Well, the card op was a success, but I screwed my board up... I had gotten the waterblock attached to the video card, and everything was running smooth. Silly me decides to up my Northbridge cooler from my stock Abit fan/HS to a new ThermalTake. Long story short, the fan interfered with my waterblock mounting screws, and I ended up shorting out my AGP slot. ;'( So, this awesome card will end up being returned to the store, from whence it came, cuz I'm getting a new SLi motherboard ;D
Hey all, I found this thread thru Google (hooray Google) and just wanted to add another success story: I have a retail ATI X850Pro AGP VIVO purchased from Best Buy. Flashed it following the directions above with the ATI X850PE bios and now have all 16 pipelines unlocked with no artifacts reported in ATITool. However, I've clocked it back to the standard X850Pro 500/1000 speeds as the stock cooler could not keep the card cool at PE speeds. The extra pipelines are giving 10-20% higher benchmark numbers in the tests I've run so far. :thumbsup: Thanks jblade for taking the time to post the instructions.
I've had the same success on my ATI X850 Pro VIVO AGP with stock cooling at 500/500. My card has 1.6ns Samsung memory (K4J55323QF-GC16) and the yellow VIVO connector as well. The stock cooler struggles to keep the card cool unless the fan is going at full speed. Maybe underclocking it a bit would help until I get a better cooler. 3dmark05 scores went from 5126 to 5727.
successful method I've a factory Ati x850PRO 256 w. VIVO and 1.6ns RAM... I tried flashing with techpowerup.com's Ati x850XT bios with no results other than an increase in clocks speeds. Then I tried flashing first with techpowerup's "empty.bin" bios followed directly by a second flash with the x850XT bios. Success at last. Now my PRO has XT's core of 519.75 and memory of 540.00 with all 16 pipes reporting for duty (as reported by AtiTools). Flashing the empty.bin first was the key. Good luck and thanks for the direction all.
tylerim you have to use this command right after atiflash, -newbios looks like this : atiflash -newbios -f -p o ati850xt.bin. ok
I have already been at 16 pipes on my X850Pro at XT speeds for about 2 and 1/2 weeks now. I used the same step by step directions in the link that you provided. I have the VIVO model as well and I have a Iceberq 5 on the card with memory heatsinks. So far, so good and everything is working great. Joe
Yes this mod works like a charm as long as you got a AGP! I got 16p, running at 500/500 stock X850Pro speeds and still got my fan controls!
Add me to the list of being able to mod my X850 Pro to X850 XT PE status... All 16 pipes are active, but I did reduce the OC #'s back to "Pro" levels (500/500) until I get a better cooler... In any event, I'd like to thank all of you for making this mod easy and simple!!! Now back to BF2... Hhehehhehe... - Air B
I want to flash back to the 850pro bios as well, can you send me a link to the BIOS as i dont have mine anymore.. Thanks
ok..im an idiot !!!! lol i have tried to flash this ATI X850 pro with rage theater chip ( means itsa vivo ) and 1.6 mem., ive tried everything and for some reason i cant get it to flash here is what ive done. made boot disk put new bios on it ( ATI x850xtpe ) renamed to ATI.X850XT.bin ( and a couple variations of that like ( ATI.X850XT256.bin etc) put on the atiflash utility (and on a different disk tried the flashrom utility ). booted into dos typed atiflash -p O ATI.X850XT.bin it starts then comes back with a atiflash -p <adaptor number> <filename> then makes me hit "1" to retry it again.. ok if someone will, please type it out for me...Exactly what is done, typed and in what order....i have no problem with setting up the boot disk, i just need to have it spelled out for me. im missing something ....duh lol
ok...i finally figured it out.... my bios name was too long....used the DIR to see the shortened bios name i used flashrom 16p a:> flashrom -newbios -f -p 0 ( zero ) ATIX85~1.bin. went without a hitch....16 pipes...560/605 stable no artifacts..actually the same as before the flash.so no downfalls with the ATIx850xtpe agp bios. now time to let her settle in a little, then a volt mod for the core. on water 46 c load ( cpu and vid on same loop ). Flash
Just wanted to let you all know of one more success story. I got my X850 Pro retail card off ebay and paid about 35%less than the going price. I modded it using the instructions in this post. It modded with 16 pipes and I reflashed back to the x850 pro. I did this because the stock cooling doesn't work very well. I added the ZALMAN VF700-CU. This cut my temps by 10 degrees under load. I then used ATI tray tool to set the core and memory timings to X850XT speeds. My card runs at 520/1080 and the load temp is 63 C.
Does any one knows if the agp version of connect3d x850pro works?...going to ad a new cooler but dont know wich one..thinking about vf-700Cu or Ati silcencer5 any idea?
Sorry for being an idiot. I've ready through this thread but am not sure - where is the link for the correct/latest firmware? I'm sure it is right in front of me but for some reason I missed it. Whoops - never mind I didn't notice the "here" was a link in the first post. Thanks
