Guide: Flashing Intel ARC GPUs
ARC is in its infancy and I have playing with the platform since around the end of last year. I have several cards and found it curious that when I installed my older A380 the BIOS was older. After some searching I realized Intel takes a different approach to firmware updates. The updates are...
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tyvm for this.. is it coincidence that you published this guide around the same time,
shortly before/after intel released driver package 4644 which included the 'forced' fw update that's causing lots of problems for many users it seems ?
why it was forced here, this time? not sure. maybe because of this:
see, my card was also bought around that time, in Oct 2022...
but since driver 4644 , this was the first time ever after which I noticed a change in the BIOS version GPU-Z is reporting,
for example since 4644 believe it's 20.0.1064 in GPU-Z now, which is again a total different number which is confusing to me
before *.4644 GPU-Z always reported 20.0.1053 since Oct 22 and all the driver updates inbetween I believe, but not sure:
I wanted to go way back, from current DG02_1.3253 as Arc Firmare tool is reading it out now after 4644 & recently 4824 driver install,
to somewhere like the last DG02_1.3206 from 101.4335 Apr 26th, 2023 ...
but I see, there's only the "SOC" file available to flash,
will I miss out on anything or will it cause problems,
if I dont have corresponding oprom & fw / config files as well?
I just want go back entirely the way it was before in lets say May earlier this year including any bios/driver/config files there is, to see if it solves my numerous problems.
It might have been just 'partially faulty' right from the start and I never noticed ? (except for AV1 encoding on its HW media engine, which still doesnt work properly here but I didnt bother until now)
the reason I'm starting to suspect it might just be faulty after all, bad silicon so to speak, regardless of driver/bios,
Is because of a recent case on intel support community, whose card worked almost perfectly everywhere, but 3dmark reported it as "incompatible" for its's XeSS feature test^^ turned out it really was broken, because that test worked without problems for other Arc users & same drivers & I guess bios .
maybe mine is too. but still I wanted to try bios downgrade first.
if it wont help.. no idea what then.
€: just flashed the DG02_1.3206 file , PC still booting & no black monitor phew
the flash tool confirms it's now 1.3206 , but GPU-Z still says 20.0.1064 ?
€2: and also, how can I install future driver / arc control upgrades or on occassion downgrade drivers again after DDU, but each time "preserving" the BIOS file version I got installed right now?
if there's no easy trick for doing so, does it mean I now have always do a manual FW flash as well, after each driver package install, no matter which one, if it's newer than Apr 26 ?
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