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6970 bios flash gone wrong

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rdz5008

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I tried tweaking the BIOS on my XFX 6970 to make it the same specs as a black edition, well, i rebooted and now I have "standard VGA graphics adapter" and I can't use any tools to flash my video cards BIOS back to stock. I am sad. Please help!
 
Use winflash in dos. Or you can try searching for new hardware in device manager
 
Use the DOS flash utility. Flashing VGA or Motherboard BIOS's in Windows is stupid. Unless the card is physically broken, you will always be able to flash it. In this case, you're lucky, because you still get a picture with it, so you dont have to use another GPU to flash it.

Just use the DOS utility to put the stock BIOS back on. You did make a backup before you flashed it, right?
 
yeah i have the original bios. but I go to dos, and type in atiflash -p -f 0 xfx.bin, and it tells me adapter not found
 
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i cant tell from your posts, did you actually boot into DOS? or did you still run it within the GUI
 
Why even flash to that bios? You get like 3 FPS maybe.

Do what Crucible1001 suggests.
 
Total suckage.

Why not just use a software like Afterburner or Trixx, rather than mess with the BIOS?

I would call XFX support, they are pretty good guys and I am sure will TRY and help you out. I'd sure ask for a second tier guy though, the phone-answering guy might he not-so-willing to help.:p
 
Ive done tests with my Tri-Fire setup and overclocking the all 3 cards yields very little difference, you will never notice it unless benchmarking but in games its almost worthless in most instances. I have a friend that recovered his card from a bad flash, im waiting on him to call me back and walk me thru his process on recovering it and ill let you know.
 
sent them a support ticket explaining what happened, and hopefully they help me out.

the thing that blows, is the card is 2 weeks old. One reason I tried adding a custom bios to it was the fan was very quirky... probably should've told XFX first, but it would randomly spin up sitting at idle in the desktop, and scream really loud, then I would be playing a game, and it would barely spin all the time and run slow, then I'd check the temp, it's at like 89c with the fan at low RPM
 
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i'd really like to avoid disassembling the card until XFX gets back to me hehe
 
rdz5008 said:
i'd really like to avoid disassembling the card until XFX gets back to me hehe
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You didn't read the bottom of the "first" post. No disassembly required.

Quote from bottom first posting "If you still have trouble, boot in safe mode, open up the device manager and uninstall the bricked card from the list of display adapters. Reboot into windows and you should now be able to flash the card back to it's original BIOS. (I bricked my XFX 6950 reference card and tested that I could recover from a bricked card, and I could. I had the dual BIOS switch had things gone wrong, but this was a good test incase you do this without a dual BIOS switch)." quoted from: 'bystander'
 
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The ATIFlash DOS program should have an option to force a BIOS flash even if the adapter IDs do not match. I don't remember the command line argument for it, but you should be able to look it up with the help feature. I used that to flash a Visiontek card with an ASUS bios. Try that.
 
Do you have another video card to try to flash from? Even with dead cards I was able to flash the bios
 
Yea I tried with mty 8800 gts in slot 1, and 6970 in slot 2. Pretty sure I did it right.
 
put it in the oven:rolleyes: no seriuos shouldn't you have used RBE for a fan profile?
 
i've been trying to retrace my steps, and i think i edited the powercolor bios instead of the XFX bios when I used RBE to change the fan speeds etc... i think that's where the issue lies.
 
I could be wrong but does this 6970 have the dual bios? Couldn't you just switch to the second bios and flash from that? Again, I could be missing some info.
 
It's done. End of story. I fubared a 7950 flash years back. No way to recover from "adapter not found". I researched everywhere, including "badflash.com". I even tried getting help from w1zzard. He said nothing can be done.

They are going to know it's from a bad flash. I would try to RMA it anyway. Say some type of static discharge beyond your control must have ruined the BIOS. They might take mercy on you if you if lie well enough that they would find it amusing and replace the card.

*edit* I believe the EEPROM has probably been corrupted or erased.
 
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spacing guild said:
I would try to RMA it anyway. Say some type of static discharge beyond your control must have ruined the BIOS. They might take mercy on you if you if lie well enough that they would find it amusing and replace the card.
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If I said what I thought of your statement I would surely get banned. :mad:
 
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