Wolf Pacifier
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Hello!
Recently I have purchased Sapphire RX 570 Nitro+ 4gb from a miner. Price was really good. But seems like card have an issue. I never had AMD card but after I spent couple hours on Google search, I found out that 1 of 2 the GPU BIOS chips was flashed and I investigated how to flash "non-mining" BIOS back. As I understood... 1 of the BIOS chips is write protected and contains reference BIOS. I didn't touch that BIOS. I flashed other one with BIOS taken from database for this model https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/191336/sapphire-rx570-4096-170323
BIOS has been flashed successfully but for some reason games randomly crashing from time to time with "WattMan settings have been restored due to an unexpected system failure" error or video driver crash. Then, I made backup "reference" BIOS from write protected chip and flashed it into non write protected BIOS. GPU started with referece clocks and power limit, everything seems fine but... Games randomly crashing again, even with this BIOS. However, games works fine with same BIOS if I switch to write protected.
Any ideas why second BIOS affects stability even when stable BIOS was flashed in?
Recently I have purchased Sapphire RX 570 Nitro+ 4gb from a miner. Price was really good. But seems like card have an issue. I never had AMD card but after I spent couple hours on Google search, I found out that 1 of 2 the GPU BIOS chips was flashed and I investigated how to flash "non-mining" BIOS back. As I understood... 1 of the BIOS chips is write protected and contains reference BIOS. I didn't touch that BIOS. I flashed other one with BIOS taken from database for this model https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/191336/sapphire-rx570-4096-170323
BIOS has been flashed successfully but for some reason games randomly crashing from time to time with "WattMan settings have been restored due to an unexpected system failure" error or video driver crash. Then, I made backup "reference" BIOS from write protected chip and flashed it into non write protected BIOS. GPU started with referece clocks and power limit, everything seems fine but... Games randomly crashing again, even with this BIOS. However, games works fine with same BIOS if I switch to write protected.
Any ideas why second BIOS affects stability even when stable BIOS was flashed in?