Does it matter what type of chip it is? Mine's a Mezza and the site only has Samsung

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"Does it matter what type of chip it is? Mine's a Mezza and the site only has Samsung" Yes it does, very much so. If the Samsung model the utility is for and the Mezza model of the flash chip are clones of each other, same programming instructions required, it wouldn't matter - but they're probably not. "...( I used www.techpowerup.com's flashing utility with the Sapphire 9600 Non Pro 256mb bios, am I screwed" You might be. You should never use a bios update for another model, unless you have confirmed information the bioses are compatible with each other. If you can use the same or an equivalent compatible flash utility on a floppy, you may be able to load the original bios back on again and have it as it was before, if you are very lucky. "Well even before the flash I had problems- the start up was messedup, and Windows was flaky in the graphics department, is it just the driver." If you had lines or patterns or scrambled displays, the Sapphire drivers won't screw up the display like that, especially if they weren'y doing that before - that can only be from your video card being defective, or from it not being inserted properly in its slot. Newer drivers won't help. Neither will flashing the card's bios. It can get that way from damage from sources external to the card - such as a bad power supply putting out too much voltage, or a power spike or surge if you weren't protected from that, or from too much heat inside the case.

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if the screen is messed up on the post screens before it boots into windows, then it is not a driver issue as at that point the drivers have not kicked in- the drivers only start up each time the computer is going into windows.

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