Hi guys, so after playing around for 2 hours last night in trying to flash my bios to unlock the shaders well, I was never able too. I am now paranoid I screwed something up in my stock 6950 bios and I was wondering if anyone had the stock bios to this card : http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102987. I am asking because when I compare my GPUZ with others, for some reason I am the only one with higher flitrate then others ... Also, is the number 1 switch on the card with the original bios flashable ? If not, then I am guessing my bios are still the ones that originally came with my card ?
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Sapphire HD 6950 2GB stock bios please
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The thing is, I initially flashed my bios with the bios switch on the card set to 1 which is the default bios ... I have read somewhere that there is no possible way of flashing the default bios while being on 1 ... can someone confirme ? If nobody has the stock bios, does anyone have a gpuz screenshot of that same card running the stock bios ? I really hope someone could help me with this !
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look my screen xd
thank you for the reply but you clearly dont have the same card as I do ... also I am guessing you are overclocked ???
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Hi
A little odd not to have looked on the Sapphire web site, at the product you own! this - http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/?cid=1&gid=3&sgid=1041&pid=1530&psn=&lid=1&leg=0# Edit: This is correct for the OC version
Edit: have you looked here - http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/...r=Sapphire&model=HD+6950&interface=&memSize=0
Note: for others that may stumble upon this post - before flashing any bios it is best to make a backup
atb (all the best)
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Hi
You mention this - "so after playing around for 2 hours last night in trying to flash my bios to unlock the shaders well" - depending what you did and how you went about it!, if you chose a [pre modded bios] to flash it may have had a slight OC to ensure it could make use of the extended shader array. To many ifs and buts to give a conclusive answer as only you know what you did.
As for getting HD 6950 vga bios back to it's orriginal state; did you remember that you have to uninstall and re-install the catalyst driver - Try this first
Edit: http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/overclocking/vidcard/159 [this will show you what to do if reinstalling the driver dose not clear the clock]
nb: if you get a chance the next time you log in please fill in your system specs in UserCP
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actually I have the OC edition of the hd 6950 and according to the specs on sapphire.com the clocks should be at 820 from stock !!! yay I guess all is good now !
Hi
Thank you for the info; my bad - did not spot that you had the OC version and have edited my previous post to reflect this for others to view
nb: great to see you are back on track; go do some gaming
atb
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Hi
Good call with reference to reverting back to the driver CD, hope this works out for you; catalyst 12.4 have some problems that need fixing by AMD, seems to be under utilization of the GPU in some cases for older cards; 12.4's have improved for the HD 7xxx series
nb: what version of catalyst came on the CD?
atb
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