HOW did he flash a 6870 with a 5850 bios?
I mean, I couldn't even do that if I were drunk ! I mean, that's like IMPOSSIBLE to do. The filenames are too different...I mean who is going to click "5850", even if they don't understand a SINGLE word of English?
That's just stupidity.
Plus, why is he posting on THESE forums? Why not where he got the file from?
I just went to the bios collection area, and ALL of the files say CLEARLY "5850". It's blatant. Either this person's English is so bad, that he can't understand NUMBERS, or he had absolutely NO idea what he was doing or even what video card he had, and just downloaded the first thing he saw.
Since the BIOS files are clearly named, the ONLY way he could flash a wrong BIOS is if he tried the lazy person's way and ran a batch file from a "flash package", without being able to READ The contents of the file itself. That's the only way this could happen. The ONLY other ways this is possible is if you have multiple BIOS files on your system, and had the file name changed to something like BIOS.bin or DEFAULT.bin or something, changed the wrong one, and then flashed with that...
I suspect he downloaded a batch package and ran a batch file to download. And if the original archive was called something like "Forceflash.zip", and, with his bad English, downloaded the wrong link (because he didn't understand what he was reading), *THEN* I can see this happening
If he actually CLICKED a 5850 BIOS directly, withi the name 5850, then he should never be allowed near a computer again.
Moral:
If you're getting something from an English forum, MAKE SURE you understand the language, first ! If you can't understand what you're clicking, then either LEARN ENGLISH, or find a website in your native tongue.
Personally, I've gotten BIOSes from chinese websites that have no English on them at all, except for the file name itself, but I at least have enough computer knowledge to know that (in that case), if the file or page I went to had a link that said "P5QL_SLIC2.1.ASUS.DELL.bin", then I know that is the BIOS I was looking for (friend wanted to flash his board with a SLIC bios, and I had to go find a link that wasn't dead...). A person with limited computer knowledge (like the OP) shouldn't be going anywhere near this....