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Hi,

I have a Clevo P170EM with an AMD 7970M.

Last year I tried to change the vBIOS of my 7970M, a friend of my tried to change it because he wanted to ''overlock'' the card. He said no worries I said okay do it, then later on he returned my laptop and bricked both my card and the normal BIOS. I had to repair the laptop trough a repair company in the city. They only could repair the BIOS by doing another BIOS on it. They said to try everything with the card but my laptop wouldn't accept it.

The problem:

After the Windows 10 installation I installed all the drivers from the manufacters site (http://www.eurocom.com/ec/drivers(226)ec). Including the SSD driver, then I FIRST installed and fully updated the Intel HD Graphics. After that I installed the AMD videocard drivers (crimsons edition), the weird part is, AMD autodetect sees my card and so does Windows. Then the driver ask me to restart my laptop, after restarting the Windows logo appears then the screen goes black with a blinking cursor left upper screen.

I believe it has someting to do with the vBIOS of the card and I also believe that the card is not bricked but just wrong BIOS.


I asked the manufacter and they say that the card may be bricked, when I ask for the BIOS they would not provide it for free (bastards). I asked for both the motherboard and AMD card BIOS, they said I have to pay for it.

Question:

Can someone provide information and files for the right vBIOS? I mean the vBIOS that is standard.

Greetz,

Jamie

P.s I have some pictures and screenshot of Windows and the BIOS detecting the graphic card, the weird thing is both OS and BIOS detect the card but when I install the drivers it goes black

P.s.s I already tried everything AMD support provided so I have no use for comments like ''Try unistall with DDU'' or try with second monitor etc.


As you can see I've disabled the card because when I enable, Windows freezes and screen goes black.





 
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As far as I know, the BIOS and vBIOS in a laptop is just one BIOS...
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong.
 
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As far as I know, the BIOS and vBIOS in a laptop is just one BIOS...
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong.

Well the repairer said that he fixed the BIOS but couldn't find the proper vBIOS for my card. In other words he said that I have to do it myself
 
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Well the repairer said that he fixed the BIOS but couldn't find the proper vBIOS for my card. In other words he said that I have to do it myself

In that case you may be able to fix it with the right vBIOS from the TPU GPU database as @Papahyooie mentioned.

GL.
 
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Some nice friend was that....:wtf::shadedshu:
 
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I see that flashing in DOS is one of the safest ways, do I just start up from usb stick with DOS?
 
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Guys I forgot something important! the GPU-Z!

here take a look, this doesn't look normal or is it because I disabled the driver/card in device manager?



When I try to backup the BIOS it says; BIOS reading not supported on this device
 
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Okay I figured it out, and here is my conclusion.

Version ATIFLASH: 4.17
CLEVO BIOS VERSION: 1.02.17

I downloaded the ROM from this site for my 7970M for Clevo models. Then installed Rufus, did a test drive for 1 round to check then formatted the usb drive (without quick format) and FreeDOS.

I did all the files to the usb drive and restarted my laptop, then I putted the usb as first in the boot order. When I was in FreeDOS I did the following commands:

atiflash -i

It shows the GPU in slot 0 then I read rom 1000 and test: fail

Then I did the command atiflash -ai

It shows that my card has no vBIOS at all.

I was unsure what to do next so I just followed the guide as usual and tried to flash with the commands

atiflash -unlockrom 0

ROM UNLOCKED

atiflash -f -p 0 amdclevo.rom

It said atiflash error 0fl01

Then I just CTRL ALT DEL because I don't want to fuck up my laptop and waiting for a reply from you guys.

Did I tried to installed the wrong ROM? are my named files to long for DOS?
 
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0fl01 is the error code for adapter not found, if I am correct. What is the name of the bios file you're trying to flash?

It could be that the adapter is not in slot 0. What is the exact output when you run atiflash -i?

The only fixes for this I'm finding online are to short pins on the card to remove write protection... don't want to go down that road unless absolutely necessary.
 
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I'll post a photo of the DOS in about a half an hour. ehm the original file name of the BIOS is

Clevo.HD7970M.2048.120605.rom but I changed it to amdclevo.rom because a long name is not good for the DOS I read last time
 
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Yea you did right on renaming it. Get that screenshot and I'll see if I can help.
 
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Hey thanks in advance for your help, I've searched all over my college and forums but no one really knew what I was talking about.

This is the photo by the way



I've discovered also a problem in Windows 10, after i booted up because of a failed flash (could not read rom error). Windows 10 instant tried to download the driver for the card and everything freezes. This is a common issue with Win10, I fix that later.

Another question (sorry for all the questions xD) do I need to remove the driver completely before flashing the card?

EDIT:

I tried it with the short file names and it gives me the same error. Actually no problem because there is no vbios to fuck up
 
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Disregard because I'm dumb.

So from what I'm seeing, it looks like that "failed to read rom" means that the BIOS is write protected. Try running the unlock command before running the flash command again. If that doesn't work... you may need to solder some wires to bypass write protection on the chip....

EDIT: actually try flashing adapter 1... I see that it is marked as a slave. Could be a remnant of the bad flash your buddy did.
 
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Okay I will try that, it's quite frustrating that Win10 instantly download the drivers when I boot. Even when I've disabled the auto driver update in ''Advanced settings'' from System

P.s he says adapter not found when I do 1 instead of 0
 
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As far as I know, the BIOS and vBIOS in a laptop is just one BIOS...
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong.

This. Using ATIFlash will not work it is not designed for these types of GPUs. The only time ATIflash or NVflash works with mobile GPUs is if the machine manufacturer implements it. In most cases it is as @P4-630 said. The vGPU bios is part of the main ROM.

If it truly is a corruption of the vBIOS block you will need to flash the entire BIOS using the methods the manufacturer specifies on the products support page. In which case you are also stuck with the BIOS provided by the manufacturer because the GPUs will not take stock ROMs.

This is also why you are getting locked messages and cant flash. This information is not accessible via normal SPI means and is probably tied to the main BIOS.
 
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Listen to Solaris17... He knows what he's talking about lol. I hadn't thought of this, totally missed the post he quoted.

Reflash the entire bios. Unfortunately, I can't find where you'd actually get that file... Maybe contact the manufacturer.
 

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Okay I've send emails to my seller and Eurocom (clevo website is down for some reason for me so couldn't find their support)

I've linked this thread in the email and asked if it's possible to provide me the BIOS and information for my laptop.

I'm waiting for their response, if I read correctly then it means I must flash the P170EM BIOS that is compatible with my 7970m. I guess I have a unique problem xD

Thank you all for your help! And I will keep you guys informed how things are going

Greetz
 
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Nice!

I've recieved a well informed email

Here is the thing:

Hello Jamie.

You are missing 1 very important thing.

The PCIE command that switches it from the Intel to the AMD for flashing.

I have attached the default vbios and flash util for the card.

Please rename the file from .zif to .zip

Extract it to a bootable USB

Please flash it off a DOS boot like you have been doing, but run PX.bat.

The will auto run the PCIE command, and flash the card.

I totally not thought this would be a possible solution. I'm going to test it out tomorrow on college and keep you guys informed!
 

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