Restoring Video BIOS

[Sweeper]

Ok, I have a Saphire Radeon 9000 Pro 64MB. Card ran great, but a friend online told me that it could run better by flashing the bios to another one he had. So he sent me all the files and the BIOS to put on a floppy. I copied the files to a floppy and proceeded to follow the directions making a backup of the original BIOS and I flashed the card. Then all #ell broke loose. When I booted it came up with a black screen with white lines, then just went to a black screen. No beeps, nothing. So I rebooted again and the same thing. The monitor comes up but no picture. Also it's like the computer doesn't detect anything. So I read the D-Bracket lights and they were reporting:

"Initializing Video Interface - This will start detecting CPU clock, checking type of video, then detect and initialize the video adapter."

So I have this floppy that has my back up of the original BIOS but now I have no way of putting back on the card. All it does with the card in there is bring up a black screen and then just sit there. Doesn't detect the floppy or go into windows ... nada. No beeps either.

 

[bigal40]

I guess you could try putting a different video card in and them remember the steps for restoring the old BIOS.

 

[Sweeper]

I know the steps. If the PC would access the 3 1/2 floppy I could press the correct number (3). That would flash the BIOS back. Problem is with the card in it just sits there.... I've always been able to flash either my MB back and or my video cards back without a hitch but this one is acting like a POS!!!!

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: Sweeper
I know the steps. If the PC would access the 3 1/2 floppy I could press the correct number (3). That would flash the BIOS back. Problem is with the card in it just sits there.... I've always been able to flash either my MB back and or my video cards back without a hitch but this one is acting like a POS!!!!

Originally posted by: bigal40
I guess you could try putting a different (secondary PCI) video card in and them remember the steps for restoring the old BIOS.

Quote #1, meet Quote #2. Shake.

- M4H

 

[Sweeper]

So I can run 2 video cards at the same time? Put in a PCI card and the damaged AGP card? I wasn't aware you could run 2 cards at the same time. Anyone got a cheap PCI card ??