Sapphire 3870 Atomic Bios

**~~sean_php~~** · 01-16-2008, 12:19 PM

Hi,

I don't now if this is a legal request or no! so sorry in advance!

I was thinking of reflashing my two normal Sapphire 3870's with the new atomic 3870 from sapphire. do anyone know a place to get it! or if you have the card please save and give us a copy

also, did anyone tried successfully any bios for fixing low fan speed on sapphire 3870 stock edition!?

Thanks.

**cantankerous** · 01-16-2008, 12:47 PM

try mvktech.net, they have all sorts of video card bioses for download.

**~~sean_php~~** · 01-16-2008, 02:52 PM

thanks, but I didn't find it there. I updated to rev 02 something like 000.71 but my temps are still high

cmon guys,those of you that fixed low fan speed of sapphire 3870 plesae show me a good bios to download!

**xMrBunglex** · 01-16-2008, 03:12 PM

i installed this BIOS a few days ago and it works perfectly:

http://www.mvktech.net/components/co...fan_unlock.bin

it runs the fan at 33% idle and 59% full load. my idle/load temps are 45/63 (63 is the high end in Crysis. it loads in the high 50's in CoD4). here is a screenshot of the Riva monitor after playing CoD4 for a while and exiting the game.

it also fixes the 862 MHz wall. enjoy!

**zanzabar** · 01-16-2008, 04:22 PM

that bios fixes the fan problem and u can just max out the CCC bars since thats the top for non voltmods and it runs perfect

**~~sean_php~~** · 01-17-2008, 02:59 AM

Originally Posted by xMrBunglex

i installed this BIOS a few days ago and it works perfectly:

http://www.mvktech.net/components/co...fan_unlock.bin

it runs the fan at 33% idle and 59% full load. my idle/load temps are 45/63 (63 is the high end in Crysis. it loads in the high 50's in CoD4). here is a screenshot of the Riva monitor after playing CoD4 for a while and exiting the game.

it also fixes the 862 MHz wall. enjoy!

OMG, It didn't work for me! after flashing it with atiflash in dos and restarting, my #0 fan went up to 100% and when vista loaded, ccc reported that clock is 1777

or may be I am wrong, but fan was at 100% and a deadly hot wind was blowing out of the card.

I then refelashed to previous bios. don't know what to say... should I flash my card by another program?!

**Unbornchild** · 01-17-2008, 04:17 AM

Do not forget that only the latest version of atiflash works on 3xxx cards.
I will try this soon xMrBunglex, cuz i have the same card.

**s1nykuL** · 01-17-2008, 04:40 AM

Thanks for the link MrBungle

**~~sean_php~~** · 01-17-2008, 06:52 AM

Originally Posted by Unbornchild

Do not forget that only the latest version of atiflash works on 3xxx cards.
I will try this soon xMrBunglex, cuz i have the same card.

check your signature man! do you really owned a 3780!?

Could you please try it and report the success/failure here?

I think my atiflash.exe is the newest one, because I flashed my cards from 0000.67 to 0000.71 successfully.

I have the retail version of Sapphire HD 3870 so I think that problem must not be the cards.

**~~sean_php~~** · 01-17-2008, 06:58 AM

Originally Posted by s1nykuL

Thanks for the link MrBungle

did you flash it? could you please report!

**~~sean_php~~** · 01-17-2008, 08:33 AM

guys do you recommend an update to ASUS TOP 3870? will it be compatible with sapphire?! if you have the bios please link it here!

**xMrBunglex** · 01-17-2008, 09:05 AM

i don't know what to say, Sean. i have two HIS reference 3870's. i flashed them both at the same time and they both worked for me. beyond that, i don't know a whole helluva lot.

**zanzabar** · 01-17-2008, 03:25 PM

asus is non reference i might not use a sapphire bios on them

**s1nykuL** · 01-20-2008, 12:46 PM

Originally Posted by sean_php

did you flash it? could you please report!

Sorry, I been busy this weekend, I may do it next week. I usually have to read several success posts before I do these things myself

There are braver people than me out there.

**s1nykuL** · 01-21-2008, 07:20 AM

Tried this BIOS today. Using 8.1 Cats the card was not identified by CCC or drivers. Windoze default VGA driver got installed.

CCC did load and recognised the vendor ID but not the hardware ID. I have not had the time to investigate this. So I flashed back to previous BIOS.

Strange that BIOS flash utility (AtiWinFlash) recognised the hardware ID of the new BIOS. But CCC and drivers didn't.

**Disaster_Master** · 01-21-2008, 07:59 AM

I have a sapphire HD3870 and i am also interested in the atomic bios.

I have flashed my card 2 times, and a card for a friend of mine.

The first bios is that from the stilth the second one i think its the same as posted above ( I got that bios from a friend of mine )

I used winflash to flash the cards no problems.

**xMrBunglex** · 01-21-2008, 01:54 PM

Originally Posted by s1nykuL

Tried this BIOS today. Using 8.1 Cats the card was not identified by CCC or drivers. Windoze default VGA driver got installed.

CCC did load and recognised the vendor ID but not the hardware ID. I have not had the time to investigate this. So I flashed back to previous BIOS.

Strange that BIOS flash utility (AtiWinFlash) recognised the hardware ID of the new BIOS. But CCC and drivers didn't.

when i rebooted after flashing, i had to uninstall and reinstall my video driver. then i rebooted again and still got the message from Windows about having an unknown device. i let Windows try to search for drivers then clicked "Don't Try Again" after it failed to find anything automatically. i haven't seen any pop-ups since.

**s1nykuL** · 01-22-2008, 01:42 AM

MrBungle, The card was not recognised by CCC or the driver. It was not the UAA driver for the HDMI audio that failed to install, it was most all of Catalyst. I had no options at all in CCC, only the Welcome and Information panels. No 3d, no Colour, no Avivo options etc. The information panel cited my HD3870 as an unknown device.

I re-flashed this morning with this new BIOS. Not a problem. Driver for UAA not installed, but everything else is now as it should be. CCC fully functioning and card properly recognised. Must of been a partly bad flash yesterday.
All OK now

**~~sean_php~~** · 01-24-2008, 04:58 PM

Hi,

Guys I heard that sapphire is officialy released a new bios for 3870, do anyone knows where is it to download?

**ColonelCain** · 01-30-2008, 09:52 PM

http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/5...12.071113.html

Here you guys go, the Sapphire Atomic Bios.

**zanzabar** · 01-30-2008, 10:17 PM

Originally Posted by ColonelCain

http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/5...12.071113.html

Here you guys go, the Sapphire Atomic Bios.

i thought that the atomic was going to be 904mhz and the normal single slot was 777 arnt they 2 different cards

**roadie** · 01-31-2008, 03:35 AM

I have used the Atomic BIOS on my Sapphire 3870. It gives 825/1200Mhz. It seemed to work ok but I got a crash after playing Armed Assault for a couple of hours. My system hard locked and I got a multicoloured screen with vertical lines. I think the RAM on my 3870 can't handle 1200Mhz so I installed a standard Sapphire BIOS and have my card's clocks at 825/1175Mhz. I still need to find my max stable core setting and I'll upgrade the cooling at some stage.

**roadie** · 01-31-2008, 04:01 AM

Originally Posted by xMrBunglex

i installed this BIOS a few days ago and it works perfectly:

http://www.mvktech.net/components/co...fan_unlock.bin

it runs the fan at 33% idle and 59% full load. my idle/load temps are 45/63 (63 is the high end in Crysis. it loads in the high 50's in CoD4). here is a screenshot of the Riva monitor after playing CoD4 for a while and exiting the game.

it also fixes the 862 MHz wall. enjoy!

Would it be possible to see a GPUZ screen shot from anyone who has this BIOS installed?

**xMrBunglex** · 01-31-2008, 09:13 AM

**~~sean_php~~** · 01-31-2008, 01:03 PM

Thanks for the link,

I already recieved the latest bios for my cards directly from sapphire's support. now the fan is operate more aggressively and temps are below 60C during full load! And I also got my new power its a seventeam 1030 watt ...it's loud too.

for now, if any one tried this Atomic Bios, please report the temps at idle and full load with the normal 3870 using this bios.

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