WANTED: Asus TOP bios set for 4870x2

[road-runner]

I used theses commands:

atiflash -p -f 0 teamau-0.rom master
atiflash -p -f 1 teamau-1.rom slave

Is that right?

That is what I used on my 4870x2s...

[mattkosem]

I'm going to install a FC waterblock on my visiontek card later this week. Is this bios compatible with visiontek? Also, just to make sure that 1000mhz mem is okay on my card, is it safe to flash one bios, reboot, check windows, then flash the other?

--Matt

Works great on the visiontek card. I did it this way:

atiflash -p -f 0 teamau-0.rom
atiflash -p -f 1 teamau-1.rom

--Matt

[l!kw!dskw!d]

Ok, so I flashed my MSI 4870x2 OC (stock 780/900) with the Asus TOP bios, but even though the MSI card does have Hynix memory it was NOT recognized correctly by both Catalyst 8.10 and 8.11 (complete clean install w/ driver cleaner, safemode and blahblah) showed 2 x "2845MB Hypermemory" and not 2 x 1024 MB GDDR5 like the stock bios.
And while a short test with COD5 seemed to run fine, 3dmark vantage resulted in a flickering total mess. So I flashed back the original bioses "enhanced" with just the TOP signature. Since then one core seems to be stuck permanently @ 789Mhz, and AMD gpu clock tool won't work anymore.
Any idea why it won't work out on my card? It still does overclock fine with overdrive, but not beyond 830/950... which of course sucks :P
Next thing I'm gonna try is shooting up the MSI bios with the diamond viper signature and see what happens.
(temps are fine btw, cooling is by EK, so I am pretty disappointed so far... framerates go up and down like a rollercoaster with 3dmark, but I can play Fallout3, COD5, FC2 etc. pretty smooth @ 2560x1600 ... but I want this to go faster, dammit lol)

[l!kw!dskw!d]

update: I took the TEAM-AU roms, filled both with clock settings of 800/975/1.3v except the three "thermal" positions, injected master and slave with the ma. and sl. signatures from the diamond viper bios, disabled "overdrive" in CCC, also disabled ataptive AA, set Catalyst AI back to "standard" (<= advanced seems to cause problems with crossfire), force-flashed both mutants once more, et voila: everything's running fine now, FC2, FALLOUT3, 3dMv, COD5 etc. ^^
CCC still shows "hypermemory", but both GPUZ and Everest recognize card and vram correctly, but whatever, meh...

[Schtuzer]

Thanx all for posting here. Yesterday I flashed my Gainward card with Asus TOP bios - first time flashing bios with videocards

Works ok, problems of different cores working on different speeds in 3D has been solved to a large extent (not totally however). Since my PC runs GPU folding client while not gaming, I would like to flash 3D speed in 2D mode so that GPU client works with full efficiency (strange enough, starting GPU client does not automatically increase card speed to 3D). Where I should put 3D speed - red and blue on pics below? Anything else I should know?





As a side effect, I hope, it will solve the rest of problems of one core not increasing the speed in 3D which results in crashing or shuttering since crossfire is not working right.

What shall be chnaged here?

[giorgos th.]

Dont change anything in the hash table.

[M.I.K.E.Y]

WHAT DO I WRONG ???

So i made a bootable floppy , i put all atiflash349 files on the floppy + the two bios files from TeamAU.i boot from floppy and use cmnd :
atiflash -p -f 0 teamau-0.rom and pres enter..................
ERROR no adaptor found !!!!!
I tried like 100 difrent cmnd's but nothing seem to work :-(
i always get errors !!!!
I am almost about giving up, last hope here S.O.S. :-(

Greetzzz Mikey

[TheKarmakazi]

worked great for me. big ups to Tim for sharing, thanks bro!

[mattkosem]

update: I took the TEAM-AU roms, filled both with clock settings of 800/975/1.3v except the three "thermal" positions, injected master and slave with the ma. and sl. signatures from the diamond viper bios, disabled "overdrive" in CCC, also disabled ataptive AA, set Catalyst AI back to "standard" (<= advanced seems to cause problems with crossfire), force-flashed both mutants once more, et voila: everything's running fine now, FC2, FALLOUT3, 3dMv, COD5 etc. ^^
CCC still shows "hypermemory", but both GPUZ and Everest recognize card and vram correctly, but whatever, meh...

Does setting the vGPU to 1.3v in the bios work without having to do anything else?

--Matt

[oMek]

hmm i flashed my Visiontek 4870x2 with the stock TOP, and the teamAU bios... both give me artifacts at bootup and in windows...

do you think my card cant take the TOP bios? or they are just clocked too high?

[mattkosem]

The TOP bios really shouldn't be too high. It's only a very mild OC, and seems to relax memory timings anyways. What are your GPU temps? Ambient?

--Matt

[JoOs7eR]

Thanks for the TOP Bios... Using HIS 4870X2 No Problems so far

[oMek]

The TOP bios really shouldn't be too high. It's only a very mild OC, and seems to relax memory timings anyways. What are your GPU temps? Ambient?

--Matt

what brand memory does the TOP have? i think mine is diffrent.

[mattkosem]

what brand memory does the TOP have? i think mine is diffrent.

Got me. I'm running the Asus TOP bios on my Visiontek card without any issues though. I'd think you probably have the same brand of chips that I do... What clocks are you able to run with the stock bios? I was able to run around 930 or 940 before I'd see artifacts on mine. When running the stock cooler and TOP bios, I was running 975 on the memory with the stock cooler and Asus fan profile.

--Matt

[M.I.K.E.Y]

WHAT DO I WRONG ???

So i made a bootable floppy , i put all atiflash349 files on the floppy + the two bios files from TeamAU.i boot from floppy and use cmnd :
atiflash -p -f 0 teamau-0.rom and pres enter..................
ERROR no adaptor found !!!!!
I tried like 100 difrent cmnd's but nothing seem to work :-(
i always get errors !!!!
I am almost about giving up, last hope here S.O.S. :-(

Greetzzz Mikey

Ok so i found the problem i had to use atiflash 3.60 because 3.42 dit not reconize the chip

But now after flashing wit the teamau bios and reboot i had a error message that one of the gpu chips had to be disabbeld to prevent damage ??
wtf ?
maybe i just have to take my original biosses (GAINWARD btw) and mod them wit RBE and flash them wit these settings?
annybody somme info for me plz ??
greetzzz

[BulldogPO]

I have been playing aroun with thia HD4870X2 again.
So what is my problem with clocks here:
http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=3172999.jpg

[STEvil]

You're on the desktop at idle.

edit - also you have to set the clock speeds of each GPU in CCC (click the drop-down box).

[BulldogPO]

Even Ati Tool´s furry cube does not rise those clocks.

[eva2000]

Thanks for the TOP Bios... Using HIS 4870X2 No Problems so far

same here no probs with HIS HD4870x2 and Gigabyte HD4870x2 http://i4memory.com/f18/hd4870x2-cro...op-bios-11471/

[oMek]

I have been playing aroun with thia HD4870X2 again.
So what is my problem with clocks here:
http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=3172999.jpg

i had this problem also, even with bios changed. use rivatuner to OC, it will keep them in 3d mode at all times.

[giorgos th.]

anyone having problems raising the clocks through CCC or bios flash?
Vgpu modded Asus (TOP bios) the clocks seems stuck....
850/1000 in Vantage xx fps......880/1000 (CCC - bios) in Vantage exact same fps as 850/1000...

[mattkosem]

anyone having problems raising the clocks through CCC or bios flash?
Vgpu modded Asus (TOP bios) the clocks seems stuck....
850/1000 in Vantage xx fps......880/1000 (CCC - bios) in Vantage exact same fps as 850/1000...

I had issues with my OC settings kicking in at one point. I disabled overdrive, hit apply, then re-enabled overdrive. Twas all good after that.

--Matt

[Fitseries3]

i have both my cards flashed to the asus top bios and i cant stand the noise of the fan running at 100% until i get into windows. anyone know how to fix it? i have looked at the bios in a few editors and there is nothing other than fan profiles.... none of which seem to fix the boot fan speed.

[Thule]

hey guys after flashing asus top bios I got an error as " Incompatible display adapter has been diasbled".
Please look at the GPU clock and memory.I tried to reinstall driver again and nothing happens..I have powercolor hd4870 x2..please help me

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/8366/28847891og4.jpg

[Thule]

I think I found the solution..the catalyst 8.12 makes the error.when I install the catalyst 8.11 the problem is gone and bios is working perfect...