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Title: Bricked 5870 Post by: BTC_Junkie on July 12, 2011, 05:35:25 PM So, I accidentally loaded my 6970's Bios onto my 5870. I never backed up the 5870 (Diamond reference) Bios, and I spent hours trying to reflash it. I use Ubuntu 11.04, and was using a DOS booting USB drive to atiflash the bios. Atiflash no longer recognizes the 5870 when another card is plugged in as the main. Using -i it only shows the 1 working card, and using -p 1 it says there is nothing available. I tried blind flashing the ati stock bios, as well as Diamond and Asus versions with no luck (I couldn't see but I suspect I'm getting the same error using -p0 when blind that shows up with -p 1, no card available).
Is there another way I can get the system to at least acknowledge that the 5870 is plugged into the PCI-e port? The fan is spinning, and there wasn't a burning smell or anything so I suspect the hardware is undamaged. Definitely never making this mistake again. Title: Re: Bricked 5870 Post by: KKAtan on July 12, 2011, 06:42:29 PM If I recall, I seem to have bumped into a similar issue, although not exactly the same as you. But I solved it by booting into a windows installation with no AMD drivers installed at all, maybe it will work in linux too.
Title: Re: Bricked 5870 Post by: Jen4538 on July 14, 2011, 01:35:05 AM i used a matx board with onboard video to save a video card that was a bad bios flash
Jen Title: Re: Bricked 5870 Post by: badfrog on July 14, 2011, 08:01:55 PM You can Download 5870 Bioses in the Internet.
Have a Look Here : http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/index.php?page=1&architecture=&manufacturer=&model=HD+5870&interface=&memSize=0 Good Luck in finding the right one. Greetings, Frog Title: Re: Bricked 5870 Post by: steelhouse on July 17, 2011, 07:56:32 AM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JSa7rX_FIk
Title: Re: Bricked 5870 Post by: haploid23 on July 18, 2011, 08:50:47 AM like Jen said, try using a mobo with onboard video, and only put that bricked 5870 in there to flash it.
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