RX 460 Unlock dead

[CoolJ_]

So you may or may not have seen this thread: https://overclocking.guide/amd-radeon-rx-460-unlocking-1024-stream-processors/

TL;DR, it's been possible for more than a year now to unlock the RX 460.
I unlocked my Asus strix 4gb version almost that long ago. It was around January or February 2016. For the past two days though, AMD's drivers have not been working at all, and I can't find any legacy downloads. I assume they've removed the ability to stop the driver signature checks, thus making custom BIOS files impossible. I tried to revert to my backup file but that changed nothing, it was still unlocked. I don't know if I can afford another gpu now that prices are so high, is there anything I can do to save this guy?

 

[Mark RM]

the drivers won't work with a modified BIOS unless you patch them normally, for the longest time though this didn't apply to 5xx series BIOS, but I believe it is now.

If you need the original BIOS for the card, it's available and can be force flashed on there. Give me the exact part number.

But first just try and patch the drivers with
https://www.monitortests.com/atikmdag-patcher-1.4.6.zip

Just run it , wait for it to finish and then reboot.

 

[CoolJ_]

the drivers won't work with a modified BIOS unless you patch them normally, for the longest time though this didn't apply to 5xx series BIOS, but I believe it is now.

If you need the original BIOS for the card, it's available and can be force flashed on there. Give me the exact part number.

But first just try and patch the drivers with
https://www.monitortests.com/atikmdag-patcher-1.4.6.zip

Just run it , wait for it to finish and then reboot.

It didn't work. The BIOS signature enforcement part wasn't found.
Anyway, the part number is 90YV09L3-M0NA00

 

[Mark RM]

https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/187157/asus-rx460-4096-160728

Your original ROM is there.

Atiflash is here
https://www.techpowerup.com/download/bios-flashing/

put the rom in the directory where you unzip atiflash,

I prefer the command line version over the Winflash gui.

You can flash by opening a command line with elevated privileges, navigating to your atiflash directory and use ATIFLASH ver 277 by using the -f flag.

atiflash -i
reports the output and cards found, will give you the card number. If the 560 were card 1 then you'd put a 1 after the p like in the below example, if it were card 0 you would put a zero after the p and so on.

atiflash -f -p 1 romnameexample.rom