Think I've Bricked my 5870

[zom247]

I've had a bit of a mad day today flashing cards but I've hit a bit of a snag. I was trying to unlock my XFX 5870 so I could overclock it using afterburner. The card flashed ok but when I restarted there's no signal and it doesn't boot. I saved the original bios with GPU-Z so I stuck it on my usb drive and tried to flash it back. However, I can't even boot with the usb drive cos there's no signal (no beeps from card either).

I took my lowly 5450 out of my htpc and stuck the 5870 into the 2nd slot on my P6T board. I was able to boot with the usb drive but when I use atiflash it only shows the 5450 installed. It's the same with winflash. I know how to flash it back but just can't see the card to do it.

There's power going to the card and the fan spins but not sure what else I can do now. Anyone got any ideas?

 

[fornowagain]

Blind flash it.

Do you have a flash drive its a lot easier than a floppy?

Anyway extract the original bios of you haven't already, gpu-z works a treat.

On a boot disk flash/floppy, put the bios file e.g. master.rom and the program Atiflash.exe

In the Autoexec.bat use the command line.

atiflash -p -f 0 master.rom

or you can test it with the line

atiflash -i

which will just identify the card.

 

[zom247]

Blind flash it.

The card's not recognised though when I use atiflash. It only shows the 5450 as adaptor 0. If it was recognised I'd be able to flash it no problem.

 

[fornowagain]

You don't know that as a single card it wouldn't be recognized. Blind flashing only uses the one card. You may need to use one of the other force switches as well.

-f Force flashing regardless of security checking BIOS file info check OR boot-up card

-fa Force flashing bypassing already-programmed check

-fm Forec flashing bypassing BIOS memory config check

-fs Force flashing bypassing BIOS SSID check

-fp Force flashing bypassing BIOS P/N check

 

[zom247]

You don't know that as a single card it wouldn't be recognized. Blind flashing only uses the one card. You may need to use one of the other force switches as well.

Light switch has just come on and I know what you mean now! I'll try to blind flash it tomorrow, today has been a long day

 

[Meaker]

There are services out there (if your efforts lead no where) that will be able to remove the bios chip and flash it in a special device (or even replace the chip itself).

 

[MoodyB]

I've had a bit of a mad day today flashing cards but I've hit a bit of a snag. I was trying to unlock my XFX 5870 so I could overclock it using afterburner

If it's a non-reference design 5870 try using Sapphire Trixxx for overclocking it instead as it works with some non-reference designs, although not all unfortunately.

The v3.02 public beta can be found by googling it.

 

[zom247]

You don't know that as a single card it wouldn't be recognized. Blind flashing only uses the one card. You may need to use one of the other force switches as well.

None of these works, thinks it's gone.