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