So I did something kind of dumb. I flashed the bios from this website first download near the bottom of the page. I wanted to unlock the card so I could overclock it after getting a disappointing 17 fps in overwatch.
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There was no download for my card specifically and I ended up taking the first download to see if it would work. It didnt, when i tried to reinstall the drivers, device manager had this message in the properties of my graphics card driver: Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems.
(Code 43)The program included in the download made a backup of my card before i flashed it, Rx460.backup. I would like to know how to restore it.Edit: Here are my specs.AMD A4-7300 APU12 gb RAMand the graphics card. I can't help you with how to restore it but I can help you with this general advice for future experiments like this: research every aspect of the process, including how to reverse it, before you start.To give an example of how little research you did, your CPU is actually an APU. It is not meant for gaming. It's meant for people who want an inexpensive computer and so it's a CPU/GPU all in one. That's a big reason why the 460, a videocard made for games like Overwatch, was not handling the game well.
Even if you unlocked the cores it wasn't going to help.Good luck, I hope you can manage to reflash it at some point.
Hi,Bargained an rx-460 2GB, to replace an 880GTS 320. Looking to get the full 1024 shaders, unfortunately the amd driver doesn´t load if the bios isn´t signed, so bios mods are tried and out. This is the exact cardJust for the 'hack' I thought to try and flash a rx-560 bios.So now I´m looking for a bios fromXFX RX 560 Single Fan OC 2 GB (RX-560P2SFG5?)XFX AMD Radeon RX 560 2GB Core(RX-560P2SFG5?)or possiblyXFX AMD Radeon RX 460 1024SPor as a last attemptother 2GB 460 with 1024 shaders or 560 with 2GB.help?tia. The initial success you'll have is with a modded RX 460 BIOS. You then need to use driver 16.11.5 or below which doesn't have anti-tamper on the BIOS.
If it doesn't work, you've got an RX 460 where the shaders and/or TMUs are actually faulty.I haven't looked into it further than this, but it appears to get extremely difficult at this point.If, at this point, you want a 560 BIOS (which will also fail verification, as the Baffin silicon had a minor revision between 460 and 560), then you need to find a card which uses the same memory as your card does. I.believe. your card uses Micron memory, but use GPU-Z to find out for sure. Ok,Well already tried and flashed a modified bios, but I´d prefer it to validate, one idea was the 560 BIOS the other to get a 1024SP 460 2GB bios to test with. Neither seems to be easily available.I´d take a guess at say that the validation is on checksum only, do you know that it checks BIOS against silicon revision to.As for memory the bios seems to have support for more than one type, or does it need editing to set another as active?I could always pull down the latest available driver without the check or use a driver hack, but it isn´t about that or even if the last 128 shaders are usable, it´s purely for the possibility by now =)Well it runs nicely on stock so it will probably just stay there. Might work for me, going to do some research first though, overheating seems to be an issue.EDIT, flashed my single fan 2GB xfx 460 with the bios above and it seems to work ok, all 1024 shaders are unlocked according to GPU-Z, card is detected as a 560 and drivers load as they should.WattMan and fan controll appears to work, to be somewhat cautious it now runs with powerlimit to -20% and max clock to 1220.Played some ESO and no crash so far, will continue to run it as a 560 and see what happpens.
Hi io-waiter,I know the Thread has been quiet for a while now. How's your experience so far?I flashed the Sapphire RX460 OC (4GB) Back to the unlocked 460 Bios because the RX560 Bios had issues with proper driver support in the latest Crimson Driver releases.e.g. I couldn't overclock properly with the new drivers, my clocks, power limit and temps where not correct after the driver update.
So i went back.Everything is fine again, but i really really want a 'proper' RX560 bios with driver support, so that my card behaves like a RX560 too and not only feels like one. Skyrim field of view mod server.
The XFX RX 560 should be supported by High Sierra, but causes a restart when attempting to boot the OS. The card uses an odd UEFI GOP, version 2.0, while all other RX 560 cards I have seen use a 1.6X version of the UEFI GOP. The result is that the card requires legacy/CSM mode to boot, and High Sierra cannot handle it.
I had thought that UEFI GOP 2.X was used only in newer Vega cards, but XFX managed to shoehorn it onto this RX 560 card.To solve this, I flashed the Asus VBIOS found here:The Asus card has the same specs as the XFX card but the CRC does not match, and ATIwinflash will note a mismatch. Use the command line and the -f flag to force the flash.Note that I tried to use the GOPupd tool at the win-raid forum to 'downgrade' the GOP to 1.65 using the XFX vbios, and this kind of worked, but the graphics colors were kind of psychedelic.It may also be possible to use Clover to load the Asus VBIOS above without flashing, but I did not test this. Thought this thread would be helpful to others with this card. The XFX RX 560 should be supported by High Sierra, but causes a restart when attempting to boot the OS. The card uses an odd UEFI GOP, version 2.0, while all other RX 560 cards I have seen use a 1.6X version of the UEFI GOP. The result is that the card requires legacy/CSM mode to boot, and High Sierra cannot handle it.
I had thought that UEFI GOP 2.X was used only in newer Vega cards, but XFX managed to shoehorn it onto this RX 560 card.To solve this, I flashed the Asus VBIOS found here:The Asus card has the same specs as the XFX card but the CRC does not match, and ATIwinflash will note a mismatch. Use the command line and the -f flag to force the flash.Note that I tried to use the GOPupd tool at the win-raid forum to 'downgrade' the GOP to 1.65 using the XFX vbios, and this kind of worked, but the graphics colors were kind of psychedelic.It may also be possible to use Clover to load the Asus VBIOS above without flashing, but I did not test this. Thought this thread would be helpful to others with this card.
User der8auer has posted a guide in which he was able to unlock some of the AMD's RX 460 features with a BIOS update. The shaders are defaulted at 896 shaders / 56 TMUs but got unlockied to of 1024 stream processors and 64 TMUs.Here is the posted by him:The AMD Radeon RX 460 unlocking process involves nothing more than a simple firmware update and can result in a performance upgrade of 12.5%. The Radeon RX 460 is considered a solid choice in terms of price/performance. It comes by default with 56 TMU and 896 Stream Processors in the form of the Polaris 11 GPU architecture. But here’s how to get an additional 8 TMUs and 128 Stream Processors.Note: It’s always possible that something goes wrong if you flash the BIOS of your card. In addition it’s possible that not all cards can be unlocked and that you might damage the card. Flash at your own risk!nlocking the RX 460 is pretty simple.
It’s unclear why we’re able to do this. Has AMD locked the cards down on purpose, or are the yields not high enough to fulfill the Radeon RX 460 demand? Let us know in the comments what you think!Currently we can only provide the BIOS for the Sapphire Nitro 4G and the ASUS STRIX O4G. We’re working on testing more cards and if it works, we will upload more modified BIOS versions. In total we have tested 6 cards, each of which was able to unlock the shaders. We tested five ASUS STRIX O4G cards and managed to unlock all five of them.Download the BIOS package (currently only ASUS STRIX 04G and Sapphire Nitro 4G) and unzip the files. 07:12 PMThere is an interesting read available today at Heise.de, it is a German based website though so allow me to relay their findings.
As you all know 10-bit HDR is one of the emerging technologies that f. 08:24 AMSome photos of a Sapphire Radeon RX 460 Dual-X have been posted on the web, the card was disassembled and as such you can have a peek at AMD Polaris 11 aka the Baffin GPU.
09:45 AMThe launch of the AMD Radeon RX 480 is getting closer and closer. Today the firt photo surfaced of a (what seems to be) reference Radeon RX 480 with the cooler removed, and this the photo shows a glim.
I think no one was under the impression that one could unlock these cards. Big thanks to der8auer and his team for figuring this out. It's always nice to get free performance like this. This just makes the product even better for price vs. Performance.I'd have been more surprised if you couldn't unlock it.
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Both AMD and Nvidia are known to use software/firmware to disable hardware on these cheaper models. As stated by the article, this doesn't guarantee a successful upgrade because some of these chips could have faults in the silicon.It's kind of like the days back when AMD made triple-core CPUs. Many (maybe most) of those CPUs were quad cores with a faulty core, but every once in a while there was a part that was fully functional and was only made into a triple core to meet the demand for them. I personally had one of these triple cores.
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I could unlock it as a quad core and it would run fully stable, but only with a 32-bit OS. If I did anything 64-bit, it would crash.That being said, even if you unlock one of these GPUs, you could still encounter some sort of failure eventually. #5369928 Posted on: 04:42 PMI'd have been more surprised if you couldn't unlock it. Both AMD and Nvidia are known to use software/firmware to disable hardware on these cheaper models.
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As stated by the article, this doesn't guarantee a successful upgrade because some of these chips could have faults in the silicon.It's kind of like the days back when AMD made triple-core CPUs. Many (maybe most) of those CPUs were quad cores with a faulty core, but every once in a while there was a part that was fully functional and was only made into a triple core to meet the demand for them. I personally had one of these triple cores.
I could unlock it as a quad core and it would run fully stable, but only with a 32-bit OS. If I did anything 64-bit, it would crash.That being said, even if you unlock one of these GPUs, you could still encounter some sort of failure eventually.The good old days indeed, here still running a amd 2core unclocked to 4 core and runs stable at original speeds and this already 4 years.
AMD’s RX 560 continues a trend of refreshing the Polaris line, but with a more notable change than the previous: The RX 560 fully unlocks itself to 16 CUs, up from the previous 14 CUs of the RX 460. This change (in addition to voltage-frequency changes) instantly accounts for performance increases over the RX 460, theoretically making for a more exciting update than was had with the 580 & 570. That’s not to say that the predecessors of this 500 line were unworthy, but they certainly weren’t eye-catching for anyone who’d followed the 400-series launch.Our review of the card is the first look at this new low-end line from AMD, updating the entry-level, sub-$120 market (in theory) with fresh competition. The incumbent would be the GTX 1050, which we previously thought a better buy than the RX 460. Today, we’re seeing how that’s changed.To catch everyone up on the RX 500 refresh thus far, it’s mostly been a glorified BIOS update to the RX 580 and RX 570 cards, driving higher frequency, permitting higher voltage under OV, and trading more power for some performance. Nothing special, but enough to keep AMD in the game until its eventual Vega launch. We found the RX 580 to be a strong competitor to the GTX 1060, particularly at the price point, though noted that owners of RX 480 series cards shouldn’t bother considering an upgrade – because it’s not one.
This 500 series is not meant for owners of the 400 series. Tune out until Vega, Volta, or high-end Pascal makes sense.Sapphire’s RX 560 Pulse OC has one of the weakest cooling solutions we’ve seen of late, but – as we learn in our VRM+VRAM temperature testing – it’s sufficient for this type of card. Steve started GamersNexus back when it was just a cool name, and now it's grown into an expansive website with an overwhelming amount of features.
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