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A REALLY bad BIOS flash

AlfieHowell2007

AlfieHowell2007

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Hey everyone,
So I reflashed my newly bought Sapphire RX 570 8GB Nitro +, for me to plug it back in to see it not get past POST, usually I get a beep to tell me it powers on normally, nothing happened, no sound or sign of life, besides the lights on the GPU coming on and the fans spinning. At this point I have tried everything I can find on the internet, that includes trying to reflash by using iGPU, using FreeDOS to reflash for the PC to not even detect the GPU. What I did to try and counter this was (stupidly) delete all AMD drivers, which I fear made it worse. Help on this would be incredible.
 
AlfieHowell2007 said:
Hey everyone,
So I reflashed my newly bought Sapphire RX 570 8GB Nitro +, for me to plug it back in to see it not get past POST, usually I get a beep to tell me it powers on normally, nothing happened, no sound or sign of life, besides the lights on the GPU coming on and the fans spinning. At this point I have tried everything I can find on the internet, that includes trying to reflash by using iGPU, using FreeDOS to reflash for the PC to not even detect the GPU. What I did to try and counter this was (stupidly) delete all AMD drivers, which I fear made it worse. Help on this would be incredible.
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Chillax man.

Start off with a picture of the white stickers located on the back of the card or side of the heatsink near the pcie blade.

Then boot up on the igp and get a gpu-z screenshot please.
 
(un)installing the drivers won't hurt the card, at least you didn't make it worse.
 
eidairaman1 said:
Chillax man.

Start off with a picture of the white stickers located on the back of the card or side of the heatsink near the pcie blade.


Then boot up on the igp and get a gpu-z screenshot please.
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Here’s the sticker and it only shows the iGPU in GPU-Z
 

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Because you can't provide us a picture taken from GPU-z where we could see the producer of the VRAM from your card,
we will need to ask you to open the card and take a close up picture with one of the memory chips.
We need that picture to be clear in order to see the exact code from memory.
After that for sure we will find you a BIOS that matches 100% with your card ID sub ID and memory code.
Cheers
 
impero said:
Because you can't provide us a picture taken from GPU-z where we could see the producer of the VRAM from your card,
we will need to ask you to open the card and take a close up picture with one of the memory chips.
We need that picture to be clear in order to see the exact code from memory.
After that for sure we will find you a BIOS that matches 100% with your card ID sub ID and memory code.
Cheers
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Ok 11266-09
1340/1750
MJR

Give me a moment

List of old bios
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TechPowerUp

Extensive repository of graphics card BIOS image files. Our database covers submissions categorized by GPU vendor, type, and board partner variant.
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eidairaman1 said:
Ok 11266-09
1340/1750
MJR

Give me a moment

List of old bios
www.techpowerup.com

TechPowerUp

Extensive repository of graphics card BIOS image files. Our database covers submissions categorized by GPU vendor, type, and board partner variant.
www.techpowerup.com www.techpowerup.com
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Thanks, I’ll update later

I can't boot up ATIflash as it says that it can't detect a discrete ATI video Card
 
Try in another motherboard
 
Is there any chance to find a friend with a motherboard and try it there ?
I would start with that.
 
impero said:
Is there any chance to find a friend with a motherboard and try it there ?
I would start with that.
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I spoke to him and he said no because it's a pain to get into his pc, so I'm going to give this BIOS USB a shot once it arrives
 
AlfieHowell2007 said:
I spoke to him and he said no because it's a pain to get into his pc, so I'm going to give this BIOS USB a shot once it arrives
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Ok please keep on with us
 
So I got the thing, It finally arrived from China. I tried using it, but when flashing, it said Chip with contents are in disagreement. If anyone knows what to do, I'd appreciate some help.
 
Take screenshots/pics

AlfieHowell2007 said:
So I got the thing, It finally arrived from China. I tried using it, but when flashing, it said Chip with contents are in disagreement. If anyone knows what to do, I'd appreciate some help.
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@impero
 
I am not aware of that error.
You are talking about flash programmer? External one ?
As @eidairaman1 said earlier, please take a picsture of the steps you took, and what messages you received.
 
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This is the tutorial I followed, and I recieved this message whilst verifying after opening the bios in the app.

Update: I managed to flash the card, the bios is fine. It just gives 5 beeps. I’ve gone searching through other forums, and I tried another graphics card, which booted perfectly… I have been told resetting the cmos jumper could work, but I have no idea where it is on my motherboard
 

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Well for sure what is written right now in your chip, with what you intend to write won't match.
But i am not familiar with that CH341A programmer.
 
impero said:
Well for sure what is written right now in your chip, with what you intend to write won't match.
But i am not familiar with that CH341A programmer.
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I manage to fix the bios, it just gives me 5 beeps on startup.
 
Then be so kind and go to the motherboard producer's page and look for the error beeps.
What do they mean?
 
It seems it could be a video card failure
 
Failure in what way ?
Could you please clear CMOS ?
And eventually move the card to another motherboard ?
 
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