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R9 290 Bios bricked, HELP!!!

Patryk

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Hello Everybody!
Few days ago i bought an used Asus R9 290 Direct CU ii non OC for mining Ethereum, it was working fine unless i started modifying the bios with atiflash, because of my stupidity i installed a not-working bios on both of them and now the cart isn't detected in atiflash, device manager, gpu-z, msi afterburner and others.
I tried to flash it but i have an error- adapter not found. I trying even doing it with the monitor attached to the card and with black screen with the command wrote in the autoexec but it didn't solved it.
I heared about the 1+8 pin method but I'm scared that i will broke the card more than now and i don't know how to do it.
When i have the graphics cardit gives a Q-code AE on the motherboard
When I have both graphics cards in the motherboard and i use the commands:
atiflash -i
atiflash -ai
It gives me too an error that adapter not found.
It's s little bit strange
PLEASE HELP!

command that i used-
atiflash -p -f 0 bios.rom
atiflash -pa bios.rom -f

My specs:
Corsair VS 650 power supply
Asus Maximus VIII Ranger
Intel core i5 6500
Hyperx fury 1x8GB ddr4 2133mhz
Sandisk 256GB SSD
Toshiba P300 1TB HDD
The R9 290
And a fully working Sapphire RX 580 8GB graphics card
 
i would say try flashing it in an old lga775 motherboard with onboard video if you have one laying around. i have had to do this a couple of times. my newer boards will always either not boot or say that there is no card. you will need to have your monitor plugged into the onboard and either have a second monitor plugged into the card or a dummy plug, this makes those old boards try and initiate the card regardless of the bios state.

this is the method i use. it may not work for you and if you dont have an older board lying around than i would not suggest buying one either cause u can probably find someone to repair the bios for less than buying a board.

good luck.
 
has nothing todo with the motherboard

if atiflash isn't picking the card up you are DONE usually means you bricked the boot-block and the card is D E A D

the only option or buy a programmer and the correct test-clip

edit: thats a dual bios card flip the switch on the card reboot into windows flip the switch BACK before flashing and flash the correct bios
 

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edit: thats a dual bios card flip the switch on the card reboot into windows flip the switch BACK before flashing and flash the correct bios

He says in the OP " i installed a not-working bios on both of them" which I assumed means he flashed both sides already as he does not mention having two 290s.
 
ive had to do this 3 times in the past week because of the mining craze. atiflash would always tell me that there is no card detected in my dz77bh-55k or my brothers asrock x370 or his asus x79 mobos. it would only detect the cards in my old intel dg965wh mobo.

op, did you buy 2 cards or do you mean that you flashed over both of the bios roms on the r9 290 card?
 
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I installed the not-working bios on both of the bioses on one card (I have only one r9 290).
WHY in the hell ...
buy a bios programmer and learn how to use it thats the only way you are getting that card back the pin short method is hit and miss done incorrectly you will kill the bios chip

as for the motherboard making a difference probably because UEFI a UEFI VGA bios is split into two sections the old mbr type and the EFI firmware side if he flashed a completely wrong bios image then thats totally nuked

you will need these things
this
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B013Q5P3ES/?tag=tec06d-20

this
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B015W4PKR6/?tag=tec06d-20

and read this
http://www.overclock.net/t/1612108/...o-unbrick-flash-almost-any-card-amd-or-nvidia
 
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WHY in the hell ...
buy a bios programmer and learn how to use it thats the only way you are getting that card back the pin short method is hit and miss done incorrectly you will kill the bios chip

as for the motherboard making a difference probably because UEFI a UEFI VGA bios is split into two sections the old mbr type and the EFI firmware side if he flashed a completely wrong bios image then thats totally nuked

you will need these things
this
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B013Q5P3ES/?tag=tec06d-20

this
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B015W4PKR6/?tag=tec06d-20

and read this
http://www.overclock.net/t/1612108/...o-unbrick-flash-almost-any-card-amd-or-nvidia
Can this thing work too?
https://www.amazon.de/WINGONEER-EEP...r+Chip+24+EEPROM+BIOS+LCD+Writer+25+SPI+Flash

https://www.amazon.de/WINGONEER-SOI...coding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=GNA62P8A07R4F6YTSEE7
 
Help the OP or move along. Trivial points and comments are not welcomed.
 
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