Fixing a Bad BIOS Flash on the 4870

[GoldenTiger]

W1zzard, I have my HIS 4870 original BIOS saved (unmodified, from before my card died). I'll upload it somewhere in a minute and edit with link.

EDIT: http://files.filefront.com/his4870st.../fileinfo.html

EDIT2: File removed as it is truncated per this thread.

[Dave Baumann]

W1zzard, I have my HIS 4870 original BIOS saved (unmodified, from before my card died). I'll upload it somewhere in a minute and edit with link.

EDIT: http://files.filefront.com/his4870st.../fileinfo.html

Whatever tool you used to save that with it is not saving to the correct size; the ROM image should be 128K.

I've just looked at all the BIOS's collected on W1zzard's download site, and again they are all incorrect sizes and the BIOS is truncated. W1zzard I would urge you to remove those BIOS's

[GoldenTiger]

Whatever tool you used to save that with it is not saving to the correct size; the ROM image should be 128K.

I've just looked at all the BIOS's collected on W1zzard's download site, and again they are all incorrect sizes and the BIOS is truncated. W1zzard I would urge you to remove those BIOS's

I used ATIwinflash 2.0.0.7 for it under Vista 64.

I feel that if they were misleading those people's accounts should be banned here, they give XS a bad name trying to aquire an easy rma by using a forum to make it look like they didn't do anything wrong themself.

I still have some hope in the good of people, so I'm not definetly saying they were lying but I would like to have this found out without a doubt.

I fail to see why someone would lie on a forum where they are anonymous about what caused their card's death... if they were going to lie why not lie to the manufacturer or vendor for RMA? I told the situation to my vendor and was offered an RMA for a full refund which was lucky as heck on my part.


EDIT: I am taking my truncated BIOS down from filefront now, since I assume those who needed to look at it did and it is clearly not proper.

[Marvin_The_Martian]

I fail to see why someone would lie on a forum where they are anonymous about what caused their card's death... if they were going to lie why not lie to the manufacturer or vendor for RMA? I told the situation to my vendor and was offered an RMA for a full refund which was lucky as heck on my part.

EDIT: I am taking my truncated BIOS down from filefront now, since I assume those who needed to look at it did and it is clearly not proper.

Well some people seem to thing that if their is some forum saying it's not an user problem, it might be easier talking with a retailer/manufacturer about an rma?

I applaud your honesty and you been rewarded for it I see, but not everyone is as honest as you. Again, it's almost like I'm saying I'm certain they lied, I'm not. But to litle cases are known to warrant someone saying that these cards are dying from nothing, that's all I do know for certain. It's been a day since this has been going on here on XS, other forums picked up but I can only see one new case being reported, for me that's pretty conclusive but you seem to think otherwise and again even for your trust I applaud you. I just hope you're right.