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System Name | Firebird |
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Processor | Ryzen 7 1700X |
Motherboard | MSI X370 Titanium |
Cooling | Tt Water2.0 PRO (They use the same bracket as 3.0) |
Memory | G.Skill TridentZ 2x8GB 3200 15-15-15-35 B-Die (@3333 ATM) |
Video Card(s) | ASUS STRIX R9 390 8GB |
Storage | Too many. Samsung 750GB, 120GB 850 EVO, Seagate 1TB, Toshiba 1TB, OCZ 32GB Cache Drive |
Display(s) | Samsung 46" UN46D6050 1080P HDTV |
Case | Home-made tech bench. |
Audio Device(s) | ASUS Xonar Essence STX (I use HDMI though *cry*) |
Power Supply | CWT PUC1000V-S 1000W, Abee Supremer (import) 1200W currently used as primary. |
Mouse | Razer Copperhead (circa 2005) |
Keyboard | Tt Challenger Pro (AVOID! Keys wear super fast) |
Software | Win 10 Pro x64 |
Benchmark Scores | Meh. |
Well I'm not sure if it is a cause of not flashing both cards at the same time, or something else, but I will run through the minimal list of things I did to my BIOS and flashing.
<--System specs are current
I tried to flash it again with ATiWinFlash, knowing last time I tried it the system would hang, no dice. Ran it through RBE and the system didn't hang, but clicking 'Analyze' seemed to load WinFlash and then do nothing as the program just sucked 50% cpu cycles. End task on WinFlash and then closed out RBE.
Skip forward a week or more and I decided to look into this all again. Ran ATiWinFlash [AWF from now on] normally and... system hung as I remembered -_- Reboot into WinPE 3.0 (not Repair, a far more enhanced version with everything but the kitchen sink and graphics functions) and ran AWF, tried to flash the BIOS and encountered this error. Found the thread I got that link from and nabbed AtiFlash. Gave the unlock a shot in Windows, but didn't really expect it to work. SO after doing it, I tried AWF again just in case, hung again. Side note: It seems to only crash my video card as the system still works, I was able to both read AND write a file to my system through the network on another PC, but C-A-D doesn't bring up the logon screen Reboot, put ATiFlash and my BIOS on a USB BootDisk and restarted into DOS. Ran -unlockrom on both cards and then flashed card #2, since A) It was the one I wanted the clocks to run lower B) didn't want to risk bricking 2 cards, not be able to flash them back and have NO video cards (3Dfx not counting lol ). Flash went fine (yay!) and proceeded to boot into 7 when my main screen went all 1280x1024 on me, and my second was cloning... Windows loads and says no ATi drivers installed when CCC and ATiTrayTools tried to load, so I went to Dev Mgr to see what the cards said and twas of no help. Ran GPU-Z to see what that showed and had I not been paying close attention when I checked card 2, I wouldn't have seen that the ROPs on the flashed card were 4 instead of the 16 they were supposed to be (and were on unmodded card 1)... Thought I'd try AWF since I had to restart anyways, and a proper one or not didn't matter to me at that point Worked this time :shadedshu So I flashed card 2's BIOS back to normal and restarted, everything is back to normal, all ROPs accounted for
So my question I guess is: Was it something RBE did that disabled the other 12 ROPs, or was somehow flashing only ONE card the cause of that?
That is also why I didn't post this as a bug, since I didn't know if it was user-error or not
<--System specs are current
- Ran GPU-Z, saved BIOS.
- Ran RBE - Changed 'Fan Settings' by first clicking "Set all fan settings to recommended values" since the ASUS CUcore's default settings are junk. Did not like the "Use transfer function" settings and changed them to: Tmin:42C, Tmax:95C, Duty: 45%
- Went to 'Clock Settings' and changed "Cock info 04" from 400/1200 to 250/500 (in an effort to get the second 5770 to not ALWAYS run 850/1200)
- Went to 'Additional Features' tab to see what there was, bummed out that I couldn't enable "Superior powerplay"
- Saved BIOS
I tried to flash it again with ATiWinFlash, knowing last time I tried it the system would hang, no dice. Ran it through RBE and the system didn't hang, but clicking 'Analyze' seemed to load WinFlash and then do nothing as the program just sucked 50% cpu cycles. End task on WinFlash and then closed out RBE.
Skip forward a week or more and I decided to look into this all again. Ran ATiWinFlash [AWF from now on] normally and... system hung as I remembered -_- Reboot into WinPE 3.0 (not Repair, a far more enhanced version with everything but the kitchen sink and graphics functions) and ran AWF, tried to flash the BIOS and encountered this error. Found the thread I got that link from and nabbed AtiFlash. Gave the unlock a shot in Windows, but didn't really expect it to work. SO after doing it, I tried AWF again just in case, hung again. Side note: It seems to only crash my video card as the system still works, I was able to both read AND write a file to my system through the network on another PC, but C-A-D doesn't bring up the logon screen Reboot, put ATiFlash and my BIOS on a USB BootDisk and restarted into DOS. Ran -unlockrom on both cards and then flashed card #2, since A) It was the one I wanted the clocks to run lower B) didn't want to risk bricking 2 cards, not be able to flash them back and have NO video cards (3Dfx not counting lol ). Flash went fine (yay!) and proceeded to boot into 7 when my main screen went all 1280x1024 on me, and my second was cloning... Windows loads and says no ATi drivers installed when CCC and ATiTrayTools tried to load, so I went to Dev Mgr to see what the cards said and twas of no help. Ran GPU-Z to see what that showed and had I not been paying close attention when I checked card 2, I wouldn't have seen that the ROPs on the flashed card were 4 instead of the 16 they were supposed to be (and were on unmodded card 1)... Thought I'd try AWF since I had to restart anyways, and a proper one or not didn't matter to me at that point Worked this time :shadedshu So I flashed card 2's BIOS back to normal and restarted, everything is back to normal, all ROPs accounted for
So my question I guess is: Was it something RBE did that disabled the other 12 ROPs, or was somehow flashing only ONE card the cause of that?
That is also why I didn't post this as a bug, since I didn't know if it was user-error or not