Please can you help my son

[OneMoar]

it doesn't matter what the card is if atiflash -i or isn't listing it then the bootblock on the bios image is trashed and he will need to pinshort filename doesn't matter either I doubt changing slots will make it register if its not

 

[eidairaman1]

I won't use yours sorry , why (states 290 and 4gb) mines 290x 8gb.

I apologize. I was thinking you had the exact same card as I did but with the lower Core Clock.

Don't use my BIOS files as it will hamper the card further due to the shaders and ram amount being different

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Welcome to TPU!

Can not "someone" (@CAPSLOCKSTUCK ) go there, use a GPU of his own which is NOT similar to the GPU in his case and flash the damn thing with the bios of the other identical card? Seems the easiest way to overwrite the wrong bios of GPU #1.
This seems totally solvable to me.

if i was physically able to offer more help i would. Its a lovely drive from me to him, a journey i made 6 days a week for about 3 years, i worked on the bypass around his town and another big road job in a place called Ffostrasol. Unfortunately i stopped driving a couple of years ago and a 3 hour round trip on the bus would cripple me for days.


If you cant wait for Sapphire or they are unresponsive ring -01267 221661 ........he is the only guy i would trust locally and he is in Carmarthen. He may not take the job on but you can trust him not to "just have a go"

If you want to give me a ring today call my mobile...........0**00***109

 

[mcborge]

I can't thank you enough for all your help, I have been a single father for 17 years since their mother walked out leaving em to raise three disabled sons alone Stephen is still at home

He can not afford a new card so when he is about today he will try what you have all been so kind to take the time to post, if it doesn't work my only hope will be to find someone who may be able to do it for him and pay them, he gets his Disability Living Allowance in 2 weeks so could afford perhaps to pay someone something.

Once again my very sincere thanks to you all



He saved up for a year from his disability living allowance to buy his ideal computer, and before his Grandad died he also helped




Will show him this when he comes in

High JR1, I've been reading your posted requests for help. I wish i could offer your son some help but i have no experience with amd cards and it seems you are in very good hands already. I just wanted to say that i am also a single farther (widower) and i have a daughter with special needs and have raised her on my own since she was three, she is now 23 and she also lives on her computer but she doesn't have the will to tinker with her machine as she has the learning age of a ten y/o. I hope you don't mind me dropping you this message, we carer single fathers are such a minority i just had to reach out. I really hope your son's graphics card issue gets resolved for him as i know all too well how much such things can mean to a person with learning disabilities.
All the best to you sir and to your son.

 

[Tatty_Two]

If I was not going on holiday next week for 2 weeks I would suggest you post the card to me (I am in the Midlands) and I would try and sort it, if the problem still is not solved by the time I get back (18 Feb) feel free to message me if you would like to give it a try and I will let you know my address, 2nd class recorded would probably only cost you 3 or 4 quid to get it to me.

 

[fullinfusion]

it doesn't matter what the card is if atiflash -i or isn't listing it then the bootblock on the bios image is trashed and he will need to pinshort filename doesn't matter either I doubt changing slots will make it register if its not

ppl are here to offer advise. I posted something simple as a simple BIOS name rather your long drawn out BIOS name.
Another thing.. I had a bricked card to and it was a 290.. All programs except the one I posted wouldn't even register the card or see it.. I offer advice and nothing more.

And @eidairaman1 no need to apologize. It was just a mistake and you were trying to help..

 

[eidairaman1]

ppl are here to offer advise. I posted something simple as a simple BIOS name rather your long drawn out BIOS name.
Another thing.. I had a bricked card to and it was a 290.. All programs except the one I posted wouldn't even register the card or see it.. I offer advice and nothing more.

And @eidairaman1 no need to apologize. It was just a mistake and you were trying to help..

Yeah its rare to see a 290/290X vapor X Here. The coolers are almost the same but the vrm stacks are what makes it totslly different

 

[Tatty_Two]

Yeah its rare to see a 290/290X vapor X Here. The coolers are almost the same but the vrm stacks are what makes it totslly different

I has one too and the cooler is just out of this world.

 

[OneMoar]

ppl are here to offer advise. I posted something simple as a simple BIOS name rather your long drawn out BIOS name.
Another thing.. I had a bricked card to and it was a 290.. All programs except the one I posted wouldn't even register the card or see it.. I offer advice and nothing more.

And @eidairaman1 no need to apologize. It was just a mistake and you were trying to help..

the problem is we have know way of knowing if atiflash even sees the bios because hes not following proper procedure and just randomly typing commands NO thats not how you trouble shoot

first thing first ensure the atiflash -i accually lists the card > adjust command accordingly don't go moving stuff around and changing cards from slot to slot until you know that atiflash can accually see the card the worst thing you can do when helping somebody that doesn't know what they are doing is give them a bunch of random slightly differing commands to try

I keep all the filenames intact for the sake of copy pasta I said he could rename it if it wants it doesn't matter what the file name of the .rom is

@op as I said run atiflash -i if it lists the card proceed to step 2

the syntax is this -f forces the flash -p # indicates what device to attempt to flash -unlockrom unlocks the flash chip for writing

so atiflash -unlockrom THEN atiflash -f -p 0 Hawaii.rom would wriite Hawaii.rom to device 0

if atiflash -i indicates that the card is ' 1' change the above command

if it doesn't list the card don't panic you can try anouther secondary card but usually that means the bootblock for the bios chip is trashed and you will need to pin short it to get it available for writing.

this is because that section of the bios rom responsible for talking to the rest of the bios and defining what the bios chip is how big it is and what write interface it supports if its trashed or woefully incorrect it won't report to atiflash and is essentially dead to the world. in my experience dual legacy/uefi boards are especially prone to this due to the way the bios image is segmented if you flash a non segmented image

And then only option is to try a pin-short or a full manual reprogramming using a flash programmer

but fear not if you find a decent repair shop they should be-able to reflash the chip for you just make sure you specify the will need to have a flash programmer

 

[JR1]

OMYGOD people
the card has a bios switch

press it and you will be good to go its the S button on the side JESUS H Christ
come on at least bother to check that the card is dual bios before making him jump though hoops
once the card is booted and you have the correct bios with the machine ON press the switch again and re-flash the correct rom with atiflash -unlockrom 0 and atiflash -f -p 0 filename.rom

@JR1
and I am sorry but please just do it your self because if he manages to brick the backup bios then you really will be done

Yep did that already, BOTH bioses were over written

But thank you

 

[eidairaman1]

does atiflash -ai list the card

Im wondering if he needs to set the bios switch to csm first and repro it with a csm bios. Then switch it on and install the uefi bios. Even try it in another slot...

@JR1, I feel it would be in your interest to have a Local PC shop that knows how to update bios on motherboards try to do this for you and pay them otherwise if the card is out of warranty check your email for anything Sapphire related and request a repair and pay for it. I am only saying this because that is not a cheap card by anymeans unlike a GT220 or a GT710. Your son really goofed up.

 

[OneMoar]

the card is only worth 200 us at the top end
you could replace it with a RX480 which would be slightly faster and use half the power for ~240

you need to specify when talking to the shop that the bios chip will need to be externally reprogrammed or replaced

 

[dorsetknob]

the card is only worth 200 us at the top end
you could replace it with a RX480 which would be slightly faster and use half the power for ~240

Again YOU SEEM TO LACK THE UNDERSTANDING of the Situation
From Earlier in the thread

He can not afford a new card so when he is about today he will try what you have all been so kind to take the time to post, if it doesn't work my only hope will be to find someone who may be able to do it for him and pay them, he gets his Disability Living Allowance in 2 weeks so could afford perhaps to pay someone something.

Please Read/ Remember and above all else THINK and ENGAGE BRAIN before you Post

 

[SanityGaming]

No contact from sapphire, been about 1-weeks.+

 

[P4-630]

You could get an RX480 and just don't flash it.......

 

[Kanan]

You could get an RX480 and just don't flash it.......

He's using a crossfire rig that would not make much sense, I believe.

 

[Mr.Scott]

Sapphire is not going to help you. Don't waste your time waiting for them.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Agreed on the Sapphire thing.


The young chap rang me yesterday. His dad is going to ring the number i gave him in our local town and if that is no good i think he will take @Tatty_One up on his offer.

 

[SanityGaming]

He's using a crossfire rig that would not make much sense, I believe.

That and the 480 is slightly less performing in certain areas than the 290x

 

[eidairaman1]

Agreed on the Sapphire thing.


The young chap rang me yesterday. His dad is going to ring the number i gave him in our local town and if that is no good i think he will take @Tatty_One up on his offer.

Anymore news?

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Anymore news?

Not from me.

i passed on the address and where to park to get to the shop in our local town.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

Tried renaming the bios to .bin?

I just flashed a UEFI bios on my xfx r9 290 and renamed the bios file to bios.bin. I was using atiwinflash

https://www.techpowerup.com/download/ati-atiflash/

 

[KoO]

Sorry the about your Son's card. This may help maybe.

Unbricking Your Card

• Put the stock rom on your bootable USB drive.
• Get a spare card, and throw it in the primary PCIe slot in your computer.
• Put your 290 in another slot, with it switched to the faulty bios.
• Put your video cables on your backup card and boot from your USB drive
• Type this in: atiflash.exe -i
• This will show you what adapter number your card is. It should say Hawaii, along with the card you're using to boot.
• Whatever your adapter number is, remember it because you'll need it for the following command
• Now, type in atiflash.exe -f -p x stockrom.rom
• x will be the adapter number of your card.
• Give it about 5sec. reboot your computer, switch your 290 back to primary, and you should be good.

Bios link only one available = and has already been posted.

https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/166240/sapphire-r9290x-8192-141023

If it is still not working maybe this link can help in some way. Good Luck

http://www.overclock.net/t/1443242/the-r9-290-290x-unlock-thread#

 

[SanityGaming]

Not from me.

i passed on the address and where to park to get to the shop in our local town.

The computer shop said in short "nope" that's not something they can help with, now i have to wait till the 15th for the moderator to come back from holiday.

 

[JR1]

B L I M Y..................................... finally................................ (no not working yet, but just heard from Sapphire)

Jeremy :

For 299-1E282-101SA R9 290X (Hawaii XT) VX OC LGC(UEFI) PE3 512B 8GB GDDR5 DL-DVI-D+DL-DVI-D+HDMI+DP ATX
Memory : HYNIX H5GC4H24MFR-T2C / HYNIX H5GQ4H24MFR-R2C
MP Bios282X08H0.O41&282X08H0.OU1)


I also attached the flash tool that you can flash under windows.


1. Launch into window desktop

2. Right click to run as administrator of Atiwinflash

3, Press "Save" to save current VBIOS.

4. Press "load" button to load the target VBIOS.

5. Press "Program" button start to flash the VBIOS.

Done and then reboot the PC.

After booting into windows , please switch the VBIOS to another position and then repeat step 1 to 5 to try again.

Thanks.