AMD GPU VBIOS Flash Tutorial & Bricked Card Recovery | Unlock Navi Performance
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- Опубліковано 20 січ 2020
- We decided to make a BEGINNER tutorial on how to "unlock" the RX 5600 XT by flashing the last-minute VBIOS onto it, as not all cards shipped with it. This applies to all modern AMD GPUs.
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Written Guide, AMDVBFLASH Download, and .bat recovery file creation: www.gamersnexus.net/guides/35...
THE ABOVE TUTORIAL INCLUDES A GUIDE FOR WRITING A RECOVERY .BAT FILE IN THE EVENT OF FAILURE. NOT GUARANTEED TO WORK, BUT SHOULD HELP.
In this video, we're flashing the AMD RX 5600 XT VBIOS. Most RX 5600 XTs will have this option made available, as this is an official AMD-sanctioned change and not a hack or a mod. Some RX 5600 XTs will not have a separate VBIOS made available, at which point you've been duped -- sorry. Buy a different card, probably.
The VBIOS flash is easy, but there are important steps and disclaimers. This video is not designed for advanced users and is meant to help walk anyone through the process. We have failed VBIOS flash and bricked video card recovery steps, basic advice on how to avoid bricking the card or damaging it, and steps for validating that the process worked. The entire process takes about a minute, not counting downloads, but the video is longer because we wanted to cover all possible questions about the topic. AMD really screwed this launch by shipping most its cards with a VBIOS that didn't get reviewed, so we want to make sure people get the performance they were led to expect.
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We haven't done tutorials like this in absolutely forever. This is targeted at novices who buy the 5600 XT and get confused that their performance is lower than reviews. We've provided a more detailed written guide with a batch file to aid in recovery of a failed flash: www.gamersnexus.net/guides/3550-guide-how-to-flash-amd-gpu-vbios-rx-5600-xt
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Love the RAM cup with the screwdrivers in it
Steve, I love your informative videos and will remain watching for a long long time, but I think you got this one wrong, or at least are making a mountain out of a mole hill. Buyers that buy "cards" know how to install drivers, update bios's, etc. The one's that don't buy Dell's, and wallmart pc's. What next, criticism for release cards to have new drivers a week after release, because buyers might not know how to update their drivers? I think almost all board partners will just simply use the cooling that they used on the 5700, rather than to retool and develop a new cooler that might cost penny's less to make, because the re-tooling would cost more than the money they would save. As such, any 5700 cooler will work just fine on the new bios 5600xt, so I doubt we will see many cards that don't support the new vbios. The only thing the vendor has to consider before offering the new vbios is the increase in returns because of bad flash's, but they should be able to reflash these cards themselves once returned.
but Steve I expect you to come here & fix any problems I have!
c'mon steve. just tell me what vbios i should use! just do it!!! now!
The AMDVBFlash Download link doesn't work, please fix it
I only flash BIOS's during really heavy storms to get blessings from the thunder gods.
*I also like to live dangerously*
Amon Amarth intensifies
@Pablitow ¿ lol smart🤣
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA LMAO bro, that's amazing :v
BY THE POWER OF THOR ... You are a true thrill seeker
Remember to perform a Flashdance to increase chance of success
and she flashing like she never flash before
"jebaited edition" X'D
steve pls xfx is listening
Here in Spain xfx navi make good sales people say good opinions ,price is under 400
Some people dont care what he talk about xfx
literally everyone: hi Steve what a pleasure to meet y...
Steve: I'M NOT HELPING YOU.
also Steve: here's exhaustive step-by-step instructions with multiple rollback options and supporting CMD scripts
Steve really did seem to not like his viewers in this video.
@@DavidTheGamer27 It's not that, it's because if he tells you to do anything other than install the bios provided by amd they will hold that against him. Yet he is fixing their fuck up.
Also, it's not physically possible to help every single rx 5600xt buyer.
@@DavidTheGamer27 i think he is just frustrated by amd's clusterfuck and this is a tutorial that shouldn't have to exist, but it comes across as contempt for the viewers.
@@dondraper4438 Wait… it's not possible to help every single RX5600 purchaser on an individual basis?! I would have never ever suspected that! [/sarcasm]
Seriously though, this isn't the first time to me that Steve has come across as disrespectful to his audience. I tell people all the time, there's often a right way and a wrong way to interact with people. This video and Steve's seemingly disdain for his viewers is the wrong way, in my opinion.
"don't put any spaces just for safety"
"Program Files"
instructions unclear, rm -rf'd the entire system
Aint that a Linux joke?
format C: /x /F
Y
With Windows Subsystem for Linux you, too, can rm -rf / your system. Except it probably doesn't work there, either, as it really hasn't in Linux for like 15 years. Nowadays you need the --no-preserve-root option to really do what the command says.
rm -rf /* works as well, without the --no-preserve-root
@@MGThePro rm -rf /**
deletes even more, but neither will actually delete everything
Honest to god, the more this carries on the more I expect to see one of these videos end by cutting to the logo just as Steve starts yelling expletives. Like, "Fuuu..!" *static and modem handshake noise with logo*
I was wondering how many reviewers will actually pull out this exact video about flashing the VBIOS on their RX5600XT if the company they bought it from allows it.
I'm pretty sure very very few companies will actually take the time to upload the whole process for their products on their own.
So thank you a million guys for uploading that content and i'm pretty sure it will help out a lot of people.
Power Color instructions included with the vBIOS include a link to a Tom's Hardware video on how to make a USB bootable DOS disk using Rufus.
Just want to say thanks for making a guide on this. I’m shooting for grabbing one in the next month or so and this eases my mind a lot. Thanks again!!
“GN IT Help Desk” sounds like an awesome patreon tier 😂😂😂
just flashed the rx 5700 xt bios on my rx 5700 non xt card using your tutorial, it really helped me
Great video. Really helpful that you provided lots of recovery steps and a way to test it had applied. Ran the update but wasn't sure if it had applied until I used Furmark, thanks
Very cool and relevant, thank you GN!
Will you help me with other aspects of my life?
GN out there providing insane support to the gaming community. Thank you.
"Not my Job" xD
Yeah, he's right though. WTF is this launch?
If you get a card with old BIOS, just return it. Why should I as a customer have to do any of this? Why risk bricking my card? Fuck that.
It's actually not that hard to flash but whatever..
Customer support guys in board partner companies: "He tuk our jerb"
@@Constantin314 No this a total fuck up by AMD. Enthusiasts like you or me who know what we're doing for countless years it's a doddle. However for Joe Bloggs/John Doe he won't have a clue and probably doesn't come to channels such as these and they are likely the most likely to be buying this tier of card.
@@clansome ^ bingo! This is a VERY good video for someone just starting to learn about computers. Steve took a really difficult process (if you have no clue what your doing) and made it a fairly easy walkthrough. I started out on a Apple II, so I've been into this for a while, but for that 15-16 year old kid building his first tower and has no clue what they are doing it's a great video.
"I am not an IT desk" xD
The customer isn't an IT desk either.
I don't know how anyone would think that this is a reasonable business practice. Get your shit together, AMD.
@@marceldiezasch6192 Well not excusing AMD but all of the hardware manufacturers end up doing things like these once in a while. But I share the sentiment, get it together *insert brand here*
Did you turn it off and turn it back on again?
@@marceldiezasch6192 once they are moving to streaming service then the customer doesn't need to do this anymore :D happy ?
@@WutipongWongsakuldej not everybody wants a streaming service id rather own my hardware
Awesome channel more addictive than any drug the tech info is beyond helpful
at this point youre more helpful then any company ever could or would be willing to be
I thought this was a power mod video at first, but honestly this is more important for now. I sure that the "OC" bios for the card's that didn't ship with it and isn't provided by the manufacturer will end up on techpowerup's database eventually. Looking forward to a power mod vid, I'm sure you have one coming.
Always going above and beyond even though GN isn't a pc help desk.
Defo buy a dual bios card if choosing this gpu
Thanks for the video. Putting shortcut on desktop to recover blind - cool .
I'm just glad we know we're getting jebaited out here. Thanks Steve!
Doing the Lord's work as always
This is a great help!
I'd love for you to do reviews of a bunch of different cards like for the 5700 XT because this is one I will probably get
Thank you great content, as always.
Thanks, Steve. I read the tutorial instead of watching the video, and I think that I was able to resurrect a second-hand mining card that was nonfunctional due to someone installing a weird BIOS on it into an actual functioning card.
OMG you are the best.
I managed to flash my rx 480 back :)))
you are a god
WHat waw your issue exactly? Your GPU stopped being detected by windows?
@@adesheddie1 I flashed my card and bricked it.
Where did you find the bios? I need for my rx 560x
@@adesheddie1 you can find any bios on techpowerup
just search for rx 560x bios
Very informative! Thanks
I flashed my ASRock Challenger 5600XT and it's working great with the new L07 VBIOS. Definitely saw performance gains, adjusted my fan curve and it functions well. Recommended move if you have one of the cards that doesn't have the new BIOS by default.
Just watched the old "We talk PSU with Johnny Guru" video. What ended up happening with the PSU testing. Really looking forward to it =)
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@@bradhaines3142 hell there's .50 cal magnum HANDguns.
@@bradhaines3142 yes the S&W 500 Magnum has a 4" barrel snub nose
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@@bradhaines3142 my personal favorite is the 7mm Remington magnum. Personally Im more accurate with those then a 30-06.
This is why i prefer Powercolor cards at the moment. Disregarding any other feature, the dual-bios is incredible if you like fiddling around with the BIOS. A guaranteed backup you can recover from...
If vbios flash were to fail would I be able to use RDP (or any remote desktop software) to flash my backup file?
Back in the earlier days, you could recover a bricked card on iGPU by just unplugging the power connections to the card and turning on the PC, the card would be recognized enough in windows to reflash the BIOS but it doesn't try to use it as a display output. I wonder if the same is the case here
Any idea if this will limit the potential overclock available on the cards? Or does the oc mitigate the slower vbios
I just bricked my 8970m, Hope I can fix this no matter how I startup (safe boot) or normal everytime blue screen of death. Just make sure its not the wrong bios otherwise u can throw ur card probably away like me.
mmmmmmm best to get the second batch of these cards, I almost preorder one. How can you tell if the one you purchase is the older cards will the sellers pull these cards off their listings
You mentioned an upgraded vbios for 5700XT. Which manufacturer is offering it?
I'm wondering if he confused the numbers. PowerColor (which he mentions), has a 5600 XT BIOS flash but not a 5700 XT. All that's for DL for the 5700 XT Red Devil are the outdated 19.8.1 drivers for Win 10 and 7 and the RGB utility.
Could it be worth intentionally leaving the low vbios original since it is really lower power/quieter than the new low mode?
It is mentioned that if there is no change in performance you may have to reinstall the driver, and that you may even have to DDU it.
For anyone wondering DDU is short for Display Driver Uninstaller. A utility that was written to delete all traces of the display drivers, something the normal uninstall procedure won't do. This allows the driver installation do a completely clean installation which can sometimes clear up strange behavior.
DDU can be downloaded from several sites, but personally I always go to guru3d.com, though I guess Wagnardsoft might be the official home for this utility as it is written by Ghislain Harvey aka Wagnard on the Guru3D forums.
Any thoughts or heard any rumors about and improvements to the 5700/xt?
Great video fully informed, is it possible to use the same method with 6800, as it's bricked!?
just curious, if buying this new card,,,
what's the first thing to do
Update vBios > update adrenaline driver
Or
Update Adrenaline and then update the VBios
can you not just use MPT to increase the power target or is there more to the vbios than that.
Can a CH341A be used to recover functionality on a hard bricked Navi GPU? Some issues prevent the PC from even passing POST.
Yes since it's a standard EEPROM with SPI or I²C interface. The hardest part will be to find it on the PCB and potentially desoldering it.
If you already have a RaspberryPi or a similar mini-computer laying around, you can use it instead with the opensource software called flashrom.
When I run the AMDVBios executable, my PC hard freezes. It happens as soon as I click Run as Administrator, just an instant freeze that I have to use the power supply switch to clear.
I'm surprised that the newly flashed BIOS is working without re-installing the drivers while with the 5700xt almost every UA-camr with graphic card boxes in the background stated that you should reinstall drivers when you switch from the OC bios to the quiet one to make it work.
Hi,
I had two queries regarding "DUAL-BIOS" graphics card. I have a sapphire nitro rx 580, which has a bios switch to change between "Silent mode bios" and "Boost Mode bios"
I flashed a vbios from techpower up on the "boost mode bios" and now i cant get a video display on the boost mode, but i can still put the switch on "silent mode bios"
1) Can i logon to windows through the "silent mode bios" and after logging on, change the bios switch to "boost mode" and then flash the "boost mode"?
2) You have mentioned that we could you can force a flash by making a bootable USB key with AMD’s flashing utility on it. But i cannot find the link to it, can you please guide. Basically, im wondering if, without a video display, i could boot into the bootable usb drive, and flash the vbios?
Итак, теперь ты лучше понимаешь как хорошо отрабатывает микрофон на шумном фоне. Спасибо за увлекательный материал, желаю - здоровья, и мира.
П.С. трэк бомбезный 🙂
What's that switch for at 0:38? I've never noticed that before. Is it on all GPUs?
If you flash an rx 5700 to an rx 5700 xt would you download the XT or non-xt drivers after. Are the drivers basically the same anyway?
How can i know which GPU i can change the vBIOS?
I got a problem. I have a 5700 XT MSI gaming bios flash went bad. Can't see it I'm computer management or gpuz. I need to tear it apart and short the 1and 5 pin to be able to see it on PC. When I flash it. The flash does not stay I need help please
Things seem so much better with CPU launches than GPU launches from AMD, aside from the weird marketing department decisions. I hope they can figure out these issues, it's the one thing that seems to be holding them back.
Welcome to the GN help desk, my name is Steve how may I help you today....
With your recovery script that may need to be run blind you should probably set it up to run as administrator beforehand. I'm pretty sure a lot of batch scripts require that and it would cause problems if trying to run it blind.
hello i have an 5700 from powercolor, its the cheap one with 2 fans, but its not the red devil or anything... its the simple one, so is there any bios to update from the same manufacturer?
i only find powercolor reference or from de red devil, not my cheap one.... can someone help?
I have a rx 560 and it has fx0 and fw0 bios which one should i download
I just bought a RX 5600 XT, How do I know which bios switch is what? it doesn't say silent or performance on it and nothing came in the box.
I was gaming normally last night and suddehly my GPU crashed and got a black screen. I rebooted the pc and now I'm not getting any output to my monitor. Any suggestions why?
Please help me out.
I have decided to buy a Rx 5700 and flash it to XT. I have two options to buy from 1)Sapphire Rx 5700 pulse & 2) Gigabyte Rx 5700 gaming oc.
But I noticed that the gigabyte card has only one 8-pin power connector and the sapphire card has 8-pin+6-pin power connector.
So will there be any power shortage in the gigabyte card because it will draw about 25% more power in the XT bios. Will I get less performance? I have Corsair VS 650 psu which has two 8-pin connectors.
What if under bootable usb still doesn't detect the card? If there is no other pcie slot?
I've been trying to flash my 5700 back to stock. The app didn't work so I tried command prompt. I keep getting this error and I don't know why....shrug...
-f option not support in external version of the tool. Please refer to tool help for list of option supported
Cannot Program with input vbios image file
I got the new vbios on my 5600xt sapphire but core clock only goes up to around 1500mhz under max load, even tho gpu-z shows the correct core clock of 1615mhz, any ideas?
Is the reference card good for overclocking? I will change fan curves obviously since it is locked on 30 percent by default lol
The amdvbflash download is broken, and the techpowerup version is months old and doesn't support the 5600 XT. No idea what to do.
Bro my mainboard showes b2 error code and i buy a amd hd 5770 but my 2 gpu dont recocnice
The backup bat file doesn't work, it says the -f switch isn't available in the "External" version of the tool. Whatever that means.
amdvbflash used to detect my powercolor radeon hd 6570 2gb but after flashing a suitable bios it stopped detecting it. i get video output from gpu but i cant install any driver and bios update utility no longer detects the device. is there a fix for this? thank you in advance.
I was flashing a 580 bios (replacing mining bios), and i used the wrong one, everything looked fine but when i went to run 3dmark and it refused, opened gpuz and 0GB Vram; clearly that was the wrong file, the next file i tried was the correct one
Ur Vram VRan away. F
Does the powercolor 5700xt(not red dragon) have a performance bios?
i have a problem with rx 570 sapphire pulse , it runs with no problems until it draw more than 90 watt if it excedds that it would black my screen and GPU fan speed reach 100%
i tried changing my PSU and even the Tried it on another PC , still got the same problem
what should i do ?
Does anyone know if this tutorial will work with RX 6800 series? My Gigabyte card has voltage locked at 1.15V and I would like to be able to lower it to optimal levels,
Thanks for the help
Wait.
The cards do validate flashed bioses at all?
This explains a lot....
Since Vega, if you flip a random bit in the bios, the card will not work. Vega/Navi requires a signed vbios.
Do i have to update both bios? Or can i just leave the silent one alone?
I keep getting Error in VBIOS image?
I have the MSI Radeon RX 5700 MECH OC BV and am trying to flash it to the RX 5700 XT
PLEASE IM DESPERATE
Amdvbflash won’t recognize by brand new 6800xt much less the bricked 5600xt in trying to fix. For some reason I cannot get flashing software to recognize amd cards on my rig. I have done everything under the sun. Please somebody help
i have Gigabyte Gaming OC 6G 5600XT with FZ2 bios preinstalled i dont know how to update as the bios support on website is so confusing and misleading
I got 5700 OC after flashing it the computer will not even post, I have made a back but how to restore it if the computer will not even post while it is insalled'
What if i flashed those dual bios? switched to working one flashed it and then my pc won't start
If your audio solution is not through your display, you may be able to “see” what you are doing as you run the recovery tool through Microsoft narrator. Finally! Being visually impaired pays off!
is it just me, or when i download the 5700xt bios i need from Techpowerup it's only 512k, when my backup is 1024k ... so trying to flash my card with this different size bios isn't working...?! i don't get it
what can i do with my Sapphire NITRO RX 480 OC 8 GB
11260-20 to better perfrmance on games?
This tutorial technically applies to flashing Vega 64 bios to Vega 56 right?
Can a 750watt bronze be able to support it?
Dunno if this is applicable to any 5600xt, but people have flashed their PowerColor Red Dragon or Red Devil 5700 with the equivalent 5700xt BIOS and their BIOS chip has become locked.
Just checked their site and they've replaced the article where the BIOS update was available with completely different content [that present these cards as ready-out-of-box].
Can a vBios fail after more than a year before flashing? I flashed my GPU with the Asrock utility long time ago and it bricked yesterday. The motherboard is giving me 1 long beep and 2 short ones, and it means a vBios error, i think. ¿Can i connect a gt210 just for video signal and then try to reflash my dead card?
When I download the BIOS update from the XFX website for the Raw 2 5600 XT, I extract all then when opening the application it opens in the command prompt with a bunch of text. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks
why techpowerup guide said never flash bios in windows??? i thought flashing is done on dos with bootable usb stick
powercolor website only lists bios for red devil not red dragon, are they the same bios?
Hi i got dual bios on my rtx 3070 i think i sort of messed it up the oc bios due to flashing it so many times i specifically did it for resizable bar but now when i turn rtx on for instance like shadow of the tomb raider i noticed the vegetation with rtx on is shimmering and sort of blinking some pop in textures i was wondering if i switch my dual bio to silent mode will it fix the problem? i haven't changed my silent mode bios yet it has its original bios let me know any feedback is useful thank you :)
i flashed my gigabyte 5600 xt gaming oc and it worked like an day after that when i started a game it crashed, gave me a green screen. so now i reverted back to old bios and see if it keeps working.
Did it work after you reverted back to the old bios? Mine won’t even open games after I flashed it. At least with the old bios I could play games but my system would crash and reboot from time to time. At this point I’m thinking of ditching this card and going back to NVIDiA
@@zahisking yes there is a New bios you need to choose the right one, there are couple of options. Just see that its the correct one. Open the flash program it tells your bios/card type and download the one with same name.
5600xt owner glaring at the 'Comment' button since they already wrote a lengthy question about how their card is bricked and needs help on how to fix it or what to tell the RMA department, whilst having the video play in background, and before hearing Steve saying "Not my Job."
Replays Steve saying "Not my job."
Proceeds to hit "comment" button; patiently waits for Steve's assistance.
"One hour here is 7 years on earth. "
"Good , then we wait here for Steve's assistance."
But Steve, Which one should i use??
Waiting for ebay auctions: RX5600XT: "Not checked, doesn't work, I do not know what happened".
precisely this
or black screen wont boot not working parts £100
i wish
Why would this happen
@@gl4989 Because there will be people who mess it up and won't fix it.
@@Jimster481 yeah it's like people who had a problem with a BIOS update and don't know how to use a 5$ external programmer to flash the motherboard. Dual BIOS was invented for them.
My GPU works just fine however when I use GPU-Z to confirm if my gpu bios is applied, it shows no bios applied neither the UEFI bios is checked. Is this a bug or have I done something wrong. My gpu has no problems just gpu-z is recognizing this issue
So, you're saying that you will be our collective IT desk for free?! :)
#winning