Radeon 9500PRO

[TcMatic]

Done the hardware tweak to Activate the 8 pipelines
Flashed the Card with a 9700 bios
D/L the new radeon drivers .
And now and than the system reboots?
Looked at system temp 36 case temp 32 cpu temp (aqua cooling)
D/l the old drivers installed them still rebooting?
Some games will not runn Generals Farcry sometimes.
Flashed the old bios back did not help either?
Running Win XP
2000+
512 mb 333mhz
no system overclocking
any suggestions?

[PacNW CE]

9500 Pros use all 8 pipes already.

I'm pretty sure that the 9500 in the L shaped memory configuration is the only 9500 that was capable of being flashed to the 9700 pro.

Someone back me up.:rolleyes:

I have to work, and don't have time to do the research.....

[bob05]

What kind of PSU do you have? Also, what are you doing when it reboots?

[TcMatic]

Using 350 w powersup.
Doing nothing special .
Browsing the web o sompting like that.
No heavie things for the system.

the games i play
Counterstrike sometimes after 1 hour the game freez.
VPU recovers shut it down and i need a reboot.

[Rugor]

The only difference between a 9500 Pro and a 9700 is that on the 9500 Pro only two of the memory crossbar controllers are connected to RAM, so the card is limited to a 128-bit memory bus. Otherwise it's the same.

The 9500 NON-Pro had one quad (four pipes) disabled, and the two associated memory crossbar controllers. However, the ones with the 'L' shaped memory had the same PCB as a 9700 so if you activated the additional pipes you also activated the addional memory controllers which let you access the 256-bit memory bus. This gave you a functional 9700.

Please note that it was normal for the 9500 NON-Pro to have the Hyper-Z bandwidth saving system disabled and the bios flash did not always re-enable it.

Flashing a 9500 Pro with the RIGHT 9700 Pro bios (there are different ones for cards with different RAM) allows for overclocking but gives no other benefits.