the 3.6 ns SDRAM, and a reading of
3.46 on the Vmem. So I tried the FlashRadeon8500.zip package
and destroyed the BIOS. I booted clean to DOS. Here is what I would get:

Serial ROM
BIOS DeviceID = 0x514c
ASIC DeciceID = 0x514c
Flash Type =ST M25P10

0

From here is just an endless blinking dos cursor and the floppy light stays on. Do you think being on an I820 motherboard might affect this?

[thecondor]

Actually this turned out to be the right call. I read that this program writes modifications to RAM before the flash begins. It appears that there is an incompatability with RDRAM or the i820
chipset. At any rate, I moved everything to a BX board and the flash to the retail 275/275 BIOS went flawless. I'now back in business.

[IronLungsta]

Glad to hear that man cause i was worried about having that problem as i am investing in a 8500le this christmas.. :) cant wait
Lemme know if theres a performance gain?

[thecondor]

3DMark2001 went from 5903 to 6286. My original LE was only clocked at 230/230. If ram chips are 3.6's and Vmem is OK, you should have no problem.