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Rabidpeanut
11-28-2008, 07:17 AM
I have flashed both of my HD4870's to BIOSes that do not work. At first they were running just fine, so just in case i formatted and reinstalled windows. However this means that i deleted the backups of my BIOSes. SO i am kind of stuck. :( I have used every single BIOS on techpowerup for each of my cards. I have 1x gecube hd4870 and 1x force 3d Freezer DHT. Basically what happens is both cards work fine until i get into any 3d app whereupon they work for a little while until either windows BSODs or VPU recoverer catches the problem. I have mailed Gecube who promptly sent me a bios that was even worse than the one that i had before.

Force 3d have been contacting their engineer for the past 2 weeks to get me this BIOS but otherwise have done nothing to help. If anyone has a BIOS for either of these cards coulde they please help me out. I have been crysis free for the past 2 weeks uinless you count crashing benchmarks i am using for a stability test.

If anyone can tell me why these BIOSes crash because i can't see why they would, it is probably something to do with the ram.

Gecube sent me a BIOS for qimonda ram, but i tihnk they sent me one with the wrong type of qimonda ram, there are 2 types of gddr 5 :
IDGV51-05A1F1C-40X

and

IDGV51-05A1F1C-50X

and i have a feeling that they sent me the one for the 50X. while i have a card with the 40X.

My force 3d also has the 40X.

so if anyone here either has a stock cooler gecube with IDGV51-05A1F1C-40X VRAM or a force 3D with a freezer DHT with the same VRAM, ie IDGV51-05A1F1C-40X VRAM. I would really appreciate it if you could send me your BIOSes.

I just can't take all the waiting. They are going to give me the right one eventaully, i am just here (and on every tech support forum on teh intorweb) to hurry it all up a bit.

Please! HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!

saphalline
11-30-2008, 04:30 PM
i am just here (and on every tech support forum on teh intorweb) to hurry it all up a bit.You'll probably find help far sooner on another forum. We do not tend to do these sorts of things around here, preferring to send people elsewhere if they want to tinker to this level. The reason is that we are newbie-friendly on these forums and stay away from the type of advice that can damage components.

I feel for you and hope you get this resolved soon!