Any Way To Reset RADEON 9800 Pro Hardware To Defaults?

[CHANGE USERNAME TO westes]

Is there any way to hard-reset the RADEON 9800 Pro hardware back to its
factory configuration? For example, is there a jumper I can place on it,
or take off, that would reset its internal programming? I've got a
situation (see thread "Bug in Catalyst 4.8 Renders W2K System Unusable")
where I think the drivers may have been put in a previously untested
condition, and somehow they programmed the hardware in a way that the
software cannot reset. I want to guarantee that the hardware is back to
its original factory condition before proceeding further.

 

[Pete D]

Unless you have flashed the firmware all you should need to do is uninstall
the driver and reboot, if that fails then get a basic card and use that to
boot then go back to the new card.

 

[CHANGE USERNAME TO westes]

I've read various accounts of how people - typically people overclocking -
can get the card into some mode from which it behaves differently regardless
of the driver configuration. I'm just trying to understand if there are
any configuration values held on the card itself that can be reinitialized
on the hardware indepdent of the software configuration.

I know how to rebuild everything from scratch, and what I am experiencing is
different behavior of the card regardless of software configuration.

 

[Len]

If you have another machine available you might try it in that one. If all
is well it is probably software - if not you may well have fried the card.
I guess if this is the case you might try re-flashing the cards BIOS as you
really would not have that much left to lose! That is the only "setting" I
am aware of that effects the hardware operation.

FWIW,
Len

I've read various accounts of how people - typically people overclocking -
can get the card into some mode from which it behaves differently
regardless
of the driver configuration. I'm just trying to understand if there are
any configuration values held on the card itself that can be reinitialized
on the hardware indepdent of the software configuration.

I know how to rebuild everything from scratch, and what I am experiencing
is
different behavior of the card regardless of software configuration.

 

[CHANGE USERNAME TO westes]

Where on the ATI web site do they keep the latest BIOS for the retail ATI
9800 Pro cards?

 

[GMAN]

I've read various accounts of how people - typically people overclocking -
can get the card into some mode from which it behaves differently regardless
of the driver configuration. I'm just trying to understand if there are
any configuration values held on the card itself that can be reinitialized
on the hardware indepdent of the software configuration.

Its called "You overclocked so high you fried the memory and core of the
card"!!!

I know how to rebuild everything from scratch, and what I am experiencing is
different behavior of the card regardless of software configuration.

See above

 

[CHANGE USERNAME TO westes]

I never overclocked.