Hello everyone,
i tried mailing the master of disaster,
@Mini_Me already, i don't know if he is still active on this thread, that's why im doing this post.
I started mining on my 5700XT-Rig in February, i flashed 3 Gigabyte OC 8 Gaming cards back then, i just remember vaguely, that
i did have problems with one. In the end, it all went well with the 2.93+ amdvbflash-tool over cmd.
However,
with my 4th 5700xt, it doesn't. I tried flashing with
2.93+ as usual because of the
single-memory type but the
card bricked and bios or windows wouldn't post unless i shorted the bios chip with "a pair of tweezers".
Now i'm back to windows with the Gigabyte-Windows-flash-tool (
it does post without shorting) but the
card is still not recognized in windows (no adapter found) unless i continue shorting the bios-chip during start-up. How can i fix it? And how do i get a modded bios on there?
The bios i saved first (somehow not signed, i don't know about that) was with the device-number 731F. Would an unlocked, signed version of a bios for this card help?
Thanks in advance,
Erik
NEWS: (edit)
By looking closely at my cards, i discovered, that
there are different builds of the same model. Rev1, Rev2
yeah, different bios and so on. What i mean by that is
not a new PCB-Layout, but things soldered that are not soldered on the other ones.
My theory is the following: 2 out of my 3 first cards have
one connector not soldered to a place close to PCIE-Connectors and are therefore Rev 1 versions. I
didn't have much of a problem flashing them, modded bios - no problemo. The
other card has a connector soldered there, however, the connector is not connected to anything.
I did have problems with this card, didn't save a modded version of the original, signed bios of this card to my pc, because it didn't work. (bios is locked).
This is a REV2 Card.
These differences are also noticeable on the device-id seen in amdvbflash.
730F is REV1, 731F is REV2.
When i am
force-flashing a 730F-Bios on there (cards with no connector),
windows won't boot and im stuck on the bios loading-up screen of my h110 btc+. Now i need to find a way to get this card up and running again.
Update: (edit)
I
tried flashing the bios of my other gigabyte-cards, the stock versions, the modded versions, it either
didn't boot into windows,
or the adapter was not found unless i continued to short the bios-chip.
I
tried flashing the bios of tech-power-up and
the bios of Mini_Me to the card, again, it didn't work. I even
switched PCIE-Slots,
nothing changed. This card cost me 4 days, 6 hours a day. I looked up everything, tried everything, flashed all i could.
I will ask Alternate on monday if they can
provide me a working bios or if they can give me
Gigabyte's support-number because
Gigabyte.de/support is currently down.
I will update you guys and, if working, provide the working bios.