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Updated BIOS provided by ATI for HD5870; BIOS version 113-C00101-103/ATI VER012.014.000.005.035264. Date compiled: 2009-11-12.
http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/6...24.091112.html
Download:
http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/6...024.091112.bin
Unlock (RaBiTor) 1200/1400 MHz:
http://www.box.net/shared/jrreqxfoo6
News, features, fixes?
solve compatibility problem whith display port adapter.....
i have flashed....
running good
nothing for 5850?
I flashed my 5870. All is good so far.
*** WARNING: PLEASE make sure the new BIOS is exactly 128KB before flashing. Initially, I bricked my 5870 because the BIOS was like 72KB (corrupted download???). Luckily I had an old PCI graphics card laying around to fix. ***
The unlocked BIOS is the same version as in the first link, right? Just unlocked?Quote:
Originally Posted by roman63
http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.ph...1&postcount=12 makes me wonder...
What are the clock limits with this new Ati bios?
I'd like to know that, too.Quote:
Originally Posted by sukebe
BIOS version 113-C00101-101 / default voltage 1,162VQuote:
Originally Posted by NaMcO
BIOS version 113-C00101-103 / default voltage 1,174V
features :shrug:
Are you running eyefinity? Did you have the on and off flicker bug like the most of us is having...and are this now fixed by using this BIOSQuote:
Originally Posted by Andrea deluxe
I have flashed also and its running good as well.:D
no, im running single monitorQuote:
Originally Posted by Swanie
This is driving me insane on my new 5850.Quote:
Originally Posted by Swanie
Running the new bios. As mentioned before, the load voltage has slightly increased with this bios. My DP > DVI monitor turning off at random times while running eyefinity still happens, but my monitor always comes back in 2 seconds (did that with the previous bios too). With the previous bios my eyefinity arrangement gets messed up when you my monitors return from standby after not using my pc for a while. Loading and exiting a 3d program or pressing control + alt + del fixed this, however. With the new bios the arrangement stays correct after my monitors return from standby.
So you guys are running the unlocked version, right? And everything works well?
Edit: I just checked the unlocked version.
BIOS CRC is incorrect!
DO NOT USE IT.
Is anyone willing to provide a correctly unlocked one please (this 035264 version, or a later one)? I'd greatly appreciate it.
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Originally Posted by Musho
Thanks for the reply. So make no real difference. I don't get the problems you had before so not worth flashing for me
I flashed this bios today - everything seems to be ok -))
hopefully next driver will fix the overdrive 150mhz gpu flicker bug
So i am running with 9.11 hotfix and no problems uptil now ,does it worse to take the risk of flashing or not ??
The unlocked BIOS in the OP seems broken and is giving me CRC errors, so running the normal one.
Bump for someone to unlock this new official 5870 BIOS properly, please?..
Do the community a favour if you have tools to do so, can't take long. :)
I could have a look and see what I can do. Never tried it before, but it's worth a shot. I won't have time to test the new bios myself, though, but I could do that tomorrow. If you want, you could test it out yourself, but do so AT YOUR OWN RISK. Make sure you have another card so you will be able to flash back to a working bios if it doesn't work. Now let me see if I can mod that bios.Quote:
Originally Posted by zalbard
Meh, it's proving to be too difficult. RBE doesn't seem to handle these new bioses too well and corrupt them. Sorry, can't help any furthur :(
No worries, thanks for giving it a try! :up:
Apparently there are some dev tools that make unlocking a cake.
http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.ph...95&postcount=4 This person seems to have them, but they wouldn't answer my PMs...
It's one of MSI Employee, and he said in one of his post he can't release the tool for the public, it's only for internal use.Quote:
Originally Posted by zalbard
I hope something like this gets out for the 5850
I don't need the tool, mate. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by kpablo
I'd just like them to unlock this new BIOS, like they unlocked the older one, in the thread I linked.
i'm in the same boat as you zalbard...
the new bios improved things dramatically for me...
all i need now is an unlocked version... i wonder if wizard could unlock it...
The BIOS actually works with 5850 as well AFAIK.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...&postcount=659
So it would benefit 5850 users greatly as well!
Come on guys, someone unlock it! Please!!! :D
What exactly did it improve?Quote:
Originally Posted by purecain
Eyefinity fixes. :up: Plus I got rid of DP flickering, too.Quote:
Originally Posted by kiwi
Quote:
Originally Posted by Musho
Meh, no one?
i tried to install the bios that you guys provided here, flashed and when booted to windows it didn't recognized as an ati card.
Reflashed to my original bios, and everything went back ok. I went to techpowerup, and downloaded the latest xfx 5870 bios dated 16-11-2009.
Flashed and everything went ok, except for one thing, my anti-virus stopped working, and so did all the cpu-z, gpu-z, hwmonitor and all those programs.
Do you guys have a clue? Help please, otherwise i will format the hard drive.
So did you try the unlocked BIOS? Or the normal one?Quote:
Originally Posted by NanoBullet
The unlocked BIOS is broken. The normal one is fine - just make sure you don't get a corrupted download for whatever reason.
I used the normal bios, and from what i could see the games were running fine, but i still don't understand why certain applications couldn't run.
I even flashed with the XFX 5870 version of the latest bios downloaded from techpowerup!
Weird, everything works for me. Corrupted download?
don't think so, otherwise it would't work, i think! Flashed sucessfully 3 times, so corrupted bios doesn't seem to be the problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by zalbard
i can't restore windows back, so probably install a fresh windows seems to be the only option
I just hope you uninstalled drivers -> flashed -> reinstalled drivers, in that order.
LOL i forgot to uninstall drivers ;) I will do that!
Edit: finally i could restore the system, then uninstalled the drivers as zalbard told me to do, flashed again this time to latest "ati" official bios and not the latest xfx bios. Installed drivers and everything is working just fine.
Thank you once more zalbard :D
This bios cure my Displayport flicker completely.
Glad I could help. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by NanoBullet
Same here! But I NEED an unlocked BIOS, otherwise no Powerplay for 1GHz overclocks. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by bigredhog
Same here. Just wish I could have overclocking unlocked...Quote:
Originally Posted by bigredhog
Seems silly I have to choose between DP flicker and overclocking :(
flashing a BIOS on a $400 GPU isn't the most normal way to go about fixing something, did they ever say what it was for? Seems like EyeInfinity would be an easy driver fix, why did it require a new BIOS?
I know guys over on Guru3D that killed cards flashing BIOS because of faults in the BIOS or the flash software, it's just not the safest thing to do.
Fixes flickering for people using Display Port, it has been mentioned like 5 times in this thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by LedHed
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Originally Posted by LedHed
Geez man, where are your balls? is this xtremesystems or default systems? :)
super :rofl:Quote:
Originally Posted by trans am
unlocked version?
None untill someone with official unlocking tools bothers to help us out.Quote:
Originally Posted by sonofander
I've flashed videocards at least 30+ times. Nothing ever went wrong, and even if it did, it's very easy to reflash a good bios using a pci videocard, or flashing blind. :D I know it's not a normal way to fix stuff, but I know most companies wouldn't ever bring out a fix at all. I rather like the fact ATI is looking after it's costumers.Quote:
Originally Posted by LedHed
this BIOS 5870 ? anyone try ? any huge different ?Quote:
Originally Posted by roman63
The 5870 I just received as an RMA from newegg already had this bios.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gaul
Still pinstripes galore.
Interesting. Wonder if Asus cards coming from RMA will have an unlocked new BIOS then! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by HeXploiT
sorry, i'm getting confused.
I have a 5850 and have flashed with the "unlock msi 5850" bios since I am over clocking. I have the dual screen flicker problem.
Is there now a bios that allows for:
- unlocked over clocking
- no second panel flicker problem
- works with the 5850
thanks!
No, either overclocking above 900MHz with PowerPlay features or no flickering, you pick one. This one has not been unlocked properly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Locke
thanks so much. the flicker doesn't bother me so much.Quote:
Originally Posted by zalbard
What does it mean to be locked?
Do programs like ATIGPU not work on that particular BIOS?
The only issues I've had with my Eyefinity/5870 (Tri) is sometimes the Display Port monitor (using the active DVI adaptor) will either start flickering or give a "Incorrect input" error.
Which unpluging and replugging the Display Port cable fixes instantly.
Would this error be at all covered in the BIOS update? (The only clocking I do is keeping my card at the stock max so that the monitors in Eyefinity don't start that resolution/flickering lag thing they tend to do with low clocks).
Well i had the flickering issue but since i updated my BIOS it is completely gone. I do not OC my card so i am just very happy that the flickering is gone , my eyefinity works each time i start/ reboot.
ATI, Powercolor, Sapphire and XFX started using this new BIOS with their cards. But not MSI and ASUS... Come on, quit slacking, we want our unlocked BIOSes! :rofl:
I'm with you on this, unlocked bios would be great. Going to flash to this bios tomorrow, hopefully I can find the correct instructions, I may post them all together for my setup prior, so that I can ensure I have everything right.Quote:
Originally Posted by zalbard
I was going to flash to the unlocked bios that I believe you (zalbard) linked to earlier...the MSI unlocked bios; but at this point i'm being patient. My two 5870 cards work great together already, however, it would be awesome to be XTREME and have them both overclocked, LOL.
Interesting...
Found this:
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/sh...7&postcount=37
Have anyone tried this?Quote:
Originally Posted by xFiniti64
Or is this some kind of different unlocking?
Will this bios work on the Eyefinity 2G card?
anyone know how to flash 2 cards at the same time, i have two 5870 in a single W/C loop im not able to flash each card by it self .
read the atiflash commands. You can distinguish between two adapters using 1 or 0. atiflash -f -p 0 asus.rom where 0 represents first adapter. atiflash -f -p 1 asus.rom where 1 represents the second adapter.
there are commands to identify all the adapters on your motherboard, I would just become familiar with them first before actually flashing.
I just added a 2nd card (MSI) to my Gigabyte HD5870. Both are old cards, from October 2009 or something. I was still running the original Asus unlock bios on my Gigabyte card, and that MSI card had an even older bios on it.
So I just flashed both cards with the latest Asus bios from TPU to even them out, but now I am getting weird behaviour with idle clocks and volts. Either I disable overdrive in CCC and get my low idle clocks of 157/300, but full VGPU in idle, OR I enable overdrive and get lower VGPU (1,06V, used to be 0,95V with the old bios) but very high idle clocks of 400/1200.
What's the deal with this? I don't wanna blow power out the door for two cards that are idle 90% of time.
Any other recent bios I should use instead? Or just go back to the original unlocked Asus bios back from September 09 and be done with it?
Thanks.
PS: I never had any issues with the low idle clocks (screen flicker or whatever people have been posting about). I only run 1 screen though.
That was the Ati bios to fix couple of Eyefinity problems. Thats also why the 2d clocks are higher as its for ultra high resolutions.Quote:
Originally Posted by jcool
Just flash back. Those old roms are ok
If you have more than 1 screen attached this is what happens to prevent the flickering.Quote:
Originally Posted by EtheEnthusiast
Either flash back to a previous ROM or detach a monitor
Otherwise you will have to live with it.
Flashed back to old unlocked Asus bios. Both cards idling at 157/300 and 0.95V, no problems. Power saved in idle vs. new bios: 50W.
Jeez, ATI...