Dantès Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 Hello, I received a request for a ROM dump on my new Radeon 3870. How do I do this ? I have searched and only found old tools. I will be glad to pass the ROM on to others, just tell me how to extract [dump] it. I have a Mac Pro and just got the card, so this may help many of you that want more compatibility. I appreciate the help ! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/115326-ati-radeon-3870-macpc-edition-rom/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dantès Posted July 12, 2008 Author Share Posted July 12, 2008 Bump. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/115326-ati-radeon-3870-macpc-edition-rom/#findComment-817245 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirnh Posted July 14, 2008 Share Posted July 14, 2008 Bump. You want to use a program called ATI Flash... but it only runs from DOS. Look at this link... How to use ATI Flash You can download ATI Flash here... Download ATI Flash You will want to save your BIOS to floppy... which means you need a USB floppy drive or a flash drive. I have never tried booting boot camp into DOS from either of those medium, though... only CD... but you need to boot something that you can write to. If the mac won't boot from a USB floppy or flash drive into DOS, then you will need to plug the board into a standard PC and then use the ATI Flash DOS utility. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/115326-ati-radeon-3870-macpc-edition-rom/#findComment-819598 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zorz Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 Download latest GPU-Z and dump your BIOS. Simply, isn't it? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/115326-ati-radeon-3870-macpc-edition-rom/#findComment-820087 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirnh Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 It's already been determined that GPU-Z doesn't work, because it runs only through Windows, letting you only see the BIOS side of the ROM, not the entire EEPROM contents - which also contains the EFI firmware. You must use ATIFlash. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/115326-ati-radeon-3870-macpc-edition-rom/#findComment-820363 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LioNEXT Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 It may also be useful to connect these two macrumors threads here (the first link is for 3870 bios). Some people there (or may be they are some of us!) are trying to achieve that. http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php...;highlight=3870 http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php...;highlight=3870 The only way it seems to be to use the pc with floppy drive and see if it give a bigger file size than what you get from GPU-Z and if EFI is extracted too. Otherwise, there doesn't seem to be a way on the mac side unless some mac gurus can figure out with their programming skills. @Dantes, do you have a pc with a floppy drive to work with? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/115326-ati-radeon-3870-macpc-edition-rom/#findComment-821725 Share on other sites More sharing options...
revmedia Posted July 17, 2008 Share Posted July 17, 2008 I would really appreciate someone posting this Rom! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/115326-ati-radeon-3870-macpc-edition-rom/#findComment-822235 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LioNEXT Posted July 18, 2008 Share Posted July 18, 2008 Hello,I received a request for a ROM dump on my new Radeon 3870. How do I do this ? I have searched and only found old tools. I will be glad to pass the ROM on to others, just tell me how to extract [dump] it. I have a Mac Pro and just got the card, so this may help many of you that want more compatibility. I appreciate the help ! Someone at macrumors forums has posted this and may work. Would you be able to give this a try? http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php...;highlight=3870 " Hello, To fully dump the ATI rom from Windows, you can try Winflash, which you can get here: http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads...h_2.0.1.2.html Then, you simply open a command prompt (as Administrator in Vista), "cd" to where you extracted it and then type: Code: ATIWinflash.exe -i Which will display infos about the flash type and size, would be nice if you could give us those Code: ATIWinflash.exe -s 0 3870.rom 20000 Which will in this case dump 0x20000 bytes of rom from adapter 0 and save it to the file 3870.rom. You'll want to change the adapter id and rom size with the values returned by the first command to be sure that the dump is clean and complete. Also, ATIWinflash always displays a message saying "Please wait, flashing in progress", even if it's only displaying its help dialog, so don't be afraid: it won't actually flash anything in the above process ... Here's a screenshot of it if you want to double-check the command lines I gave you (you can obtain this screen by typing "ATIWinflash.exe /?"): http://img507.imageshack.us/my.php?i...nstitreni6.png. " Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/115326-ati-radeon-3870-macpc-edition-rom/#findComment-824274 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted July 19, 2008 Share Posted July 19, 2008 download a windows me installation cd, burn it, make a fat32 partition on ur hdd and then run dos from there Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/115326-ati-radeon-3870-macpc-edition-rom/#findComment-825218 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dong Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 To OP, If you are using leopard, please try this tool: RadeonDump.zip Sorry that I did not have a real Mac to test. Now it turn out that seems only work on hackintosh. To use it, cd to the files folder and type below cmds: sudo chown -R 0:0 RadeonPCI.kext sudo kextload -t RadeonPCI.kext ./RadeonDump -d Upon success, it will create a ROM file with device-ID within name in that folder. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/115326-ati-radeon-3870-macpc-edition-rom/#findComment-828337 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LioNEXT Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 Hello,I received a request for a ROM dump on my new Radeon 3870. How do I do this ? I have searched and only found old tools. I will be glad to pass the ROM on to others, just tell me how to extract [dump] it. I have a Mac Pro and just got the card, so this may help many of you that want more compatibility. I appreciate the help ! Could you please post a dmg file for the drivers from the installer cd? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/115326-ati-radeon-3870-macpc-edition-rom/#findComment-830057 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LioNEXT Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 Well, it looks like this is going nowhere. So I have ordered it from ATI and the package is already here in town. will be delivered on Mon/Tues. I will keep posted. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/115326-ati-radeon-3870-macpc-edition-rom/#findComment-834924 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LioNEXT Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 Someone at macrumors posted the rom and the drivers for 3870. Let's see where this gets at. http://rs291.rapidshare.com/files/132474929/ATI3870Mac.zip Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/115326-ati-radeon-3870-macpc-edition-rom/#findComment-835079 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgu Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 Hi, I just saw this topic. Did someone achieve to have this ati graphics card (HD3870 Mac edition) work in a hacintosh ? Is it possible to have its bios burned to a "regular" PC HD3870 (which costs about 85 euros at this time) to have it turned into a Mac edition ? Many thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/115326-ati-radeon-3870-macpc-edition-rom/#findComment-969874 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erño Posted November 30, 2008 Share Posted November 30, 2008 I'd allso like to know if this will work on a real mac. If I had Sapphire radeon HD 3870 toxic edition, whould this flash work on my mac pro? Toxic is about 160 euros and the real mac & pc edition of the card is 226 euros... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/115326-ati-radeon-3870-macpc-edition-rom/#findComment-982834 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuebeker Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 It's been about 1 year since last post. Has there been some sort of secret development on this since then? Or is it dead? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/115326-ati-radeon-3870-macpc-edition-rom/#findComment-1303147 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akai92 Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 It's been about 1 year since last post. Has there been some sort of secret development on this since then? Or is it dead? YOu can flash but you have to care about the size rom. The PC edition has a 64kb Rom but the Mac & PC edition has a 128 KB. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/115326-ati-radeon-3870-macpc-edition-rom/#findComment-1303532 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuebeker Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 YOu can flash but you have to care about the size rom. The PC edition has a 64kb Rom but the Mac & PC edition has a 128 KB. Are you saying that some one was successful in flashing a modified rom to fit a 64KB pc card? And that it worked in a hackintosh? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/115326-ati-radeon-3870-macpc-edition-rom/#findComment-1307316 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akai92 Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 Are you saying that some one was successful in flashing a modified rom to fit a 64KB pc card?And that it worked in a hackintosh? NO, I mean if your card has 128k rom, you can flash. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/115326-ati-radeon-3870-macpc-edition-rom/#findComment-1307983 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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