VBios Blues - Ex Mining RX 560 4GB Sapphire Pulse

[F7GOS]

Evening folks, have a little conundrum here.

Have a RX 560 4GB (Sapphire Pulse) and it have been bought from an ex miner.

It has a modded bios loaded up onto it and boots into windows fine, Device manager sees it as an RX 560 4GB, GPUZ shows it as such too

I want to return it to normal but have hit a few snags.

I initially got a successful flash when using AMD / ATI Flash 2.87 back to the stock bios, everything is hunky dory until I went to install the drivers after the restart then I get a black screen.

I figured it might be just something when using winflash so I created a bootable FreeDOS USB and went back to ATIFlash 4.17 and tried the usual "ATIFLASH -p -0 bios.rom" (Stock rom was renamed to bios.rom)

then I'm returned with a Adapter not found error.

Thing is I am using a ryzen CPU with no onboard GPU and can physically was seeing the screen.

Try the same thing with the mining bios reflashed in windows, back into FreeDos to check and its adapter not found again.

I've tried multiple drivers (old and new but nothing)

Ended up updating the drivers through device manager on the mining bios (latest windows was crimson 17.xx), reflashing to the stock bios before a restart.

Once restarted and running on the windows driver, I installed the latest adrenaline and everything is touch wood...working as it should

So I guess the question is, with a modded bios, was I missing some extra step that I need to do prior to loading on a stock bios and just fumbled around it or what..

As far as I can tell the "normal" way should have worked.


just wondering as I have a second identical RX 560 here and would like to know if there is a "preferred way" I should have gone about it or was it just the driver being nerfy first time around

 

[NdMk2o1o]

Whats the SKU and serial number of the card, also GPU-Z if you have one, I'll see if I can find you the correct bios. ok I shouldnt skim read, do you havce the correct stock bios installed and drivers have loaded this time around for you? I'll still make sure you have the correct bios as you shouldnt have had any issues if you flashed succesfully when you installed the drivers.

 

[MrGenius]

You can't use a DOS version of ATIFlash with newer cards. I don't know for sure how old the card would need to be. I do know that it works with my 280X. But, pretty obviously, not with my Vega 64. Anyway, there's no reason you would need(or even should) use a DOS version instead of ATIWinflash(or amdvbflash as it's called now) or ATIFlash in command line mode. All that crap you read about the DOS version being "better" or "safer" is unsubstantiated bullshit. Hence why they stopped updating and/or distributing it. It's worthless.

Just a shot in the dark, but are you using Windows 7? Because what you're describing sounds exactly like a problem I was having with some recent Radeon drivers on W7(and that 280X I spoke of).

 

[eidairaman1]

Evening folks, have a little conundrum here.

Have a RX 560 4GB (Sapphire Pulse) and it have been bought from an ex miner.

It has a modded bios loaded up onto it and boots into windows fine, Device manager sees it as an RX 560 4GB, GPUZ shows it as such too

I want to return it to normal but have hit a few snags.

I initially got a successful flash when using AMD / ATI Flash 2.87 back to the stock bios, everything is hunky dory until I went to install the drivers after the restart then I get a black screen.

I figured it might be just something when using winflash so I created a bootable FreeDOS USB and went back to ATIFlash 4.17 and tried the usual "ATIFLASH -p -0 bios.rom" (Stock rom was renamed to bios.rom)

then I'm returned with a Adapter not found error.

Thing is I am using a ryzen CPU with no onboard GPU and can physically was seeing the screen.

Try the same thing with the mining bios reflashed in windows, back into FreeDos to check and its adapter not found again.

I've tried multiple drivers (old and new but nothing)

Ended up updating the drivers through device manager on the mining bios (latest windows was crimson 17.xx), reflashing to the stock bios before a restart.

Once restarted and running on the windows driver, I installed the latest adrenaline and everything is touch wood...working as it should

So I guess the question is, with a modded bios, was I missing some extra step that I need to do prior to loading on a stock bios and just fumbled around it or what..

As far as I can tell the "normal" way should have worked.


just wondering as I have a second identical RX 560 here and would like to know if there is a "preferred way" I should have gone about it or was it just the driver being nerfy first time around

Lets get you the stock bios, by the way, SKU number from back of card is needed along with a GPU-Z screenshot would be nice.

First thing too, amd flash works in windows only (painless)

 

[F7GOS]

So just a quick update, both cards are working spot on.

AMDVBFlashWin worked a treat even with the GUI version - didn't need to touch the cmd line one.

I think the black screens I was getting actually had more to do with the system getting confused with the onboard VEGA 3 graphics on the Althon test bench I was using even though the motherboard was setup to ignore integrated graphics.

Pull out the DVI and plug it in and im already on desktop.

problem completely absent when trying it out on the Ryzen 7 rig.

Cheers for the input and also the advice regarding the old ATIFlash being redundant on newer cards.

 

[eidairaman1]

So just a quick update, both cards are working spot on.

AMDVBFlashWin worked a treat even with the GUI version - didn't need to touch the cmd line one.

I think the black screens I was getting actually had more to do with the system getting confused with the onboard VEGA 3 graphics on the Althon test bench I was using even though the motherboard was setup to ignore integrated graphics.

Pull out the DVI and plug it in and im already on desktop.

problem completely absent when trying it out on the Ryzen 7 rig.

Cheers for the input and also the advice regarding the old ATIFlash being redundant on newer cards.

Glad you got it sorted.
Sapphire cards tend to be the easiest to recover.