Fixing a Bad BIOS Flash on the 4870

[NKD]

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.

My sig is old so don't even look at it, lol.

[Crankybugga]

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.

Well i for one care!
Like many others we need to know why this is going on, and if people are fudging their 4870s with a pretty stupid bios flash, then that is very rellevent.

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.

You are joking right?

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.

Not sure where this is going...

4. if it is just a bad bios it the card should have no damn problem when you flash it back to original bios.

So why havent you done that?

yes my powercolor radeon hd 4870 just died as well, and yes I flashed the bios,

Now i see...
Why was i not surprised to finally get to the bottom of your post to read you killed your vga..and oh....you flashed the bios..
Be interesting to see what the ratio is of dead 4870s flashed and not flashed, because at this stage id say the flashers are leading

[NKD]

Well i for one care!
Like many others we need to know why this is going on, and if people are fudging their 4870s with a pretty stupid bios flash, then that is very rellevent.



You are joking right?



Not sure where this is going...



So why havent you done that?


Now i see...
Why was i not surprised to finally get to the bottom of your post to read you killed your vga..and oh....you flashed the bios..
Be interesting to see what the ratio is of dead 4870s flashed and not flashed, because at this stage id say the flashers are leading

now was all that really necessary, I really wanted to point out that yes I killed the card if that makes you happy, it worked for two days and than it died, now if you can't explain why it died after two days, and tell me what to do, I would be more than happy, it is no help pointing to people for what they already know of. I really don't know what you are getting out of this, I never blamed anyone but myself so for you to come out and point that out like I did not admit it, does not really make any sense. I will not respond to your post again, and you should not really respond to mine if you dont wanna help.

[SimBy]

1st of all you should all spread the warning around for ppl NOT to either flash, overclock or do anything non stock. Thats the least you can do.

Then if the cards continue to die even stock, things could get more interesting.

Would be nice if some1 compiles all the deaths. What brand were they, were they stock or any changes were made to bios or overclocked.

Somehow I have trouble believing cards 'just die' for no fing reason.