Hey... this is a Guid as I made now, how to make you Flash your Radeon 9800 no pro / pro to radeon 9800 XT!!! Â Â
Ok.. before er start, I wanna say this: Â Â <span style='color:red'>YOU DO THIS ON YOUR OWN RISK!!</span>
Ok. lets start.. Ok  the first thing we need to find out is that your no pro or Pro card can be clocked to
GPU: 412 mhz Â
MEMORY: 365 mhz
If you CANT clock your card with those I sayd its unfortunely impossible to flash your card ..
If you wanna test and overclock and see if your card CAN be flashed I recommand a program called  PowerStrip
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OK, BEFORE WE START FLASHING
before we start flashing your card, we need to do this:
1: Cheack that your card CAN be clocked
2: Flashrom ----- This is the program we use to flash the card with
3: Bootable Floppy disk -- the floppy as we use to boot on before we flash
4: AND, the main thing  ;)  the BIOS as u shall flash   these will follow under
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ATI 9800 XT BIOS FOR 9800PRO / NON-PRO WITH 128MB MEMORY
BBA (Built By) Radeon 9800 "XT" 128MB Samsung E-Die bios :
BBA 128MB "XT" BIOS
Gigabyte Radeon 9800 "XT" 128MB Samsung
Gigabyte Radeon 9800 "XT" BIOS
HIS / Sapphire Radeon 9800 "XT" 128MB Samsung
HIS & Sapphire 128MB "XT" BIOS
Hercules Radeon 9800 "XT" 128MB Samsung
Hercules 128MB "XT" BIOS
PowerColor Radeon 9800 "XT" 128MB Samsung
PowerColor 128MB "XT" BIOS
Club 3D Radeon 9800 "XT" 128MB Samsung
Club 3D 128MB "XT" BIOS
Elsa Falcox 9800 "XT" 128MB Samsung
ELSA 128MB "XT" BIOS
Hercules Radeon 9800 "XT" SE AIW 128MB Samsung
HERCULES AIW 128MB "XT" BIOS
FOR RADEON 9800PRO CARD WITH 256 MB
BBA (Built By) Radeon 9800 "XT" 256MB Samsung DDR-2
BBA 256MB "XT" BIOS
Connect3D Radeon 9800 "XT" 256MB Samsung DDR-2
CONNECT3D 256MB "XT" BIOS
Gigabyte Radeon 9800 "XT" 256MB Samsung DDR-2
GIGABYTE 256MB "XT" BIOS
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HOW TO FLASH
After we have choosen the right BIOS verson, we are allmoust ready to start flashing.
The first thing we must do is.
1: Put in a eamty floppy disk in your drive...
2: Run the file  "DRDFLASH.EXE" as you downloaded  ( boot disk )
3: When done. Open the file  <span style='color:green'>flashrom1.3</span>
To use that u need WinRar and extract it to your floppy disk
4: The program flashrom is pretty bad on names.. so I <span style='color:green'>RECOMANND</span> to change the name on it. To example  <span style='color:green'>9800xt</span>
5: Copy the BIOS and past it on the floppy
Now. if you take a look in the Disk these files shall be there:
<span style='color:red'>DOS4GW
FLASHROM
FLASHROM.ROM
9800xt ( as I recomand to change the name to )</span>
Ok, now we are ready to flash your card. Â Â
Then we do as follows. Put the floppy into the drive...Then make a reboot...Go into your BIOS ( press DEL under starting ) then change the First Boot to "floppy"...
If everything is done right now. the computer shall now boot on a file called: Â <span style='color:green'>Caldera Dr.Dos 2.xx</span> or only <span style='color:green'>Caldera Dr.Dos</span>
Then u will see on your screen, only a  A:\
Now. before we flash it, we must think: <span style='color:blue'>What if the flashing goes wrong ? Can I then make it back as it was?</span>
;) Â Yes we can..
So. before we flash it we write this:
flashrom -s 0 original.bin   ( that takes backup of the current bios of something shall happend )
then after we have taken a backup. lets flash ( FINALLY Â Â )
then write this:
flashrom -p 0 9800xt.bin
If everything went right now it should say: Â 6xxxx of 6xxxx bytes verified
if this shows up, you have flashed your 9800 np/pro to <span style='color:red'>9800XT</span> Â Â Â YAY Â Â
BUT!!!!!!
Not time for Celebriting yet...
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CHEACK IF EVERYTHING WORKS!
First, restart your computer. the screen may flicker a bit. buts thats normal. After u got in windows, its time for some driver installations
You can choose between:
The Offical ATI Drivers
Or the WORLDKNOW OMEGADRIVERS
Restart your Computer..If EVERYTHING is done correctly, it will say
<span style='color:red'>Radeon 9800 XT</span> Â Â and the monitor shall now be fine again. Â
Then.. IF YOU GOT <span style='color:green'>ARTIFACTS</span> its either that the flashing went wrong. OR that the 3d card gets to hot.. ( Do as I sayd on top.. clock your card first and see if u get artifacts )
If you get artifacts, its two things you can do
1: Get a better cooler
2: Flash back to Np/pro  ( if u need to do that. type  flashrom -p 0 original.bin )
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QONGRATULATIONS
If everything works as it should, try some games and some benchmarks. If everything works, you have a Radeon 9800 XT Â
THIS GUID, DOES NOT SUPPORT 9800SE CARDS!!!
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UPDATE: 1. IF THE FLASHING GOES TO HELL
If the flashing goes to HELL. You can do as I sayd, flashing back to the original BIOS. ...  IF the flashing goe TOTALY TO HELL. you can use a PCI card to "help" your 3d card to flash back  ;)
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UPDATE: 2 Â ATI-TOOL
Here is a Program who is ONLY designet for ATI based cards.. It cheacks how much you can overclock before u get artifacts etc..
its still only a <span style='color:purple'>BETA</span> So it may be some bugs on it..
Download ATI-TOOL Beta
I hope you liked this Guide.. cuz it took me some time to write it Â
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-DiabloTerror