vBios with Overdrive flashing help

Hi, I was wondering which file from Chasity's overdrive version of the vBios would be used if I wanted to follow the guide from the All the G73JH Problems and solutions thread where it says:

To flash the vBios:
- Extract these files onto the bootable USB stick.
- Reboot and keep pressing ESC.
- When the boot menu pops up choose your USB stick.
- After the DOS screen loads, type the following command:
To flash to the Beta vBios: atiflash -p 0 Beta.rom

Would I just switch the Beta.rom out for the file called fix_od.rom?

 

I know most people say no to WinFlash, but I prefer it over Dos.

The problem with a modified vBios and DOS Flashing that if anything goes wrong, you are screwed. I've tried it and bricked my laptop with this method. DOS mode will flash and then verify. Doesn't give me any real indication if the vBios took hold, success or fail. At least in my experience. So when I flash, it flashed. It verified. So I thought, hooray. Restart the computer, woops, nothing. GPU is bricked. Reality was, even though it verified, it was a bad vBios flash. And there was no warning at all.

With WinFlash it will flash. And then it will tell you Success or Fail.
- If Fail, DO NOT RESTART
- If Fail, either create a new vBios or just use the default stable one and reflash. Keep doing so until you get Success.
- You can FAIL as many times as it takes. Can FAIL a hundred times. But once you get a success, and you are good to go.
- Success doesn't mean that the vBios is good. But it does mean it was successful and your GPU isn't bricked.
- What I mean success doesn't mean success that the settings may not be the best. Like some of the different modifications I tried didn't have the best results. But at least I didn't brick my GPU.

So some may not like WinFlash, but with modified vBios that I'm unsure of, I won't use DOS, I won't risk it. There isn't any recourse or any indication. If I FAIL in WinFlash, I can just reflash again. And WinFlash has been very good in telling me if I had success or not.
- A vBios can be flashed and still fail in DOS and you may not know.

Also when it comes to any vBios, DO NOT FORCE FLASH. If it won't flash without force, then don't use that file. Don't risk it.
- A bricked GPU = 4-6 Weeks of RMA hell.

Here is the edited vBios I'm using (modified official beta vBios). You can try at your own risk. Using WinFlash with my method above IMO is safest method when using modified vBios.
- I left the 3D mode the same. As I found messing with that, caused my taskbar etc to flicker and too unstable. I edited the battery 2D to 100/150, battery 3D to 400/600 with .90v. The OverDrive unlocked with 900/1250 max clocks. The PowerPlay while plugged in with memory downclocking from 2D and 3D causes my taskbar to flicker and become unstable. PowerPlay is still broken. But for battery mode it's working out great.
- MD5 Hash: A116A7A8E7B33C3B7E83C77903BD6345
- http://www.megaupload.com/?d=R5VP3WR0

Here is my thread with my observations of how unstable the PowerPlay is on the official vBios.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/asu.../517491-observations-official-beta-vbios.html

 

What do others think, winflash or the other way?

 

Better flash at bios menu than using winflash >_< when you're system freezes while flashing that would be a lot of problem.

 

And because his vBios is modified of Gary's, ATI Flash will verify it as legit, but for whatever reason, it's not actually a successful flash, something wrong with vBios, ATi FLASH won't tell him. He think awesome, it worked. Shuts down.

Oops...

It's bricked. Yay 4-6 weeks of RMA. Now that is fun.

 

Ziddy,
Excuse me but I'm French and my English is very bad.
Is this Ati winflash run on seven 64 and what version ?
Can you give me a download site ?

thank's

 

Its up to you to decide which is better, i personally go with the dos method. Ziddy does have a point when he says windows will tell u if it pass or fail. But what concerns me with this is, what if windows itself fails then how will it tell whether it passed or fail? I rather put my chances on dos as i don't trust windows. But still its a personal opinion. I used to use winflash on my old gigabyte mother boards. But that was fine because they came with dual bios. With this its just the dos method for me.

 

Not sure what Windows you are using. Windows 7 has been rock solid, it has yet to crash, BSOD or do anything for that matter.

I've seen more Mac OS X crashing than I've seen Windows 7 crashing in the last few months.

ATI Flash
ATI Flash: http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/1731/ATIFlash 3.79.html
Bootdisk: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IIJ4LKLN
MD5 Has: 4AE038479CC72F1552CEB041F4162003

Unzip that file. In there you will see a USB Flash utility from HP. Run that. You'll see an option for Create a DOS Startup Disk. Check that. In the Browse, point that to the Win98boot, which is included in the file you downloaded. This will create a USB Flash Bootdisk.
- Place the ATi Flash and your vBios in the Bootdisk.
- Restart your computer, test the bootdisk first. At boot press Esc. Then select your bootdisk. If it boots into Dos it works.
- USe this command to flash through DOS: atiflash -p 0 biosname.rom

ATi WINFlash
http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/1750/ATI_Winflash_2.0.1.11.html