Hello,
Recently bought a 7970 GV-R797OC-3GD, started out oc'ing and managed to get it to about 1060/1500 clocks which seemed to be pretty stable after a few hours of gaming, but I wanted to flash the bios to allow me increase the voltage above stock (1.170V).
Unable to find just a bios that allowed voltage modification, I flashed my bios (switch position 2) to the GHZ edition. After rebooting, basically every game I played instantly resulted in the game locking up and me having to force quit the game. Thinking maybe the clocks were too high for my card I reset clocks to my stock (1000/1375) and had the same result. Any 3D app would lock up and give me the display driver crashed error.
Here's the kicker. Long story short I ended up using this "stock" BIOS on both bios 1 and 2. I know I know, I screwed that up. http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/122736/Gigabyte.HD7970.3072.120426.html
Sounds good right? Nope. Games now sometimes give me the display driver crashed error even on stock bios and stock clocks (1000/1375) after a few minutes of gameplay. Raising my OC back to my initial 1060/1500 results in instant lockup in-game. So I am forced to slightly underclock my card to be stable.
I used atiflash with the cmd - "atiflash -p 0 file.rom -fs -fp" to flash my bios every time.
Wondering if there's anything I can do. Maybe someone has my card and can upload their stock bios? Just to be sure the "stock" ones im using are actually stock.
Thanks
Recently bought a 7970 GV-R797OC-3GD, started out oc'ing and managed to get it to about 1060/1500 clocks which seemed to be pretty stable after a few hours of gaming, but I wanted to flash the bios to allow me increase the voltage above stock (1.170V).
Unable to find just a bios that allowed voltage modification, I flashed my bios (switch position 2) to the GHZ edition. After rebooting, basically every game I played instantly resulted in the game locking up and me having to force quit the game. Thinking maybe the clocks were too high for my card I reset clocks to my stock (1000/1375) and had the same result. Any 3D app would lock up and give me the display driver crashed error.
Here's the kicker. Long story short I ended up using this "stock" BIOS on both bios 1 and 2. I know I know, I screwed that up. http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/122736/Gigabyte.HD7970.3072.120426.html
Sounds good right? Nope. Games now sometimes give me the display driver crashed error even on stock bios and stock clocks (1000/1375) after a few minutes of gameplay. Raising my OC back to my initial 1060/1500 results in instant lockup in-game. So I am forced to slightly underclock my card to be stable.
I used atiflash with the cmd - "atiflash -p 0 file.rom -fs -fp" to flash my bios every time.
Wondering if there's anything I can do. Maybe someone has my card and can upload their stock bios? Just to be sure the "stock" ones im using are actually stock.
Thanks
