The 5970 Incident

[Snapman]

To sum things up quickly, i was attempting to flash my 6950 to unlock shaders, and somehow during the process, it went loose on my 5970. (I was lazy and didnt pull the other cards before the flash, even though the choice i selected during the flash process was NOT the 5970.)

Ive gone through a million guides on bios reflashing, and its all find and dandy but the situtaion im in is that one of the gpu is no longer showing (master im guessing) on any listing from these flashing apps. Ive done the atiflash -i getup, but it only shows Cypress (Slave) and my 6870 i used to get to DOS. Ive noticed that both gpu-z and Device manager now show that adapter as "Standard VGA Graphics Adapter.

Im completely out of ideas on what to do next. The card no longer works by itself, i need to have it in a secondary postition.

[Olly_K]

you need to flash the 5970 twice, the first GPU with the master BIOS and the 2nd GPU with the slave BIOS

Have a look here if you need the stock BIOS's:

http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/

edit:
atiflash -i should show you all the adapters in the system. You should be seeing 3
 

[Snapman]

i repeat again, ONLY 1 GPU from the 5970 shows during atiflash

Been through that site several times, all the bios's in the world wont help when what i need to apply it too is missing.

[Olly_K]

well at least you have a 5870

good luck.....

[Remember remember the 5th of November]

Have you tried, say, swapping the cards in the slots?

[Snapman]

Getting help from artforz right now, kinda tells you know serious it is.

EDIT: Well, after exhausting damn near everything, art thinks its come down 1+8.

Any other suggestions?

[Snapman]

Rather, does anybody have any decent guides for 8+1 the reference 5970s?

[joulesbeef]

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=156358

[Snapman]

Thats not a guide, its only a thread with a guy in the same fuked up situation i'm in.

[jake262144]

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=156358

I wish ATI released atiflash source code - it could be then modified to use the 5970 flashing routines blindly, without checking the HWID first...
If you somehow manage grab the latest source, let me know.

That's where any hasty and ill-planned interaction with hardware will get you: the 5970 shall become as 5870

[Snapman]

SUCCESS!!!!

The 8+1 trick has done it again. Enjoying my fully functional 5970

Since a proper guide for the 8+1 jumper trick is non-existent, i will be creating one including pics (maybe a youtube vid) to follow through with.

[jake262144]

Well done!

[Snapman]

It all came down to a screw driver and a staple

[jake262144]

...to reset the bios, yes.
Still, as any hardware job this required some concentration a steady hand.

[Snapman]

All it took to obtain that steady hand was a little T-H-C.

[jamieebotwin]

Well done!