Axle Radeon RX 580 8GB GDDR5 Classic mess…

[Liongreek]

…as per title, I bought this card for my low range system. Had a 4gb card on, figured I see some difference. Card is new.
Could not shake the code 43 problem no matter what I did. So I followed instructions an flashed the bios. I checked with the model as instructed in all videos, to the best of my knowledge I did as required.
Here’s the mess up. I got the black screen, pc was working but the monitor was not getting any signal. Took the card off, tried the onboard m/b display, nothing. Installed the old card, nothing.
Any ideas what damage I caused? I thought that if I screwed the card up, I could revert to the old one.
Oh, and Merry Christmas. Mine doesn’t seem to be merry at all…

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Knowing your full system spec would be a great help for starters.

- off the cuff diagnosis tells me you need to reset the bios by taking the little button battery on the motherboard out for a minute or two while the system is unplugged from the mains. After a minute or two put the battery back, plug the PC in with the new card and see what happens.

But knowing your system spec would help a lot lot more.

 

[eidairaman1]

…as per title, I bought this card for my low range system. Had a 4gb card on, figured I see some difference. Card is new.
Could not shake the code 43 problem no matter what I did. So I followed instructions an flashed the bios. I checked with the model as instructed in all videos, to the best of my knowledge I did as required.
Here’s the mess up. I got the black screen, pc was working but the monitor was not getting any signal. Took the card off, tried the onboard m/b display, nothing. Installed the old card, nothing.
Any ideas what damage I caused? I thought that if I screwed the card up, I could revert to the old one.
Oh, and Merry Christmas. Mine doesn’t seem to be merry at all…

Pull the heatsink off the card, get pics of all ram chips surrounding the gpu die, then a close up of 1 ram chip, then a pic of the white stickers located on the back of the card please. Post all pics here.

Where did you get this card?

 

[micropage7]

Axle Radeon RX 580 8GB​

but wait, you stated Had a 4gb card on
you flash it 8gb with 4gb or something

 

[Liongreek]

Hey people, happy holidays to everyone.
Here are my specs.

ASROCK Z370M PRO4 RETAIL m/b
CPU INTEL CORE I5-8600K 3.60GHZ LGA1151 - BOX
PSU ZALMAN ZM650-EBT 650W 80 PLUS GOLD (PER.815020)
48 gigs RAM DDR4 2666Mhz (2X8+1X32)
As I mentioned, the graphics card I bought is the Axle Radeon RX580 Classic 8GB. Bought it new from a store here in Greece.

Axle Radeon RX 580 8GB​

but wait, you stated Had a 4gb card on
you flash it 8gb with 4gb or something

I followed instructions (again, to the best of my knowledge), identifying the make of the card with TechPowerUp GPU-Z and found the compatible bios for the 8gb card I have. Then I used the AMDvdflash to flash the card. So far, I managed to run the pc with the onboard card. When the flashed card is installed, I get no monitor signal, neither from the card, nor from the onboard one. Onboard works only the graphics card is not connected, don’t know if this is actually SOP. Apologies for any terminology lapse, not very tech savvy…
Gonna plug the old 4gb card to see if it’s working now after the m/b battery reset.

Edit: old card works fine, so I guess it’s not a m/b thing(?)

 

[eidairaman1]

Hey people, happy holidays to everyone.
Here are my specs.

ASROCK Z370M PRO4 RETAIL m/b
CPU INTEL CORE I5-8600K 3.60GHZ LGA1151 - BOX
PSU ZALMAN ZM650-EBT 650W 80 PLUS GOLD (PER.815020)
48 gigs RAM DDR4 2666Mhz (2X8+1X32)
As I mentioned, the graphics card I bought is the Axle Radeon RX580 Classic 8GB. Bought it new from a store here in Greece.

I followed instructions (again, to the best of my knowledge), identifying the make of the card with TechPowerUp GPU-Z and found the compatible bios for the 8gb card I have. Then I used the AMDvdflash to flash the card. So far, I managed to run the pc with the onboard card. When the flashed card is installed, I get no monitor signal, neither from the card, nor from the onboard one. Onboard works only the graphics card is not connected, don’t know if this is actually SOP. Apologies for any terminology lapse, not very tech savvy…
Gonna plug the old 4gb card to see if it’s working now after the m/b battery reset.

I'm going to write this again, now please give the info requested.

Pull the heatsink off the card, get pics of all ram chips surrounding the gpu die, then a close up of 1 ram chip, then a pic of the white stickers located on the back of the card. Post all pics here.

I am trying to help you restore the card instead of you placing random bios on the card.

@Liongreek

 

[Liongreek]

Pull the heatsink off the card, get pics of all ram chips surrounding the gpu die, then a close up of 1 ram chip, then a pic of the white stickers located on the back of the card please. Post all pics here.

Where did you get this card?

Card was bought new from a tech store here in Greece

 

[eidairaman1]

Card was bought new from a tech store here in Greece

Yeah thats an 8GB card for sure, Hynix AJR ram is being used

From what I can see if that card was brand new and not a refurb the stenciling on each ram chip would be bright white, not already fading out anyways let me look up some data on each.

Clock Speed is 1286/1750.

Could be a 2048 SP version (570) and not the 2304 Version

I have a suspicion of your card being the 2048 sp model due to searching your card, finding it on alibaba and it states 1286MHz /7000MT(1750MHz x 8)

Try 1 of these 3 bios below:

AMD RX 580 VBIOS

8 GB GDDR5, 1286 MHz GPU, 1750 MHz Memory

www.techpowerup.com

AFOX RX 580 VBIOS

8 GB GDDR5, 1286 MHz GPU, 1750 MHz Memory

www.techpowerup.com

afox RX 580 VBIOS

8 GB GDDR5, 1286 MHz GPU, 1750 MHz Memory

www.techpowerup.com

Click to expand...

Download atiflash/amdvbflash 2.93
Go here https://www.techpowerup.com/download/ati-atiflash/

Then look for Version 4.68, underneath 4.68 you will see a link to show older version, click that and you should see version 2.93

Then

Follow these steps carefully:

1. Open your "C:" drive in Windows, create a new folder, call it atiflash.

2. Extract the contents of atiflash_293.zip to the "C:\atiflash" folder

3. Find the bios file you downloaded and rename the bios file to ax580.rom

4. Move ax580.rom to the "C:\atiflash" folder

5. Open the start menu, type cmd, when cmd.exe appears right click it and hit "Run as administrator"

6. At the command prompt type in cd\ and press enter until only C:\> is on the screen.

7. Type in cd/atiflash and press enter, you should see C:\atiflash>

7a. At C:\atiflash> type in amdvbflash.exe -i to know which number the gpu is labled (0, 1, 2)

8. At the C:\atiflash> prompt type in
amdvbflash.exe -unlockrom 0 (or 1, 2)
(there is a space between the e and -unlockrom and 0)(0 is the number zero)
press enter and you will be prompted that the "ROM Unlocked"

9. At the C:\atiflash> prompt type in
amdvbflash.exe -f -p 0 ax580.rom (or 1, 2)
(there is a space between the .exe and -f, and a space between -f and -p and 0)press enter.

Follow directions on screen and if flash is successful exit the command prompt and restart, windows should show up on screen

@Liongreek

 

[Liongreek]

Yeah thats an 8GB card for sure, Hynix AJR ram is being used

From what I can see if that card was brand new and not a refurb the stenciling on each ram chip would be bright white, not already fading out anyways let me look up some data on each.

Clock Speed is 1286/1750.

Could be a 2048 SP version (570) and not the 2304 Version

I have a suspicion of your card being the 2048 sp model due to searching your card, finding it on alibaba and it states 1286MHz /7000MT(1750MHz x 8)

Try 1 of these 3 bios below:

AMD RX 580 VBIOS

8 GB GDDR5, 1286 MHz GPU, 1750 MHz Memory

www.techpowerup.com

AFOX RX 580 VBIOS

8 GB GDDR5, 1286 MHz GPU, 1750 MHz Memory

www.techpowerup.com

afox RX 580 VBIOS

8 GB GDDR5, 1286 MHz GPU, 1750 MHz Memory

www.techpowerup.com

Download atiflash/amdvbflash 2.93
Go here https://www.techpowerup.com/download/ati-atiflash/

Then look for Version 4.68, underneath 4.68 you will see a link to show older version, click that and you should see version 2.93

Then

Follow these steps carefully:

1. Open your "C:" drive in Windows, create a new folder, call it atiflash.

2. Extract the contents of atiflash_293.zip to the "C:\atiflash" folder

3. Find the bios file you downloaded and rename the bios file to ax580.rom

4. Move ax580.rom to the "C:\atiflash" folder

5. Open the start menu, type cmd, when cmd.exe appears right click it and hit "Run as administrator"

6. At the command prompt type in cd\ and press enter until only C:\> is on the screen.

7. Type in cd/atiflash and press enter, you should see C:\atiflash>

7a. At C:\atiflash> type in amdvbflash.exe -i to know which number the gpu is labled (0, 1, 2)

8. At the C:\atiflash> prompt type in
amdvbflash.exe -unlockrom 0 (or 1, 2)
(there is a space between the e and -unlockrom and 0)(0 is the number zero)
press enter and you will be prompted that the "ROM Unlocked"

9. At the C:\atiflash> prompt type in
amdvbflash.exe -f -p 0 ax580.rom (or 1, 2)
(there is a space between the .exe and -f, and a space between -f and -p and 0)press enter.

Follow directions on screen and if flash is successful exit the command prompt and restart, windows should show up on screen

@Liongreek

First of all, I appreciate the time and effort, really, thanks so much.
As I said, not very tech savvy…am I correct to assume that in order to flash the bios, the card must be connected to the m/b? As I stated, each time I connect the card, I do not have any kind of signal to the monitor.

 

[eidairaman1]

Ok plug your monitor into the video out port on the motherboard.

Then put your card in the top most pcie slot.
Boot up and then follow those commands.

 

[Liongreek]

Ok plug your monitor into the video out port on the motherboard.

Then put your card in the top most pcie slot.
Boot up and then follow those commands.

Already tried that, result is the same. As long as the card is inserted, even if the monitor is on the m/b output, no signal.

 

[eidairaman1]

Already tried that, result is the same. As long as the card is inserted, even if the monitor is on the m/b output, no signal.

Have you done a bios reset/clear cmos? (Read your motherboard manual). If it comes on after that then you can flash, if it doesn't the card is dead and must be replaced. At that point I would buy a brand new RX6400 or 6500.

 

[Liongreek]

Have you done a bios reset/clear cmos? (Read your motherboard manual). If it comes on after that then you can flash, if it doesn't the card is dead and must be replaced. At that point I would buy a brand new RX6400 or 6500.

Will do now.
Again, thanks for all the info, I let everyone know of the results

 

[eidairaman1]

Will do now.
Again, thanks for all the info, I let everyone know of the results

Well what happened?

 

[Liongreek]

Problem solved!

Your instructions worked to the letter.

Since the GPU was badly flashed by me, I changed the m/b BIOS settings so that the system would boot from the onboard card with the RX580 installed. System booted normally, followed your instructions to the letter and voila, everything works!

Once more, thank you for your help people, especially @eidairaman1 for the patience and the accurate instructions...

 

[eidairaman1]

Problem solved!

Your instructions worked to the letter.

Since the GPU was badly flashed by me, I changed the m/b BIOS settings so that the system would boot from the onboard card with the RX580 installed. System booted normally, followed your instructions to the letter and voila, everything works!

Once more, thank you for your help people, especially @eidairaman1 for the patience and the accurate instructions...

Im glad it worked.

By the way that gpu is the RX 580 2048 SP/RX570

Not the

RX580 2304SP.

Merry Christmas