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First thing i'd like to do is give credit to Jemm for coming up with this in this thread.

 

Basically he came up with flashing your card with a Sapphire X1600XT bios, which is what i did to my HIS Ice Q X1600XT which would not work with the borisbadenov method manually or even with the installer or older/newer extensions/frameworks, But worked immediately after the flash with the 10.4.7 extensions/frameworks.

 

All i'm doing here is providing a cd burnable bootable image with the atiflash util and the required sapphire bios and Jemm's simple instructions in a topic since his post was pretty hard to find.

 

Here's the link to the ISO.

 

Burn with Disk Utility and then boot up from cd and then type in these commands:

 

1. R:\

2. atiflash -i *will let you know if it can see your card and also give you your card's flash id(mine was 0)

3. atiflash -s 0 oldbios.bin *will backup your current bios

4. atiflash -f -p 0 sapph.bin *will flash the Sapphire X1600XT bios on to your card

5. You'll see some funkyness on the screen during the flash, once it's finished reboot and enjoy your working card.

6. Use the Neopheus installer to get full support going.

 

 

***DISCLAIMER TIME***

You're flashing your card at your own risk, i offer no guarantees of any kind other than to say that i used this exact image to flash my card and it worked.

 

Good Luck!

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Thanks for this but when I input R:\, I get invalid drive message.

The burned CD boots in Caldera but there is an error message that the CDROM drivers are not loaded.

The prompt then goes to A:\

It looks like the CDROM drivers you included don't support the Pioneer DVD.

When I input

A:\ dir, I can see the windows command com, autoexec. bat, mscdex.exe, etc.. but no sign of atiflash.exe or the sapphire bin.

But when I look at the CD on a Mac or Windows Server 2003, I can see both files.

Don't know what has gone wrong, any ideas?

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Thanks for this but when I input R:\, I get invalid drive message.

The burned CD boots in Caldera but there is an error message that the CDROM drivers are not loaded.

The prompt then goes to A:\

It looks like the CDROM drivers you included don't support the Pioneer DVD.

When I input

A:\ dir, I can see the windows command com, autoexec. bat, mscdex.exe, etc.. but no sign of atiflash.exe or the sapphire bin.

But when I look at the CD on a Mac or Windows Server 2003, I can see both files.

Don't know what has gone wrong, any ideas?

 

 

Weird, it's supposed to be a driver free image. typing in R:\ is still working for me, can you try another cdrom drive?

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Well... i got my EAX 1600 XT working with the boris method. Not fully though, DVI was not working and the second graphics port was not working either, so i had to usee a VGA adaptor on the DVI port. The problem with this was that it didnt recognize my monitor and i could not have my screen run in 1680x1050 which it was designet to run in.

 

I have done some bios patching of my previous GFX cards so i thought ill have a go at it again. My initial worries was that this would turn my Silent X1600 card into scraps by the possible increase in voltage... but i went with it, i saved my old bios so that i could patch it back just to be safe.

 

So i went on to patching the card. At first i was a little confused... using only DVI i could not even see the bios loading at boot... i got scared, but thought ill have a go at putting in the VGA Adaptor to see if i atleast could boot and return my old bios... then it got me thinking; Something changed with this bios patch... so i thought ill have a go at incerting my cable into the native VGA port and here we go... it worked! The port that initially was dead was alive, the pure DVI was dead, i can only get the DVI to work if i use an adaptor.

 

So the second GFX port is working, in VGA, and OSX can see the monitor and i can change resolution to 1680x1050@60Hz. This is something i could not do before. To be fair, i bought it fairly cheap so i see it as a fair tradeoff... i have a beautiful resolution now, and it looks MUCH better then the DVI with the VGA Adaptor, but that can possibly be because i run it in the resolution my monitor was designed for.

 

So yes... in a sense it worked for me.

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Later today i wil retrieve my bios of my perfectly working asus EAX 1600XT and i wil post in the forums so the other eax users can install it, we will se what happens.

 

BTW Ciber your video card works with Pure DVI or needs a dongle? (mine doesnt needs it)

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Later today i wil retrieve my bios of my perfectly working asus EAX 1600XT and i wil post in the forums so the other eax users can install it, we will se what happens.

 

BTW Ciber your video card works with Pure DVI or needs a dongle? (mine doesnt needs it)

 

Pure DVI, my card only has 2 DVI ports, no VGA. Someone needs to get dual screen working, it's sad looking at my other 20" sitting there off.

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Hi all, I am having an issue with my X1600 Pro and am sceptical in trying this. I did have a 9600XT which worked perfectly except mouse tearing, I had QE & CI running DVI @ 1280 x 768 (LCD's native res)

 

I read that the X1600 worked flawlessly but I see that was the PCI-X version not the AGP.

 

The issue I have is once OS X loads (Grey Screen with circular loading icon) and starts Finder my monitor goes to sleep. I have tried it with DVI, VGA, Component and S-Video without any luck but I just realised I haven't tried a DVI - VGA adapter. That will be my next step otherwise I will try flashing with the Sapphire BIOS but I would hate to loose the DVI port as I feel DVI is amongst the top connections to have next to HDMI so hopefully a DVI - VGA adapter will work.

 

If anyone's curious, I have a Xpert Vision X1600 Pro 256Mb AGP 8X...

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Will this BIOS work for the Sapphire x1600pro 512 meg unit?

see http://www.sapphiretech.com/ca/products/pr...ew.php?gpid=133

 

How do I back upi the original video card BIOS?

I don't have a floppy on my computer (such old tech).

Or should I do this via Windows.

 

Is there anyone with ASUS EAX1600XT Silent BIOS that works well and is recognized?

Or is Sapphire BIOS better than ASUS BIOS?

 

Thanks

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Conroe Mac
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I have a Sapphire X1600XT 256 mb, and I have had no luck with getting it to work.

 

I've tried Neophus installer.

I've tried manual Boris method.

 

There seems to be no solution for boards with id 71c0.

 

EDIT: It seems the problem has to do with the P/N number not the dev id.

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I have been speaking with Aberaccus via email and he said that he will share the BIOS with us.

He has BIOS on floppy but does not have a floppy anymore.

 

Here is a site with a whole lot of video card BIOS for download

http://www.techpowerup.com/bios/

 

Note - I have not tried anything there yet - kind of scared

 

For the ASUS card X1600XT (PCI-E) 256 MB they have a file called

Asus.X1600XT.256._051214.bin

 

Could this be it?

 

Too bad you can't install the video bios from hacintosh

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I'm considering flashing my GeCube X1800XL bios with another 1800 bios from some other vendor, to see if i can get System Sleep support. wish me luck! :)

 

Did you try this, Munky? Did it work? I'm having no luck with my X1800 using the Boris method...

 

_loosh_

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I have been speaking with Aberaccus via email and he said that he will share the BIOS with us.

He has BIOS on floppy but does not have a floppy anymore.

 

Here is a site with a whole lot of video card BIOS for download

http://www.techpowerup.com/bios/

 

Note - I have not tried anything there yet - kind of scared

 

For the ASUS card X1600XT (PCI-E) 256 MB they have a file called

Asus.X1600XT.256._051214.bin

 

Could this be it?

 

Too bad you can't install the video bios from hacintosh

 

Bios on this site doesn't work - DVI is OUT (in Windows too). I don't understend why people who has working eax1600xt not want share with us. If really there is problem it?

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I am unable to flash the bios due to a differing P/N from the bios provided in the first post.

 

P/N on the bios provided in post #1 is ID : 11x-5C8801SA-008

 

Some info on my card:

 

Sapphire X1600XT 256MB PCI-E

 

General Information :

Manufacturer : ATI Technologies Inc (PC Partner Ltd)

Model : Radeon X1600 Series

Bus Type : PCI-Express

Total Memory : 0 MB

Texture Memory : 509 MB

Converter : Internal DAC(400MHz)

Refresh Rate (min/max) : 59/75 Hz

 

GPU Information :

Number of GPU : 1

Codename : RV530

GPU Frequency : 587.25 MHz - [initial : 588 MHz]

Memory Frequency GPU : 688.5 MHz - [initial : 38 MHz]

Texels : 2000 MTexels/s

DirectX Support : 9.0c

 

Video Bios Information :

Date : 04/24/06

ID : 11x-5C8801SA-009

 

 

Below is an image of what the screen looks like after doing the boris patch or neo installer:

 

screen.jpg

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Conroe Mac
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I get the same type of screen as davegarbs. I also have the same P/N.

 

I tried installing Curlyboy's BIOS, but I get the error "couldn't erase BIOS" which I'm guessing means that the flash utility refuses to flash since the P/N is different.

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