From: Carl Cope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 20:45:13 -0600 Hi all,
After reading about the Radeon flashing possibilities, I ordered the Power
Color 64MB from New Egg this week.
Today, with the instructions and help from list folks (thanks Dan S.) I
tried to flash the card. The problem was that every time (I tried about six
times) I got a Write Error. Here is the error message.
Serial Rom Bios Device ID = 0x5159 ASIC Device ID = 0x5159 Flash Type = ST Error: write error at 65536
Error 0FL01
I had run the Flashrom info before flashing, it came back indicating that
the romsize was 0x20000 (128 KB).
I had also saved the data from the card before I tried the MAC flash and
when I reflashed the card with the PC data it worked fine. I also flashed it
with the smaller "two step MAC file" and it worked. The only time I got the
error was when I was attempting to flash the large "one step Mac file."
Also noticed messages on list regarding the number on the sti chip. Numbers
from my chip are 25P05AV & L3206.
At this point I am thinking I got a card with 64K ROM.
I am off track? The 64K rom can't be flashed for MAC can it. Even using the
two step process, MAC needs more than 64K, right?
Thanks for any help or suggestions.
Carl
Flashing cards on a PC is a good lesson in how much harder it is to do things on a PC. Because of the hundreds of different types of possible hardware it is impossible to give exact info on how to flash the cards that will work for everyone. Also the person giving the info has no control or way of knowing what setup is being used and weather or not the person doing the flashing has a clue what they're doing ;-) See the issues?
So you get the info that your card has a 128Kb flash chip after running the flash info command. This isn't likely to give wrong info and now you think you card has the 64 Kb flash chip why????????????????????????????????????
So the one step method didn't work for you big deal you managed to get the first step of the 2 step to flash on the PC . Your next step should be to flash the second step on the Mac and then we can talk! ;-) I see no mention of you trying the second step on the Mac why not?
A lot seem to depend on your hardware and luck I guess. mine took like so many tries to get it to flash I was ready to flash back to PC and send it back! i tried one more time did it exactly the same way as before as far as I could tell and just like magic it worked. No idea why...and it's still running months later! So don't give up too easily. Best of luck Will S
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