Needing a Sapphire RX 470 4GB mining bios to game on

[RayRayMM]

I have this card that I need to flash a bios to allow me to game on it. I know it is an old card and that I should probably toss it, but I wish to use if possible.

I know how to flash bios I hope to hear from the experts here which bios to flash on it (if an rx 570 bios would works that'd be great!)

some info
:
PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_67DF&SUBSYS_353E174B

P/N: 113-2E353FU.M58


if you guys need any more info please let me know!
Thank you so much

 

[eidairaman1]

Remove gpu heatsink and get a picture of a ram chip please, no guarantee a mining card will be able to display anything

1002 67DF 174B E353

 

[RayRayMM]

Ram is

k4g41325fc-hc28

Card has dvi and posts now but takes no drivers

 

[eidairaman1]

Ram is

k4g41325fc-hc28

Card has dvi and posts now but takes no drivers View attachment 359752

Ok lets find something hopefully

Sapphire 11256-31 VBIOS

4 GB GDDR5, 1236 MHz GPU, 1750 MHz Memory

www.techpowerup.com

 

[RayRayMM]

Thank you so much for the help.

tried to flash and got this error

Old P/N: 113-2E353FU.M58
New P/N: 113-WE353FU-M73
P/N mismatched

ERROR: 0FL01

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do we need to bruteforce this ?

 

[eidairaman1]

Thank you so much for the help.

tried to flash and got this error

Old P/N: 113-2E353FU.M58
New P/N: 113-WE353FU-M73
P/N mismatched

ERROR: 0FL01

===========
do we need to bruteforce this ?

Let me study some does that card have a 4 position bios switch?

 

[RayRayMM]

No bios switch

 

[VuurVOS]

Ok lets find something hopefully

Sapphire 11256-31 VBIOS

4 GB GDDR5, 1236 MHz GPU, 1750 MHz Memory

www.techpowerup.com

That is a mining bios as well. I am not sure if that is a good idea.

@RayRayMM
Can you try these bioses as well?

Sapphire RX 580 VBIOS

4 GB GDDR5, 1366 MHz GPU, 1750 MHz Memory

www.techpowerup.com

Sapphire RX 580 VBIOS

4 GB GDDR5, 1366 MHz GPU, 1750 MHz Memory

www.techpowerup.com

Please follow the flash guide of eidairaman1 (see quote) and only use AMDVBFlash version 2.93

For RX 500 Series (Polaris) and Older:

Get amdvbflash 2.93

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

Then look for Version 4.68, underneath 4.68 you will see a link to show older version, click that and you should see version 2.93

Follow these steps carefully:

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

2. Extract the contents of atiflash_293.zip to the "C:\atiflash" folder

3. Find the bios file you downloaded and rename the bios file to 5 digits with .rom on end Example RX 580, change file to rx580.rom (r****.rom)

4. Move r****.rom to the "C:\atiflash" folder

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

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

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

8. Type in amdvbflash.exe -i to identify the gpu you want to flash with a 0, 1, or 2)

9. At the C:\atiflash> prompt type in
amdvbflash.exe -unlockrom 0
(there is a space between the e and -unlockrom and 0)(0 is the number zero)
press enter and you will be prompted that the "ROM Unlocked" (or 1, 2)

10. At the C:\atiflash> prompt type in
amdvbflash.exe -f -p 0 r****.rom
(there is a space between the .exe and -f, and a space between -f and -p and 0).
(Or 1, 2)

Press Enter

Follow directions on screen and if flash is successful exit the command prompt and restart, windows should show up on screen.

 

[RayRayMM]

That is a mining bios as well. I am not sure if that is a good idea.

@RayRayMM
Can you try these bioses as well?

Sapphire RX 580 VBIOS

4 GB GDDR5, 1366 MHz GPU, 1750 MHz Memory

www.techpowerup.com

Sapphire RX 580 VBIOS

4 GB GDDR5, 1366 MHz GPU, 1750 MHz Memory

www.techpowerup.com

Please follow the flash guide of eidairaman1 (see quote) and only use AMDVBFlash version 2.93

Thank you so much. The first bios worked and the card now takes drivers and passed benchmarks.
I wonder ifnthe hardware and bios mismatch (being 580 bios on 570 chip) would.make problems in games that seek resources that don't exist ‍.

But it's ok as long as it can basically run the games now

 

[ViperXZ]

I wonder ifnthe hardware and bios mismatch (being 580 bios on 570 chip) would.make problems in games that seek resources that don't exist

You’d notice that quickly through a harsh frame drop or crash but generally no, people use these “wrong” bioses on related cards since a long time and they just work normally, you won’t get any extra performance though.

 

[eidairaman1]

You’d notice that quickly through a harsh frame drop or crash but generally no, people use these “wrong” bioses on related cards since a long time and they just work normally, you won’t get any extra performance though.

Considering rx570s can be rx 580 2048SPs, looking at the chip model physically will let you know

 

[ViperXZ]

Considering rx570s can be rx 580 2048SPs, looking at the chip model physically will let you know

That’s the thing though, a 570 and a 580 2048 are the exact same product just with different marketing for the weird Chinese market. They were not released here, as we don’t like stunts like these.

 

[eidairaman1]

That’s the thing though, a 570 and a 580 2048 are the exact same product just with different marketing for the weird Chinese market. They were not released here, as we don’t like stunts like these.

Yup and all of the 1s ive dealt with are 1002 6FDF 1002 0B31...

Ive helped many restor alot of them, sometimes they work sometimes they don't.

 

[RayRayMM]

That’s the thing though, a 570 and a 580 2048 are the exact same product just with different marketing for the weird Chinese market. They were not released here, as we don’t like stunts like these.

That's quite interesting.. do you know how I'd check if the card I have is a 2048? No purpose other than fun exploring I guess.

 

[ViperXZ]

That's quite interesting.. do you know how I'd check if the card I have is a 2048? No purpose other than fun exploring I guess.

In GPU-Z you can see it only has 2048 shaders. (edited for clarity)

 

[eidairaman1]

That's quite interesting.. do you know how I'd check if the card I have is a 2048? No purpose other than fun exploring I guess.

Pull the hsf off and look for a 215 number on the chips metal plate

In GPU-Z you can see it only has 2048 shaders, otherwise on the card itself, the marketing of it, the driver name perhaps.

Rx 470 is straight up 2048 SP, only the 470D is like 1792 SPs