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smoked my 9500
- Thread starter dimicchh
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you have invalidated your warranty, So basicly you killed it. You might want to try sending ATI or the manufacture of your card an e-mail explaining what you did and if it can be repaired.
They might repair it for you.
But i wouldn't hold out as you did something that your card wasn't intended to do.
They might repair it for you.
But i wouldn't hold out as you did something that your card wasn't intended to do.
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Did you save the old bios first? If not, your pretty much screwed. If so, you have a good chance of saving it. Just put another PCI video card in and run teh flash utility again, or do it by memory. I had a few bad flashes, but I memorised the process so I could do it with my eyes closed.
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look online for 9500 BIOS, im sure you're not the only one who did this. You shoulda tried the Omega Drivers first before you flahsed it.
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FarEast said:
This is not correct at all, the card can be saved by simply reflashing the old bios by using the info TheFURY has mentioned. If you have a cheap $5 PCI card it always makes the job easier when flashing goes wrong. but stating the card is killed is not good advise. Although the advise about the warranty is correct
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Yuriman said:
what good will that do? i mean whats the thought behind that? and what do you you mean to run the flash again by memory? what if i put the card in another pc? will that get the job done?
btw: thx for the good advice @all
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dimicchh said:
Basically the BIOS on the card is broken. You need to use the utility to flash the proper BIOS back onto the card. However, the card does not display properly. If you put a PCI video card in and hook the monitor up to that, you can boot into DOS, and run the flash utility to flash the BIOS on the 9500, which you should have in the AGP slot.
A bit like jump starting a car... heh
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