Resolved Need Help Flashing a Radeon X1950 XT

[jens_g]

THAT DID IT!

I used Rufus to make a FreeDOS USB, put a Radeon 7000 in the PCI slot, set the graphics to PCI in the BIOS of my old Athlon 64 based HP Pavilion, and used ATIFlash 3.89 to flash the ROM from MacRumors to the card. I actually didn't need HDPMI32.EXE since the versions of ATIFlash prior to 4.xx work without it.

Getting to the boot screen takes a bit longer now, but everything works perfectly and the card scores 16,040 in OpenMark. It was a long road, but I couldn't be happier with the result. Thank you to everyone for their help and suggestions!

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THAT DID IT!

I used Rufus to make a FreeDOS USB, put a Radeon 7000 in the PCI slot, set the graphics to PCI in the BIOS of my old Athlon 64 based HP Pavilion, and used ATIFlash 3.89 to flash the ROM from MacRumors to the card. I actually didn't need HDPMI32.EXE since the versions of ATIFlash prior to 4.xx work without it.

Getting to the boot screen takes a bit longer now, but everything works perfectly and the card scores 16,040 in OpenMark. It was a long road, but I couldn't be happier with the result. Thank you to everyone for their help and suggestions!

THAT DID IT!

I used Rufus to make a FreeDOS USB, put a Radeon 7000 in the PCI slot, set the graphics to PCI in the BIOS of my old Athlon 64 based HP Pavilion, and used ATIFlash 3.89 to flash the ROM from MacRumors to the card. I actually didn't need HDPMI32.EXE since the versions of ATIFlash prior to 4.xx work without it.

Getting to the boot screen takes a bit longer now, but everything works perfectly and the card scores 16,040 in OpenMark. It was a long road, but I couldn't be happier with the result. Thank you to everyone for their help and suggestions!

 

[jens_g]

THAT DID IT!

I used Rufus to make a FreeDOS USB, put a Radeon 7000 in the PCI slot, set the graphics to PCI in the BIOS of my old Athlon 64 based HP Pavilion, and used ATIFlash 3.89 to flash the ROM from MacRumors to the card. I actually didn't need HDPMI32.EXE since the versions of ATIFlash prior to 4.xx work without it.

Getting to the boot screen takes a bit longer now, but everything works perfectly and the card scores 16,040 in OpenMark. It was a long road, but I couldn't be happier with the result. Thank you to everyone for their help and suggestions!

Hi, I want to give it a try with the same setup you have used, i.e. an old Athlon 64 system and ATI 7000 PCI GPU. What is the correct flashing command then? Will it be “atiflash -f -p 0 X1950MAC.ROM“? Thanks a lot.

 

[TitaniumFrog]

I've got x1950GT (with molex 4pin additional power connector), is there some way to flash it for G5Quad? 7800GT flashed without any troubles, but I want Radeon .

Few years later...
I'm looking at such a card as well, did you manage to flash an X1950GT to work with a G5?

 

[Tratkazir_the_1st]

No. After flashing firmware for x1900 card don:;t display anything in PowerMac and not usuable in regular PCs . (lays in box with some other boards)

 

[TitaniumFrog]

No. After flashing firmware for x1900 card don:;t display anything in PowerMac and not usuable in regular PCs . (lays in box with some other boards)

Alright, thanks. I'll go hunting for a proper X19x0XT then

 

[AmigaG5Quad]

Hi guys, I bought an PC X1900XT with 512MB Ram on ebay and would like to know if I can flsahen it? would be very grateful for help, as the card is not recognized in my g5 Quad.


I understood that the Intel MAC Cards cannot be flashed, what about the PC Cards?

 

[PowerPC74]

Hi guys, I bought an PC X1900XT with 512MB Ram on ebay and would like to know if I can flsahen it? would be very grateful for help, as the card is not recognized in my g5 Quad.


I understood that the Intel MAC Cards cannot be flashed, what about the PC Cards?

No one that I know of has made a 512MB FCode ROM for the X19xx, but it is doable as long as you card has a GPU that is compatible with the FCode ROM.

What is the Device ID of your card?

 

[joevt]

Similar thread: https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/x1950xt-vs-radeon-x1900gt-mac-edition.49296

 

[PowerPC74]

No one that I know of has made a 512MB FCode ROM for the X19xx, but it is doable as long as you card has a GPU that is compatible with the FCode ROM.

What is the Device ID of your card?

Joe and I are looking at the soft straps in the ATI VBios ROMs to see if they can and need to be moved over to the FCode ROM.

With nVidia the soft straps set the amount of VRAM, so it could also be the case on ATI too, but there could be some stuff deeper down too.

Generally speaking the 512MB X19xx have slower VRAM, so it would only improve things in cases where the demand for VRAM was greater than 256MB( like Doom 3 on Ultra settings ).

I cranked up Doom 3 to 6x AA and 16x AF to the highest quality setting @1080P and that put me in the need for more VRAM.

 

[jktwice]

Joe and I are looking at the soft straps in the ATI VBios ROMs to see if they can and need to be moved over to the FCode ROM.

With nVidia the soft straps set the amount of VRAM, so it could also be the case on ATI too, but there could be some stuff deeper down too.

Generally speaking the 512MB X19xx have slower VRAM, so it would only improve things in cases where the demand for VRAM was greater than 256MB( like Doom 3 on Ultra settings ).

I cranked up Doom 3 to 6x AA and 16x AF to the highest quality setting @1080P and that put me in the need for more VRAM.

Any updates on this. Unfortunately I am only in possession of the 512MB version of the Sapphire 1950 XT.

 

[PowerPC74]

Any updates on this. Unfortunately I am only in possession of the 512MB version of the Sapphire 1950 XT.

Normally you can flash the 512MB cards and they will just work as 256MB cards until somebody figures it out. Just take care what device ID you have and edit the rom to match that device ID.

Somebody should know the list of compatible GPUs( Device-IDs ) so post your device ID and a ROM may magically appear, and one day maybe a new full 512MB ROM.

 

[diego351]

So, here I am, flashing sapphire x1950xt 256MB for my quad.

I run freedos, successfully flashed it with this one, on first shot: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/need-help-flashing-a-radeon-x1950-xt.2192094/post-30671833

The problem is the card doesnt wake up on first pcie slot in my quad - no chime . When I try second slot it works, boots up. I think I must be doing something wrong. Second slot is not satisfactory


Can you help me?


PS: There's one more detail. For now I'm running the card from external ATX PSU as I'm still waiting for the adapter. It works no problem on second slot though.

PS2: Geforce 6600LE works on first slot

PS3: I heavily tested before the card in windows 7 3dmark 03 05 06 - works fine

PS4 I flashed on optiplex 9020 i7 4790, gpu - Intel® HD Graphics 4600. Don't have any pci card.

 

[Bug-Creator]

The problem is the card doesnt wake up on first pcie slot in my quad - no chime

Might not be an issue with the flashing.

I run a different setup with an Apple NVIDIA card for OF/bootmenu and plain PC Radeon for MorphOS use.

Tried several cards from X1800Pro to R5 230 and they all worked in the bottom slot (except for an X1600 which just wouldn't fit). In a spur of curiosity I put the Radeon from an 2010 MacPro in there, didn't work (doh).

Afterwards the X1800PRO and X1900GT stopped working in bottom slot. Other cards work just fine there, and the 2 culprits have no problem running in any of the upper 3 slots.