Everything needed to update radeon bios

[Yuriman]

I need what the title says, but I cant seem to find them. I want a link to everything. I searched, and watched for 2 weeks. Will need bios sites for 9100 128mb and 8500F 64mb as well. Can anyone help?

 

[tekkism]

here ya go buddy

http://radeon2.ru/downloads/bios.html -its in like russian, got it from q149 , and for the ati flash program, dl it from http://www.3dchipset.com/bios/ati/flash/index.php, just dl the bios u need, then go to DOS, and do command: atiflash -f -p 0 xxx.bin , and reset and ur set to go...good luck

 

[Yuriman]

thats all I needed, except the bios....I have a saphire 9100 at 250/200 and the core wont go a hair above 300. Ram w/o sinks is about 230 max. Gets HOT.

 

[Yuriman]

What do I do if the serial rom is locked? Otherwise im ready to flash.

 

[tekkism]

can ur overclocking utility slider go farther than 300? If you have a sapphire, then you don't need to flash anything because Sapphires, i believe, come unlocked so you can overclock as high as you want...If your o/c can go higher than 300, then it's ur computer settings...first, try to put the mem core down to like 310, my radeon 9500np cant go past 310mhz from a 275mhz stock....also, try these in the bios or somewhere:
disable fastwrite
agp frequency: 66mhz
4x= agp speed
all the video bios and system bios stuff: disable
agp aperature: 64mb

try those stuff, btw, wat kinda drivers u using?

 

[Yuriman]

I am using radclocker, I love it. Currently it runs 299.75mhz perfectly, but at 300.25mhz it has heavy artifacts and hardlocks after 3 sec. I can set the maximum shown OC in this program. Also, I am running 66mhz(duh)agp, in 4x with 32mb aperature. My problem is, when I try to flash the bios, I get "warning: serial rom locked" and it wont let me flash.

 

[emericanchaos]

i think there's a flag to force it. it should tell you what the force flag is. use that and it will stuff it on there anyway. that's what i had to do with my card. it's a sapphire.

 

[Yuriman]

I tried, and all that happened was the program reloaded.It didnt flash, just reloaded.

 

[Yuriman]

I managed to find a workaround, but now whenever I try to open the bios files to load it on I get a read error. I tried putting them on another floppy to no avail. This is a real pain.

 

[Chris]

Try the gigabyte flash program, it worked better for me than any of the other programs about i'll try find you a link.

EDIT: And dont forget to save your current bios file, if it all goes belly up it can get a little tricky finding an exact match as the one you had.

 

[Yuriman]

I did. I flashed a gigabyte bios onto my sapphire, and it works fine though.

 

[youngbuck]

How do you save your current bios?

 

[Mustanley]

Flashrom is another option. In fact, I had to use Flashrom on the 9800np because ATIflash would not work.