Hey!
I just bought a radeon 8500 LE (or thats what it was listed as anyway), and found out that it was clocked at 229/229, which makes it an LELE. Anyways, I was aware the LE had a bios with lower voltage settings so you couldn't overclock it too high. I also learned that many people flashed the LE card with the bios from the retail 8500, which gave them higher voltages, and could then overclock their LE's much higher (in some cases higher than retail values).
So, I decided I would try this. I saved my old bios just in case, and when I tried to flash the ratail bios, I got errors. I couldn't even reflash the bios I had saved. After many attempts, I rebooted my machine to find that there was no video signal at all.
I tried installing the card on 2 boards with integrated graphics, and in both cases, it seemed like it couldn't access the card. Do I need to install a pci video card and try? If I do try a PCI video card, will the flash program still be able to access the AGP card?
Also, anyone know where I can get the flash program? I do not trust the one I have now.
All things must surely have to end...
Functor
I just bought a radeon 8500 LE (or thats what it was listed as anyway), and found out that it was clocked at 229/229, which makes it an LELE. Anyways, I was aware the LE had a bios with lower voltage settings so you couldn't overclock it too high. I also learned that many people flashed the LE card with the bios from the retail 8500, which gave them higher voltages, and could then overclock their LE's much higher (in some cases higher than retail values).
So, I decided I would try this. I saved my old bios just in case, and when I tried to flash the ratail bios, I got errors. I couldn't even reflash the bios I had saved. After many attempts, I rebooted my machine to find that there was no video signal at all.
I tried installing the card on 2 boards with integrated graphics, and in both cases, it seemed like it couldn't access the card. Do I need to install a pci video card and try? If I do try a PCI video card, will the flash program still be able to access the AGP card?
Also, anyone know where I can get the flash program? I do not trust the one I have now.
All things must surely have to end...
Functor