Flashing HIS 3870 question

[xmarine0311]

I was looking around and I couldnt find anything about flashing crossfired cards. Should I take one card out to flash?? When I open WinAtiflash it gives me two options 3800 series and r670 yada yadda. Why is that? Im flashing because I notice GPUz shows both my cards have diff bios. Im also getting sick of rivatuner and how hot my cards get before I can boot vista.

 

[sneekypeet]

you can change the devise ID when booting from floppy to flash...top card ID is 0(zero), next slot is 1(one).

Im not sure if winflash will perform this way also. you want to check it prior to using to flash the first card I would imagine.

 

[xmarine0311]

Dont have a floppy drive and i cant find where the hell I put my usb flash drive. When I disable crossfire the two options are 1)3800 series
2)3800 serie I imagine that it should be able to flash one at a time. But im wondering if anyone has done it succesfully before

 

[sneekypeet]

I see spankenstien is here...he may have the easy answers for winflash....or wiflash them seperately!?!

 

[Dr. Spankenstein]

What BIOS are you wanting to flash too?

You can flash each card from within Winflash. That's what those options at the top are for: to select the card you want to flash.

If you are flashing from Windows, you won't need a floppy or USB drive. That's only if you want to flash from DOS, there's an easir way for that as well.

 

[xmarine0311]

the latest HIS one from TPU

 

[xmarine0311]

http://bios.techpowerup.com/vgabios/6392/HIS.HD3870.512.080121.html

 

[xmarine0311]

do you know what im talking about when the second card is called r670 with cross fire on and 3800 series with it off? Should I leave it on or off?

 

[NinkobEi]

are you certain your card will perform at those speeds? I must have got a dud because mine doesnt OC for ! #@ $%

edit: nm I see its a turbo

 

[xmarine0311]

This is what im looking at with crossfire off

 

[Dr. Spankenstein]

It matters not whether you have CF enabled or not. Winflash knows you have two cards plugged in. The one with the red asterisk is the one it WILL flash to if you continue.

Flash it once with that one selected, let it complete, then select the second card. Flash, wait for completion...

Enjoy!

BTW, I'm not sure what you think you are going to gain by flashing to that BIOS. Why don't you look for an unlocked one?

 

[xmarine0311]

trying it now thanks

 

[Dr. Spankenstein]

Keep us posted!

I love to be there when people catch the first whiff of Crossfire!!!!

 

[xmarine0311]

okay first one gave blue screen but still worked, second went without a hitch. Doesnt look like it fixed the fan problem though.

 

[xmarine0311]

oh and im waiting for my new cpu cooler(comes tues) before I can start getting some good numbers in 3dmark.

 

[xmarine0311]

ran 3dmark with 891/1352 clock throught 3dmark stable 50C during load but it actually scored lower than with 850/1190 default clock. Weird, went from upper 13k to upper 12k.

 

[Dr. Spankenstein]

Zoinks!

I remember having to reinstall teh Cat drivers after I flashed. You might want to give that a shot...

 

[trog100]

ran 3dmark with 891/1352 clock throught 3dmark stable 50C during load but it actually scored lower than with 850/1190 default clock. Weird, went from upper 13k to upper 12k.

my 6000+ at 3.350 gig with two 3870 cards clocked at 850/1250 scored 13K in 2006.. so dont expect tooo much..

your upper 13k with your cpu at 2.5 gig seems way to high for me..

trog