bricked bios on msi vega56 airboost, unable to flash

[vega56id10t]

So I tried flashing my msi vega56 airboost cause google, youtube, and a couple of friends all said it was easy. "all you need is samsung ram, reference card, and bios", what could go wrong...
bios towards display ports is working, one on the right side is toast. Tried the atiflash gui, it said "failed", read that I need to run CMD as admin and force flash, did that and it said:

Flash type: MX25L2026E
40000/40000h bytes programmed
40000/40000h bytes verified
Restart System To Complete VBIOS Update.

Upon reboot blackscreen, no post. I got back into windows and switched to the busted bios, tried to flash the backup I made and now am getting:

Write fail
40000/40000h bytes programmed
21/40000h bytes verified
Restart System To Complete VBIOS Update.
ERROR: 0FL01

I have downloaded and tried every MSI VEGA 64 bios on techpower up, have tried all the 56s too, nothing works, fails at verification. Also tried installing windows 7 with no GPU drivers to rule out windows 10 issues. I have access to onboard video and a working bios on the bios switch.




Im all out of ideas, please help.

 

[kastriot]

Good thing you have backup bios so use that now, it seems main bios is damaged.

 

[FYFI13]

Have you tried to switch to working BIOS, make a backup and flash it over damaged one? Have a look at command line options for atiflashgui here, you might have to force flashing.
If anyone gets here by Google search: DO NOT FLASH YOUR GPU BIOS, UNLESS YOU FUCKING REALLY HAVE TO. YOU WON'T GET A SINGLE EXTRA FPS.

 

[Caring1]

So I tried flashing my msi vega56 airboost cause google, youtube, and a couple of friends all said it was easy. "all you need is samsung ram, reference card, and bios", what could go wrong...

Sorry you stuffed your card up, lesson learnt, it's an expensive mistake to make.
At least it still works and isn't a total loss.
@eidairaman1

 

[vega56id10t]

yeap, with all the vega sales going on you guys might wanna put a PSA /Sticky up. Even buildzoid has a video where he flashed a bad bios and then reflashed a working 64 bios, making it seem "really easy". Its ok I think its just a soft brick.

pretty sure this bios is what corrupted on mine:
https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/194738/msi-rxvega64-8176-170719

C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\BKUP\ATI Flash\Flasher>atiflash -f -p 0 bios.rom
Old SSID: 0B36
New SSID: 0B36
The result of RSA signature verify is PASS.
Old DeviceID: 687F
New DeviceID: 687F
Old Product Name: Vega10 A1 XT D05001 32Mx128 852e/945m 0.95V
New Product Name: Vega10 A1 XT D05001 32Mx128 852e/945m 0.95V
Old BIOS Version: 016.001.001.000.008706
New BIOS Version: 016.001.001.000.008706
Flash type: MX25L2026E
40000/40000h bytes programmed
40000/40000h bytes verified
Restart System To Complete VBIOS Update.

but it wont post. all other bios are failing with ERROR: 0FL01

Have you tried to switch to working BIOS, make a backup and flash it over damaged one? Have a look at command line options for atiflashgui here, you might have to force flashing.
If anyone gets here by Google search: DO NOT FLASH YOUR GPU BIOS, UNLESS YOU FUCKING REALLY HAVE TO. YOU WON'T GET A SINGLE EXTRA FPS.

tried a few of those command line like -fa, -fs, fm, and -fp, still fails with:
SSID mismatched
ERROR: 0FL01
log attached..

 

[eidairaman1]

Ok make sure you back up the working bios first.

Then read this link.

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/...ga-56-bios-back-to-stock.254223/#post-4022815

 

[vega56id10t]

Ok, read it, tried it, same result ERROR: 0FL01 FML.
Come to think of it I originally flashed the card with ATIflash287 in CMD but moved to Atiflash284 after i noticed that everyone was making reference to AtiFlash.exe and not amdvbflash.exe. Both versions of ATIflash support windows 10 1803 which is what im on.

Stupid questions time, if these cards have two selectable BIOS's or the same bios with different settings... how does ATIflash know what to flash the currently selected bios with? IE if I download this bios, how does it know that this is the left or right switch? Also I have read that some cards have locked bios? is it possible that I somehow flashed/corrupted the locked side?

 

[eidairaman1]

2.87 is what the last guy used.

The physical switch disconnects the other side of the bios so it cant be read.

Go get a Flashcat SPI flasher in this situation.

 

[FYFI13]

yeap, with all the vega sales going on you guys might wanna put a PSA /Sticky up. Even buildzoid has a video where he flashed a bad bios and then reflashed a working 64 bios, making it seem "really easy". Its ok I think its just a soft brick.

pretty sure this bios is what corrupted on mine:
https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/194738/msi-rxvega64-8176-170719

C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\BKUP\ATI Flash\Flasher>atiflash -f -p 0 bios.rom
Old SSID: 0B36
New SSID: 0B36
The result of RSA signature verify is PASS.
Old DeviceID: 687F
New DeviceID: 687F
Old Product Name: Vega10 A1 XT D05001 32Mx128 852e/945m 0.95V
New Product Name: Vega10 A1 XT D05001 32Mx128 852e/945m 0.95V
Old BIOS Version: 016.001.001.000.008706
New BIOS Version: 016.001.001.000.008706
Flash type: MX25L2026E
40000/40000h bytes programmed
40000/40000h bytes verified
Restart System To Complete VBIOS Update.

but it wont post. all other bios are failing with ERROR: 0FL01



tried a few of those command line like -fa, -fs, fm, and -fp, still fails with:
SSID mismatched
ERROR: 0FL01
log attached..

Techincally, -fa should overwrite SSID. Not sure why it's not working.