Flashing your 9800pro to 9800XT bios..

[KennyC]

Have you done it?

Im curious to try but dont want to kill my card.

Anyone done this and ruin their card?

TIA

[M4D]

Im waiting for some people to report good things too about
9800pro 128mb cards flashed to xt because im wanting to do the
flash too ...

"EDIT"
Forgot to add, FIRST POST !! :D "Hello everyone...

[sky]

m4d, welcome to the sickness

btw, you know, what kinda card are we talking about? 128mb pro or 256mb. if the latter, there's a bunch of people that did flash it to xt (me included) and there's quite a thread on it. "sapphire relabeling 9800xt to 9800 pro". read it here (http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=29788)

[M4D]

Other thread is a nice read, Ty .

I have read load's on this subject but not tryed anything out yet because
i don't want to flash if theres not really any need /performance increase and
because i obviously dont want to mess anything up .

Im currently runing the core @ 414.00 And memory @ 378.00
Nothing special i just wanted to get a little boost for now while the
ramsinks and AS5 settle in a bit and then give overclocking /flashing
a better try .

Anyhow, I have this card:

Lite Retail - Sapphire 9800 Pro 128MB DDR

Core info: R360 - 215R9RBKA11F - N02610.00 - 0335 AA
Memory info: Samsung BGA K4D26 - 3238E - GC2A

Various part numbers:
P/N 102 - A07533 - 00 - AT
P/N 102A0753300 - 000001
Board P/N 103 - A07500 - 00

Im cooling it with a VGA silencer AS5 And Tweakmonster Ramsinks AS5 mixed with Alumina adhesive
mixed one part of each so it wasnt perminent but, "Seems perminent" :D

I was /am a little confused by all the bios's that are floating about
and figured id have a look around my reg forums for some info
but im still confused and as you can imagine i don't want to try
every 9800 pro and xt bios i find to get a good working one .

Basicaly any /all info and suggestions on the subject would greatly be appreciated ...

Ps"
Thanks for the welcome mate, :D ...

[Sheik]

There is nothing difficult about flashing 9800 pro to XT to 9800 pro if you do it correctly. I have done it a dozen times experimenting with different benchmark programs and BIOS's and never have a single problem so far.

[Ravilj]

I agree GFX cards are easily flashed back if there is an error. The only problem is you usually have to do it without a screen or even easier create a batch file that does it for you. I've flashed my card with bios's that i have hex edited and screwed around with and such. Hell yeah the card didnt work half the time but was easily flahsed back. I also flashed it hundreds of times with testing bios's as well!

[LilGator]

This is what you want: XT Bios for your R360 core and E-Die for your 8E mem... flash, and crank those memchips up to 400MHz :)

GigaCube.9800XT.128MB.Samsung.E-die.bin

http://www.redxrad.nl/GoT/9800XT/bios/128%20MB%20-%20Samsung/Gigacube/GigaCube.9800XT.128MB.Samsung.E-die.bin

Or you can try this one:

http://www.redxrad.nl/GoT/9800XT/bios/128%20MB%20-%20Samsung/Sapphire/Sapphire.9800XT.128MB.Samsung.E-die.bin

I'm using the GigaCube, no problems here ... 405MHz uncooled memory and artifact-free, couple hundred point increase in 3DM03 ;)

[Sidebinder]

It should all work, I saw the thing flashed to a 9800xt on a 9800se. :D

[M4D]

I have those two bios's but what has mostly been putting me off
is the fact that i havent seen a 128mb XT ?

So are they definately pro bios's hacked /edited or are they genuine
XT bios's ?

And thanks ...

"EDIT"
Forgot to add im wanting to try the flash mostly so i can try to get 20k in
3dmark01SE and a better 2k3 score .

Heres what i got so far
2k1SE - http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=7761770
2k3 - http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=2209710

I do need a fresh install and then im hoping 20k here i come but who knows, :D ...

[sky]

your points are ok. what clocks did you have on your card for that 18.8k 2k1 run? mine are pretty close with a slower cpu and the 9800pro (256) at xt speeds (412/365). from your scores, i'd take it we're running somewhere in the same region of clocks...

yours / mine (dlt3c 1700 @ 2481)
18868 / 19115
247.3 / 253.0
89.6 / 89.7
367.6 / 367.4
190.1 / 193.4
223.8 / 232.5
98.7 / 104.6
145.8 / 141.7

and we're both on dx9 & win xp. switching to dx8 and win 2k should give you (us) an increase pointswise... btw i haven't posted my score on fm.. i'm aiming for 20k aswell :)

[M4D]

to be honest i can't remember exactly if i had it overclocked then .

But i think it would have been Core 414 Memory 378 because thats
what i have it running at now :toast:

This is how im setup at the mo .

Sapphire default bios Overclocked to 414 - 378 .
XP-M2500+ @ 2506mhz 200x12.5 1.875Vcore
2x512 Dual Channel Crucial PC3200 @ 11,3,3,3.0 Default Voltage "Memory doesnt want /like to go higher"
Im running with no page file and ending up with around 800+ megs free before benchmarking .
Computer spec is all in sig but with tictac's d23 3dfire bios and default driver setup on all components .

This 20k is just eluding me by a gnats nacker sooooo"
Im gonna try the flash now and see what i can get with the sapphire and gigacube bios's :D .

Wish me luck and seeya's soon ...

[Ket]

its easy, just get a BIOS file that matches your memory make and ns timing. obviously though just because one bios works on your card, doesnt mean there isnt a better one for it out there ;)