Bricked RX 460... Am I stupid or what?

[01swodniW]

Hello everyone.

So yesterday I bricked my RX 460. (It's a Sapphire 2gb dual fan) I was attempting to unlock the extra cores by flashing the BIOS. (Video on it here: http://) I followed these instructions (http://) and I have triple checked that I used the right bios. I also checked the comments on that bios download page and it seemed to be successful about 50% of the time and the other times no one bricked their graphics card. Even in the comments on all the videos I saw on the topic, no one had bricked their card. So I assumed nothing could go wrong, and if it didn't work, I had the backup, (which I had no idea how to use at that point, but figured I'd just find out later) but obviously I was wrong. I flashed the BIOS, and when I restarted I noticed that after five minutes the pc was still stuck with a black screen, and no beep. I took the card out, changed primary graphics to the motherboard graphics, put it back in and started looking for a solution. I found this video: http:// and followed all the steps, but when I went to run atiflash.exe it said "this program does not run in dos mode" or something along those lines. Then I switched that version of atiflash with an earlier version (4.17) which was used in the video. The program ran, but when I typed "atiflash -f -p 0 bios.rom" it said "Adapter not found Error 0fl01". I haven't been able to find any solutions, so I've taken to the internet.


PLEASE HELP! I don't want to spend $100+ on another card! Thank you in advance.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

More than likely the failed flash has rendered the card useless , it is always a risk in any flash environment.

 

[01swodniW]

More than likely the failed flash has rendered the card useless , it is always a risk in any flash environment.

Really? Is there no way to fix it? I've heard of this thing about connecting the 1 and 8 parts on the BIOS or something. link here Or would it be possible for it to physically be fixed?

Question: Did I do the whole thing wrong or was I just really unlucky?

 

[dontlistentome]

"this program does not run in dos mode" or something along those lines.

Lol, the first rule of doing stuff like this is research everything, details matter. "or something along those lines" tells me you don't pay attention to details and here you are.

One possible tip: sometimes these utilities need to run in a 'real' mode, not in a Windows virtual mode. For example, running something in a Dos environment within Windows is not the same as running it after you have booted straight into Dos. So I would research how that utility that you use to reflash your card back the way it was is supposed to be run, within a Windows environment or do you need to boot into something else?

 

[01swodniW]

"this program does not run in dos mode" or something along those lines.

Lol, the first rule of doing stuff like this is research everything, details matter. "or something along those lines" tells me you don't pay attention to details and here you are.

One possible tip: sometimes these utilities need to run in a 'real' mode, not in a Windows virtual mode. For example, running something in a Dos environment within Windows is not the same as running it after you have booted straight into Dos. So I would research how that utility that you use to reflash your card back the way it was is supposed to be run, within a Windows environment or do you need to boot into something else?

I followed all the steps in this video.

I don't remember exactly what it said about not running in dos mode because it was not in Windows and it I didn't take a picture. Also my memory isn't the best to be honest.

(Searched it up, the message was "This program can not be run in DOS mode")

 

[WyomingKnott]

Let me give you an example of why you should not consider Youtube videos authoritative. I managed to find one once on adding a second antenna to a Wifi access point. Back then, we knew that two-antenna models were usually better than one-antenna models. This is because they can use MIMO (multiple-in, multiple-out) to make higher-quality single connections or clear multiple connections. So the fellow in the video adds a second antenna to a one-antenna model by soldering the antenna lead to the same pad as the existing antenna. Presto! Two antennas. Also, a reduced-throughput access point.

Some of those videos are quite useful if the person who made it knew what she was doing. Most of the ones I have seen were made by the clueless.

 

[01swodniW]

Let me give you an example of why you should not consider Youtube videos authoritative. I managed to find one once on adding a second antenna to a Wifi access point. Back then, we knew that two-antenna models were usually better than one-antenna models. This is because they can use MIMO (multiple-in, multiple-out) to make higher-quality single connections or clear multiple connections. So the fellow in the video adds a second antenna to a one-antenna model by soldering the antenna lead to the same pad as the existing antenna. Presto! Two antennas. Also, a reduced-throughput access point.

Some of those videos are quite useful if the person who made it knew what she was doing. Most of the ones I have seen were made by the clueless.

Which video are you referring to? The one about fixing the GPU or unlocking it? Because I didn't actually follow the one about unlocking the GPU (I used a written guide) and there were multiple very similar videos to the one about fixing the GPU, which all had good ratings/comments.

Question: Do you think this solution would work? It looks quite promising, OP says it works on all 400 series cards, but it also looks a bit risky. I'm not sure I want to try messing with paperclips unless it's my only option.

 

[dontlistentome]

I don't know if that method would work but it did remind me of something. Due to Windows' security settings, sometimes when you run a program it won't work exactly right if you don't 'run as administrator'. For example, when I use the command prompt to do certain things, I right click it and choose 'run as administrator'. If I just clicked on the shortcut to start it, I wouldn't get the results I'm looking for. Maybe that was your issue?

 

[01swodniW]

I don't know if that method would work but it did remind me of something. Due to Windows' security settings, sometimes when you run a program it won't work exactly right if you don't 'run as administrator'. For example, when I use the command prompt to do certain things, I right click it and choose 'run as administrator'. If I just clicked on the shortcut to start it, I wouldn't get the results I'm looking for. Maybe that was your issue?

I was not in windows.

 

[Zaman_]

is there any way to fix this???

 

[Taffy_Paul]

What you are doing is mostly correct. Set your PC to use integrated graphics in the BIOS and boot into Windows. Open up a command prompt (or powershell) as administrator. Go to the directory where you unzipped the modified BIOS. There should be a copy of ATIFlash 2.74 and the backup rom Rx460.backup. Type the following command to flash the backup ROM -

AtiFlash -p 0 -f Rx460.backup

Once it has finished reset the PC, go into the BIOS and set the PC to use the RX460 as the primary display and it should be OK. Same thing happened to me when I tried to flash my son's card. Only took a minute to do in my case as just conected to his PC with VNC so I didn't have to remove the card or enter the BIOS.

 

[bishopi5]

Im confused, why can you not flash the original bios back?

 

[01swodniW]

Im confused, why can you not flash the original bios back?

I have no idea. When using atiwinflash, it just says "flashing successful" or something, then it restarts, but nothing changes.

 

[01swodniW]

Thank

What you are doing is mostly correct. Set your PC to use integrated graphics in the BIOS and boot into Windows. Open up a command prompt (or powershell) as administrator. Go to the directory where you unzipped the modified BIOS. There should be a copy of ATIFlash 2.74 and the backup rom Rx460.backup. Type the following command to flash the backup ROM -

AtiFlash -p 0 -f Rx460.backup

Once it has finished reset the PC, go into the BIOS and set the PC to use the RX460 as the primary display and it should be OK. Same thing happened to me when I tried to flash my son's card. Only took a minute to do in my case as just conected to his PC with VNC so I didn't have to remove the card or enter the BIOS.

Thank you for your answer, it looks quite promising. I will try this on Tuesday!

 

[01swodniW]

What you are doing is mostly correct. Set your PC to use integrated graphics in the BIOS and boot into Windows. Open up a command prompt (or powershell) as administrator. Go to the directory where you unzipped the modified BIOS. There should be a copy of ATIFlash 2.74 and the backup rom Rx460.backup. Type the following command to flash the backup ROM -

AtiFlash -p 0 -f Rx460.backup

Once it has finished reset the PC, go into the BIOS and set the PC to use the RX460 as the primary display and it should be OK. Same thing happened to me when I tried to flash my son's card. Only took a minute to do in my case as just conected to his PC with VNC so I didn't have to remove the card or enter the BIOS.

Ok I tried it, but it still doesn't work. However, GPU-Z now sees that it has 896 cores where previously it could not tell. So I guess that's SOME progress.

 

[Adec001]

What you are doing is mostly correct. Set your PC to use integrated graphics in the BIOS and boot into Windows. Open up a command prompt (or powershell) as administrator. Go to the directory where you unzipped the modified BIOS. There should be a copy of ATIFlash 2.74 and the backup rom Rx460.backup. Type the following command to flash the backup ROM -

AtiFlash -p 0 -f Rx460.backup

Once it has finished reset the PC, go into the BIOS and set the PC to use the RX460 as the primary display and it should be OK. Same thing happened to me when I tried to flash my son's card. Only took a minute to do in my case as just conected to his PC with VNC so I didn't have to remove the card or enter the BIOS.

Ok I tried it, but it still doesn't work. However, GPU-Z now sees that it has 896 cores where previously it could not tell. So I guess that's SOME progress.

Did you get it to work?