Fixing a Bad BIOS Flash on the 4870

[eleeter]

It might be the ram, it is all speculation unless someone sheds more light on it. so there might not have been a great quality control, because we all know that these are the first wave of the cards, the samples weren't even available until few weeks ago, heck some of the review sites even admitted recieving samples a week before june 25th launch date.

I don't know where you are going with this, but you're not making sense. Of course review sites had cards prior to launch. How do you think they get the reviews ready for launch day? It takes time to do a review, why wouldn't they have cards before the offical launch? What do you think the NDA is for?

whatever it is, if it is a bad bios flash there is no reason for us to not be able to flash it back. bios might be corrupt but it is highly unlikly it damaged the card from ever being flashed again.

You say there is "no reason" but you can't make that claim, bad BIOS code can most certainly kill hardware, especially when it powers up/initializes.

[NKD]

I don't know where you are going with this, but you're not making sense. Of course review sites had cards prior to launch. How do you think they get the reviews ready for launch day? It takes time to do a review, why wouldn't they have cards before the offical launch? What do you think the NDA is for?

You say there is "no reason" but you can't make that claim, bad BIOS code can most certainly kill hardware, especially when it powers up/initializes.

we could argue all day, but that won't find a solution. I am getting myself another card soon if there is not a new flash tool. so lets just wait and see, all I was trying to say that the cards were finalized not long ago, so there might be some issue. thats all. there is no need to go any further in this, as it won't do any of us any good.