Radeon bios editing tools?

ALXAndy · 3 Dec 2014 at 14:29

Any one know of any? I need to reduce my memory speed permanently.

Woodsta888 · 3 Dec 2014 at 14:47

VBE7 only supports certain cards though

wazza300 · 3 Dec 2014 at 14:48

rivatuner?

russell664 · 3 Dec 2014 at 16:08

Isn't rivertuner the OSD on Afterburner?

ALXAndy · 3 Dec 2014 at 16:20

Come on AMDMatt where are you?!?!

I need to edit the bios permanently as I can't change anything in Unix fellas.

Orangey · 3 Dec 2014 at 16:43

There is no way unless you want to use software.

http://www.phoronix.com/forums/show...-change-core-clock-speed-on-Amd-7870-in-Linux

pandem0nium · 4 Dec 2014 at 09:02

Did you try vbe7?

That's worked fine for me, most recently with a 270.

LtMatt · 4 Dec 2014 at 09:08

ALXAndy said:
Any one know of any? I need to reduce my memory speed permanently.

ALXAndy said:
Come on AMDMatt where are you?!?!

I need to edit the bios permanently as I can't change anything in Unix fellas.

No such tool exists Andy and if it did i would not expect any support from AMD. However i would suggest reaching out to the guy who did the bios tool for Tahiti. I spoke with him prior to working for AMD and he seemed to think it would be possible to edit the bios for Hawaii as well.

ubersonic · 4 Dec 2014 at 09:24

If your card is a reference based model with factory OC you could just flash a vanilla reference BIOS to it.

This guy made a bunch of custom 290/290X BIOSes for LTC mining back in the day, he may be able to answer some of your questions /shrug.

ALXAndy · 4 Dec 2014 at 09:49

It's running a vanilla bios Uber.

Ah well, seems this will be the last AMD GPU I ever buy. Crap ! same as the 7970 I had I should have learned.

LtMatt · 4 Dec 2014 at 10:10

What's the problem Andy?

Orangey · 4 Dec 2014 at 10:15

How is this AMD's fault? Stop crying and use a workaround already.

ubersonic · 4 Dec 2014 at 10:41

To be fair dude, AMD don't list their cards as being compatible with UNIX, hell they only officially support three Linux distros.

Mei · 4 Dec 2014 at 11:36

matt whats wrong with you! fix his Linux drivers
and give us 390x news alrdy :mad:

LtMatt · 4 Dec 2014 at 11:49

Mei said:
matt whats wrong with you! fix his Linux drivers
and give us 390x news alrdy

wazza300 · 4 Dec 2014 at 11:51

doesn't rbe work then? I admit last bios I messed with was on a 5870 card

somebody should make one (matt clap your hand's n make it happen)

ubersonic · 4 Dec 2014 at 12:47

Mei said:
matt whats wrong with you! fix his Linux drivers

UNIX != Linux

tommybhoy · 4 Dec 2014 at 12:50

wazza300 said:
doesn't rbe work then?

Not on Hawaii, only Tahiti based gpu's.

@Andy, there is the rbe thread over on tpu forums, if you read through it, someone has been editing some Hawaii bios for a few users, you might be able to contact the guy there and see if he can help you out.

ALXAndy · 4 Dec 2014 at 13:55

AMDMatt said:
What's the problem Andy?

The card I have is crap is the problem.

In Windows it's OK. Miles off of what it should be, no doubt down to the crap memory. However in Unix, where it is fully supported, with an official driver, it doesn't work properly.

I get artefacts all over objects in games until I close in on them and they redraw. And, I've heard this is down to the crap memory on my card because I have seen several reports of it happening on 290s with the crap memory in Windows.

The fix is apparently to down clock the ram so that it stops, yet in Unix there is no tool to do that so I'm completely stuck with a duff card again.

The 7970 I used to have did it too, and I dropped £439 on that.

Now I know why I always swore by Nvidia GPUs

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=27281194&postcount=3

There's the issue. Everything is covered with glittery blocks, when you close in on them they redraw OK but eventually it just crashes out to desktop.

ALXAndy · 4 Dec 2014 at 13:56

ubersonic said:
UNIX != Linux

Unix = Mac OSX yosemite which has full support for the 290 and 290x.

Yet mine doesn't work.