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How do you flash the bios? 9800xt

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AK_Bruce_LeeRoy

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Hello folks

Im a bit of a newbie here and would like to flash the bios on my radeon 9800xt.

Reason is I got this card included in a dell system (I know dont hit me was in a pinch) Anyway this is a built by ATI card. Only thing is Dell flashed it with their own bios which disables the overdrive feature.

So how do I go about flashing the bios?

And which bios should I use? I coudnt find any bios downloads on ATIs site.


Im currently useing the latest omega drivers thoe.


ty kindly in advance for any help on this issue.
 
1) Download an XT BIOS
2) Rename the BIOS file to a filename that has 8 or less characters before the "."
2) Get FlashROM (google for it)
3) Make a bootable floppy disk and put the BIOS and FlashROM on it
4) reboot with the disk in
5) type "flashrom -s 0 bbackup.bin" to backup your BIOS incase anything goes wrong with the new one
6) type "flashrom -p 0 [bios file]" to flash your card
7) Remove the disk and press CTRL+ALT+DEL to reboot

If everything goes right you should have a fully-functional XT. If things don't you'll need to get a PCI video card to reflash the 9800 (be sure to change the 0 to a 1 in the above commands to avoid flashing the PCI card).
 
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