2900 Pro Owners Thread

[madmanmarz]

crap. so i tried to blind flash (i'm assuming that's what it's called when you don't have any video) using the 1.1 hynix bios with the voltage changed to 1.35 and i wasn't sure if i was choosing the right options, well eventually it worked and booted into vista and everything seemed to be working. i tried setting the fan speed in riva tuner to like a safe 50% while i was messing around and when it went to detect the card, bam, no more video. i tried restarting over and over, using my dvi to hdmi, using the dvi to vga, using the pip with both at the same time...nothing! i thought i had a pci video card, but it's agp...anyone have any idea what i should do? i don't see why i cant see anything before windows loads (and now nothing even after vista loads). seems to me like this is directly related with the video bios.

my motherboard has two pci-e slots, and i have an 8800gt, could i put them both in at the same time and then reflash the ati card while on that? maybe i just gotta find a bios that likes my card.

help!

[road-runner]

crap. so i tried to blind flash (i'm assuming that's what it's called when you don't have any video) using the 1.1 hynix bios with the voltage changed to 1.35 and i wasn't sure if i was choosing the right options, well eventually it worked and booted into vista and everything seemed to be working. i tried setting the fan speed in riva tuner to like a safe 50% while i was messing around and when it went to detect the card, bam, no more video. i tried restarting over and over, using my dvi to hdmi, using the dvi to vga, using the pip with both at the same time...nothing! i thought i had a pci video card, but it's agp...anyone have any idea what i should do? i don't see why i cant see anything before windows loads (and now nothing even after vista loads). seems to me like this is directly related with the video bios.

my motherboard has two pci-e slots, and i have an 8800gt, could i put them both in at the same time and then reflash the ati card while on that? maybe i just gotta find a bios that likes my card.

help!

You need two video cards, to flash the main Pcie slot is atiflash -f -p 0 xxx.bin to do the secondary slot use atiflash -f -p 1 xxx.bin

[road-runner]

Has anyone tried this editor?



Download link

Found some 2900 pro 512s for $163.90 picked one up for a spare...

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[ZenEffect]

crap. so i tried to blind flash (i'm assuming that's what it's called when you don't have any video) using the 1.1 hynix bios with the voltage changed to 1.35 and i wasn't sure if i was choosing the right options, well eventually it worked and booted into vista and everything seemed to be working. i tried setting the fan speed in riva tuner to like a safe 50% while i was messing around and when it went to detect the card, bam, no more video. i tried restarting over and over, using my dvi to hdmi, using the dvi to vga, using the pip with both at the same time...nothing! i thought i had a pci video card, but it's agp...anyone have any idea what i should do? i don't see why i cant see anything before windows loads (and now nothing even after vista loads). seems to me like this is directly related with the video bios.

my motherboard has two pci-e slots, and i have an 8800gt, could i put them both in at the same time and then reflash the ati card while on that? maybe i just gotta find a bios that likes my card.

help!

sounds like you have the motherboard bios set to init display pci, agp, or onboard first instead of pcie. try resettnig the cmos. THEN reflash your video cards. also driver 7.12 and up does not like 900+ mem when you have a 8pin pcie and 6 pin pcie power cables installed. switch to 6 and 6 to see if it helps.