6950 to 6970 flash thread

Ah... I am a epic fail, seriously!

Type "cd %USERPROFILE%\desktop\winflash"

I am tryping the following:

cd Wh1pLa5h\desktop\winflash

and all i get is "The system cannot find the path specified - Yet I have a folder on my desktop called winflash as per the instructions.

I have tried lower case, uppercase etc and its still failing me. What am I doing wrong???

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a196/Rnegade/help.png

EDIT: WTF!

WHen i try and run ATIWinflash on its own i now get the error

"Critical file missing. Please doneload and run the video flash files again"

I just redownloaded ATIWinflash, extracted and got the same error. What gives??? Is it because I am on Windows 7 X64 Home Premium???

you have to cd each directory seperately. that's all.

OK! Well that was interesting. I got it to flash after all. However I didnt do it using ANY of the pre made methods. Here is how I had to go about it.

1. Unlock current Gigabyte Original 6950 Bios
2. Flash using Unlocked Gigabyte Original 6950 Bios with RBE
3. Flash using HIS Downloaded 6970 2GIG Bios with RBE

SOME LINKS:

STEP ONE: LWhat I think is the easiest way to unlock any 6950"

STEP TWO: FLAHSED TO MODDED 6950 2GIG Bios

STEP 3:
And then I used the same method from Legitreviews article and flashed using the "HIS.HD6970.2048.110109" downloaded from TechPowerUp

HIS HD 6970 2048 MB 2011-01-09 23:28:00 PCI-E 900 / 1400
GDDR5 Download | Details

HD 6970 Turbo
GPU Device Id: 0x1002 0x6718
113-SS1G02-001
CAYMAN XT PCIE 2G/256B GDDR5 SLDVI-D/DLDVI-I/HDMI/2XMINI-DP 900E/1400M)
(C) 1988-2010, AMD Technologies Inc.
ATOMBIOSBK-ATI VER013.008.000.009.039303
C2000100.107
Clock State 0
Core Clk: 880.00 MHz
Memory Clk: 1375.00 MHz
Voltage: VID1
Flags: Boot
Clock State 1
Core Clk: 900.00 MHz
Memory Clk: 1400.00 MHz
Voltage: VID1
Flags: Optimal Perf
Clock State 2
Core Clk: 800.00 MHz
Memory Clk: 1400.00 MHz
Voltage: VID1
Flags: UVD
Clock State 3
Core Clk: 800.00 MHz
Memory Clk: 1400.00 MHz
Voltage: VID1
Flags:

FINAL PIC FOR RESULTS: Is it normal for shaders to be greyed out???

FLASHED HIS 6970 BIOS -------------------------------> ORIGINAL IMAGE
http://gpuz.techpowerup.com/11/06/05/7wn.pnghttp://gpuz.techpowerup.com/11/06/05/2sf.png

Just scored P-5503 Points in 3dmark11 using the Performance test and Full 3dMark Experience. Pretty happy with that!!! That is leaving the GPU @ 900 and MEM @1400 with Volts @1.15

Temps got to approx 71degrees C and that with low airflow in the case..

What does people think about that?

I was wondering which 1 or 2 GB 6950's are still Rev. 1 and unlockable.

Problem: Usinf windows 7 Prof., atiflash (3.75, 3.84, and 3.86) upon extracting the zip file, all yields a message that says the OS is not supported. I am trying to flash my Sapphire 2gb 6950

I recently purchased a Diamond HD 6950 2GB that uses a nonreference board. I backed up my bios with ATIWINFLASH and loaded it up using RBE. I opened RBE and went to the last tab "Additional Features" and checked off the "6970 shader count" (this feature was NOT greyed out so I was able to check it off). I saved the bios again and used the DOS windows command prompt to flash my card to this new bios. When i restart my computer and used GPU-Z 0.5.4, it still says my shader count is 1408. Do you have any idea why it doesn't show 1536? Thanks for your help, much aprpeciated.

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Originally Posted by nikonf100

Problem: Usinf windows 7 Prof., atiflash (3.75, 3.84, and 3.86) upon extracting the zip file, all yields a message that says the OS is not supported. I am trying to flash my Sapphire 2gb 6950

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ATIflash is for DOS, if flashing from Windows you want ATIWINFLASH.

I went to DOS prompt to run atiflash when I received the "not supported" message. I was logged in as admin. OS is windows 7 pro-64 bit



EP45-GA UD3P(f10 bios,9550quad @ 3.9(air),8gb gskill 8800,velociraptor,ATCS840,noctua 140s,Auzentech Sound 7.1,Klipsh,T220 samsung,Corsair 750tx

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Originally Posted by nikonf100

I went to DOS prompt to run atiflash

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You should run it from real DOS, not DOS prompt.

Does someone have any idea if the XFX 6950 XXX 2gb card has been laser cut?

Because i dont mind doing the mod to flash the bios but if the shaders are not present thats pretty useless.

http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=61...anufacture=XFX

Thanks.

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Originally Posted by qgshadow

Does someone have any idea if the XFX 6950 XXX 2gb card has been laser cut?

Because i dont mind doing the mod to flash the bios but if the shaders are not present thats pretty useless.

http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=61...anufacture=XFX

Thanks.

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just received a new 6950 2gb ref design from RMA , and its unlockable ..
its always at your risk .. at worse you get 6950 ... its what you paid for !