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Semi-Bricked AMD Radeon RX 570 4GB

GBStranger

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So I recently got a new PC, and after I set it up my GPU was not working. I tried installing Radeon Drivers but it did not work. When I checked device manager, it said the GPU said error code 43, the device had an error so it could not be started (now I know that it was because of a bad but still usable vbios). So I tried flashing a custom vbios. It worked and said I need to restart. But when I restarted, my PC turned on but my displays were black. I did my research on what to do and I came across the fact that most gpu's have 2 bios's, 1 for recovery. so switched to the Recovery bios and everything worked. Even the error 43 code was gone (I realized that I could have saved this bios and then flash it on the primary bios, but now I can't do that). So now I have the problem of getting my Primary bios back up and running. I need to find a way to flash the bios that I saved from the second bios to the primary bios, which I can't really do because all I get it a black screen. And no I do not have integrated graphics so booting up using that won't work.
 
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So why does the 2nd bios that worked no longer not work? also post pics of white stickers on the GPU and GPU-Z if you can

Also you can start with the "working" bios and flip it whilst inWindows to flash the "non-working" bios
 

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So why does the 2nd bios that worked no longer not work? also post pics of white stickers on the GPU and GPU-Z if you can

Also you can start with the "working" bios and flip it whilst inWindows to flash the "non-working" bios

Sorry my first post was really sloppy. I'm going to refer to the Primary bios, which stopped working, as bios 1 and the recovery bios, which still works, as bios 2. Bios 1 stopped working because I accidentally flashed a wrong vbios. Bios 2 is working properly. I can't use the PC right now, but I'll send one as soon as I can.

And what do you mean by starting with the working bios then flipping it?

Thank you so much!
 
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start with recovery bios, in windows switch to bios 1 and flash a good working bios to it
 

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start with recovery bios, in windows switch to bios 1 and flash a good working bios to it

So its that easy? I thought I would have to do a blind recovery or something. I will try it and let you know if it works. Thanks a lot.
 

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start with recovery bios, in windows switch to bios 1 and flash a good working bios to it
lmao I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to try it, because I lied, it's not my computer, it's my friends computer. might take a week or a month. I'm also considering using freeDOS's autoexec.bat to fix it too. maybe windows 98 idk.
 
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