4870 dying thread

[AliG]

I don't own a 4870 yet, but I plan to, and someone else pointed out that we should do a systematic way of figuring out what the main cause of the deaths are. I myself believe its the memory, but just to be sure, please chose the appropriate answer in the poll to pinpoint the problem.

thank you for your cooperation


For all people that did flash your bios, there is now a fix for your dead cards. Yes you did essentially kill it by your flash, but you can make it work again with this fix
http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/...ng/vidcard/152

For those who didn't flash (and once again, you know who you are if you flashed your bios) and card still died, go ahead try flashing the bios anyways, a lot of the time a simple bios flash can fix most errors, if it still doesn't post, you'll have to rma your card