Re:XpertVision Radeon HD 2600 PRO, and tweaked BIOS update? - 2007/11/26 20:20Siggi wrote: For sureness compare the original BIOS with your modified BIOS again. If you just edited the clocks, it should notified just three differences. Meaning that 600/500MHz would be as values 60EA00/50C300 and the newer 750/500MHz would be as values F82401/50C300. I compared it several times. I don't have three GPU values, but 11, as you will find yourself if you take a peek in the attached BIOS file. I think I stumbled upon a cause of the problem, after flashing with ATIFlash from DOS, a summary screen appears. This is where it gets confusing.
- Old Product Name: 9859.10.56.0.5.as05 - New Product Name: - Old BIOS Version: 010.056.000.005.025723 - New BIOS Version:
The blanks in the new product and new BIOS is the cause or maybe the result why the flash is unsuccesful. I must say that I didn't modified these fields in the BIOS file, and I don't have any idea why are these blank. I attached the original BIOS file. It's for the ASUS Radeon HD 2600 PRO DDR2 600/1000MHz, Qimonda 2.0ns memory. It may proove useful in the BIOS downloads section.
And now, here's the edited BIOS file. If you compare it to the original, you will find that only differences are that all 60EA00 values are changed to F82401. Can you check and let me know your feedback? Thanks.
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Re:XpertVision Radeon HD 2600 PRO, and tweaked BIOS update? - 2007/11/27 02:16Have you tried another tool than AMDGPUClock? Cause as you state 700MHz for the GPU seems to me less than possible. I am affraid that this is the only software that it works. I ati tool and rivatuner are not working.
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Re:XpertVision Radeon HD 2600 PRO, and tweaked BIOS update? - 2007/11/27 18:11The changed values are all right. That cannot be the problem. The flashing also seems to be all right. As maybe the last possibility remains, that something is wrong with the dumped BIOS. For sureness save the BIOS again with ATIFlash from DOS and compare the files. Particulary the first part up to offset 0x200. Specially between offset 0x60 and 0x88. There could be something wrong.
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Re:XpertVision Radeon HD 2600 PRO, and tweaked BIOS update? - 2007/11/27 18:25I just came home from work. Yes, Siggi, I was thinking in the same direction, so I compared values of edited BIOS to adapter's BIOS using ATIFlash with the "-v" option, and the errorenous result points to 0xCE or AS05 string in the BIOS. I will try to change it to AS15 instead of AS05 and see what happens when I issue new check command. In the new BIOS file for ASUS Radeon HD 2600 XT available for download from their support site I saw that this exact value is 1, so will try it out on my card.
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Re:XpertVision Radeon HD 2600 PRO, and tweaked BIOS update? - 2007/11/27 18:32Ostoja wrote: I just came home from work. Yes, Siggi, I was thinking in the same direction, so I compared values of edited BIOS to adapter's BIOS using ATIFlash with the "-v" option, and the errorenous result points to 0xCE or AS05 string in the BIOS. Either I am stupid or what you pointing out is just not logic. The AS05 stuff is the name in the BIOS and that is just a string, which means it doesn't matter what you put as name. That can just be whatever and will not be the cause if the issue. It is like saying by changing the name of a file it becomes a different file? Not is still the same, and is just a name change, same thing what you are point out as issue, it is the name of the bard according to ASUS...
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Re:XpertVision Radeon HD 2600 PRO, and tweaked BIOS update? - 2007/11/27 18:53It doesn't make sense to me, either. I just relay the response from the ATIFlash to you. When I visually compare the files in HEX editor, there's no difference till the 0xA9CD, and that's the spot where I personally edited it. But the ATIFlash says otherwise, and it points out to the 0xCF, so it's the AS05. But that's still part of the filename string. Maybe ASUS card expects some predefined value for this field?
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Re:XpertVision Radeon HD 2600 PRO, and tweaked BIOS update? - 2007/11/27 19:00Ostoja wrote: But the ATIFlash says otherwise, and it points out to the 0xCF, so it's the AS05. But that's still part of the filename string. Maybe ASUS card expects some predefined value for this field? Nope the ASUS card doesn't expect anything in that as predefined. They use the ASxx as version number. So if they come up with a new BIOS it will have a different ASxx version number. Nothing more and nothing less and that is the same as they do for the GeForce series cards.
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Re:XpertVision Radeon HD 2600 PRO, and tweaked BIOS update? - 2007/11/27 19:07I modified AS05 to AS06, and now the "-v" command replies 0xCF verified. I'm making progress, but now comes the 2020 2020 2020 etc. part of the BIOS, and I have no idea what to do.
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Re:XpertVision Radeon HD 2600 PRO, and tweaked BIOS update? - 2007/11/27 23:08Have you saved and reviewed the BIOS again, as I had requested for? And I mean comparing with a HEX editor. There must be another and more important differences. Something is going wrong there. For sureness save the BIOS this time with ATIFlash from DOS.
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Re:XpertVision Radeon HD 2600 PRO, and tweaked BIOS update? - 2007/11/28 10:54And if I can advise you are best to use ExamDiff as program to do an easy full HEX compare between BIOS files. And as Siggi said not to use ATIFlash as that is not what was initially requested neither used as it is too limited and not doing a real comparison. So use a real HEX comparison program, and I can recommend the one stated.
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