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    revive bricked 7970m

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by VSee, Jul 13, 2012.

  1. VSee

    VSee Newbie

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    Hi there,

    I recently tried to flash the vbios of the 7970m card in my MX17R4 laptop, using ATI winflash. Unlucky for me, this resulted in an error (I used a custom made bios generated from vbiospatcher). When I rebooted my machine my 7970m was not recognized and worse of all, trying to force flash with ATIflash 3.95 did not succeed (video card not found). So here I am now with a bricked card (corrupted vbios). Is there a way to reset the vbios so that the card can be recognized and a force flash can be performed? I learned that there is a hardware PIN 1 + 8 method to revive some graphic cards but I cannot find any info on the layout of the brand new 7970m.

    Thanks,
    VSee
     
    VSee, Jul 13, 2012
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  2. svl7

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    There's no easy method for your kind of brick, but I can help you. PM me if interested.
     
    svl7, Jul 13, 2012
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  3. imglidinhere

    imglidinhere Notebook Deity

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    May I ask why you would want to flash a GPU that's only barely supported by the drivers and with the community being as shady as they are about the knowledge they possess?
     
    imglidinhere, Jul 13, 2012
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    hexaae Notebook Consultant

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    hexaae, Jan 7, 2014
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  5. Alienware-L_Porras

    Alienware-L_Porras Company Representative

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    You could try with an Alienware 18.
     
    Alienware-L_Porras, Jan 7, 2014
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