6950 to 6970 flash thread

[twistedneck]

Did you flash the 6970 BIOS? If so then maybe the card can't handle the 880 core, maybe even memory.

There's a 6950 asus bios floating about which unlocks shaders etc but clocks stay 6950.

Yes, i flashed multiple bio files including Sapphire and the stock AMD 6970 bios they all behave in a similar manner. It boots fine but when i try any 3d app like ccc or msi, even gpu-z it just freezes the screen with some artifacts and then if i'm lucky the driver will recover and give a message about how it restarted, then if i try to do anything again the cycle repeats.

I have confirmed the card runs great when flashed back to the msi 6950 stock bios.

So, do i have the "golden shower" sample?