4870 ASUS TOP BIOS (upto 900MHz in CCC)

[flopper]

Nice.

[xMrBunglex]

i'm so glad my motherboard has no PS2 connectors on it

does anyone know an easy way around this? i need DOS to run ATI Flash but DOS doesn't support USB devices and i can only use USB keyboards with this mobo. i installed the HP boot utility to turn my flash drive into a bootable drive and enable USB support, but it doesn't load DOS and i don't know where to go from there.

any help short of me taking my video cards to a friend's house and flashing from another computer would be super.

[gundamit]

atiflash -f -p 0 4870.bin (press enter to flash)
restart and enjoy m8....

Does the "0" in that command line represent the slot the card is in?

[r4st4m4n]

Nice to see this! Any improvement on core OC against orig. BIOS? I am using ATiTool so max clock was 870..

I also would like to know ... anyone ?

[gurusan]

Does the "0" in that command line represent the slot the card is in?

I believe so. PCI-E lane 1 = 0, PCI-E lane 2 = 1, ...etc

[STEvil]

Adapter number, not lane number.

[gurusan]

ah my bad.been so long since i've had a xfire setup

[xMrBunglex]

is anyone able to flash using a USB keyboard? if so, how? i'm gonna have to pull my video cards out and take them to a friend's house if i can't figure out a way to do this. last time i flashed i had a motherboard with PS2 ports.

[purecain]

xMrBunglex - now then m8, guttered this hasnt been smooth sailing for ya...

so if i understand you correctly, not having usb support in dos is your issue... you need your bios to support your keyboard here otherwise your suggestion of flashing the cards in another machine seems the only viable one....

do you get the idmismatch error in winflash...???

there is a definate improvement in the cards performance with this bios, i had problems getting my cards stable at 850, 860 is now completely stable with no voltage mogidfications.......

and the fan profile is exellent.........

[xMrBunglex]

i got it. he was a bit of a about it, but W1zzard walked me through it . i'll spread the word so nobody else has to bother him.

USING ATI WINFLASH TO FLASH YOUR BIOS

you have to run it through the command prompt.

Step 1: create a new folder in the root directory of your C drive (so you can easily navigate to it in DOS).

Step 2: copy all the ATI WinFlash files and the new BIOS to this new folder.

Step 3: open command prompt and navigate to your new folder.

Step 4: use the normal ATIFlash command: "atiwinflash -f -p 0 4870.rom"

it should take a minute or two to flash. it will tell you to reboot. you'll have to reinstall your video driver. but everything worked for me after that.

WARNING: if you don't get a successful confirmation at the end of the flash, make sure you flash it again before you reboot. you will brick your card if you reboot before a successful flash.



this BIOS is fantastic. the fan profile keeps both my cards at 60° load and it's quiet quiet quiet. using Everest and my G15 keyboard, i watched it throttle my GPU fans from 1900 to 2700 RPM and everywhere in between while i played a round of CoD4. it throttles the fans to keep the GPU's at 60°. i could barely hear the fans with the game muted.

[purecain]

ahhhh excellent m8... glad to hear youve managed it.... thanks for posting the info aswell....
i thought it might be possible using command prompt...

[flopper]

flashed my club3d, works fine.
nice to adjsut in ccc.

autotune goes to 890/1080 but crashes in 3dmark.
my best overklock that runs stable are 850/1000 no crashes.
however, good to have options if I wanna voltmodd one day.

[Ghigo]

Flashed a sapphire 4870 np at lunch, going test more tonight. Nice fan settings finally

[babalouj]

Purecain, So this bios not only allows further overclocking in CCC but it also helps overclock better than the stock bios?

[AliG]

Should bit check them and see what changed, maybe we can unlock CCC's limit?

good point, we should find out why this one goes onto 900 mhz while the others stop at 790 or 700 depending on your card

here's an idea, look at the profile information, maybe there's something there that will give it away. I have a 4850, so I can't test this myself

[aussie-revhead]

Flashed a sapphire 4870 np at lunch, going test more tonight. Nice fan settings finally

How did it go mate ? I would like to know before I try my cards . Can someone also confirm this works with CF enabled ?

Is this safe to do in vista ? Or XP better ?

Bye bye to gpu-tool .

[aussie-revhead]

and is this the correct tool for the job:

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads...lash_3.60.html

[r4st4m4n]

Just flash my Sapphire with the bios. I don't seem to have gain something. ATI tool can run 5min+ @830/1000 without artifact where before it could only run @825/1000 ... but it may just be the ambient temp being lower today

[aussie-revhead]

But you couldnt do 825 in CCC before could you ?

[r4st4m4n]

But you couldnt do 825 in CCC before could you ?

I can't see CCC ... :/

It already did that when I first tried to install Cat 8.7. This time, after the flash, I unsinstalled, boot in safe mod + driver sweeper, reboot and reinstall and I got the same problem again. The process is running but I can't see the window even if I go to the start program and run it. I had to do same as above + remove manually all "ati" keys in the registry to install it and see it previously.
On top of that once I got it installed, I had all kind of instability issues: artifacts @ stock with ATI tool, lock up in games, ... I then installed the drivers only and I haven't got any problem since.

So now I give up on CCC. I'll just uninstall it and test ATI tray tool ...

I've also already flashed the card with 200/1000, 830/1000 2D/3D so I don't really need CCC anyways

[gundamit]

Flash went fine on both cards. Running auto-tune right now. No more wrestling round with AMD GPU Clock Tool. Thanks all.

[STaRGaZeR]

I was about to post this, got the BIOS from a friend yesterday. Working flawlessly

Too bad it doesn't have a bit more voltage.

[cantankerous]

Everyone is mentioning a better fan profile, can anyone confirm what that profile is exactly? What % is the fan running at idle and what % does it run up to during load? As well, does the fan throttle up and down, up and down during load that is audibly noticeable while this is happening?

This bios sounds much better than the Diamond one which seems to be causing issues even at its stock runnings.

[xMrBunglex]

Everyone is mentioning a better fan profile, can anyone confirm what that profile is exactly? What % is the fan running at idle and what % does it run up to during load? As well, does the fan throttle up and down, up and down during load that is audibly noticeable while this is happening?

This bios sounds much better than the Diamond one which seems to be causing issues even at its stock runnings.

it seems to do whatever it can to keep your GPU's at 60°. i only played CoD4 for about ten minutes last night to test, but both cards ran quiet. much quieter than the 45% CCC profile i had set earlier. the fans do go up and down a lot, but it's quiet and you shouldn't notice it unless your game is muted.

[CanadaRox]

I can confirm that this installs and runs fine on the VisionTek 4870. I'll report back once I'm done testing for my max overclock (stock volts on water)

EDIT: Appears to max out about 850/1100. I'm using an MCW60 and Enzotech copper sinks on the RAM + mosfets + anything else that got hot (that long thing gets DAMN HOT!)