[SOLVED] Need Help Flashing vbios of Miner GPU

[Kennyjj]

So recently I bought an rx 470 from ebay and now I need to flash the vbios for gaming. I understand the whole process with ati flash and loading the rom file of the new vbios to flash it but my problem seems a bit uncommon. The Rom file saves in notepad and from the youtube vids i watch the rom file is normally saved as a blank page icon. So when I go to flash it doesnt work.

 

[Barty1884]

The ROM file should be ".rom" and not ".txt" or whatever. If the ROM is from Techpowerup's database, you can probably just change the file extension from whatever it is (.txt?) to ".rom" and proceed.

Either that, or you've assigned notepad to be the program to open .rom files, which doesn't matter... and your issue isn't the fact that things are opening in notepad, your flash is failing for some other reason.

 

[TJ Hooker]

The Rom file saves in notepad and from the youtube vids i watch the rom file is normally saved as a blank page icon.

Saves from where? What exactly are you saving? Are you downloading a VBIOS file from the internet, and if so, from which site?

 

[Kennyjj]

Saves from where? What exactly are you saving? Are you downloading a VBIOS file from the internet, and if so, from which site?

Im downloading the vbios from tech power up

 

[Kennyjj]

The ROM file should be ".rom" and not ".txt" or whatever. If the ROM is from Techpowerup's database, you can probably just change the file extension from whatever it is (.txt?) to ".rom" and proceed.

Either that, or you've assigned notepad to be the program to open .rom files, which doesn't matter... and your issue isn't the fact that things are opening in notepad, your flash is failing for some other reason.

Makes sense, I get an error that says subsystemIDS mismatch i thought it was from the fact it was in text

 

[TJ Hooker]

Im downloading the vbios from tech power up

Can you link to exactly what you are downloading?

Which exact model of RX 470 do you have?

 

[Barty1884]

Makes sense, I get an error that says subsystemIDS mismatch i thought it was from the fact it was in text

More likely to be the fact the card has a mining BIOS and you're flashing an 'updated' vBIOS to it, you're looking to flash an entirely different vBIOS, as far as the card/program is concerned.

While you can brute force through a flash, you do have to be 100% certain you're forcing the correct BIOS for the card in question.

As TJ asked... what specific model of RX470 do you have? And what vBIOS are you attempting to flash on it?