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    After GPU BIOS flashing 2 master cards???

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by Borbital, Nov 26, 2009.

  1. Borbital

    Borbital Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi guys. I need some help with my AW.First at all - I tryed to flash GPU BIOS on my 4850 cards and after that I got 2 master cards which ones don't let me run any modified (I mean drivers modded with MModer) drivers in CrossFire except original AW drivers.Any ideas?
    And other problem what I have - sound stuttering. I saw a lot of posts with the same problem on M17x owners, but I'm not quite sure if the same problem will be the for M17 users ATI inside.
     
  2. granyte

    granyte ATI+AMD -> DAAMIT

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    why have you flahsed the slave to master the both card are physicaly different one an other

    for the suttering dou you have a quad?
    if yess gives thoses info so i can gives you a little help on that
    what cpu
    bios version
    realtek driver vers
     
  3. Borbital

    Borbital Notebook Enthusiast

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    When I flashed bios, I set it up with .bat with ''/all'' comand by a mistake :( Also if you flash CrossFire you must do it on both of them

    Yapp, I have Intel Q9000
     
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    Wow.. Can't you just reflash the slave as... slave?
     
  5. Borbital

    Borbital Notebook Enthusiast

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    I think I need slave card BIOS,but I don't have it.BTW I try to plug slave card in master slot and it's working, it wasn' before
     
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    granyte ATI+AMD -> DAAMIT

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    ya it's not working in mine cause the second card is not made for this the master even haves more connector then the second one


    if there is a way to get the bios out of the card with no danger i'd be happy to send ya a copy of my slave bios for the stutter cheq if your MB bios vers is b14 and if you are runing the lastes realtek drivers
     
  7. Borbital

    Borbital Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thx Granyte.Here's a couple of pic's how it look on standard Win7 drivers :) BTW, about cards differences - did anyone try to test them separately?If I have a chance I will test slave card in master socket,because theoretically they are identical, but slave vga don't have enough connectors for running @ PCI-E x16 bandwidth
    P.S. My BIOS and Audio drivers is up to date.
     

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  8. granyte

    granyte ATI+AMD -> DAAMIT

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    if you are up to date the only solution is to pop out the power cord and back in when the stutter happen to make it stop right away
    and then pray for it to go away for good (for no apperant reason like it did for me) or for the new rumor of bios to fix it

    you could also search deeper into the coppermodding option
     
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    Borbital Notebook Enthusiast

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    Amazing!!! Today I took out master card and left slave vga in master slot,then I test master vga in master slot.Result is amazing - slave card score more points then master!!! And both cards ran @ PCI-E x 8, so probably it's no different between Master and Slave and I don't know why physically they look different.
     

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    The difference is so small that the likelihood is it was caused by some other factor, such as another program using up a bit of the CPU or a bit more RAM.