6950 to 6970 flash thread

[Oztopher]

I just tried this on my MSI 6950. GPUz shows the full 1536 shaders however when i run ANY type of graphics app (i.e. game, gpu-z, afterburner, even html-5 web) it freezes and then restarts the display driver and tells me it had stopped responding and it has recovered successfully.

Is my card just a bad one that can't be flashed?

I will try going to 'B' bios to see if that solves the problem. tried 10.12 and 10.12a hotfix.

edit: switching back to 'B' bios fixed all the issues with freezing up and restarting the display driver. Maybe i should try a different bios? i used the amd 6970 bios, i'll try the others.

Did you flash the 6970 BIOS? If so then maybe the card can't handle the 880 core, maybe even memory.

There's a 6950 asus bios floating about which unlocks shaders etc but clocks stay 6950.