[SOLVED] Cannot overclock my GPU it goes back to base clock (RX580)

[dupplax]

I have a Sapphire NITRO+ RX 580 8G GPU and for some reason it wouldn't go over 1250 mhz even though it supposed to go up to 1411 mhz boost clock. I tried to overclock it but every time I set a clock speed and apply it, it instantly reverts back to 1250 mhz. I tried it in Adrenalin and MSI afterburner. What am I supposed to do? How can I overclock it?

Here is what happens:

View: https://youtu.be/RdR0NDG2RPw

 

[luisguerreiro]

Reinstall drivers with ddu, do a clean install of the latest stable version, retry, also disable fast boot in windows power settings to prevent it from resetting the oc on windows startup

 

[dupplax]

Reinstall drivers with ddu, do a clean install of the latest stable version, retry, also disable fast boot in windows power settings to prevent it from resetting the oc on windows startup

I did a clean install with ddu ( and i did have my old gpu drivers so it was definitely helpful) but my problem still remains 🙁 same thing as on the video I linked.

 

[tennis2]

Have you tried restarting your PC first? Not shut down, restart.

 

[dupplax]

Have you tried restarting your PC first? Not shut down, restart.

Yes I have restarted it many times, after the driver installation aswell.

 

[dupplax]

Have you tried restarting your PC first? Not shut down, restart.

Should I try an older driver maybe a 19. -something version?

 

[tennis2]

I'm running 19.9.2 without issues

 

[dupplax]

Looks like I've solved the problem. The Sapphire Rx580 nitro + comes with dual bios, a 'quite bios' and a 'performance bios' which you can switch manually on the card. I changed to the 'quite bios' and I was able to overclock that. I guess the performance bios is locked in the bios to a certain clock that's why I couldn't change it. I used these proflies to overclock in adrenalin 2020:https://community.amd.com/thread/245338

 

[dupplax]

Also flashing my gpu's vbios on the performance bios solved the problem aswell.

 

[tennis2]

Did you buy this GPU used? That's quite odd that the vBIOS would be buggered from the factory.