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RX 6600 Invalid gpu index. Please specify valid device index to flash

liquidmuffin

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Hi, I have an XFX 6600 GPU that I cannot flash the BIOS.

Please see output of GPU-Z:

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Also when trying to flash the bios I get the following error:

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Has anybody seen this issue before?
 

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Hi, I have an XFX 6600 GPU that I cannot flash the BIOS.

Please see output of GPU-Z:

View attachment 300392

Also when trying to flash the bios I get the following error:

View attachment 300394

Has anybody seen this issue before?
Stop what you are doing first and get a picture of the white sticker off the back of the card and a picture of a gpu ram chip please

Make sure you are not on a pcie riser cable either
 

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Yess the GPU is second hand.

The previous owner claimed that he only game with the card but I think it was used for mining
 

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Yess the GPU is second hand.

The previous owner claimed that he only game with the card but I think it was used for mining
For it to be defaced like that yes. The chip is definitely a 6600

Anyways grab the latest bios from the link above and follow this guide 100%, do not skip any steps:

Get the latest version of AMDVBFLASH/ATiFlash

https://www.techpowerup.com/download/ati-atiflash/

Then follow this:

For RX 5000-7000 Navi Series and I believe Vega Cards, maybe Fury...
AMDVBFLASH
Versions 3.31-5.0.567

Follow these steps carefully:

1. Open your "C:" drive in Windows, create a new folder, call it atiflash.

2. Extract the contents of amdvbflash_win_5.0.567.zip to the "C:\atiflash" folder (make sure everything is in C:\atiflash and not another folder)

3. Find the bios file you downloaded and rename the bios file to r6600.rom

4. Move your bios r6600.rom to the "C:\atiflash" folder

5.Open the atiflash folder, double click AMDVBFlashDriverInstaller.exe and allow it to install
YOU MUST INSTALL THIS FOR AMDVBFLASH TO WORK, YOU CAN UNINSTALL IT USING THE EXACT SAME .EXE

6. Open the start menu, type cmd, when cmd.exe appears right click it and hit "Run as administrator"

7. At the command prompt type in cd\ and press enter until only C:\> is on the screen.

8. Type in cd/atiflash and press enter, you should see C:\atiflash>

9. At C:\atiflash> type in amdvbflash.exe -i to identify your card with a 0, 1, or 2

10. At the C:\atiflash> prompt type in
amdvbflash.exe -p 0 r6600.rom -fa -fp (or 1, 2)

(there is a space between amdvbflash.exe and -p, a space between -p and 0, a space between 0 and r6600.rom, a space between r6600.rom and -fa, and a space between -fa and -fp)

Press Enter.

Follow directions on screen and if flash is successful exit the command prompt and restart, windows should show up on monitor
 
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Hi I can confirm that I have tried this multiple times and followed the instruction 100%, but I cannot flash the bios of the card and I get the same outcome every time:

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That card has been seriously abused, if not completely bricked. I would demand a refund if I were you.
 

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yess I did


I bought it knowing it was broken, I wanted the challenge of fixing it hahaha
Send it in for repair to a place like Northridgefix or krisfix.de
 
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