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post #201 of 486
12/23/05 at 3:32pm
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Originally Posted by flick
It's beyond your comprehension because your a narrowminded individual. It's really a shame you can't comprehend it. I never said it was anybody's fault, so there was no need to rant and rave about not doing our own bios's and learning how it works. A lot of people have done this flas, multiple times with multiple settings, using the same bios program and have not had any problems what so ever. S H I T HAPPENS, so get over it Mr. K6. There no need for any of your egotistical comments above.
Let's not forget the hundreds of extremely helpfull quotes here. Just don't read into that post too much, Mr K6 was, as always, trying to help.
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post #202 of 486
12/23/05 at 4:16pm
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Originally Posted by Ryotaro
Let's not forget the hundreds of extremely helpfull quotes here. Just don't read into that post too much, Mr K6 was, as always, trying to help.
I understand that very well and have seen many extremely helpful posts from Mr. k6, but his tone in that post crossed the line, without having to read into it at all. Mr. k6 has been very helpful and the combination of me having a bad flash and him ranting about us being f'ed up, didn't really help the situation, especially since I wasn't blaming anybody or anything but myself.
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post #203 of 486
12/23/05 at 4:25pm
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Originally Posted by yboivin
Just to make everything clear. When my flash went bad, there was no way that the laptop would complete it's boot sequence. The tech from Dell asked to try and get the diagnostic boot to work (Fn key and power button pressed at the same time) and it didn't work.

It would not POST at all. I was on A/C with the battery in. It was a fluke and I repeat that I DO NOT doubt the ISO at all.

So the theory about flashing blindly, in my case, wouldn't have worked.

I wish you guys the best of luck when flashing.
I tried at 4 am this morning becausse I couldn't sleep. I had changed my vid card out to my stock x300 after the bad flash. I know for a fact on the 9300's that when the video card's changed an invalid configuration comes up on the screen initially most likely because of unplugging the cmos battery during disassembly. Anyway, I timed how long the invalid configuration would stay there before the system would beep and give you a choice of F1 or F2. When I put the bad flashed 7800 back in I sat there well past that time without a beep, so a blind flash is not possible.
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post #204 of 486
12/23/05 at 5:47pm
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Originally Posted by ITSN2005
The problem was I was just burning the .roms straight onto the CD and not editing the ISO...duh
Works fine now, thanks hammermd.
Although, I flashed to 450/1350 and ran 3DMark05. Artifacts started appearing during the final test. Score was 7518..will have to throttle back a bit

EDIT: flashed to 440/1350, 440/1300 still had some artifacts on the final test. Flashed to 450/1250 and ran two tests: 7455 with no artifacts that I could see. Running ATI tool would probably show something, but if I can't see it, I don't care..lol
I'm having the same problem as you were. I tried to edit ISO with Nibtor but I can't get to any of the .rom files. What program are you using to edit the ISO file? I know Nibtor is for .rom editing
Thanks

Nevermind- It helps to read all the post in a thread-I needed to burn as a image- I was burning as a boot disk
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post #205 of 486
12/28/05 at 9:03pm
Im getting 7600 in 3dmark at 450/1250 and temps are good. Unfortunately, if I run ATItool for about 40 minutes I get an artifact and then nothing else for another 30-40min. It's nothing that the human eye can detect so should I care? I'm hesitent to keep flashing after hearing about some problems others have had. I'd love some advice please Should I stay where I am and live with the ATI tool artifact or should I flash again and lower to 445/1250?
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post #206 of 486
12/28/05 at 9:22pm
8bit, system specs and driver version / setting?

BTW your fine at 450 ATI really stresses your card out, more then the games you will be playing so it should be a safe setting. If you don't mind though and you want a little more stability then it might be a good idea to bump down to 445

If you decide to go down to 445/1250 plz tell me the 3dmark 05 score, I can't tell if an extra 5 for the core makes that big of a difference.
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post #207 of 486
12/28/05 at 9:32pm
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Originally Posted by 8bit
Im getting 7600 in 3dmark at 450/1250 and temps are good. Unfortunately, if I run ATItool for about 40 minutes I get an artifact and then nothing else for another 30-40min. It's nothing that the human eye can detect so should I care? I'm hesitent to keep flashing after hearing about some problems others have had. I'd love some advice please Should I stay where I am and live with the ATI tool artifact or should I flash again and lower to 445/1250?
If it makes you feel better, I get artifacts after ~40 seconds in ATiTool at my current settings of 450/1180. However, I play FEAR for hours at 90C and see not a single artifact, so it's stable to me. Firsthand guess is that your RAM is too high. The cooling on the RAM just isn't enough for such a closed environment. I'm hoping to do some mod work on it tomorrow, will post back if I come up with a good design

flick - sorry about your card man, too bad it wouldnt flash back .
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post #208 of 486
12/28/05 at 9:37pm
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Originally Posted by Tanamoril
8bit, system specs and driver version / setting?

BTW your fine at 450 ATI really stresses your card out, more then the games you will be playing so it should be a safe setting. If you don't mind though and you want a little more stability then it might be a good idea to bump down to 445

If you decide to go down to 445/1250 plz tell me the 3dmark 05 score, I can't tell if an extra 5 for the core makes that big of a difference.
Specs in sig now. I'm gonna stay at my current 450/1250. If its unstable, I'm sure BF2 will crash on me really quick as it seems to find any weaknesses in a system. If it doesn't crash, then I'm staying here. In a cold room 60(f) I was stable at 460/1250 and getting 7700 in 3dmark. At 460/1200, my score was only 7450. I only get an artifact at my current speed when my GPU gets up to 90c and then its still only an ATI tool artifact. My idle temp is around 53c in a 73(f) room, and it loads in games at 86c. I think I'm safe here.
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post #209 of 486
12/28/05 at 10:32pm
Is it recommended that I keep my Mem clocks at 1200 and then just work with my core speed?
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post #210 of 486
12/28/05 at 10:35pm
default mem clock is 1065
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post #211 of 486
12/28/05 at 10:41pm
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Originally Posted by drizek
default mem clock is 1065

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post #212 of 486
12/28/05 at 10:45pm
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Originally Posted by Mr. K6
If it makes you feel better, I get artifacts after ~40 seconds in ATiTool at my current settings of 450/1180. However, I play FEAR for hours at 90C and see not a single artifact, so it's stable to me. Firsthand guess is that your RAM is too high. The cooling on the RAM just isn't enough for such a closed environment.
RAM cooling had to do with that question, just wondered if I should only work with my core clocks after my Mem clocks get to 1200?
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post #213 of 486
12/28/05 at 11:17pm
I would stick to 1200. I think that's what the chips are rated at and I dont see them going much further beyond it without better cooling. Play it safe and keep your RAM at 1200, then see where you can go with your core clock. In FEAR I get noticable artifacts in shadows at 1250 RAM, at 1200, there's only a little bit of artificating (snow specs) on transparent textures. At 1180, I get nothing, so that's where I'm keeping it. For core, at 460 in FEAR I get botched calculations and messed up projections at 460 when the core gets to 90C+, at 455, I only get specs here and there. At 450, I get absolutely nothing, even after hours. You just have to slowly test and find the max performance while still safe niche
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post #214 of 486
12/29/05 at 3:44am
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Originally Posted by Tanamoril
8bit, system specs and driver version / setting?

BTW your fine at 450 ATI really stresses your card out, more then the games you will be playing so it should be a safe setting. If you don't mind though and you want a little more stability then it might be a good idea to bump down to 445

If you decide to go down to 445/1250 plz tell me the 3dmark 05 score, I can't tell if an extra 5 for the core makes that big of a difference.
I just flashed to 445/1250. I'll post 3dmark score later tonight.
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post #215 of 486
12/29/05 at 3:54am
ARGH this overclocking thing is driving me nuts
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post #216 of 486
12/29/05 at 4:32am
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Originally Posted by Mr. K6
flick - sorry about your card man, too bad it wouldnt flash back .
Hey, not your fault or anybody else's but mine for taking a chance. Got two more on the way from spare parts. 264 each with next air. One for overclocking and 1 default incase I screw the overclock up again by chance. I'll leave the default 7800 speeds and order another if I have too. Yeah, it's money, but it's a heck of a lot of fun too.
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post #217 of 486
12/29/05 at 4:42am
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Originally Posted by 8bit
I just flashed to 445/1250. I'll post 3dmark score later tonight.
FOR TANAMORIL:

At 445/1250 my 3dmark score only dropped about 40 points from 7595 (450/1250) to 7552. Thats nothing IMO. Totally worth the reflash. Now I've got a totally stable card that kicks and my cards apsolute maximumtemp is 88c. BTW at 460/1200 I was only getting 7350. Hope that helps Tanamoril. If your having stability issues at 450 I recommend lowering a bit.
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post #218 of 486
12/29/05 at 11:35pm
Thank you 8bit!

on a side note: there's a cat on my arm so I can't move my had alot that has the mouse in it and it was driving me nuts until I remembered I have a G5 mouse. punched the sensitivity up to 2k and now my right hand is happy again to bad my left arm is numb from all that typing and being the only support for my body as I am on the floor.
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post #219 of 486
12/29/05 at 11:40pm
Okay I need some help on this.

Can someone please tell me step by step how to set up my own ISO so that I may use my own roms to flash my BIOS? I need to know from using the right file to actually burning it through nero 6.

BTW is that bcd file shoman posted on his volt mod tutorial the best way to mess with the clocks? I have it already on my comp and am using Nibitor 2.6
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post #220 of 486
12/29/05 at 11:55pm
Got my new 7800gtx today after the bad flash I had last week. I flashed it to 445 and 1200 with no problems. The bad flash last week was just a fluke and I'm happy now with my 445 and 1200 with a 7268 3dmark05 score. I haven't learned my lesson until I have a bad flash again, which I don't think will happen. I also replaced my sony dvd drive with a nec 6650, not that that was the problem to begin with, but you never know. I replaced it because of the noise mostly, not that it wasn't working, although I had some clicking from it earlier when trying to burn a dvd.
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