Do NOT touch the fan or clock adjustments.
You won't get back into windows without a bunch of work.
the driver reads the signature in the BIOS, and if it doesn't match, no bootie into windows.
As for the voltages, on the clock settings tab, click the gpu register button to change voltages, NOT the drop downs under the clocks.
one of them, usually vid 3 or 4, if you have it will be the one to change.
it should be at 1100 right now.
To start, you could go 1175 (6970 default) and see how the card runs, and how the OC's go, then later, decide if you want to go higher.
gpuz won't change, since it's not reading off the card, but AB will show the changed voltage.
This guy clearly doesn't know how to use RBE and should not be using it at all. Everything he's said so far pertaining to RBE has been FUD.
It's exactly as I said before, DO NOT use RBE to find your overclock. EVER! If you flash settings too high or too low, you won't be able to boot into windows. (and no, it has nothing to do with the driver reading the signature in BIOS; sometimes you need to reinstall the driver after a flash, but the card
should still boot to windows if your clock, voltage, and fan settings are right - that is, as long as the card isn't overheating, overclocked beyond stability, overvolted, etc.
This is why I said earlier to ALWAYS use software (MSI AB or other) to find your final stable overclock (RBE edits the Firmware of the card, and hence is not a purely software solution. It changes the programming on the card, or at least the programming on the card is changed when you flash the BIOS file to the card). After that's done, and you're sure it's 100% safe and stable, only then should you EVER touch RBE. Even then you need to check and doublecheck that you've changed the settings correctly before you flash, or when you restart, the card won't work (bricked).
It is, of course, 100% safe to use RBE to
read about how the card is currently set up. In fact you can change anything you want, and nothing is done to the card whatsoever
until you flash the card (this is when the changes are applied to the BIOS in the card itself, and if the settings are wrong - boy are you in trouble. Even if you flash the card and it seems like everything is fine, you won't know until you reboot, that's when the card reads its bios chip and applies the settings you've programmed into it)
one superquick question, when I download msi ab, I get to files
1 is called afterburner setup and the other is called kombustor setup....
what's kombuster?
Kombustor is a stress test I believe, haven't used it myself.
what is your voltage for you card? and I have 2 setup files when I download MSi ab... one's called afterburner setup and the other is called kombustor setup
do I need to install both?
Edit button mate, don't double post.
in order to run msi AB do I have to shutdown CCC processes?
No. Having both CCC itself (specifically the overdrive section) open while AB is running can cause issues, though. There are specific reasons to disable CCC's background processes if you're attempting to do some odd things, but for what you're doing, you should be fine.
I see there's a "shader clock speed" option in MSI AB... Do I leave that greyed out or am I to unlock it and adjust it?
Unless the 6XXX series is different than all previous ATi cards (and they could be), then Shader clocks are locked to core clock and cannot be adjusted seperately like on nVidia cards.
oops... one little problem... MSI AB doesn't let me overclock my clock speeds further than the 6950 overdrive defaults (840/1325) why is that?
There's a *.ini file setting that you need to change, I don't remember what exactly, google it for the exact steps.
could that be because CCC is running?
Use the edit button, again. This doesn't need to be a separate post, and no, CCC won't interfere with that (in my experience)
With a 6950 modded bios which only has the unlocked shaders... Is it possible to raise the clock speeds higher than the CCC overdrive default limits for the radeon 6950???
After unlocking the radeon 6950 (via modded bios) I tried MSI afterburner to raise my clocks a little higher than the stock max (840/1325), but I can't because the slider won't let me go further in AB...
Must I mod the Bios again but this time via RBE, in order to change the clock limits??? pls help
No, it can be done that way, but there's just a single setting in Afterburner's files that you need to change. Repeatedly reposting a reworded version of the same thing you asked before is just going to piss people off who are trying to help you. Edit the original question to add your expanded query.
ALSO MSI AB does not alter the BIOS is any way, neither does the graphics driver, or CCC. I'm not sure if you meant you thought that they did, or just were talking about when you unlocked your shaders. It's important to know the difference.
Learn to use the edit button to add to your previous posts, or you'll have the righteous fury of the moderators raining down on you soon
From the stickied rules post at the top of this forum: I've highlighted the specific issues I see here.
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