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Software Support => GroovyMAME => Topic started by: buttersoft on February 11, 2016, 07:25:29 am

Title: ATOM-15 help - safe to use Win8.1, on secondary computer, to flash a 4350 card?
Post by: buttersoft on February 11, 2016, 07:25:29 am

Hi All (and of course Calamity :))

I'm in the middle of a cab build, and have an ATI Radeon 4350 256mb coming in the post. I would like to flash it with the ATOM-15 BIOS, using the lbios.com tool, but i may have a problem. The computer i'm using for the cab won't take legacy USB keyboards in DOS (Asus P5K mobo, Core 2 Duo E6600). My main computer is a Win8.1 machine - is it safe to use that machine to read, mod, test, and then hopefully flash the BIOS of the 4350, then just transfer the card into the older machine?

(ATOM-15 is safe to use with crt_emudriver 2.0, i presume?)

Also, where is the lbios.com tool? Is it built into DOS? I can't find a download or any reference save on the Geedorah site! I must be doing something wrong...

Pic below is the card i'm getting.
(http://www.theredplanet.org/ebay/images/lpmainDSC_0187_1024x768.jpg)

Title: Re: ATOM-15 help - safe to use Win8.1, on secondary computer, to flash a 4350 card?
Post by: Calamity on February 11, 2016, 01:15:28 pm

It is safe to flash the card directly from Windows. However you can only try lbios.com if you boot from DOS, and your main card is the one you want to flash. The lbios tool is inside the ATOM-15 download package, at least it was there last time I checked. ATOM-15 is safe with CRT Emudriver.

Title: Re: ATOM-15 help - safe to use Win8.1, on secondary computer, to flash a 4350 card?
Post by: buttersoft on February 11, 2016, 05:55:47 pm

Thanks, Calamity! I can boot to DOS fine on the newer, normally-8.1 machine, it was more whether patching under that OS was going to screw things up for when i flashed the card in DOS. I'll just swap things around so the 4350 is the only card.

And the lbios tool is right there. I think i was looking at the thread on here by the guy with the Asus RoG mobo, where you'd posted an updated version of ATOM-15 that detects empty spaces.

So... i use the lbios command, and then what? I test modes right away? No restart required there?

Quote from: Calamity on February 11, 2016, 01:15:28 pm

It is safe to flash the card directly from Windows. However you can only try lbios.com if you boot from DOS, and your main card is the one you want to flash. The lbios tool is inside the ATOM-15 download package, at least it was there last time I checked. ATOM-15 is safe with CRT Emudriver.

Title: Re: ATOM-15 help - safe to use Win8.1, on secondary computer, to flash a 4350 card?
Post by: buttersoft on February 12, 2016, 06:01:58 am

Well, my work was throwing away an old PS2 keyboard today, so guess what i snagged? I could get to DOS with that, but couldn't get any files to show up for some reason. (Because USB legacy support failed, I had to boot from CD, and no files would show up save the DOS install ones)

Figuring I had another computer with free slots, or even free slots on this computer and other ATI cards to boot with if needed, i decided to go the winflash route, and it worked perfectly! I've flashed back for now to properly configure windows, because with the default Win 7 drivers it seems my desktop is locked to 800x600 @ 50i.

Thanks for the usual hand-holding, Calamity :)

Time to donate again, I reckon.