Radeon 7970 BIOS differences

[SnakeHaveYou]

[john-117]

Re: Radeon 7970 BIOS differences

There are different revisions of that card (I have it also). Bios F2 is for revision 1.0, F72 is for rev 2.1. You cannot flash a bios from different revisions. For example, from bios F1, you can go to F2-F9. If your card comes with bios F70, you can flash bios F71 to F79 (if available). Also, anything other than Rev1.0 is voltage locked.

[SnakeHaveYou]

Re: Radeon 7970 BIOS differences

Mmmmm!! Interesting!!! I hope mine is Rev 2.1!


Thanks man!

[sam0t]

Re: Radeon 7970 BIOS differences

Srr to barge in, but having some issues with Gigabyte GV-R785OC-2GD card, where can you locate the REV number on Gigabyte GFX cards? I cannot seem to find it from the circuit board now GPU-Z tool. Maybe I am blind.

PS. I already flashed the card with F31 BIOS from Gigabyte, maybe that tells us something about revision of the card?

[Vinster]

Re: Radeon 7970 BIOS differences

in GPU-Z just under the name there is a revision box. Don't know if that is a card revision though... it's in the top right. I see a rev on my nVidia cards.

Vin

[stasio]

Re: Radeon 7970 BIOS differences

Srr to barge in, but having some issues with Gigabyte GV-R785OC-2GD card, where can you locate the REV number on Gigabyte GFX cards? I cannot seem to find it from the circuit board now GPU-Z tool. Maybe I am blind.

PS. I already flashed the card with F31 BIOS from Gigabyte, maybe that tells us something about revision of the card?

[sam0t]

Re: Radeon 7970 BIOS differences

Thanks for the tip stasio, obviously I was scanning the wrong side of the card :|

My Gigabyte GV-R785OC-2GD GFX card is REV 1.0 , I will share this info with Gigabyte support with whom I have an ongoing support case.

I have been battling with boot loop issue occuring with REV 1.0 GA-Z68XP-UD4 and Gigabyte GV-R785OC-2GD for weeks now. I have also a thread going about it on UKI Gigabyte forums, GA-Z68XP-UD4 , Irregular boot loop issue after installing Gigabyte 7850 GFX card .

Maybe I will open a thread for it here in TweakTown forums as well for visibility, but now I will stop hijacking this thread.

[SnakeHaveYou]

Re: Radeon 7970 BIOS differences

Nooo! My thread! :P Just kidding hehe, no problem man!

My 7970 arrived this morning. Rev 1.0, with F2 Bios out-of-the-box. Thanks God it's voltage unlocked!

Thanks!