Looking for Powercolor Evil Kyro Bios and flash utility
ScottX
worked fine on my old Celery 300A system. For some reason if I update the
drivers to anything beyond what came with the card I couldn't go below
800x600 resolution without a wicked distortion problem with the video in 2D
or 3D.
I'm guessing that's a conflict with the hardware, the new bios, and the
newer drivers, since with the newest Vivid Kyro/KyroII bios and the old
Powercolor drivers would let me do all of the tests in 3Dmark 2000 with no
problems, including the 64MB texture rendering test.
My big problem occured when I upgraded recently to a Duron 1.3.
Everything worked fine until I installed the VIA and AGP 4X drivers. I did
set the jumpers correctly on the Kyro for 4X, but after I installed the VIA
drivers from Asus's CD (several reboots and a benchmark after installing the
Kyro drivers and Direct X 8.1), all of my colors were inverted. The colors
looked like a negative image. Goofy I know, and sorry for all the detail.
What I really need is some old Bios's and a flash utility for my
Powercolor Evil Kyro 64MB. A bios from something that's known to be
compatible with it would be fine too, so I can try and clear this up. I've
looked on PowerVR.com and Powercolor.com.tw and every site linked by both of
them and found no old bios images, or even any bios images at all.
Right now I've got a clean picture, but I can't display anything lower
than 800x600 without 16-bit quality warping going on full screen. It was
neat in Thunder Force III, but not so neat on my desktop. Heh.
Thanks in advance,
Scott
Malc
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> My big problem occured when I upgraded recently to a Duron 1.3.
> Everything worked fine until I installed the VIA and AGP 4X drivers. I
did
> set the jumpers correctly on the Kyro for 4X,
The Kyro cards are only AGPx2. What jumpers? If you have Jumpers on your
mobo to set AGPx4/2/1 (I've never seen this) then set them to x2 or auto.
Sorry, can't help with the altered bios. Was there any benefit? Could you
change it back perhaps?
Malc.
ScottX
"Malc" <ma...@belper.plus.con> wrote in message
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> "ScottX" <weapo...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
> > My big problem occured when I upgraded recently to a Duron 1.3.
> > Everything worked fine until I installed the VIA and AGP 4X drivers. I
> did
> > set the jumpers correctly on the Kyro for 4X,
>
> The Kyro cards are only AGPx2. What jumpers? If you have Jumpers on your
> mobo to set AGPx4/2/1 (I've never seen this) then set them to x2 or auto.
My Powercolor card has jumper settings on it for either 2X or 4X AGP.
My old MB wouldn't display at all if I set the jumper on the Kyro to 4X, so
I'd supposed that the new one automatically accepted the new setting when it
worked. I suppose I should check the bios and make sure that it's set to 4X
on the main board too.
> Sorry, can't help with the altered bios. Was there any benefit? Could you
> change it back perhaps?
If I remember correctly the 64MB texture rendering test became available
in 3dMark2000, and 3DMark2001 would play the demo, whereas formerly it would
not. Changing it back is why I wanted the extra bios. I've since formatted
my HD, and lost the back up of the old Bios. I do have a floppy that I
labeled Kyro BIOS, I might try seeing if I can use the back up on it
tonight.....
Wolfram Meyer von Gagern
> "ScottX" <weapo...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>> My big problem occured when I upgraded recently to a Duron 1.3.
>> Everything worked fine until I installed the VIA and AGP 4X
>> drivers. I did set the jumpers correctly on the Kyro for 4X,
>
> The Kyro cards are only AGPx2.
The Kyro I can be set to AGPx4 (so I did with mine). The Kyro II has
to be set to AGPx2.
Wolfram
Malc
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> Malc <ma...@belper.plus.con> schrieb:
> > The Kyro cards are only AGPx2.
>
> The Kyro I can be set to AGPx4 (so I did with mine). The Kyro II has
> to be set to AGPx2.
I didn't know that, thanks. I have a Prophet 4500 64mb. IIRC you have to
disable sideband addressing in the bios too as this can cause problems.
Setting all the video related settings to safe options (AGPx2, no sideband,
no shadow, IRQ enabled etc) would be a good option for Scott, then try
upping each setting at a time until the problems come back (assuming the
problem is cured by the 'safe' options).
Malc.
ScottX
it
> worked fine on my old Celery 300A system. For some reason if I update the
> drivers to anything beyond what came with the card I couldn't go below
> 800x600 resolution without a wicked distortion problem with the video in
2D
> or 3D.
Heh, the lower resolution problem was a refresh rate problem. I upped the
refresh rate for the lower resolutions in kyro tools and the wacky warping
effect is no more. Silly me.
Malc
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> Heh, the lower resolution problem was a refresh rate problem. I upped the
> refresh rate for the lower resolutions in kyro tools and the wacky warping
> effect is no more. Silly me.
Good to know your updated bios hasn't caused the problem, but having the
refresh rate set too low is a pretty obscure problem I'd have thought. Have
you got the right ini file (driver) for your monitor?
Malc.
ScottX
"Malc" <ma...@belper.plus.con> wrote in message
No, I've just told Windows to use the PnP monitor driver, since the
upgrade. I'd probably better go ahead and find that driver. Setting
everything to 85hz, the way I like it anyway, seems to have solved the
problem. Kyro tools defaulted everything to 60hz, but it didn't know what
my monitor was either. Great suggestion, thanks.
> Malc.
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