Correct way to flash a 4870X2?

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brown bird

Discussion Starter · Mar 6, 2009

I got a great deal on a VisionTek 4870X2 from ebay but it has been flashed with an overclocked bios. I looked around some of the threads here and there aren't really any helpful guides about how to correctly flash a GPU. I just want to flash it back to the original bios. If anyone could point me into the right direction as to how to correctly do this I would be a happy camper. I messed around with winflash, but I still don't know what I'm doing.

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ericeod

· #2 · Mar 6, 2009

Here you go:

How To: Bootable USB Bios Flashing for Motherboards and Video Cards

And here is a link to the Visiontek 4870x2 bios at MVKtech:
http://www.mvktech.net/component/opt...rent,category/

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fonzye

· #3 · Mar 6, 2009

yea that's a good way to flash it

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brown bird

Discussion Starter · #4 · Mar 6, 2009

Rep+ Eric, You da Man!

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ericeod

· #5 · Mar 6, 2009

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Originally Posted by brown bird

Rep+ Eric, You da Man!

That thread gets lost since it is only in the motherboard section. Anyway, I have verified the motherboard, NVIDIA and ATI flashing methods personally. I cant gurantee the Visiontek bios, but MVKtech seems to be fairly reliable. I got the GTX 285 SSC bios from there and it worked 100%.

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haroon

· #6 · Mar 7, 2009

what does flash means?
sorry for bring noob but...learning is good

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nate14120

· #7 · Apr 28, 2009

hey everyone i have a problem. i was flashing the bios on my 4870x2 with winflash(have done this many times) and wile it was flashing i pluged my cell phone to charge and droped the power bar and when i grabed it i hit the damn power switch and i no longer have a card. I have tryed a lot of things but i havent been able to use atiflash. PLEASE HELP...

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DraganUS

· #8 · Apr 28, 2009

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Originally Posted by nate14120

Did u try this? Pay attention on RED COLOR TEXT, except u will have some old gpu in first slot and in the second slot ur 4870x2.

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*For ATI bios*
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1. Download ATI Flash tool (Dos) on the USB drive.

2. Get the bios you want to flash (call it something easy like newbios.rom).

3. Reboot and select the USB to boot from.

4. From there use the appropriate command to flash:

ATI Flash commands...
atiflash -s backup.rom (Backup Original Bios)
atiflash -p -f 0 newbios.rom (Forced Bios Flashing)

for the second card in crossfire plugged into the 2nd PCI-E slot use the following:
atiflash -p -f 1 newbios.rom

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nate14120

· #9 · Jul 22, 2009

Hey thanks I did an RMA on it and got a new one but I have a question about using ATIflash because I want to put the Asus top bios on my card....does atiflash only see ati cards......i have a FX3400 in the first pcie and the 4870x2 in the second so would the command be -p -f -1 for the first 4870x2 gpu and -p -f -2 for the second?? or would i use the commands like you said bc it atiflash wont see the FX

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