Fixing a Bad BIOS Flash on the 4870

[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