Fixing a Bad BIOS Flash on the 4870

[eleeter]

Now Please instead of telling me its my fault I flashed, if it happened right after the flash I would understand but 2 days is a big time between flash and gaming for 8-10 hours without a problem, and than going to a dead card on boot up.

What do you think is more likely, a defective card that just happened to die after you flashed it, or that the flashed BIOS caused some glitch or damage and rendered the card dead?

[NKD]

What do you think is more likely, a defective card that just happened to die after you flashed it, or that the flashed BIOS caused some glitch or damage and rendered the card dead?

LOL, alright may be a glitch happened. I just don't want anyone else going through this I guess, Hey I can't even RMA my card since I got this card of someone, so I would have to buy another one, but anyways it could be that the card just died, or yea there was a glitch in the bios. Anything is possible, but it is hard for me to believe that it would work so good after a flash, and than die. The symptoms seem to be same as the other cards, that weren't even flashed.

[SimBy]

Well of course messing with stock settings/flashing with experimental beta flashers is primary suspect for most deaths for now. With exception of those cards that 'just died' stock.

The other could be GDDR5. GDDR5 is the biggest difference compared to HD4850 which I don't think I've seen much if any reports of dying.

Were there any reports of HD4870 cards dying in reviewers hands?! I mean those guys surely put them through its paces! But what they did not do is flash bios.