7990 Custom Bios - Remove Throttling

[LtMatt]

And do you have any idea why the Card isn't getting more than 1.2V?
On Afterburner it Shows that it has more... but on HWiNFO I see it only delivers 1.2V and it is not stable with that voltage.

Did you manually tweak the bios? Because i found tweaking it from what i did stopped voltage control from working. I'd just download and use mine and leave it well alone. I found even the slightest change would lock the voltage for me. No idea why.

 

[LtMatt]

Do you mean the base/boost clock and voltage?
Yes, I set them both to 1000/[email protected].

I also went with a less agressive TDP.

I can't remember exactly. I just remembered only my bios worked and allowed voltage control. Just use mine.

 

[LtMatt]

Might have a 7990'on the way to replace my 290.

Matt I assume the 7990 is compatible with the 7900 series BIOS editing tools that I once used on my 7950/7970's?

Yep that's what i used to create the bios. Some 7990's became voltage locked (mine did, an XFX) when you tried to change the stock voltage so when i created the bios i left the voltage alone so that everyone could change it. However other 7990's work fine with a change to the stock voltage. YMMV.

 

[LtMatt]

Hi Matt

Just put a 7990 in my PC, I assume your bios etc is still worth adding with the new drivers etc?

Also, quick question, sometimes on games like arma 3 when I start the game I will get a noise kinda like a fan but the fans are already spinning an it sounds slightly different to a fan. It seems to stop when I get ingame on a server but wondering what it could be.

thanks

Hi Danny,

Should work fine.

What you're describing sounds like coil whine to me?

 

[LtMatt]

Try using a different version of atiflash, try older versions assuming you're using the latest.

 

[LtMatt]

link?

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/2306/atiflash-4-17/mirrors

I used that one

You can find older versions at that website. I used 4.0.7 i think originally.

 

[LtMatt]

Hi Matt

Thanks for posting your BIOS.

I have a fully functional Asus 7990 reference card. But when I flash the master GPU with Malta1 and slave with Malta2, I don't get any display after I restart and I have to revert to secondary BIOS. Card was working fine on first BIOS.

It's super bewildering. Could anyone shed some light on this? I don't see why it wouldn't work. :S

Found the problem.

Had the "blamer mentality" that the BIOSes were mixed up but since so many people could get theirs working I thought it might be something wrong with my set up, so I ran atiflash -i.

Turns out on my Asus 7990, GPU 0 is the slave.

http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/1c5e/wq9lt0t2scstjf4zg.jpg?size_id=e

Derp.

Glad you got it working. Still have a couple of 7990's, one of my favourite ever GPUs.

 

[LtMatt]

Please upload 2 bios for 7990 TNX

Holy thread revival batman.

I have long since lost these unfortunately.

 

[LtMatt]

Holy moly, this brings back memories.

These were good times.

Indeed they were gents, great times.

 

[LtMatt]

had to dive deep in the depths of my backups...but alas...it has been found

here you go:
https://easyupload.io/m/gewc32

i am not responsible if you screw up your gpu if the bios flash goes wrong

God damn, were you active on the original thread? Well played.

 

[LtMatt]

lol nah. i was one of those quiet lurkers who used your bios to cryptomine in quadfire lol
back then my rent also included utilities so idgaf about electricity usage

Lol, furry muff!