5970 Bios Update for Fan Control Fix - Links Here

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dopey

Discussion Starter · Nov 23, 2009

These came from Sapphire support:
http://www1.sapphiretech.com/global/lib_files/102.zip
http://www1.sapphiretech.com/global/lib_files/103.zip

102 is the flash files, 103 is a PowerPoint file with detailed instructions for those who need them. If you don't have PowerPoint (MS Office) you can get the free viewer from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

Enjoy

It is recommended to reinstall the latest ATI driver after flashing:
http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles...n-hd-5970.aspx

NOTES:
-It is suggested that you unplug all peripherals except keyboard, mouse, and monitor, prior to flashing.
-DO NOT copy the 2 pictures in 102 to your Flash Drive. They are not part of the process, just for reference.

Edit: Member Tivook reported issues flashing an Asus card, solved by inserting another GPU with the 5970 in the secondary lower pci express slot, running atiflash and then swapping the order of the flashfiles so that the flashfile that was supposed to go core 0 went to core 1 and vice versa. Seems like ASUS swapped the master and slave positions or something.

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xdanisx

· #2 · Nov 23, 2009

My 4870 has CCC fan control. Screen shot?

dopey

Discussion Starter · #3 · Nov 23, 2009

here ya go

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kow_ciller

· #4 · Nov 23, 2009

Have you tried afterburner 1.4? The newest revision has 5970 support.

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dopey

Discussion Starter · #5 · Nov 23, 2009

yeah i tried 1.4, recognized the card but fan control is grayed out, also didn't see the 2nd gpu anywhere so does it oc both or what

kow_ciller

· #6 · Nov 23, 2009

It should overclock them both at the same time. After the first time that you start up 1.4, restart your computer and it should work the next time you open it.

dopey

Discussion Starter · #7 · Nov 23, 2009

k i'll try it again

dopey

Discussion Starter · #8 · Nov 23, 2009

nope didn't work. slider all the way left, and option grayed out

Xelios

· #9 · Nov 23, 2009

Might be an obvious one, but did you click the little auto button over the right side of the fan control? It greys out of left on. Will have a green light if its on.

kow_ciller

· #10 · Nov 23, 2009

Also check to see if you can set a custom fan profile in the settings.
You might want to go on the afterburner forums and see if they have a fix for it.

gbrilliantq

· #11 · Nov 23, 2009

Rivatuner?

grunion

· #12 · Nov 23, 2009

You have to select the correct core for control, use the dropdown menus.

rico2001

· #13 · Nov 23, 2009

Use ccc for clocks.

For voltage:
ATI HD 5970 Overvoltage Utility

dopey

Discussion Starter · #14 · Nov 23, 2009

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Originally Posted by rico2001

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Use ccc for clocks.

For voltage:
ATI HD 5970 Overvoltage Utility

afterburner seems to work for clocks and voltage. i need fan control

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dopey

Discussion Starter · #15 · Nov 23, 2009

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Might be an obvious one, but did you click the little auto button over the right side of the fan control? It greys out of left on. Will have a green light if its on.

auto button is grayed out, same as slider.

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Also check to see if you can set a custom fan profile in the settings.
You might want to go on the afterburner forums and see if they have a fix for it.

I can set oc profiles, but nothing about any fans listed anywhere..

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You have to select the correct core for control, use the dropdown menus.

I don't see any drop down menus - where?

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grunion

· #16 · Nov 23, 2009

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auto button is grayed out, same as slider.

I can set oc profiles, but nothing about any fans listed anywhere..

I don't see any drop down menus - where?

In CCC should be right next to the auto tune button.

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rico2001

· #17 · Nov 23, 2009

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Overclocking the Sapphire HD 5970 OC was a little more difficult than I imagined it would be. First, the Sapphire overvolting utility Redline did not recognize the card as a supported piece so I had to move on to another utility to work the voltages to get as much from the card as possible. I will be following up with Sapphire on this. By bumping the voltage up to the 1.16 volts supplied by the voltage utility I was able to get the 5870 OC up to 890MHz on the two Cypress cores and 1250MHz on the GDDR5 memory. Pretty decent increases across the board from a card that is power limited at this point. A couple of things I found out were that you need to go into the CCC and overclock both cores otherwise your performance will not be up to what it should be. This does however, open up the opportunity to tweak the most performance from each core. The second item I found was that after a failed overclock you need to reset the clock speeds to the factory defaults on both cores before trying any other benching because the voltage tools do not keep the voltage settings after the restart. 155MHz on the core and 250MHz on the memory are not too bad and beat the stock HD 5870 speeds. Peak load when overclocked came in at 486 watts with load temperatures peaking at 69 Celsius with the fan at 85%. Yes, it is loud just like almost every reference cooler since the 1900XTs. With only about eight hours of testing time I am not able to run the whole test suite but here is a taste of what the Sapphire HD 5970 OC has to offer.

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dopey

Discussion Starter · #18 · Nov 23, 2009

oh, that drop down menu...yeah i already did that, doesn;t give me control of the slider.
in ccc the manual fan control is simply missing. check the screenie on the first page.

could this be a driver issue?

dopey

Discussion Starter · #19 · Nov 23, 2009

my fan isn't loud, it's stuck at 30% lol

grunion

· #20 · Nov 23, 2009

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oh, that drop down menu...yeah i already did that, doesn;t give me control of the slider.
in ccc the manual fan control is simply missing. check the screenie on the first page.

could this be a driver issue?

Hmm not sure

I'll have to ask you to send me the card for further testing.

Which driver are you using?

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