Reflashing to original 5700 non XT bios fails with "ROM not erased ERROR/ F0L01"

[MarcusTaz]

Not true! For example, on Powercolor, protection is on both BIOS. None of the BIOS can be flashed again!

This is not true. I have a powercolor red devil 5700 and I have been able to flash multiple bios to the silent side. OC seems to be the flash once.

What particular powercolor model are you speaking of?

 

[makrus27]

I have same problem aswell, I can't reflash 5700 Red Dragon back to non XT, getting same "ROM not erased error" and this is something no one mentions / warns. Temps are okay, but card gets way too loud, its not worth it in my opinion.
Silent went smoothly back to reflashed state.

 

[EraserPr0]

I’m talking about this, now I'm in the XT version.
well, even after the update 20.1.4 driver the black screen stopped flying out, 1.120Mv = 1900-1950-2010mhz. I have a pretty quiet instance.

 

[MarcusTaz]

My Red Devil 5700 flashed to XT has no issues at all, no loud fans no black screens. Im happy, just can't flash it back to stock on the OC side...

 

[EraserPr0]

My Red Devil 5700 flashed to XT has no issues at all, no loud fans no black screens. Im happy, just can't flash it back to stock on the OC side...

I have the same thing. My Red Dragon 5700
solves the problem with black screens (Driver 20.1.4) , 1.120mv raises the frequency from 1850 to 1950, in some games 2020mhz boost (AC: Odyssey). I can ask you on average what frequency shows?

But this is a fact. the first bios is protected, and the quiet one is without it (no protect).

but they did it so that those who are flashing the BIOS lose their warranty and cannot return anything under the guarantee.

 

[makrus27]

Well, if you flash OC mode, yes you lose warranty, because of protection. You should always only flash Silent mode and this something no one mentions. Last AMD card and last flashing ever, this was bullshit.

 

[EraserPr0]

Well, if you flash OC mode, yes you lose warranty, because of protection. You should always only flash Silent mode and this something no one mentions. Last AMD card and last flashing ever, this was bullshit.

Unless you somehow flash it directly with the programmer (flashcat)

 

[skaldic]

I also have this issue with my PowerColor Red Dragon 5700 after flashing 5700XT Red Dragon on the OC bios. I can't flash the original OC 5700 back on the OC bios.
The card used to work properly with the 5700 XT bios, until the latest driver update. Now the GPU boosts up to 2050 Mhz (previously was around 1900) and the screen goes black or the game crashes.
As far as i know the 5700 PowerColor Red Dragon lacks a power phase that the 5700 XT has, maybe this is the reason.

I ended up flashing the OC 5700 bios on the silent bios. Hope someone finds a way to unlock the OC bios so i can restore my card.

 

[STMK]

I had the same problems with my graphics card.(Powercolor RX5700 -xt Red Devil )
Back Flashing bios via USB-DOS BIOS
With me it worked


Sorry for my humble english

I am not responsible

 

[EraserPr0]

Thank you, I’ll definitely try this weekend. I will unsubscribe after whether it is successful

 

[EraserPr0]

I flashed both bios back, no problem. You need to flash it as described above.

 

[properdavid]

I flashed both bios back, no problem. You need to flash it as described above.

Can you elaborate on how you were able to flash the BIOS back with the files from STMK? Some quick steps would be very much appreciated!

Can you elaborate on how you were able to flash the BIOS back with the files from STMK? Some quick steps would be very much appreciated!

Never mind, I figured it out! For others, here's how its done:

1. Follow the guide from How-to-Geek to create a bootable DOS USB drive.
2. Unzip the files from STMK's post and copy the "atiflash.exe" file to your USB stick. Copy your 5700 vBIOS file to the stick and rename it "5700.rom"
3. Boot from the USB stick. You may need to adjust some legacy compatibility settings in your motherboard's BIOS to boot from the USB drive. Remember your original settings if you have to change any.
4. At the DOS command prompt, use the command "atiflash -i" to confirm the adapter number of your GPU. The default is 0, but run the command just to confirm.
5. Run the command "atiflash -unlockrom 0" to make sure your vBIOS is unlocked for writing.
6. Run the command "atiflash -f -p 0 5700.rom". The vBIOS should flash and you can reboot your computer.
7. Change any motherboard BIOS settings back if you needed to change anything in step 3.

 

[the54thvoid]

Stop the personal attacks. If you don't share someone's view, feel free to explain the alternative. Don't resort to demeaning others.

@makrus27 - if you want a ban, be our guest. Be civil to others, disagree by all means but any disagreement stays within the bounds of polite conversation. Imagine the web wasn't the web and you were face to face, we'd all be a lot more pleasant.

 

[podkaracz]

I had the same problems with my graphics card.(Powercolor RX5700 -xt Red Devil )
Back Flashing bios via USB-DOS BIOS
With me it worked


Sorry for my humble english

I am not responsible

Tool comes from devil zone right? Thats why i was not able to track where those tools come from.

 

[Unknown Name]

Can you elaborate on how you were able to flash the BIOS back with the files from STMK? Some quick steps would be very much appreciated!



Never mind, I figured it out! For others, here's how its done:

1. Follow the guide from How-to-Geek to create a bootable DOS USB drive.
2. Unzip the files from STMK's post and copy the "atiflash.exe" file to your USB stick. Copy your 5700 vBIOS file to the stick and rename it "5700.rom"
3. Boot from the USB stick. You may need to adjust some legacy compatibility settings in your motherboard's BIOS to boot from the USB drive. Remember your original settings if you have to change any.
4. At the DOS command prompt, use the command "atiflash -i" to confirm the adapter number of your GPU. The default is 0, but run the command just to confirm.
5. Run the command "atiflash -unlockrom 0" to make sure your vBIOS is unlocked for writing.
6. Run the command "atiflash -f -p 0 5700.rom". The vBIOS should flash and you can reboot your computer.
7. Change any motherboard BIOS settings back if you needed to change anything in step 3.

Great step by step list.
To run the dos usb, I also had to enable Compatibility Support Module (CSM) and disable fastboot. Don't forget to turn it back to its original settings before booting to windows again.

I still got a problem though:
When I run atiflash it gives "no adapter found" on all commands. I hope somebody can help me. I am also trying to get the stock bios back on my rx5700 oc bios side.

I hope someone can help.

 

[Regeneration]

Great step by step list.
To run the dos usb, I also had to enable Compatibility Support Module (CSM) and disable fastboot. Don't forget to turn it back to its original settings before booting to windows again.

I still got a problem though:
When I run atiflash it gives "no adapter found" on all commands. I hope somebody can help me. I am also trying to get the stock bios back on my rx5700 oc bios side.

I hope someone can help.

Follow the guide in this link. RX 5000 series arne't supported in the MS-DOS version of ATIFlash.

 

[Unknown Name]

Follow the guide in this link. RX 5000 series arne't supported in the MS-DOS version of ATIFlash.

This did work one time, but after trying to flash back the stock bios to the OC side of my powercolor rx5700 red dragon I got the problem that it said ROM not erased ERROR/ F0L01.

 

[Regeneration]

0FL01 is a general error. Can be anything. A bad driver, broken transistor, defective GPU, faulty BIOS chip, BIOS file too big.

 

[Unknown Name]

I accidentally copied the old atiflash instead of the one from STMK, which he took from this rar from powercolor themselfs: http://driver.cptech.com.tw/Driver/RX5600XT_BIOS/RX5600_XT_0406_DOS.rar (they made it for the rx5600 series but the atiflash.exe also works for rx5700 series).

Thanks to all members for helping the community out. To people who had the same problem, you found the right thread. This will probably fix your problem with the locked powercolor OC_Side bios.

Slightly edited and updated quote from ProperDavid for the steps:

For others, here's how its done:

1. Follow the guide from How-to-Geek to create a bootable DOS USB drive.
2. Unrar(unpack/open) the files from the powercolor download link (thanks to STMK for finding) and copy the "atiflash.exe" file to your USB stick. Copy your 5700 vBIOS file to the stick and rename it "5700.rom"
3. Boot from the USB stick. You may need to adjust some legacy compatibility settings in your motherboard's BIOS to boot from the USB drive. In my case: enable CSM (compatability support module) and disable fastboot. Remember your original settings if you have to change any.
4. At the DOS command prompt, use the command "atiflash -i" to confirm the adapter number of your GPU. The default is 0, but run the command just to confirm.
5. Run the command "atiflash -unlockrom 0" to make sure your vBIOS is unlocked for writing.
6. Run the command "atiflash -f -p 0 5700.rom". The vBIOS should flash and you can reboot your computer.
7. Change any motherboard BIOS settings back if you needed to change anything in step 3.

 

[piskeante]

Hello!!

Yesterday a received an RX 5700 Red Dragon. It had been "returned" to the dealer so i got a very good price. It worked just fine. I wanted to flash the bios and edit timings to mine ETH with it. I can confirm that the LEFT bios (the closest to HDMI and DP ports) is locked. I cannot flash any bios there. I got it that way. It seems to be a normal 5700 bios.

Now, with the switch to the right, i can flash whatever BIOS i want. I've flashed the red dragon 5700xt bios ( the 170W and the 190W) without issues. I have also flashed all the 3 versions you have at techpowerup bios collection. No issues there.

But the moment i try to edit the timings using RBE of ANY BIOS (any of the 5 mentioned + using my own saved bios using GPU-z) ,you save the modded bios and try to flash it, it tells me that the RSA signature has not passed and the process stops with an error.

anyone has an idea of what can i do to actually be able to flash a modded bios??Thanks in advance.

 

[Calathia]

Hi all!

I have MSI 5700 which I flashed to XT + did some other BIOS mods. After a while, I ran with bios flashing problems described here. Did try everything and eventually solved the problem. See, what hasn't been suggested here is that the actual GPU drivers in Win 10 may interfere with bios flashing procedure. See image below:

What solved these bios flashing problems completely was to simply boot windows in "safemode + command line" and do the bios modding. in safe mode, windows does not load amd drivers for gpu and thus, no problems with flashing.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

Hi all!

I have MSI 5700 which I flashed to XT + did some other BIOS mods. After a while, I ran with bios flashing problems described here. Did try everything and eventually solved the problem. See, what hasn't been suggested here is that the actual GPU drivers in Win 10 may interfere with bios flashing procedure. See image below:

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What solved these bios flashing problems completely was to simply boot windows in "safemode + command line" and do the bios modding. in safe mode, windows does not load amd drivers for gpu and thus, no problems with flashing.

@eidairaman1

 

[Kapone33]

@Henselt33 How I did: Identical steps but for red devil version. Added my variation with bold
I have flashed a 5700XT Red Devil bios on the default/performance bios position of a 5700 (NON XT) Red Devil via admin CMD per 'amdvbflash -f -p 0 bios.rom'. This 5700XT bios works fine and as intended, so its not garbage or anything. But, now i am trying to go back to stock but i completely fail with the same CMD operation to flash any other NON XT Red Devil bios, including both the default/performance and the silent bios backups i have made via GPU-Z and amdvbflashwin and the red devil xt silent bios.

When re-flashing it fails on erasing. I have only tried with DDU and installing new drivers.

Instead of doing that why don't you adjust the card's behaviour using Radeon?

Instead of doing that why don't you adjust the card's behaviour using Radeon?

Forget I said anything lol

 

[Unknown Name]

I accidentally copied the old atiflash instead of the one from STMK, which he took from this rar from powercolor themselfs: http://driver.cptech.com.tw/Driver/RX5600XT_BIOS/RX5600_XT_0406_DOS.rar (they made it for the rx5600 series but the atiflash.exe also works for rx5700 series).

Thanks to all members for helping the community out. To people who had the same problem, you found the right thread. This will probably fix your problem with the locked powercolor OC_Side bios.

Slightly edited and updated quote from ProperDavid for the steps:

The download link for the rar containing the dos atiflash.exe broke. Here is a updated link: https://powerdriver.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/RX5600XT_BIOS/RX5600_XT_RedDragon_0304_DOS.rar
If it gets broken again in the future go to powercolors website and go to Home -> Download -> Drivers -> RX 5600 SERIES and grab one of the rars containing the dos atiflash.exe.

Steps to follow again:

1. Follow the guide from How-to-Geek to create a bootable DOS USB drive.
2. Unrar(unpack/open) the files from the powercolor download link (see comment above if it broke)(thanks to STMK for finding) and copy the "atiflash.exe" file to your USB stick. Copy your 5700 vBIOS file to the stick and rename it "5700.rom"
3. Boot from the USB stick. You may need to adjust some legacy compatibility settings in your motherboard's BIOS to boot from the USB drive. In my case: enable CSM (compatability support module) and disable fastboot. Remember your original settings if you have to change any.
4. At the DOS command prompt, use the command "atiflash -i" to confirm the adapter number of your GPU. The default is 0, but run the command just to confirm.
5. Run the command "atiflash -unlockrom 0" to make sure your vBIOS is unlocked for writing.
6. Run the command "atiflash -f -p 0 5700.rom". The vBIOS should flash and you can reboot your computer.
7. Change any motherboard BIOS settings back if you needed to change anything in step 3.

Thanks to and largely quoted from: ProperDavid & STMK and the other people participation in this thread.

 

[the ram]

Yeah the steps from properdavid and STKM WORK 100%