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ATI Radeon BIOS Backup Guide |
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Written by Mavke
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Tuesday, 16 March 2004 |
There are 2 ways on how to Backup your ATI Radeon Graphics Card BIOS and those depend on the Program that you use. When you have made a Backup of your Original BIOS also submit it on my site or mail it to
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First of all you will have to make a bootable disk and put on there atiflash.exe (v1.16) or flashrom.exe (v2.37). After you created the bootable disk, restart your PC with the boot disk.
- Backup with ATIFlash (ATI) - Use ATIFlash v1.16
Standard Procedure:
1. a:atiflash -s 0 backup.rom [Enter] (to backup the Orginal BIOS)
- Backup with FlashROM (ATI) - Use FlashROM v2.37 or v2.40
Standard Procedure:
1. a:flashrom.exe -s 0 backup.rom [Enter] (to backup the Orginal BIOS)
Another way, which is more simple, is using the ATITool (v0.0.20) program. This can be used in Windows to make a Backup of your Original BIOS.
- Backup with ATITool - Use ATITool v0.0.20 or v0.0.21
Standard Procedure:
1. Launch ATITool
2. Use "dump bios" Function and dump the BIOS to backup.rom (to backup the Orginal BIOS)
When you have a Backup of your Original BIOS, please also submit it on my site or mail it to
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, so that I can put it in my Archive.
Try to Provide the following information :
- Brand of the Card
- Type of the Card
- Amount of Memory of the Card
- Brand of the Memory (when possible) |
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