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weescott
05-02-2008, 04:50 PM
Stock bios' for a lot of cards here. Handy for when things go pear shaped:

http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/
phem0r
05-02-2008, 04:53 PM
Very useful!
Stocky
05-02-2008, 05:01 PM
The collection I use is here: http://www.mvktech.net/

An excellent resource with most things I've ever needed for my graphics cards :)
I.L.P
05-02-2008, 05:40 PM
+1 for mvktech, excellent site.
Stocky
05-02-2008, 09:13 PM
+1 for mvktech, excellent site.

That's also where I first came across NiBiTor when it was in the early phases. The forum is quite handy as well if you have any BIOS related problems :)
skull_fcuk
05-02-2008, 10:19 PM
aye, that is a great Forum. very helpfull and a good resource too.
RaiderX303
21-02-2008, 10:07 PM
been on the VGA bios collection a couple times after a bad flash without backing up the original bios :P
Bustah
28-05-2008, 05:19 PM
I recently failed a bios flash on an old ati 9800 se card. I followed a guide on how to recover by putting a pci card in but wasnt able to crack it, any one know of another way?

the 9800 se is not posting at all since failing the flash.

heres what I tried. put a pci graphic card in along with the no post agp card, copied bios and flashing program to a floppy, I get the dos screen to flash but keeps failing/aborting.
I think it might be because the card has some obscure memory [not hynix or samsung]
I tried several different bioses for the flash none have worked.
Help with this would be appreciated if any one knows another way.
weescott
28-05-2008, 05:50 PM
I take it you have tried forcing the bios flash? -f
Bustah
28-05-2008, 07:46 PM
Yes weescott I tried that.:(
blindfitter
28-05-2008, 07:48 PM
and did you also use -P0 or 1 to send it to the right card?
Bustah
28-05-2008, 09:30 PM
ah! that might be the problem -po or 1 where do I put that command? just before the bios name I assume, do i do that and force or not?

could you type an example of the command here please.
Olly_K
01-07-2008, 11:44 AM
this is the weird thing, when i borked my 4870 cards, I put the borked one in the 3rd pci-e slot on my blackops.

I picked it up as -p 0

you can use:

atiflash -ai 0
atiflash -ai 1
atiflash -ai 2

One of which, will come back with info about the card. then you'll know which slot its in.

theres a few different ways round you can use the parameters, what worked for me was:

atiflash -f -newbios -p 0 newbios.rom

where 0 is the slot number you found by doing the -ai command above, and newbios.rom is your bios filename

If the above doesnt work, can you report back with any error messages you get