Question GIGABYTE 5700 XT Bios mod fails

[AlleyCat]

Hi,
I am failing to update Gigabyte 5700 XT. The same procedure updates the BIOS on MSI cards with no problem. I follow the instructions on Igors Lab.

The sign of having trouble with the card bios flash shows in GPU-Z. After flash using amdvbflash the values of GPU and memory frequencies is empty. With stock bios there are Mhz frequencies.

Is there any known problems with flashing Gigabyte cards?
Any suggestions on what other forums I may ask for assistance?
Is it possible that the OEM bios is signed, and any modified bios will be rejected?
If the bios is signed, any tools to resign, or would I need to buy a card from a different vendor?

Thanks,

Alley Cat

 

[dan]

I'm sorry for late response.
I have RX 5700 XT Mech OC on all rigs now. GPUs in one rig are based on Micron memory, all the others - Samsung. I set them (all rigs) not to exceed 57MH/s as at the higher hash revenue ratio suffers and GPU temp goes above 82C. Naming convention from Looney Tunes:

Rig "TAZ" @830W ATW:
6x Micron GPUs - 56.9MH/s @110W
Core clock: 1380
VDD: 769
Memory clock: 908
MVDD: 1264
MVDDCI: 762

Rig "COYOTE" @770W ATW:
6x Samsung GPUs - 57.2MH/s @100W
Core clock: 1398
VDD: 779
Memory clock: 912
MVDD: 1292
MVDDCI: 822

Rig "Cucumber" @735W ATW:
6x Samsung GPUs - 56.7MH/s @95W
Core clock: 1385
VDD: 766
Memory clock: 906
MVDD: 1286
MVDDCI: 772

All other - "Road_Runners" @760W ATW (same spec):
6x Samsung GPUs - 56.8MH/s @98W
Core clock: 1388
VDD: 773
Memory clock: 909
MVDD: 1314
MVDDCI: 790

Sensors averages:
GPU Edge: 47-51C
GPU Asic: 52-58C
GPU Mem: 71-84C (Cucumber/TAZ)

Credits to excellent work undertaken by @Mini_me, @AlleyCat and many talented others.

[Updated COYOTE]

Thank you. Very nice and thourough report.
I definitely give them a try then, most reports of that heat issue are also rather old.
You tuned the hack out of those rigs huh XD, awesome work.

 

[Mini_Me]

The Power table looks the original. Can you confirm that the purpose of this bios is to handle the RSA signature?

If it is a success in both boot type then send an F3 vbios with your own modification for me to modify it for you.

 

[WestBit]

Hi

This thread is pure gold! However I want to share the difficulties I have faced trying to get my new rig up and running. In case someone are as stupid as me.


Hardware:

Onda B250 d12p-d3 motherboard.
2500w PSU
64 GB SSD
Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU G3930
8GB DDR3 RAM
7 x Asus RX 5700 GPU's
3 x Powercolor RX 5700 XT
2 x Gigabyte RX 5700 XT

The Asus RX 5700 cards are flashed with RX 5700 XT BIOS, and all cards have been flashed with Apple timings.
Running HiveOS, and using latest Phoenixminer.

OC: Core - 1400, VDD - 900, MEM - 900

Power usage: 2300w at the wall.
Hashrate: 676 MH
===============================================

So my issue was every time I started the miner after a few minutes maybe 5 or 15 min the miner would crash! I tried all kinds of OC settings even going back to stock bios and no OC. But still the same problem. Looking at the miner log, I found out that it looked like it had something to do with the DAG creation while mining. I then discovered that the HiveOS image I was running was an
Beta image with OpenCl 19.30 drivers. Which had been working up until recently on my testbench.

The solution was as simple as doing an hive-replace on my rig and choosing the latest stable version which now have the OpenCl 20.30 drivers. And voila the rig is now stable! I'm now running my 24 hour stability test on the rig, and will after that start experimenting with lowering the VDD towards 780 - 800.

So long story short - Always check that your drivers are compatible with the latest miner version. Happy mining, and thanks for all the info in this thread.

 

[7pintwonder]

im seeing a lot of different settings for the MSI cards, does it just depend on the card?

 

[7pintwonder]

Thank you. Very nice and thourough report.
I definitely give them a try then, most reports of that heat issue are also rather old.
You tuned the hack out of those rigs huh XD, awesome work.

Did you get a chance to try any of these settings?

 

[Mini_Me]

Hi

This thread is pure gold! However I want to share the difficulties I have faced trying to get my new rig up and running. In case someone are as stupid as me.


Hardware:

Onda B250 d12p-d3 motherboard.
2500w PSU
64 GB SSD
Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU G3930
8GB DDR3 RAM
7 x Asus RX 5700 GPU's
3 x Powercolor RX 5700 XT
2 x Gigabyte RX 5700 XT

The Asus RX 5700 cards are flashed with RX 5700 XT BIOS, and all cards have been flashed with Apple timings.
Running HiveOS, and using latest Phoenixminer.

OC: Core - 1400, VDD - 900, MEM - 900

Power usage: 2300w at the wall.
Hashrate: 676 MH
===============================================

So my issue was every time I started the miner after a few minutes maybe 5 or 15 min the miner would crash! I tried all kinds of OC settings even going back to stock bios and no OC. But still the same problem. Looking at the miner log, I found out that it looked like it had something to do with the DAG creation while mining. I then discovered that the HiveOS image I was running was an
Beta image with OpenCl 19.30 drivers. Which had been working up until recently on my testbench.

The solution was as simple as doing an hive-replace on my rig and choosing the latest stable version which now have the OpenCl 20.30 drivers. And voila the rig is now stable! I'm now running my 24 hour stability test on the rig, and will after that start experimenting with lowering the VDD towards 780 - 800.

So long story short - Always check that your drivers are compatible with the latest miner version. Happy mining, and thanks for all the info in this thread.

Greetings and welcome,

Thank you very much for your kind and informative feedback, I believe many will benefit from it,

You may have a good day,
Best Regards

 

[revri]

Hello, could you please help me with signature bypass for Gigabyte rx5700 xt aorus rev 2?

 

[Mini_Me]

Hello, could you please help me with signature bypass for Gigabyte rx5700 xt aorus rev 2?

Hello and welcome,

Have you already modified it to your liking? if not please modify it by applying the Apple Inc. vram straps and if you want to cap the power limit using the power play table in the kindly attached link below, after that send the modified vbios with the original one to me.

Question - GIGABYTE 5700 XT Bios mod fails

Hi, I am failing to update Gigabyte 5700 XT. The same procedure updates the BIOS on MSI cards with no problem. I follow the instructions on Igors Lab. The sign of having trouble with the card bios flash shows in GPU-Z. After flash using amdvbflash the values of GPU and memory frequencies is...

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[revri]

Thank you for attaching the modified bios.

 

[Mini_Me]

Thank you for attaching the modified bios.

Very well, I will modify it and send it to you whenever it is possible.

 

[Mini_Me]

Thank you for attaching the modified bios.

Please test the vbios in the kindly attached link below, Before that is this card have a dual vbios? And do you have another card or integrated gpu in case of reverting back if it is not a success?

 

[Mini_Me]

Thank you for attaching the modified bios.

Any update that you would like to share yet?

 

[kush]

Greetings everyone. This is my MSI RX 5700 XT Mech OC Rig. Applied apple straps and vram timings together with the tREF value. Tried some different bunch of settings and this is the best that i can come up with. I do want to bring the power consumption down if possible. Any recommendation?

Thank you!

 

[Calathia]

@AndSer You are not showing us the memory temperature there, that is the chip temp. The issue is the high memory temp.

@Calathia those are amazing memory temps....wow.
How many additional fans do you run your rig with?

I have this rig with these fans

 

[Mini_Me]

I have this rig with these fans

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Greetings Calathia,

Please check your message box as I send you an enquiry before and I am wondering if it is possible for you to help with it or not.

 

[Calathia]

Hi

This thread is pure gold! However I want to share the difficulties I have faced trying to get my new rig up and running. In case someone are as stupid as me.


Hardware:

Onda B250 d12p-d3 motherboard.
2500w PSU
64 GB SSD
Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU G3930
8GB DDR3 RAM
7 x Asus RX 5700 GPU's
3 x Powercolor RX 5700 XT
2 x Gigabyte RX 5700 XT

The Asus RX 5700 cards are flashed with RX 5700 XT BIOS, and all cards have been flashed with Apple timings.
Running HiveOS, and using latest Phoenixminer.

OC: Core - 1400, VDD - 900, MEM - 900

Power usage: 2300w at the wall.
Hashrate: 676 MH
===============================================

So my issue was every time I started the miner after a few minutes maybe 5 or 15 min the miner would crash! I tried all kinds of OC settings even going back to stock bios and no OC. But still the same problem. Looking at the miner log, I found out that it looked like it had something to do with the DAG creation while mining. I then discovered that the HiveOS image I was running was an
Beta image with OpenCl 19.30 drivers. Which had been working up until recently on my testbench.

The solution was as simple as doing an hive-replace on my rig and choosing the latest stable version which now have the OpenCl 20.30 drivers. And voila the rig is now stable! I'm now running my 24 hour stability test on the rig, and will after that start experimenting with lowering the VDD towards 780 - 800.

So long story short - Always check that your drivers are compatible with the latest miner version. Happy mining, and thanks for all the info in this thread.

You are using 2500W PSU @ 2300W ?? You are playing with fire here!!!! Its only a matter of time when that PSU will die, possibly catch fire/destroy GPU's or similar.

Since your mobo is onda, I assume that 2500W PSU is some no brand chinese so its not even 80 plus bronze...so its power efficiency factor is max 0,8.

You should NEVER EVER use any PSU more than 80% of its capacity, even if its high quality brand 80 plus platinum. For your PSU its 2500W * 0,8 = 2000W !!!

 

[Mini_Me]

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Greetings everyone. This is my MSI RX 5700 XT Mech OC Rig. Applied apple straps and vram timings together with the tREF value. Tried some different bunch of settings and this is the best that i can come up with. I do want to bring the power consumption down if possible. Any recommendation?

Thank you!

Greetings and welcome,

Regarding your setting, it may not hold on the long run,

Regarding decreasing the effective power consumption, I am working on vbios modding that may give us a real good power reduction while maintaining the performance.

 

[kush]

Greetings and welcome,

Regarding your setting, it may not hold on the long run,

Regarding decreasing the effective power consumption, I am working on vbios modding that may give us a real good power reduction while maintaining the performance.

Any settings to share?

This has been running for almost 12hours now. Looking forward to your reply and the vbios results! This thread is just amazing!

 

[AndSer]

Greetings everyone. This is my MSI RX 5700 XT Mech OC Rig. Applied apple straps and vram timings together with the tREF value. Tried some different bunch of settings and this is the best that i can come up with. I do want to bring the power consumption down if possible. Any recommendation?

Thank you!

MPT settings from my MSI RX 5700 XT Mech OC Micron based vbios:

MPT​	RELEASES​	​
​	1​	2​	3​	4​	5​	6​
Overdrive​	​	​	​	​	​	​
GFX Maximum Clock​	1600​	1500​	1500​	1460​	1440​	1460​
Memory Maximum Clock​	1000​	1000​	1000​	1000​	1000​	1000​
Power Limit Maximum​	0​	0​	0​	0​	0​	0​
Power Limit Minimum​	0​	0​	0​	0​	0​	0​
Memory Timing Control​	2​	1​	2​	2​	1​	2​
​	​	​	​	​	​	​
Power and Voltages​	​	​	​	​	​	​
Maximum Voltage GFX​	950​	850​	850​	1050​	1050​	1000​
Maximum Voltage SoC​	1150​	1150​	1150​	1050​	1050​	1050​
Minimum Voltage GFX​	750​	700​	750​	750​	750​	725​
Minimum Voltage SoC​	750​	700​	750​	750​	750​	725​
Power Limit GPU​	140​	140​	140​	140​	130​	140​
TDC Limit GFX​	133​	150​	150​	132​	112​	122​
TDC Limit SoC​	12​	12​	12​	12​	12​	12​
​	​	​	​	​	​	​
Frequency​	​	​	​	​	​	​
GFX Maximum​	1200​	1150​	1150​	1360​	1270​	1270​
Memory DPM 3​	950​	950​	950​	950​	950​	950​
​	​	​	​	​	​	​
Fan​	​	​	​	​	​	​
Zero RPM Enable​	YES​	​	YES​	YES​	​	YES​
Stop Temperature​	60​	60​	60​	59​	59​	59​
Start Temperature​	70​	70​	70​	70​	70​	70​

4 and 6 are running stable for quite a while on TAZ as shown in my Report. Hope this will help.

Above is a summary collated from the Mini_Me's excellent guide.

 

[Mini_Me]

Any settings to share?

This has been running for almost 12hours now. Looking forward to your reply and the vbios results! This thread is just amazing!

Very soon, I am going to make a new thread and summarize everything useful within safely limits in this thread as well as other things not mentioned here,

I will update whenever it is possible.