Radeon 6870 unstable bios problem causing display to crash


  1. ryan3120
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    Radeon 6870 unstable bios problem causing display to crash


    Hey all

    I have a problem with my sapphire radeon graphics card. What it is iv been having problems with drivers with being not responding then recovered. So i did some research online and quite a few forums have said flash and update the gpu bios. (stuped mistake of my life) Anyway iv worked out iv put the wrong bios on and i was wondering if its possible to revert the flash, but one problem i didnt back up the bios before hand so im stuffed. I have found one online what apparently it will work but i dont know how to make a bin format file to boot with a usb stick. If anyone can help me resolve this issue would be fantastic and saves me worrying to spend more money than i have.

    Many thanks
    Ryan:)
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  3. bassfisher6522
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    Have you been to Gigabyte for the latest bios? They do have the previous version of your bios listed...the latest bios is a beta. Never go with beta versions of anything, they are always buggy.

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  4. bassfisher6522
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    The latest beta version name is F9c...you need to go back to the F8 version.
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  6. ryan3120
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    bassfisher6522 said:
    The latest beta version name is F9c...you need to go back to the F8 version.
    hello bud its the vga bios i ment, sorry for not explaining properly i have the f8 bios on my motherboard. If theres any thing like screen shots or files to look at just shout.
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  7. Indianatone
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    Hi,
    You may be able to get the factory spec vga bios from this website Video Bios Collection | techPowerUp
    You need a bootable USB and a flash tool. There is a tutorial here:Guide to Video BIOS flashing
    If you get it working again learn for this and leave the video-card alone. I messed a Sapphire Radeon 9200 up years ago and had to send it back under warranty. Good Luck. Tony.:)
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  8. ryan3120
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    Indianatone said:
    Hi,
    You may be able to get the factory spec vga bios from this website Video Bios Collection | techPowerUp
    You need a bootable USB and a flash tool. There is a tutorial here:Guide to Video BIOS flashing
    If you get it working again learn for this and leave the video-card alone. I messed a Sapphire Radeon 9200 up years ago and had to send it back under warranty. Good Luck. Tony.:)
    Hi tony thanks for the reply, I have had alook on the techpowerup site and none of the bioses codes match with my graphics card unfortually.

    heres my codes if anyone can help out

    pn 299-3e174-430sa SKU# 11179-09-20g

    many thanks Ryan
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