Radeon 9800XT BIOS Upgrade Question

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Radeon 9800XT BIOS Upgrade Question

Postby congo » Wed Mar 16, 2005 11:56 pm

Hi all,

My friend has 9800XT he wants to upgrade the bios on.

I have 2 specific questions.

1. What is the utility needed to do it, and is the utility specific to his card's manufacturer or is there a general bios upgrade util that flashes all the 9800XT's ?

2. What bios file do I need, and is the bios file manufacturer specific as well, or do the bios files work on any 9800XT ?
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Re: Radeon 9800XT BIOS Upgrade Question

Postby the_autopilot » Thu Mar 17, 2005 1:19 am

upgrade the bios to what?
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Re: Radeon 9800XT BIOS Upgrade Question

Postby congo » Thu Mar 17, 2005 5:48 am

To a later BIOS, he thinks there might be a BIOS update that will help some crashing issues.

We just looked at the manufacturers website and didnt find a bios update for it............ so we are looking at other hardware in the system  as a possible cause.

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Re: Radeon 9800XT BIOS Upgrade Question

Postby FridayChild » Thu Mar 17, 2005 7:21 am

The graphics card chipset BIOS is less than likely a cause of system instability. I too suggest to look for other causes.
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Re: Radeon 9800XT BIOS Upgrade Question

Postby the_autopilot » Thu Mar 17, 2005 9:37 pm

BIOS's would not be the source of the problems. Maybe its a driver conflict.
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