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i used atiwinflash to flash the bios on my sapphire radeon hd 4870, but it bricked my card. apparently i should have made a dos bootdisk and used atiflash from dos to flash it. i tried rebooting in dos with a usb flash drive and flashed my bios again, but my card is still a brick. i am using 128k bios so that shouldnt be the problem.

is there any way to fix this?

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Its finished (at least ive never personally seen anything about recovering/restoring a botched video flash). Those flash tools dont put those warning messages up all over the place for no reason Im assuming you were trying to flash it to the ASUS bios for the fanspeed software. Just RMA it for a new one, shipping and waiting is a hassle but at least you can get the stress of having to deal with it off your chest.

Message edited by spathotan on 08-27-2008 at 02:56:05 AM

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Only thing is, they may not take it on an rma since technically he was modifying the card. It may be worth a shot, but if they don't take it back don't be too suprised. But be honest and explain everything...maybe they will.

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Thats true, but if he got it at Newegg they pack him up a new one regardless. Anywhere else and im not sure. I RMA'd a 7600GS I screwed up by putting a zalman cooler on, screwdriver sliped and knocked a chip right off the PCB by the interface. This has me assuming they dont even test them, they just send them back to the OEM.

Message edited by spathotan on 08-27-2008 at 03:36:40 AM

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I have same card as you gendu and i too encouterd this problem. My card was bricked too, but you can fix it, no need to take it back to the seller. Anyway you'll need a second video card (so you can boot in dos) and a MB with two PCI-e slots.

Reply to Ales320

One more thing, here is the link to a good guide, just replace that asus.rom file with your BIOS file.

http://wccftech.com/forum/overcloc [...] luded.html

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ohiou_grad_06 wrote :

ur taking the piss, don't tell them you broke the card say it was like that when you got it

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agree'd with rangers... although that might actually f*ck you over lol

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