I'd probably just replace the BIOS chip. I have a dead 6900XT PCB that should have 2 perfectly good BIOS chips on it.

@EfrainMan

2 жыл бұрын

The man, the myth, the legend.

@Verzox

2 жыл бұрын

great idea but don't let Jay do any soldering.

@xXxJakobxXx3

2 жыл бұрын

May I ask why you have a dead PCB of this card? Every single one of them is under two years old, why didn’t you ask for a RMA under warranty?

@Rspsand07

2 жыл бұрын

@@xXxJakobxXx3 It's buildzoid. He probably killed it with a shunt mod and like 1000W

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a good video! I did a EPROM swap on a PC NVIDIA Quadro K5000 to a bigger one so it would fit the Mac version of the bios, we burned the eprom first then I replaced the old eprom with the PC bios with the new chip with the Mac version and that was easy with some hot air and amtech flux. The Mac was happy as ever and worked as intended with the new bios and eprom. Would be cool with a colab between you an Jay and people can see some rework in action!

RIP....just in time for the 6950. Coincidence? I THINK NOT! (well played Phil)

@mjc0961

2 жыл бұрын

Why wait for the 6950 when the 3090Tie is already waiting? 🙃

@antonwilkens9694

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@SkateClipsAndTips

2 жыл бұрын

3090ti is an overpriced waste of money

@smartgorilla

2 жыл бұрын

Mined it and next GPU as the electric is free

@Delver639

2 жыл бұрын

@@SkateClipsAndTips overpriced waste of energy bills 😆

Board level repair for a bios chip is pretty straight forward for anyone with board level repair skills. Usually the troubleshooting is the tuff part, trying to determine the failed component, and you've already done that.

"Adamant IT" on youtube has several videos showing where you can replace a bios chip if you have the gear (micro soldering, chip flashing device, etc), that would make a fun 'watch jay learn how to do this' video

I would love to see what an RMA would look on this card. Would they send you a new one or just replace the BIOS chip? Have you thought about replacing the BIOS chip yourself could but an interesting experiment now that the card is not trustworthy.

@TensaZangetsu1200

2 жыл бұрын

They'll most likely replace it outright and fix the bad one to sell later.

@xbhollandx

2 жыл бұрын

Hard to RMA something you didn’t buy

@Fossillarson

2 жыл бұрын

@@xbhollandx alot review card DOA or die soon after power up lol

@techgirl517

2 жыл бұрын

They don't waste time to replace chips or whatever, they have some cards for rma and replace it with a new for sure

@robertmccracken6930

2 жыл бұрын

It would be interesting to actually see Power Color's RMA process, like if they'll actually stand behind their products, or try to pass the buck.

The bios chip actually worked fine, at least on 3 of it's connectors to the motherboard, you were able to successfully program it. The motherboard has a problem reading it, which is a different pin. You might be able to fix it with a reflow or redo the soldering properly but you'll have to find the correct one. Or you could find a donor card that's broken because of some other issue and swap chips. In either case, you'll have to resolder the bios chip to fix it.

@Numfuddle

2 жыл бұрын

QSPI nor flash devices use the same pins for both reading and writing. You have chip select, clock, and up to four data lines. I also reckon that the flash tool does a verify after programming so the fact that the flash process worked tells me that the flash device itself is fine

@big0bad0brad

2 жыл бұрын

@@Numfuddle Correct, they are not using dual/triple ported flash chips, if such things even exist.

@angelicsailor1st

2 жыл бұрын

@@Numfuddle this is honestly a bit of a conundrum I’m assuming Jay doesn’t want to open it up and have to solder anything but aside from replacement of parts I don’t know what else could be done

@Numfuddle

2 жыл бұрын

@@angelicsailor1st QSPI devices can use 1, 2 or 4 data lines. The more data lines you have the higher the read speed. (there’s also octa flash which uses up to eight but they are not normally used for uefi applications). Quad devices (4 data lines) can also use dual or single SPI modes for backwards compatibility. So what could have happened is that the flash tool only uses single or dual mode to program and verify, while the actual bios load on power up uses quad mode for speed. In that case it could actually be the case that some of the data lines are not connected properly and reading the bios on boot fails.

@teardowndan5364

2 жыл бұрын

@@Numfuddle Maybe the endpoint controller handing SPI program-verify runs at slower speeds than the 120-165MT/s while passing data to the CPU/RAM at boot and only has problems at those higher speeds.

Thanks Jay you have been a really good inspiration, and watching your vids has taught me a lot. Please keep posting and thank you.

Flash the quiet bios on the performance bios. You could have some stuck bits that aren’t taking. If it works then flash the performance bios back. Note: This is a problem I run into a lot with PLC’s.

@Frizzy9000

2 жыл бұрын

I would LOVE an explanation here as to why. I find this topic very interesting. Do you think it is because NAND flash chips don't have there own "Firmware" to manage the 1's and 0's over time like say an SSD does? In my head that could cause "Bit Rot" or storage degradation as it were. As once the NAND gates start to fail in an SSD it tries to move those out. Why do you think that happens to these chips? Legit curious

@EURIPODES

2 жыл бұрын

I had to do this on a motherboard

@RossHouck

2 жыл бұрын

Shouldn't a VBIOS flasher do a checksum against the provided ROM and the copied ROM? A stuck bit would give a different result.

@pesho9971

2 жыл бұрын

@@Frizzy9000 SPI flash chips dont have firmware nor do they need one or have the capabilities to use one because they have no cpu on board.If you get a 128 MBit flash chip you get 128 megabits nothing more nothing less, there is no reserve and you dont need it because you write to it only once.Sometimes flash chips go bad on their own.

@alexatkin

2 жыл бұрын

@@Frizzy9000 The gates tend to fail on an SSD through constantly being re-written though, not a problems on EPROM as generally its written once and never touched again. In theory that should last for at least 10 years, often lasts longer but of course once in a while will fail randomly. I had an ADSL router years ago that suddenly wiped its firmware, not sure if the recovery was in the ROM or I got lucky and only the OS partition failed, but it did let me re-flash it and came back to life. In fact its not entirely uncommon on consumer routers as there will be a "little" writing going on to store settings you can change. EPROM AFAIK is designed for retention over writes, so you can write it a lot fewer times than an SSD but the data stored on it should usually remain stable for a lot longer.

I definitely get a hold of the manufacturer let him know what happened and just see if an RMA is an option it would at least be good info for anybody else running that card

@BuckieJr

2 жыл бұрын

Power colors rma service is terrible. They wouldn’t except mine when I tried because they kept saying thermals were within spec despite the 110+ degrees the card was running at stock. Trying to fix it myself only slightly improved the thermals but still made the card a terrible choice when it benched lower then a 6800xt thanks to the throttling.

@JustAGuy85

2 жыл бұрын

@@BuckieJr I believe ya. PowerColor has been trash as long as I can remember. They've always been the cheapest cards and... suddenly they start throwing out these "SUPER DEVIL SATAN FIRE POWER" cards. I'm just like "what?" You've always been the bottom of the barrel brand. You've always had cards that overheat. You've always had cards that die. What are you doing, PowerColor? Edit: Had to add that even the name is stupid. Power.. color? What kind of Taiwanese mistranslation that never got fixed is this?

@BuckieJr

2 жыл бұрын

@@JustAGuy85 my red Devil 5700xt was a champ when I had it, was the whole reason I grabbed the 6900xt version. :(

Love the videos, Jay and Phil. Thanks for being around and keeping the videos going!

Luv ya videos man got recommended to this channel haven’t looked back!!

I ironically had an issue recently myself where my AMD drivers "uninstalled themselves", and when I ran a catlog of the entire system and just kept attempting to recreate the issue, I caught windows 10 itself deleting the drivers and replacing them with the microsoft release of the drivers, **and it would do this during startup!** So I only caught it when I hooked my backup/game server hosting computer to monitor the activity in this one from boot-time... Worse yet, windows defender was putting my screen capture software into "quarantine" there for a long while until I disabled defender and switched to another anti-v. It appears that microsoft caught my rant about it on twitter earlier this year, and hopefully they're still actually on it enough to make sure this isn't something in the OS that's tampering with the card and drivers again.

@TOTALpopedom

2 жыл бұрын

That's a known Microshaft thing. You have to go into the optionals in winblows update and turn the option to update the driver for the card off.

@itsTyrion

2 жыл бұрын

I'd claim that's a WINDOWS thing, not just AMD. I once(twice actually but that sounds weird) had the issue where there was a random "hardware disconnect" sound and the monitor would turn black, nothing helped. Threw in my old GPU as well and found the primary one SET TO DISABLED IN DEVICE MANAGER. Why?! How?! I feel like a number of issues on/with Windows could be avoided if it didn't touch things for no reason

@danielsemaj

2 жыл бұрын

this happened to my 6900xt red devil. i did a windows update and i say it downloading VGA drivers. it restarted and all my AMD stuff was not working and said i had the wrong version, i had to DDU and reinstall

@NotTheHeroStudios

2 жыл бұрын

Oh you too? I almost went back to Linux after that one

@Bstrong5001

2 жыл бұрын

Gotta get in that registry editor and start putting some 1's and0's in certain places, I wanna know when some company is going to make an OS that doesn't pull the Microsoft crap, I guess a good Linux Distro is our only real hope .. it's getting there maybe by the time my grandkids are on RDNA 22.5 we won't have Microsoft doing that crap

I just finished my first full custom build on Sunday and went to Micro Center to do it. Wouldn't've even gone there if it wasn't for some of your videos!

Id run the RMA just for giggles n haha's. See what they do about it incase this happens / happened to other people out there. Be nice to have peace of mind knowing what the issue is as well as knowing if there is recourse for repair / replace.

@markthestark1

2 жыл бұрын

Even if they bought it on release day its been 1 year, 4 months and 26 days and Red Devil's warranty is 2 years, so its still good, RMA is pretty solid option here.

@tomb3782

2 жыл бұрын

Oh man! He could do a collab with steve on that!

@JTB559

2 жыл бұрын

Would be cool if they actually told him what was wrong if he chooses to send it in so we have closure. I can't live like this not knowing.

@Alucard-gt1zf

2 жыл бұрын

@@markthestark1 last I checked since they repasted the card it's voided the Warrenty

@tomb3782

2 жыл бұрын

@@Alucard-gt1zf even if you do, sometimes they're nice and still take them. Most of them know the paste they use is trash and needs to be replaced.

Bad ICs happen. This seems like a situation where you could just RMA the card, but failing that, it's totally possible to replace a BIOS ROM IC. You order a new one from Digi-Key, Mouser, etc. and then replace the dead one (gotta figure out which one is which) with hot air and a preheater (and flux, solder, et cetera, obviously). I'm pretty confident I could do this, if I had the card in my hands.

@dreamxxx333mmm2

2 жыл бұрын

whats ic

@AaronAverett

2 жыл бұрын

@@dreamxxx333mmm2 IC = integrated circuit, or a "chip" in common parlance.

@mtx33

2 жыл бұрын

For you or me maybe it's an obvious choice, but not everybody watching Louis Rossmann's videos every day. Even Jay has a scary video from 2020 when he attempted to solder back a resistor to a Titan. Now imagine how would that technique work with a teeny-tiny SOIC-8 bios chip. :D

Love it when you make these kinds of videos. always learning. thanks.

Oh no! Phil killed his system while editing! Even computer systems could handle Phil's editing skills and demands.

It would be really cool to see you play around with 3D printing a new shroud for the cooler on that card. Or possibly just see what ridiculous mods you can do to it that you wouldn't normally do to a GPU for fear of breaking it.

Damnit, Jay. As of October 1, 2019, Toshiba Memory is now KIOXIA. Unfortunately, our lineup of consumer flash and storage products are no longer available in the United States, but we will continue to offer support for Toshiba Memory and OCZ SSDs. Here you can research warranty information and get support for your legacy products. We thank you for being a loyal customer all these years. You can still look forward to seeing KIOXIA SSDs in laptops, PCs and data centers everywhere as we continue to uplift the world with “memory.”

Since you flashed the OC BIOS to the Silent switch, I'd be interested to see what would happen if you flashed the Silent BIOS to the OC switch...and then if that worked, possibly flashing them back to the correct switches.

@noahzinc

2 жыл бұрын

I was going to suggest flashing the Silent BIOS to the faulty one and see if it makes a difference.

If the utility doesn't work, use a ch341a programmer. Brought back my bricked 5700xt, sooooooo good.

Hey Jay, I own and running the red devil ultimate 6900xt that has literally done the same exact thing. I continued running the card in silent bios and has been about 6 months or so and the card seems to operate just fine from what I can tell.

@yourgoldenretriever

2 жыл бұрын

You should encourage him to try the performance bios copied onto the silent bio side, there could be something else in the card that's only accessed by the performance bios that could be the faulty culprit. He should also see if either of the fans are drawing too much current if the windings in the motor short out they could cause the card to not function when they are attempted to ramp up high

@dustineverhart4028

2 жыл бұрын

@♜ Pìnned by JayzTwoCents I hope this wasn't really you?

@bradhaines3142

2 жыл бұрын

@@dustineverhart4028 he even put out a video saying none of those are ever him. thats a bot or scammer. unless its JUST that persons name, with a check by it (usually) ITS NOT THEM. this is the internet bro everyone is trying to troll you or rob you. trust nothing

@--_DJ_--

2 жыл бұрын

@@dustineverhart4028 That is scam, they are all over the place. Report and ignore.

@kurgan2001

2 жыл бұрын

@@dustineverhart4028 it's a spam account.. report it

bro this video is amazing ! Jay you are a big hitter with great informative videos,

Is there still a POST failure if the "Silent" version of the BIOS is loaded onto the "Failed" EPROM instead of the OC version? If it does then possibly something wrong when the OC code increases the clock.

@wayland7150

2 жыл бұрын

Good idea. He should not overwrite the good ROM in case it's the image that's the problem not the ROM.

@lexwaldez

2 жыл бұрын

@@wayland7150 smart! - i'd try that first

@matthewhaywood133

2 жыл бұрын

Idk if I want to start messing with reloading files in case it is something else that is the issue because it works fine now

With Phil's editing wizardry, I'm surprised the 6900XT lasted this long. 🤷

@tomb3782

2 жыл бұрын

Phil's editing is more like the weirding way. Chops up a video by had, then splices in the spice.

Even if stuck on a single BIOS, you can use a flash programmer like an EZP 2019 to flash it onto the hardware chip. If it's not the BIOS chip, it's probably a component that initializes the chip, like power-on signal.

Thanks for sharing this case.

"F*ck it, we'll do it live!" That is an EPIC reference. LMFAO!!!

Flipping the BIOS toggle switch so you can flash the bad BIOS reminds me of when I had a powerfailure updating the flash on an old motherboard. I had another motherboard of the same kind (same CPU socket for an Althlon XP) but back then the BIOS chips were in tiny sockets. So i was able to boot to the other motherboard into DOS, pop out the BIOS chip while the PC was still running, put the corrupted BIOS chip into that motherboard and run a flash utility with a bunch of switches to ignore the fact the bios image wasn't meant for this motherboard. Bing bang boom, I recovered the bios for my old mobo, and both mobos still worked.

@michaelmiller3012

2 жыл бұрын

When I was a shop tech in the late '90s, early '00s, I did this exact same thing to recover a mainboard from a bad flash. Worked a treat, saved us an RMA.

@incandescentwithrage

2 жыл бұрын

I had an PCI SATA controller card with boot ROM (square PLCC type). I noticed you could pass pretty much any image to the firmware update utility. It being like £15 worth of card, I removed the chip, soldered a socket on and put the chip back in. Still worked... Used the update utility for that card to restore BIOS chips for years.

@fragalot

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelmiller3012 Yep! It blew my mind when i was reading about what I could do to recover my bios. Can't do this anymore unless you de-solder the chip, or use a clamp and connect an eporm burner to it.

Find out if the bios chips are BGA. If not take the card apart and check the failed bios package itself and the pins. Might be a cold solder joint and might just be able to reflow it with some flux and hot air station… and even if they are BGA you still might be able to reflow it.

I had the uninstalled driver issue as well. For me it was right after a Windows 11 update and I thankfully haven’t noticed any issues after that. 6900 XTs are wierd.

I've had a few issues with their OC BIOS/Dual BIOS. Two different units sent for RMA where it would crash mid-game. The replacements were good so far.

@linusevosonic

2 жыл бұрын

Same problems here, i sent it back tomorrow.

@UnhingedSystems

2 жыл бұрын

@@linusevosonic I think the OC BIOS is perhaps too overly aggressive for some of the chips variences. They didn't seem to have repaired anything on the replacements so it looks like maybe just a vBIOS change.

@linusevosonic

2 жыл бұрын

@@UnhingedSystems I hope the store exchange it for a sapphire or Asus 6900XT. Don’t want a maybe unreliable card which i payed 1300€ for. Never had such problems with any Graphics Card i ever owned.

@linusevosonic

2 жыл бұрын

@@UnhingedSystems They didnt’t exchange the card and now it even doesn’t switch on the minidisplayports.

My initial thought after hearing the bios chip might be the problem I would say to try and RMA it. If they dont want to then I would see if its possible to get the chip replaced and send it in to a reputable electronics repair shop like Luis Rossmans but that they specialize in GPU repair.

Modern GPUs, CPUs, motherboards and other parts in PC have become so fragile.

@Ravenbones

2 жыл бұрын

My Corsair VIII Dark hero came faulty in the mail twice.

@christopherkidwell9817

2 жыл бұрын

Not really... what is happening is that they are using low-lead or no-lead solder for the boards now and that stuff is worthless to be mild on the subject. They keep on saying "We have fixed the issues with the no lead solder!" but the people I know in the industry say "No, they haven't... they are being bullied by the government to say they have in order to not have to repeal the laws mandating that poor quality solder."

@Dragonheng

2 жыл бұрын

The thing is during a CPU sometimes more than 8 years in service, so all elements should also hold up. My last cpu before the update to a Ryzen worked for 10 years. And then comes today's GPU or mainboard generation that doesn't even last through an update or higher load for a short or long time. Of course 10 years ago the control software wasn't that complex or the structure of the components. However, I expect that a graphics card can operate for at least 5 years without major maintenance work, the mainboard at least as long as there is no update path or the CPU is completely lagging.

I had no idea you could flip the BIOS switch while the system is running, makes sense for flashing, and very cool.

The best part of your video’s is you stumble over words like Linus drops things!! Lol

I have the Sapphire Nitro + SE and it's been powerful, quiet and efficient - the sales guy at MC recommended the Sapphire card over the PowerColor cards because of quality and reliability, I'm glad I took his advice.

@ekrotte8714

2 жыл бұрын

Sapphire apparently stepped up their game. Their R390X tended to burn itself to death close to warranty end.

@DilavarHuseynzade

2 жыл бұрын

Saphire is making only AMD cards and I believe they learned how to do it properly. I had same card from Saphire and XFX, both RX580 8gb and saphire had better framerates and 3-4 C cooler temperatures in same build. From that expreience I am always going to go with Saphire.

@vibragou500

2 жыл бұрын

I still have a 5700XT Sapphire Nitro + and it's really good and had no problems with it ! Upgrading to a 6800XT by end of year :)

@burekking1960

2 жыл бұрын

Tech? I am not sure.. I wish I could get a sapphire nitro rx6700xt but alas it’s still inflated pricing, I could buy a 3070 it for what it’s charged meanwhile the qick 6700xt is double digits off msrp.

I never even consider single bios anymore. I'm not a serious overclocker, but I occasionally update bios for my motherboard. Dual bios has saved me at least 3 times in the last 5 years on my motherboard and once on my Sapphire Pulse 5700 XT.

@mtx33

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly it's a scary number. But how exactly gone wrong that many update? did you tweaked the bios files or how?

@TheMikeyb86

2 жыл бұрын

@@mtx33 the first 2 times it just stopped updating. Let it sit for a full 24 hours and it didn't move. The 3rd time a power outage. The Sapphire Pulse, it stopped entirely, but I was less patient and only waited 30 mins before I bricked it on purpose, flipped to the other bios and forced the new bios through dos commands.

I’m having same issue with my 3080 TI wen I switch too bios it was letting me get video but now both bios won’t let me get video now

I've been having a lot of trouble with static bias and shield ground connections on the rear external cabling on my 5700XT Sapphire (blower) and it has near daily arguments with an Acer monitor.

Probably replacing the faulty BIOS-Chip might be an idea.

@FM4AMGV

2 жыл бұрын

@@japaneserequired6314 depending on lead time and needs, sometimes it might be worth trying to fix things. but if you have no idea what you're doing, at the least find a repair guy that does.

@jondonnelly4831

2 жыл бұрын

RMA and let manufacturer fix, might take some time but Jay has a shelf of spare graphics cards.

@Fermi_Consistency

2 жыл бұрын

@@japaneserequired6314 lol it really is a DIY thing though

Radeon drivers randomly uninstalled themselves previous to the last update on my son's rig with a(n) RX580 8GB - DDU'd and installed the newer driver set and it's been fine. Also Dual/Multi bios is a life saver and I look for it when buying hardware for myself.

Wondering if having a VNC server installed would have help regarding fixing card as apposed to using another card?

Still has the Delta fan on the small AMD cooler. Love it.

Do a soldering video where you've looked up the exact chip, ordered it online and try to replace the exact bios chip with another one, then see if you can get back to where you were, and flash the new chip with a blank bios. That would be a cool video

@danielmonsanto8286

2 жыл бұрын

First off get a schematic, if at all available to be certain that you have the right chip. Many smd components look similar so it can be a challenge to identify the right one to replace, especially since it's a dual bios card with 2 bios chips, next thing you know you desolder the wrong one and all of a sudden you have no bios on the card. With that being said, would be a good idea to replace both chips as who knows what are the chances of the other one failing anyways

@catriona_drummond

2 жыл бұрын

don't think jay even owns a hot air station....

Having had an expensive GPU die before has made me keep the video card I'm replacing instead of selling it ever since. After buying the 3080 last year, I kept the gtx 1080 even knowing I could have recouped possibly half of the cost of the 3080 by selling it. These cards run so hot that I don't trust their longevity.

@ffwast

2 жыл бұрын

Time for me to shill for EVGA like Jay! But seriously, extended warranty, giant cooler. For what they cost the past two years I wasn't going to buy one without both of those.

@ffwast

2 жыл бұрын

(what model do you have that runs hot and have you considered undervolting?)

@TheDaveJoosten

2 жыл бұрын

My Asus Strix LC 6900 xt runs a cool 50-60c in games all maxed out 4k @ 100hz…gotta love liquid cooling. I dropped Red Devil because they run too hot and i had issues like this before as well. I put my trust on Asus Strix this time and so far so good, and with 5 year warranty i got less of a worry

@FunFactsAboutTech

2 жыл бұрын

I have the same 6900XT (ultimate edition). Max 65C under 100% load on stock fan curve. They aren't hot. This is bad luck

@JustAGuy85

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheDaveJoosten Straight up... STRIX is the best. The go overkill on everything. Usually custom PCB's with custom memory layouts and overkill VRMs that can support WAY more power than the card can possibly draw through the 8-pin(s) and pci-e slot. It's the only brand I buy. Never had one.. single.. issue.. I had 6x RX480 8GB (STRIX) mining ETH for years until I sold them near the end of last year. Those VRMs could support around 300 watts. The card can only pull 225 watts max through the pci-e power connector and slot.

My Power Color Red Dragon 6800 had the same exact issue, I am currently using the silent bios so I can continue to use my card.

I'd be curious if you were to try to replace that EEPROM (if possible) and how to do that. Or even try and swap the two EEPROM's to confirm that the chip has actually failed.

I'd like to see how long this lasts with a re-flashed silent bios, in theory the card is still good besides that one chip, so how long would it last, after drivers and the bios flash would it still run same speed, same performance, for just as long, did you actually add a second life by flipping the switch or is it only a half life?

@funkysmokee8764

2 жыл бұрын

it is literally the same, since he flashed a normal bios on the silent bios eeprom. so it runs like it ran on the original eeprom that died.

@michaelbauer4065

2 жыл бұрын

@@funkysmokee8764 Yeah, that's what I assume will happen, so I don't see a reason to waste the GPU or change it out, just keep using it, I want to see how it lasts or if something else is broken.

Don't overwrite the good BIOS switch setting! I think you should flash the working BIOS image over the broken BIOS ROM and see if that works. I suspect the card itself has a problem and can only operate with one of the BIOS images and not the other one.

Certain Mobos used to have removeable EEPROM chips, which was super handy if your chip died or your BIOS got corrupted during a bad flash. I got a couple of Asus AM3 boards that were dead from eBay and revived them with EEPROM chips for less than 8 quid, also from eBay.

Hey Jay, Cant you send it back under the warranty to get it replaced?

There has to be something strange in the universe, because the same thing happened to me and my friend in the same week (two weeks ago). Either was Win Update or Win Update + Graphics Driver messing something up. The driver uninstalled itself and I did DDU and installed it again and I haven't got an issue again. Windows usually install "something" for the GPU. This time there was nothing.

@_winston_smith_

2 жыл бұрын

Same. And I'm running an ancient video card. Windows update screwed up GPU big time about 2 weeks ago. Had to reinstall driver and tweak MB bios to make system stable again.

@tayooo1000

2 жыл бұрын

i had the same thing happen at the same time as you humm

@gotdangedcommiesitellyahwa6298

2 жыл бұрын

Windows updates are the devil. I have auto update turned off, can unplug my ethernet cord at night and it will still find a way to connect the Wifi(all settings disabled) and download the update while I'm sleeping.

@bradhaines3142

2 жыл бұрын

@@gotdangedcommiesitellyahwa6298 set your wifi as a metered connection, it wont try to sneak as much by

@gotdangedcommiesitellyahwa6298

2 жыл бұрын

@@bradhaines3142 Thanks! I'll try that. Would just take the card out, but then I'd lose bluetooth.

Say, killing half that 6900 makes it an ATI Radeon HD 3450, right? LOL :)

RMA duh! i didn't know or ever tried to switch bios while the card was running, did you try the old way , flash while using another display GPU?

same gpu in my main rig at home. strange that its got extra stripes that mine doesn't mines a power colour red devil edition with the card holder, i did have incorrect power plugs with twist ties, i didn't know when i first put it together, but yeah now its individual cables to each card.

even if it's a single bios card you can still remove the bios chip and put it into one of them little readers/programming adapters , just need to exercise soldering skills 😂

@SDogo

2 жыл бұрын

It should work. But vgas normally use bga format chips, so without an adapter I doubt that he will be reprograming the chip again.

My 6900XT has given me nothing but problems for the past 8ish months. I'm on my 4th RMA now.

@THEpicND

2 жыл бұрын

Yikes sorry to hear that

@promc2890

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like 6900XTs are the faulty ones,my 6800XT never gave me any problems and i never heard them causing problems either,its always the 6900XT

@Eu.FelipeSaldanha

2 жыл бұрын

Some friends had problem with ther 6900 XT... I own a 6700 XT, never had any issues

@solocamo3654

2 жыл бұрын

Bullshit dude.

@77arceus

2 жыл бұрын

Which model? I haven’t even had a sniff from mine (that wasn’t entirely my fault that is lol)

So question... if my motherboard has 3 M.2 slots and 6 SATA III lanes... can I use all 3 M.2 slots and still use the SATA lanes for extra storage? Or does the M.2 take up the SATA lanes? About to buy a couple 2TB Samsung Evo 970s to go with my 1TB Corsair MP600 gen4 M.2 and 1TB Samsung QVO 870 SATA... just trying to figure out if I'll need to move my data from the SATA to one of the new M.2s

I have same issue and even try several times to put new drives and to do factory reset. But maybe bad unit I get on this case

11:59 That is actually a serviceable part. Check out AdamantIT here on youtube. ITs a bit more involved and requires soldering and reprogramming or completely replacement of said chip, but it CAN be done.

@klansimpson

2 жыл бұрын

would rather warranty return personally than kill your warranty rights. I would hope Jay has it sent back too

@catriona_drummond

2 жыл бұрын

@@klansimpson Well if there is still warranty - absolutely. but if not? Reflashing or replacing the BIOS chip by a competent repair shop is not that much of a complex operation. Adamant IT does have indeed some very instructive and interesting videos on how to do it. Any well equipped and competent hardware repair shop can do this. The point is, that this car is far from being bricked, it's actually a rather minor fault.

@klansimpson

2 жыл бұрын

@@catriona_drummond all true. I would hope a 6900XT still has warranty though as its like what sub 2 years old. I would rather run on the silent profile with an overclock, than screw with it honestly as it doesn't stop the card functioning

@denissh9478

2 жыл бұрын

thank god they made multiple bios switches, now I understand. I was always thinking that that switch just adjusts fan curve and that's it

@crisnmaryfam7344

2 жыл бұрын

@@denissh9478 depends on the specific card, some of those are just that.

Before anyone thinks I'm bashing, I have the Liquid Devil Ultimate 6900 XT. I'm on my 2nd card as the first one just died. I like this card, I like what AMD has done with these cards from the 6600 and up. A few people on Powercolors forum have had some form of BIOS issues with the 6800 and/or 6900. Some got an email response from Powercolor with a BIOS attached and that's resolved their problems IIRC. One poor soul had his first card die with one BIOS after the other, got it replaced and the same issue occurred but to keep it going, they undervolted the card. I had issues with my first card from the get go with temperatures. I emailed them about the first card twice within 10 months and once with the new card which would put this at 3 emails within a 15 month time frame, as I thought the BIOSs were both screwed, as I was experiencing similar issues as to what Phil explained with both BIOSs, but I narrowed it down to the sensorpanel from AIDA64. It has now been about 18 months now and I've still not had a response from them. The new card has not had the same temperature issues and I've got the temperatures I was expecting. A lot of ppl have had great experiences from dealing with Powercolor and others are in the same boat as me aka totally ignored. I'd like to see if you're able to replace the BIOS chip and also taking a stab at an RMA with powercolor, obviously not letting them know it's you if at all possible.

(bvvrrt) "ow my finger" -immediately sticks finger back in almost the same spot... xD

Build one of those artwork thingies where you place each part and component neatly on a wall mounted display.

p-hub overload killed that card rip good friend

My Xfx speedster 6900xt Zero edition has been doing great. Knock on wood.

The glow accent was beautiful. It's like glowing hot pipes.... Also if it's a physical chip problem, maybe try resoldering/cook it?

Could you also flash the bios while using the motherboards on board video?

I'm getting concerned at the death rate of all the latest GPU's.

@Jeroensgambling

2 жыл бұрын

Mind you it is a high-end GPU with proberly quite some power flowing through it. Lots of things can happen. They just get more complex over the years.

@thunderbolt10031

2 жыл бұрын

@@Jeroensgambling Well yeah, but if they're pushing out advanced tech that can't take the beating, then it's essentially not mature enough to distribute to the general public. It's pretty absurd that 30 series and 6000 series cards aren't all that common yet there's quite an alarming amount of failures being reported that never happened on the previous generation. To be completely honest, I had a suspicion that failures were going to be pretty common when I heard that 90 skew cards were going to be a thing.

@kire929

2 жыл бұрын

@@thunderbolt10031 what does 90 skew mean?

@thunderbolt10031

2 жыл бұрын

@@kire929 The 90 skew, so RTX 3090 or RX 6900.

Either the chip is dying, or the trace(s) going from the chip to the output cracked. Since you were having fps problems and had to juggle the settings to get it to stabilize, but it lost that info on game shutdown or system shutdown, probably is the chip. I used to see problems with my output when the system heated up (traces expanded and the crack shorted out), but in this instance, it doesn't seem to be the problem.

Hello sir..i have rtx 3060 ti 2x oc vintus 8gb And have only 8 pin connector powersupply. But the same card on youtube have 8+6 pin connector ..please help me differenciating

Had this happen recently with my asus TUF 3080ti. I updated the driver to most recent one and did a custom install as per geforce app. After the system reset, it would not POST with mobo showing VGA error led. Such a lucky you posted this video a day after I experienced this problem. I'll try flicking the switch to the other bios on the card. Not sure if I should attempt to reflash the faulty bios...

I'd like to think that with a card that pricey, and in todays market, they'd still RMA it for you. We've got stock now, but they can't afford to throw away GPU's for one faulty chip. Would be nice to see the RMA route, to see what'd happen and what they have to say about this issue. As others have said. This could be informative, for people that are facing similar issues. Either way, love the content. I've always looked to you, Steve and Linus for info on the best upgrade path for my personal rig, and you always deliver. Safe to say, if you three don't have positive things to say about something, my wallet stays where it is! Keep it coming, you do great work.

Send the card to Buildzoid so he can replace the eprom (if he can) so he'll have a crazy card to mod until it explodes because he thought it would be cool to run 800 watts through it on liquid nitrogen.

Great reference with the "f it we'll do it live."

is it still under warranty? cause you could get them to either replace it or fix it up to you

I finally got an RTX 3080 on Saturday and after less than 24 hours it already blackscreened twice and crashed my system in the end. I don't know exactly what happend, but it's just dead, so I send it back today. Has nothing really to do with this video apart from a failed GPU, but interesting timing still

@dennisperry8579

2 жыл бұрын

Depending on what you were doing at the time, could be a PSU issue... My 8 - 10 year old AX1200 (which had previously been overdrawn on a crossfire 7970 setup, pulling 500 watts per card, and made the LED light bulbs in my room flicker, lol) bricked my 3090 because it couldn't handle the voltage spikes going from idle to 1000 FPS in the Dyson Sphere Program menu, lol. Replaced the PSU and the 3090 I got from RMA has been rock solid since. EVGA Warranty FTW, lol

I'm going to play devils advocate here: What if it's the bios switching circuit that is bad and if it only had one bios, then you wouldn't of had this problem. Also i'm curious of if a new eprom chip could be put in the card, components like that are typically pretty cheap.

@Mysteoa

2 жыл бұрын

It's just simple rerouting on which chip to read, it's not anything fancy.

@phyro4143

2 жыл бұрын

​@@Mysteoa The bios switching circuitry fails a lot actually, bios basically never corrupt by itself unless you messed with it.

@FM4AMGV

2 жыл бұрын

@@Mysteoa yes, but if for some reason the switch isn't properly making connection, you could have problems with bios?

@klansimpson

2 жыл бұрын

it allowed him to switch to silent, boot, switch back to the OC, flash and reboot, then sat there drooling. There is a possibility a new bios chip could be a solution but it could have popped a trace somewhere from said chip. Either way RMA would be what I would do with this personally

That chip you mentioned, you could check for any shorts an reconnect it

I take it that the design envelope for the outside of the card enclosure also looking like an old fashioned space heater was not merely coincidental... 🔥

When flashing it usually verifies what was flashed is what should be there based on the file (block checksum). This isn't an eeprom issue, the overclock killed the card. Same as some chips reach X Ghz, others don't, you just now have one that doesn't anymore. Only ways to prove this wrong would be to overclock the card on the regular bios or flash the non-OC BIOS on to the OC slot. I will guarantee it won't make the same clock speed it did and be stable anymore.

Be careful when downloading BIOS for your card, even if it's for the same exact card you have, because there are differences in memory chips ( Samsung, Micron, Hynix etc. ) and they use different memory timings that CAN cause problems if for example you have a Micron VRAM GPU but you flash a Hynix VRAM BIOS on it.

@-eMpTy-

2 жыл бұрын

Modern vBIOSes support all currently available VRAM vendors. It's not like there's a vBIOS for each one.

@ryomario90

2 жыл бұрын

@@-eMpTy- My GPU has 3 different VRAM BIOS all 3 of them with different VRAM timings, but then again not sure if the RX 580 can be called a modern GPU

@jannegrey593

2 жыл бұрын

@@ryomario90 Yeah - this depends on whether the card was made cheap or not. Because those that have multiple versions of BIOS for different memories, usually have small EPROM. So they cannot fit ALL the data. They often can barely fit the data they need for their own configuration and substantial amount of time is spent to make sure that BIOS is small enough to fit on it. Happened a lot to AMD - given that they were seen as "cheap option". Especially during this period of Bulldozer/Zen/Zen+. Many of X370 mobos have the same problem. Manufacturers cheaped out on chip and quality, because who would buy from AMD? Lots of people as we found out and newer generations of the boards were better. Same happened to Polaris - depending on vendor you might have a version that was 50 cents cheaper to make, by having small EPROM.

@SuperQBoi

2 жыл бұрын

@@ryomario90 That's the same exact card I soft bricked on my brother trying to update his bios profile. Downloaded the correct manufacturer model but it bricked, had to do like Jay and switch to the other bios on the card. Never knew why it failed, even tried a second time and same result

like that desktop background. Anyone know where it can be downloaded?

There's also a little clip for flashing bios directly to the chip on the board for the GPU.

Has Phil run a malware scan? The missing driver makes me ask. Also, maybe check his boot drive for errors?

@olandersnake

2 жыл бұрын

I've seen this happen on a friends. It was shutting down Adrenaline software every time he started Battlefield 2042. It made the driver not update properly saying that the Windows version was a newer one when it wasn't. Did a fresh install of Windows 10 and drivers. Everything worked until Battlefield 2042 started and it would all go nuts again.

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2 жыл бұрын

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2 жыл бұрын

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2 жыл бұрын

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2 жыл бұрын

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Maybe a fan short. Silent mode doesn't heat up as much and the middle fan doesnt seem to be spinning. The short would do all those things

I was looking at getting the new Red Devil 6950xt but have not heard all that much about powercolor reliability or issues. I have not had an AMD GPU in 20 years - have many people had issues with the 6800xt or 6900xt?

It could have been caused by a BitFlip caused by ionising radiation hitting the memory cell. Ionising radiation is omnipresent, and if one ray hits exactly a memory cell, Its value gets changed. EDIT: ok it still not working after flashing it, eradicates the possibility of physical software error. ... yes you've Red this correctly, Physical Software. Because Software is getting stored in physical values of 1 and 0

@duskyechelon

2 жыл бұрын

Then programming BIOS would fix it, but it didn't.

@legitscoper3259

2 жыл бұрын

@@duskyechelon did you read the edit ?

My MSI 6900xt had a delta of 60ºC. Way too much. 56ºC and the hotspot was at 120ºC. I returned it and got a 3080ti FTW3. Much happier now and with slight OC'ing I can match the 6900xts performance.

@elvisgratton6328

2 жыл бұрын

cut the cap

@hairychesticles1

2 жыл бұрын

damn that sucks. i have the 2nd rma of a 6800xt that had artifacting after updating. im not rly throwing shade at amd tho since there were a number of ppl talking about being on there 3rd evga 3090. it can rly happen to anyone. hopfully 3rd time is the charm for me.

Is it worth checking the continuity on the switch itself in some instances?

Can you try flashing it with an external, hardware based flashing tool?

Why do I like it when Jay sensually rubs his fingers on the parts as he's explaining things at the beginning?!

I have that exact card I got mine a year ago at Microcenter open box for $1500, no big issues so far, just Radeon resets to default settings quite alot, so I had to make a save settings file so I can easily recover my custom settings.

Can you read out the defective bios and compare it to the original flashed file? Would give an indication if the rom is fritzed.

I had that happen to a Vega 56 a few years ago. My card overheated one day, and never went back to normal again. The vbios flip got me back up and running, but the card could never go back. Luckily I was still in the return period, so it went back to the store as defective.

im not a pc pro but if the chip initializer failed might it be an idea to reset the whole chip (not only the bios itself) but like reset everything

What case/open test bench is that?

if it boot, remote connect to it and check with gpuz etc what is it showing

A failing EEPROM can cause all manner of strangeness. When boards come back from the field here at work, the weirdest failures can be resolved by replacing the E² and re-finalizing the software.