Just picked up a second hand asus 5870 v2, seller alleged it would run at 1ghz with 1.3v using afterburner, card is working perfectly otherwise but i cannot get afterburner to unlock the voltage adjustment even tho its unticked. I did have a 460gtx installed using afterburner before hand, i uninstalled the nvidia drivers and also the afterburner software, rebooted installed the cat 10.9's and the newest version of afterburner but still nothing, think there are some traces of old nv drivers or afterburner software stopping it from working?

Any pointers or help would be appreciated

Will it just not accept the voltage change in AB or is it greyed out?

BigBruiserAl said:

Will it just not accept the voltage change in AB or is it greyed out?

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its just greyed out from what i can tell

It's probably because the V2 card doesn't use standard voltage adjustment, I believe it uses a third party chip? Have you tried asus smartdoctor, this might have been what the original owner meant?

Yup, just tried it on mine, doesn't work. Download Asus SmartDoctor

cheers!

actually, it does work on those cards but you have to Manuel enable it
open msi after burners install directory profiles directory
and edit the file belonging to your card,

You can find out the correct file by opening msn after burner and pressing the I button for card information...

Example :

GPU1
________________________________________________________________________________
Display device : ATI Radeon HD 5900 Series on RV870 GPU
Display driver : 8.14.10.0779, Catalyst 10.9
On-board memory : 1024MB
BIOS : 012.020.000.019
GUID : VEN_1002&DEV_689C&SUBSYS_C000174B&REV_00&BUS_4&DEV_0&FN_0

GPU2
________________________________________________________________________________
Display device : ATI Radeon HD 5900 Series on RV870 GPU
Display driver : 8.14.10.0779
On-board memory : 1024MB
BIOS : 012.020.000.014
GUID : VEN_1002&DEV_689C&SUBSYS_C000174B&REV_00&BUS_5&DEV_0&FN_0

GPU3
________________________________________________________________________________
Display device : GeForce 8800 GTS on G80 GPU
BIOS : 60.80.0d.00.03
GUID : VEN_10DE&DEV_0193&SUBSYS_040F19F1&REV_A2&BUS_6&DEV_0&FN_0
Multi-GPU role : master

On-Screen Display server
________________________________________________________________________________
Active client(s) : screen capture module
Active 3D process : not detected

You want to be looking at the GUID of your card.
then match it to the file in msi profiles folder,

add these lines to the file.

[Settings]
uP6208_Detection = 1
VDDC_uP6208_Detection = 46h

that is your voltage chip name on your v2 asus cards, once edited and saved restart msi afterburner and you should have voltage control

ta i thought it might be something along those lines

thanks for that ViRuS2k. Been searching a while for how to do that, no more SmartDoctor.

Card starts on +6 mV which is a bit weird, guess thats becasue of the model.

Bradmax57 said:

ta i thought it might be something along those lines

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I do believe I PM'ed you the profile settings.

you did I posted this around the same time however i got a access denied error when i tried to save the file, checked the properties and it wasnt set as read only....

weird tbh ive not really had a chance to look at it properly

Bizzare,
But, my proof I was indeed telling the truth -


Older clocks however.

ViRuS2k said:

add these lines to the file.

[Settings]
uP6208_Detection = 1
VDDC_uP6208_Detection = 46h

that is your voltage chip name on your v2 asus cards, once edited and saved restart msi afterburner and you should have voltage control

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Can I get msi to control the voltage on my asus direct cu? Will that work or will it be something different? o:

it worked o: Awesome, can get rid of ****ty smart doctor. Doesn't let me increase it very much though, is there a way to raise the cap?

Boozebeard said:

Can I get msi to control the voltage on my asus direct cu? Will that work or will it be something different? o:

it worked o: Awesome, can get rid of ****ty smart doctor. Doesn't let me increase it very much though, is there a way to raise the cap?

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Sorry you cant raise the cap same goes for v2 asus cards.