I've accidentally flashed my r9 270x with a r9 290x bios!! Help!!

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tomshardwarenoob

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I've flashed graphics card's bios's many times before, and it hasn't always gone flawlessly, however I've always been able to restore them to working order. This time it seems like nothing I do will allow me to flash the card back to its proper bios. I am getting the "adapter not found" error and nothing I've tried can fix it.

Before anyone calls me an idiot for flashing a 290x bios to a 270x, it wasn't (all) my fault. The bios is listed on techpowerup as a 270x bios http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/149573/msi-r9270x-4096-131205.html
But clearly it is a 290x bios 🙁

Please if you know how to get passed the "adapter not found" error please help me
 
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okcnaline
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1) I know it's a GPU, not motherboard. I meant the GPU board, but oh well...
2) First look for the BIOS chip. Then use a hair dryer or some professional equipment that blows hot air, remove the chip and use a BIOS flasher. I think you can find one of those for $3.67 online. Download the R9 270X BIOS (should be a .bin), then flash the BIOS using the program included with the BIOS flasher.
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Hi, thanks for your answer. I have tried everything including the 8+1 pin bios bridge but nothing will allow me to flash the bios. How do I remove the bios chip from the graphics card? What is "hot air"? I gave up on the card and bought a new one but if I can save the dead one I'll try anything! Btw it's a graphics card not a motherboard

 
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No...
1) I know it's a GPU, not motherboard. I meant the GPU board, but oh well...
2) First look for the BIOS chip. Then use a hair dryer or some professional equipment that blows hot air, remove the chip and use a BIOS flasher. I think you can find one of those for $3.67 online. Download the R9 270X BIOS (should be a .bin), then flash the BIOS using the program included with the BIOS flasher.
 
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Thanks I will try to get the bios chip off. Do you think a hair dryer will go hot enough to get it off? If I manage to get it off can I use a eprom programmer such as this http://m.ebay.com/itm/251369833299
 
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easiest thing to do would be to add in another gpu in the main slot, with the flash failed 270x in the next pcie slot down if you have multiple on your mobo


the bios flasher should be able to flash to any pcie slot you choose



 
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silly billy

of COURSE the bios flasher program can flash to any pcie slot if you have more than one

you just specify to which you want to flash to

another gpu in the first slot is so he can boot normally

http://www.overclock.net/a/how-to-fix-a-failed-gpu-bios-flash
 
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If BIOS does not read the card, how can you flash the BIOS?! xDDD

The problem is, it won't get detected due to the core being asked to do the wrong instructions. It would take more than the atiflash executable in DOS to fix it, as you would need the BIOS chip to be detected first.
 
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read it again, SLOWLY


that is WHY you need another video card in the main slot


and the failed flashed card in a secondary
 
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