2900 Pro Owners Thread

[ZenEffect]

I dunno if this is mentioned somewhere in this thread already but how can I get some kind of driver options if I just use the display driver?

I am having trouble Ocing no matter what i use or do when I have CCC installed.
With just the display driver and riva tuner this 2900pro 512bit does 850/999 on 1.15v no problems. Thing is I have no driver options or menu of any kind liek this.

ati tray tools?

[Rattle]

is that what you use buddy ?

[ZenEffect]

is that what you use buddy ?

no im using ccc

[quake6]

@quake6: with the cat8.1 drivers u can oc both cards with overdrive. u can oc them individually by choosing the card u want to oc in a dropdown menu in overdrive. no need for changing primary displays when using overdrive.

But when you using ati tool or riva tuner?

[ZenEffect]

But when you using ati tool or riva tuner?

referring to catalyst ccc

the way i oc my videocards is through bios.

[ZenEffect]

I dunno if this is mentioned somewhere in this thread already but how can I get some kind of driver options if I just use the display driver?

I am having trouble Ocing no matter what i use or do when I have CCC installed.
With just the display driver and riva tuner this 2900pro 512bit does 850/999 on 1.15v no problems. Thing is I have no driver options or menu of any kind liek this.

what problems? when switching to 3d does your computer crash? if so, ive already cracked that one.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...165389&page=10

start from this page and keep reading to the end

[Rattle]

I replied to that thread, specifically on your findings and with some questions lol.
basically the problem is with getting any overclock stable over 8.1 overdrive max clocks.

Using various other means I am certain the card is good for 850/1000 but the minute I go over 900 it seems nothing works, no 3d shift. cant use rivatuner to OC memory and atitool sucks and there's nothing else.

I guess i should try 7.11 or your modded inf with 8.1 and rivatuner...

[ZenEffect]

I replied to that thread, specifically on your findings and with some questions lol.
basically the problem is with getting any overclock stable over 8.1 overdrive max clocks.

Using various other means I am certain the card is good for 850/1000 but the minute I go over 900 it seems nothing works, no 3d shift. cant use rivatuner to OC memory and atitool sucks and there's nothing else.

I guess i should try 7.11 or your modded inf with 8.1 and rivatuner...

yea, i found that 7.11 drivers are 300pts faster in 3dmark06 anyways

[Rattle]

I not concerned with 3dmarks

I found that with 7.11 I can bring my ram speed up with rivatuner and although overdrive is not unlocked it sees the speed, everything seems like its running correctly now and I can clock to my hearts content with rivatuner. Also AA looks much better in COD 4 with 7.11

Does the 7.11 driver pull a nutty with quantum force modded bios like 8.1 does?

I have uninstalled and reinstalled so much since yesterday i could DIE lol

I wanna do 1.25 bios mod, cuz from what i see I may be able to get even faster than 850/1000... I am on a sapphire XT bios, is this better than just leaving the stock pro bios in?

Thanks for all the help and info, 7.11 driver makes a world of difference.

[ZenEffect]

I not concerned with 3dmarks

I found that with 7.11 I can bring my ram speed up with rivatuner and although overdrive is not unlocked it sees the speed, everything seems like its running correctly now and I can clock to my hearts content with rivatuner. Also AA looks much better in COD 4 with 7.11

Does the 7.11 driver pull a nutty with quantum force modded bios like 8.1 does?

I have uninstalled and reinstalled so much since yesterday i could DIE lol

I wanna do 1.25 bios mod, cuz from what i see I may be able to get even faster than 850/1000... I am on a sapphire XT bios, is this better than just leaving the stock pro bios in?

Thanks for all the help and info, 7.11 driver makes a world of difference.

7.11 doesnt go all nutty with mem above 900

also if you are going to mod the bios for abit boards the checksum has to be correct. got that one figured out too... same thread as before but a few pages back

[road-runner]

You can not overclock in crossfire with 7.11 can you?

[ZenEffect]

You can not overclock in crossfire with 7.11 can you?

not through ccc but i have all my volts and clocks set by bios so im just using ccc to enable crossfire and adjust some colors

[road-runner]

Ok, yea I figured out how to do the bios with help from this thread...

[Rattle]

I didnt figure it out but I grabbed the card1 bios with 1.25 that zen put up. (thank for this)
I gotta try it today but i am lazy. Plus the card runs 852/976 out of the box.

[road-runner]

I didnt figure it out but I grabbed the card1 bios with 1.25 that zen put up. (thank for this)
I gotta try it today but i am lazy. Plus the card runs 852/976 out of the box.

Download the bios editor and follow the instructions that are in the read me txt file http://rapidshare.com/files/71500253...IOS_Editor.zip

[Rattle]

Download the bios editor and follow the instructions that are in the read me txt file http://rapidshare.com/files/71500253...IOS_Editor.zip

already have that, was speaking of the hex editing needed for abit mobo checksum, thats why I grabbed zens bios cuz its already done. You cant make the edit in question with quantum force.

[road-runner]

already have that, was speaking of the hex editing needed for abit mobo checksum, thats why I grabbed zens bios cuz its already done. You cant make the edit in question with quantum force.

So there is more to changing the bios in the quantun force and flashing my card or is it something specific about abit?

[ZenEffect]

So there is more to changing the bios in the quantun force and flashing my card or is it something specific about abit?

the checksum issue is abit and dfi specific. i used to run my 2900xt's on a abit ip-35 pro. that needed a correct checksum or else it would brick the card. now im on a asus maximus formula and i do not need a proper checksum

[road-runner]

the checksum issue is abit and dfi specific. i used to run my 2900xt's on a abit ip-35 pro. that needed a correct checksum or else it would brick the card. now im on a asus maximus formula and i do not need a proper checksum

Oh ok, yea I did not have any problems with the Gigabyte board either. I think I figured out why the bios I made with Quantun force gave me worse scores. I only changed the one highlighted in bold 3D clock state 3 setting. After I changed clock state 2 and 3 it worked. Do I need to do anything to those last two settings in the editor? I noticed by checking some of the modded bios some are changed and some are not? How much difference do you think a x38 MB will make over the P35?

[ZenEffect]

Oh ok, yea I did not have any problems with the Gigabyte board either. I think I figured out why the bios I made with Quantun force gave me worse scores. I only changed the one highlighted in bold 3D clock state 3 setting. After I changed clock state 2 and 3 it worked. Do I need to do anything to those last two settings in the editor? I noticed by checking some of the modded bios some are changed and some are not? How much difference do you think a x38 MB will make over the P35?

i play cod4 at 200+fps 1600x1200
nuff said

[SombaSan]

Greetings everyone,

first off my rig is below:
AMD 6000+
Sapphire HD 2900 pro (now XT)
4GB Gskill 6400
ASUS M2N microboard

I successfully flashed my sapphire 512-bit HD2900 pro to an XT. and ran it flawlessly on my XPsp2 setup. Everything was fine and running beautiful until I decided to install Vista.

First I installed vista x86 ultimante edition, ive been runing it on my laptop for over a year so i decided to put it on my desktop to experience dx10. After my mobo driver installs etc everything was fine and works great.

However as soon as I installed the vista ATI Readon 2900 series drivers it says it completed sucessfuly then it props for an installation report which says my chip is a RS690 (don't know if thats relevant) with some other info. Upon restart nothing changed. First thing I noticed was I couldnt' and still can't access the control panel in anyway. Windows welcome center refuses to launch, and windows takes a quite some time to load upon start up. This is very frustrating. I tried to go back in and uninstall the drivers just to find out windows doesnt recognize my videocard.

I didn't think this was a big deal since I wanted to install the x64 bit edition to utilize all 4GB of RAM but after same install same thing. Can't access control panel, welcome center or anything that has to do with my computer hardware. everythig else works fine. I have not updated my windows yet however I didn't think that would have anything to do with my video card being recognized.

any help would be greatly apperciated.

[Jakalwarrior]

Is that fact that I cant even get 10k in 3dmark06 because of my x2 chip?

Anywho, what voltages have you guys settled on as the safe range for these cards? My card doesnt like to go much over 800/950. Its really hard to find the max though since only 3dmark06 will show any errors and I only have the free version that takes forever to run. Even then it doesnt artifact, it just crashes.

[MadDias]

Is that fact that I cant even get 10k in 3dmark06 because of my x2 chip?

Anywho, what voltages have you guys settled on as the safe range for these cards? My card doesnt like to go much over 800/950. Its really hard to find the max though since only 3dmark06 will show any errors and I only have the free version that takes forever to run. Even then it doesnt artifact, it just crashes.

3dmark06 is highly cpu bound. u won´t get 10k with an amd x2 under 3ghz.
i´m getting 10k with a single card and 12k in crossfire. this shows that at an resolution of 1280x1024 (standard 3dmark06 res) this benchmark is very cpu dependent.
my cards won´t go much over 900 on the memory. i did a few runs at 930@1.35v/900 but this wasn´t really a gain in fps in games or score in 3dmark. so i just settled at 845/900 on stock voltage.
i think 1.35v is still safe if u´ve got proper cooling or turn the stock cooler up to 100%.

[Jakalwarrior]

Wonder how they managed to make it cpu bottlenecked with those simple little scenes, low fps, etc.... Must be for intels benefit since that doesnt carry over into actual gaming (my first card fast enough to notice). Ohwell. I got the card up to 833/945 on stock which is good enough for me. Great little (huge) card.

[nickless]

Now closer to 17k
16 793 3D Mark06

I've pushed the RAM to 4-4-4-12 @1146 2.4v and this give me 209+ Marks
Unfortunately I can't validate in ORB because all of 5 slots are full and in new Beta ORB site I can't see delete button for old rezults anywhere or I'm blind