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Re:Looking for several Sapphire BIOS's, and can anyone help? - 2008/03/02 19:03
Siggi thanks for the tips how to efficiently test my cards. But I have already done it in one way or another. Some cards don't works at all. About 70% of them. Rest gives stripes in various colours on display or artifacts, but everything is in artifacts. One the Radeon 9800 PRO 128MB at first has been okay to some point. Then after 5min when I load game, the GPU starts to heat a lot. With heat artifacts builds up and eventually operating system restarts. Then I used some ATI utility to lower GPU and memory clocks.
Doesn't work, even worse. Then I remove old small fan from cooler and place bigger one. But only 2 min more I got before artifacts starts to appear. Then I replaced cooler and placed one from the Radeon X1300 PRO card. At this point card doesn't want even to start into Windows. Sorry, it starts, but small amount of artifacts now even at beginning shows. Then I flash card with one BIOS, then another and so on. After 5 flashing's one starts to work fine.
After that I played little with flashing and now this card give only artifacts at beginning but below them some letters are partially visible, so you can write commands. What I have done? I gave promise that some money after I sell them will go into your pocket or anyone who help me and some as donation to this amazing site for upgrade, research, expanding, developing of new flashing and diagnose software to help anyone with such problems as I have.
It is hard to learn how to flash hardware from nothing. And of course lack of BIOS's in this site library, and other sites libraries. Can you or someone explain why is after flashing important to restart, instead with reset. What has gone wrong with my Sapphire Radeon 9800 PRO, this is card from story above. I do not know why it says this is non PRO card? I apologize cause my English is not so clear or if this could be placed in different sections of this forums... 
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