Stanley85
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System Name | Stanley85 |
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Processor | AMD Phenom X4 955 Black Edition |
Motherboard | ASrock 870 Extreme 3 |
Cooling | Arctic Cooling Alpine 64 Pro |
Memory | 16GB Corsair Vengeance Black DDR3-1600 DIMM CL9 Quad Kit |
Video Card(s) | 2048MB XFX Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition Double Dissipation Edition Aktiv PCIe 3.0 x16 |
Storage | Samsung SSD 830 128GB |
Display(s) | LG Flatron 24" |
Case | Zalman Z11 Plus |
Audio Device(s) | Onboard |
Power Supply | 800 Watt Super Flower Golden Green Modular 80+ Gold |
Hi Folks,
as there are many wrong-flashed cards out there and I fixed mine with the solution by wizard I would say thank you wizard
it helped me to restore my card when all other options were gone.
Before was:
- wrong flashed card (Tahiti LE bios on a Pitcairn card)
- adapter not found by Atiflash, only 1 of the two cards found
- no method of forcing in any order helped out
What I have done:
- install second VGA adapter (PCIe, PCI or IGP)
- remove XFX Radeon HD7870 DD Black Edition card
- locate flash-chip on the back of the XFX Radeon HD7870 DD Black Edition (see picture)
- Google for the 3 lines on the chip and make sure its a flash reference
- solder a thin long enough wire from pin 1 (small dot in the edge) to pin 8 opposite side => this will disable chipselect and the adapter does not ask for the flashchip-content
- reinstall the card and boot to dos (i guess you have the usb method with your flashfiles)
- check if atiflash can detect the card => atiflash -i
- if atiflash has detected the card keept the adapter num
- cut the wire while on dos promt
- force flash the original bios => atiflash -f -p [adapter] [biosfile]
- reboot
- enjoy your card
Once again thanks to Wizard you saved me 180€ which is current market price for the card
If you have any question or need the original bios of the XFX Radeon HD7870 Black Edition just ask me.
Greetings Stanley
as there are many wrong-flashed cards out there and I fixed mine with the solution by wizard I would say thank you wizard

Before was:
- wrong flashed card (Tahiti LE bios on a Pitcairn card)
- adapter not found by Atiflash, only 1 of the two cards found
- no method of forcing in any order helped out
What I have done:
- install second VGA adapter (PCIe, PCI or IGP)
- remove XFX Radeon HD7870 DD Black Edition card
- locate flash-chip on the back of the XFX Radeon HD7870 DD Black Edition (see picture)
- Google for the 3 lines on the chip and make sure its a flash reference
- solder a thin long enough wire from pin 1 (small dot in the edge) to pin 8 opposite side => this will disable chipselect and the adapter does not ask for the flashchip-content
- reinstall the card and boot to dos (i guess you have the usb method with your flashfiles)
- check if atiflash can detect the card => atiflash -i
- if atiflash has detected the card keept the adapter num
- cut the wire while on dos promt
- force flash the original bios => atiflash -f -p [adapter] [biosfile]
- reboot
- enjoy your card

Once again thanks to Wizard you saved me 180€ which is current market price for the card
If you have any question or need the original bios of the XFX Radeon HD7870 Black Edition just ask me.
Greetings Stanley