I Have been reading the post, and I swear instead of finding a solution, there are some users that are not working on solving the problem.
1. who cares if he flashed the bios, we need a solution, so if you can't help please don't turn this thread into a war.
2. Newegg or Powercolor or whatever company is not going to be in any damage if it is indeed a bad bios flash(just like you said), the manufacturer will probably just flash it back and rebrand it.
3. when someone rma's a card it is not a scam, alright the man paid 300 plus so what if he flashed the bios, no one a noob here. I have flashed numerous nvidia cards and even I have even flashed an 8800 ultra with the 8800gtx bios, why? because I had an ultra and I got a gtx a long time ago for dirt cheap. and the cards are no longer in sli, but they work like a charm.
4. if it is just a bad bios it the card should have no damn problem when you flash it back to original bios.
5. there is a lot of hard work that is involved in this thread, so please don't try to hijack the thread with useless comments. there is no solution in those comments.
6. It does not take a rocket scientist to flash a vga bios, so stop blaming the guy.
7. may be it is the bios tool that we need that would be able to do a good flash, so please chill, and let the people in this thread work towards a solution which in turn is only going to help us.
yes my powercolor radeon hd 4870 just died as well, and yes I flashed the bios, but it worked for two days, so yes it could be the bios tool, gddr5 god knows what, no problems gaming, and I only adjusted for fan speed that is it, and it worked fine, was idling at 55c and load 63c, so for it to work for 2 days and just take a crap does not make any sense, plus it was running hell of a lot cooler, and It was overclocked to 790/1050 with autotune, because I just wanted the damn thing to run cool, I know what I am doing so I don't need anyone to tell me that I am stupid, and yes I did do a stupid thing, do I think it could be because I flashed it with edited bios, probably, may be not. but running at better temps than stock setting for two days and for it to not just boot, it is pretty clueless.
I might have had a bad flash and or the card might be just dead, I tried to flash back to original through dos, it said the flash went fine, but still the same thing. It is useless telling me that I killed my card, because I am man enough to admit that I did, if it is proven that I did it. But that does not mean that we don't need to know the culprit here, all I want to know why it worked for two days and than decided not to boot, all this with 25c less temps. Please help and don't flame because it does not help, and yes I know how to flash a card.
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