Fixing a Bad BIOS Flash on the 4870

[Alcibiades]

Would you be kind enough to email to me the Iso file of your bootdisc. This has been driving me nuts but I can't get it to work. I've spent hours trying.

Also once you are booted, do you just type in the command line like you posted and it flashes the ati bios chip? I have a P53 motherboard with an Nvidia 7800 in one slot and the 4870 in the other and am using V64.

Thanks for the help.

Goto http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html

download 4.1.1 iso from preferred source

create your UBCD from iso

copy your atiflash.exe and the 4870.bin to your c:\
(that's the root dir) just to make it easier when in dos

boot with your UBCD that you created



start edit:
WRONG --> choose *Boot First Hard Disk* This will actually boot you back into Vista

correct steps to boot ntfs drive(s)
choose
DOS/Linux Boot Disks
DOS Boot Disks
FreeDOS Boot Disk v3.40
now a series of dialogue boxes will pop up
keep pressing enter on each one but watch out for the NTFS dialogue box
you want to use your arrow keys to get to the checkbox and press spacebar to select it
press enter
you will get to dos and q:\
type c:
and press enter
if invalid drive try d e f etc
do a dir on each one to see which one has your flash files
(my c: drive was invalid and it came up as d: drive)
when you are in the drive and folder with your flash files
end edit:

type
atiflash -f -p ? -4870.bin

where ? is the pci-e slot with the 4870
example: atiflash -f -p 0 -4870.bin

to find out which pci-e slot your 4870 is in
type
atiflash -i

Well what are you waiting for??!?
Get to flashing already!

switch notes
-i Display information of ATI adapters in the system

-f Force flashing regardless of security checking BIOS file info check OR boot-up card

-p Identifies adapter(s) to flash