Can I update bios on ATI Radeon 9550 agp

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by cadar21, Jan 2, 2009.

  1. cadar21

    cadar21 Private E-2

    So i want to update the bios on my ATI.....
    Does anybody know how to do it.....????
    Where can i get the files......????
     
  2. augiedoggie

    augiedoggie The Canadian Loon - LocoAugie (R.I.P. 2012)

    ...and your reason for wanting to do this is? Unless there is a specific issue that an update will solve that is documented in the change log, I'd not do it. I'm of the type that says, if it ain't broke then don't try and fix it.:)

    What can I say, google is your friend.
     
    Last edited: Jan 2, 2009
  3. pclover

    pclover MajorGeek

    You really don't want to flash your video card bios unless you really have to. If you mess up or something goes wrong you can mess it up permanently.
     
  4. cadar21

    cadar21 Private E-2

    The picture looks like crap........
    From the Bios to the Win Xp....There are blue..green shades all over....
    It looks like My Atari is crashing and I need to hit the power swith and take out the game and blow on it.......its that bad.......
    I wish i knew how tio take a desktop screenshot and show it to you guys and youl understand.....
    I think somebody overclocked it before check out the ratings for Real Clock....
    And theres a big drag in Bios boot time with this card....its between 20sec and 1 min before the Bios starts to read what IDEs are installed....

    AGP 8x: ATI Radeon 9550 (RV350) ]

    Graphics Processor Properties:
    Video Adapter ATI Radeon 9550 (RV350)
    GPU Code Name RV350
    PCI Device 1002 / 4153
    Transistors 76 million
    Process Technology 0.13u
    Bus Type AGP 8x @ 8x
    Memory Size 256 MB
    GPU Clock 250 MHz (original: 250 MHz)
    RAMDAC Clock 400 MHz
    Pixel Pipelines 4
    TMU Per Pipeline 1
    Vertex Shaders 2 (v2.0)
    Pixel Shaders 1 (v2.0)
    DirectX Hardware Support DirectX v9.0
    Pixel Fillrate 1000 MPixel/s
    Texel Fillrate 1000 MTexel/s

    Memory Bus Properties:
    Bus Type DDR
    Bus Width 128-bit
    Real Clock 196 MHz (DDR) (original: 195 MHz)
    Effective Clock 392 MHz
    Bandwidth 6272 MB/s
     
  5. candle_86

    candle_86 Private E-2

    that wont help artifacting
     
  6. cadar21

    cadar21 Private E-2

    artifacting......
    thats what i have.....how can i fix it......
     
  7. Goran.P

    Goran.P MajorGeek

    Do you have passive or active cooling(with fans)?
    If passive replace,if active check maybe your fan is not spining right,so it's overheated.
     
  8. cadar21

    cadar21 Private E-2

    I have passive......thats stock with out a fan right......
    I always thought it was fan or fanless.........

    anyways ill try to mount a fan on it or take a passive hs off another card that fits......
     
  9. Goran.P

    Goran.P MajorGeek


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