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Re:Help! Keep getting bios is locked error - 2005/06/07 18:40 Ok i went and bought a floppy drive for my system, formatted a msdos disk and put atiflash and flashrom, booted into msdos via the floppy and tried to flash via atiflash.exe -f -p 0 bios.bin first

Error message stating that "Rom not erased"

Then i tried atiflash.exe -f -st -p 0 bios.bin and got the same error once again

So then i tried flashrom -f -p 0 bios.bin and got the Error Serial Rom Locked

Then i tried flashrom -l 0 and it told me serial rom locked

Ive been reading around on other ati oc forums and allot of people are getting this error, could it be that ati locked the rom on this particular video card

Ati Powercolor 9550 GameFX Board Series S/N F0501024988
More Detailed Specs ATITool v0.24
AGP Device 0x4153 Bus:1 Dev:0
Catalyst Version 5.5
Device ID 4153
Chip Type RV350
Memory Size 256MB
Memory Bus Width 128bit
Active Pipelines 4
Current Clocks: Core 250Mhz
Mem 200Mhz
On the board it also says R96-LD3
Samsung 5.0ns Memory

Hopefully this information will help
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Re:Help! Keep getting bios is locked error - 2005/06/07 20:36 I will get in touch with my PowerColor contact and see what gives, I dont think the BIOS is locked, but there is no telling with ATI board partners, they are allowed to make changes outside of reference design, so maybe there is a lock on it afterall, any event I will find out!

TTYL
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Re:Help! Keep getting bios is locked error - 2005/06/09 09:31 ok heres what ive done so far i picked up the softmod catalyst 5.5 drivers to unlock the other 4 pipelines, but cant figure out if that worked or not, it said after restart that it would run tests, and all i saw after it restarted was the screen go black for a quick second, i cant find any options to overclock all cept for the options that i have in atitool

I picked up a coolermaster vga cooler/heatpipe and so far have been able to overclock the core from 250 to 400 so overall clock speed of 800 ver the original 500, and the memory i have only gotten to clock up to 220Mhz from 200, now if i buy ram sinks for the memory would i then be able to clock that to a faster speed or am i pretty much stuck with what i have right now.

I did like the 6000 point boost in aquamark 2 tho original avg was at 17000 and now when i overclock it hits around 2300

System Specs so far are as follows:
AMD XP2600+ at 2.3GHz (200X11.5) With 80mm Vantec Tornado ~80CFM
Rigged onto a Aluminum AMD Heatsink Running at 40C Full Load
MSI KT880
Kingston ValuRam PC333 512MB
Maxtor 120GB Hard Drive
Ati Powercolor GameFX 9550 256MB 128Bit
System Fans are also Vantec Tornado 80mm
One on side aligned with processor fan pulling cold air directly to the proc
One on top of case pulling hot air out of the system

Shes a noisy lil one when i got everything blowing full blast but the temps are nice

Anyone have any ideas that may help me make this system run faster feel free to let me know in pm

p-out
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Re:Help! Keep getting bios is locked error - 2005/06/09 09:39 So you managed to flash it?
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Re:Help! Keep getting BIOS is locked error... - 2005/06/12 05:02 Nope just overclocked the video card using ATITool thats about it I mean the boost in points is nice hopefully that will be enough for me for now...
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