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Wasmachineman_NL

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Is there anyone in The Netherlands or the EU itself with good solder skills? I screwed up the VBIOS on one of my FirePro M7820's so I need to have the BIOS chip replaced. I already own a pre-programmed BIOS chip that's waiting to be soldered on.
 
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RageBone

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here.
Though i wonder how you managed to brick that since ATI flash or flashrom*? ! should be able to flash the card independent of a working driver or card.
 
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Wasmachineman_NL

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Though i wonder how you managed to brick that since ATI flash or flashrom*? ! should be able to flash the card independent of a working driver or card.
If you flash a M7820 while docked with a external monitor connected to your M6500 ATIWinFlash crashes = brick

EDIT for future reference: undock and close any monitoring software like GPU-Z or HWiNFO. Buildzoid told me that it can and will brick GPUs if you keep software like that open.
 
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RageBone

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indeed, crash while flashing is a bad thing. Though, that does not damage the SPI EEPROM itself and the card should still be flashable through atiflash. Of cause it won't output a picture, but that's what a second gpu is for? If the Driver keeps crashing your windows, go in safemode without drivers loaded?

I mean, if you want to send me the stuff, me swapping chips isn't the issue, but i still think you should be able to recover those yourself.
 
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Wasmachineman_NL

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indeed, crash while flashing is a bad thing. Though, that does not damage the SPI EEPROM itself and the card should still be flashable through atiflash. Of cause it won't output a picture, but that's what a second gpu is for? If the Driver keeps crashing your windows, go in safemode without drivers loaded?

I mean, if you want to send me the stuff, me swapping chips isn't the issue, but i still think you should be able to recover those yourself.
M6500s dont boot at all with bricked GPUs.
 
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RageBone

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well, in that case, it seems pretty hard to recover on your side.
You could still try a CH341a SPI EEPROM flasher with a sop8 thingy, "klammer" in German.

Or you send it to me and i swap em for you. As long as i just have to swap the eeproms, shouldn't take more then a few minutes + shipping cost back to you.
 

Wasmachineman_NL

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Holy shit, they massacred my boy GPU! Nice to see RageBone reversed it.

Will report back if it works.
 
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