Race to dump the 4870 ROM, Who's first?

[aminoff]

Just flashed an XFX ZWFL card for my mac pro 1.1,

And it works like a charm!!! Just the power cable message on startup,
but i can live with that.

Which tool, ROM and instructions did you use?

 

[antares74]

Asus 4870

Hi,
i've a ASUS 4870 1Gb and a MP 1,1. I've tryed to flash the vga 2 times.
1st) i 've used 4870.rom but then it dosn't work (the mac dosn't start) so i've re-flashed with original ROM.
2nd) i've followed the istructions of The Rominator to make a personal ROM.
now the MP start but the video is black, but if i plug the monitor on 7300 (in the 2nd slot) i see the desk and icons.
Any idea?

Thanks

 

[Cindori]

There is a rom pkg in my aft thread, gl

 

[matthew.russo]

Good News!

I bring good news, with the Apple ATI OEM cards, I have sucessfully got crossfire working!

I am running windows 7 x64, and the latest drivers from ATI 9.11. No ROM changes.

Straight away it allowed me to enable crossfire

 

[Ferrari904]

I bring good news, with the Apple ATI OEM cards, I have sucessfully got crossfire working!

I am running windows 7 x64, and the latest drivers from ATI 9.11. No ROM changes.

Straight away it allowed me to enable crossfire

WHAT?! Is this with two Apple cards or an Apple OEM and a 3rd party card? Either way that's amazing. I just bought Windows 7 yesterday. Do you think this will work between my 4870 and 4890?

 

[matthew.russo]

WHAT?! Is this with two Apple cards or an Apple OEM and a 3rd party card? Either way that's amazing. I just bought Windows 7 yesterday. Do you think this will work between my 4870 and 4890?

It is with 2 Apple OEM ATI 4870's

I was shocked and amazed that it finally worked

edit: see attached screenshot, proof that it is working. Would love to hear if anyone else gets sucess with the same card either paired with another 4870 flashed or not. 3DMark 06 got a respectable 17018.

 

[lbodnar]

Help!

I have bricked a Sapphire HD4870 512Mb PN 288-10E85-030SA SKU# 11133-03 and now looking for help.

I have placed it into a spare slot in my stock 2006 MacPro and foolishly used this guide: http://boeglin.org/blog/index.php?entry=entry090918-031702

After rebooting the Mac just stays dead. It does not even try to boot and red LED "CPUB FAIL" lights up on the logic board.
Correction: it repeatedly chimes. After first chime red LED comes on and it does not react to anything but forced power-down.

It happens both with nVidia card in and without. With power cables attached or not. In any PCI-E slot.
Correction: Without power cables the 4870 is disabled and its own set of LEDs become red and its own fan blasts at full speed.


Taking the 4870 out makes Mac Pro work as usual.

Is there any chance to revive the card? I can't see any way to boot MacPro with this card in.

I don't have any PC at hand. Would it be re-flashable if plugged into a PC with on-board video?

Thanks

 

[F.A.D.]

created a working rom for the Sapphire 4870 512MB with the black fan in the middl

Hi Cindori and everyone else,

after some struggeling I created a working rom for my Sapphire card.

HD4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E DUAL DVI/TVO

PN 288-10E85-030SA SKU# 11133-03

It works very well with my two 23" ACD´s but one thing confuses me: in my system profiler I see two 4870`s, see the following image.

And where can I see if my cards support Core image and Quartz? There is no evidence in the system profiler.

Kind regards,

David

 

[F.A.D.]

Hi lbodnar,

put your 7300 in the first slot (the lowestone) and your 4870 in the second slot. It takes about up to 10 minutes to start, it took 10 minutes on my system anyway. Maybe that helps,

Kind regards,

David

 

[Cindori]

ibodnar: pretty sure you need a PC



FAD: aty,motmot is the audio device of the 4870 popping up. it does on some cards. it has no drivers in OSX. nothing to worry.


you can chek qe/ci support with atiflashingtool, QE_CI --> test button.

 

[lbodnar]

Hi lbodnar,
put your 7300 in the first slot (the lowestone) and your 4870 in the second slot. It takes about up to 10 minutes to start, it took 10 minutes on my system anyway. Maybe that helps,
Kind regards,
David

Hi David, before seeing your message I have actually just had another go and it was repeatedly chiming in this very configuration. I switched it off after 1-2 minutes. Did it chime all 10 minutes before it booted up?

I have now tried again and after waiting for 15 minutes nothing has changed. FAIL CPUB LED is lit and repeated chiming.

 

[F.A.D.]

cindori: everything is supported so you could add this rom to your rom package. Thanks !!!

Ibodnar: it didn´t chimed all the time just once at the beginning but that was after I installed natit.

To all of you, how hot does your 4870 get?

I have no experience with such high end cards but my 4870 gets very hot when doing standard stuff in finder etc. I have two 23" ACD attached. Since I have a bigger cooler (see picture) I thought it would be cooler. Just touched the pipes you can see on the picture and for my impression they seem to be very hot, should I worry?

 

[Liffride]

Which tool, ROM and instructions did you use?

I used rominators ROM, flashed it in dos with freedos.
i chose windows as startupdisk and installed the 4870 directly,
that way i didn´t have to keep my old x1900 card installed when flashing.


Cheers.

 

[MacVidCards]

multiple chiming in a row foretells your future............

it predicts that:

A: soon you will be flashing that card in a PC

or .......

B: You will be looking into an RMA from whence you bought it

or......

C: You have a fun new paperweight!!! Of the highest grade ! Will hold an entire Tax Return down in near-gale force winds !

Liffride : Glad to hear the ROM worked. In Snow Leopard it is really pretty solid. And available from Newegg for $150 or less usually. No worries about updating QE/CI support for each OS point update as with 4890.

 

[lbodnar]

multiple chiming in a row foretells your future............
C: You have a fun new paperweight!!! Of the highest grade ! Will hold an entire Tax Return down in near-gale force winds !

I am quite a seasoned hardware hack so while I am looking for a PC to try this 4870 in I was having a quick look at the PCB. I can identify most of the components but I can't see the flash EEPROM that would store the firmware. Is it inside the ATI chip or have a I missed some serial EEPROM that is used for initing a shadow RAM at startup?

Correction: I have found a 1Mbit SPI EEPROM that would be easy to flash in my standalone flash programmer.

 

[lbodnar]

multiple chiming in a row foretells your future............

it predicts that:

A: soon you will be flashing that card in a PC

or .......

B: You will be looking into an RMA from whence you bought it

or......

C: You have a fun new paperweight!!! Of the highest grade ! Will hold an entire Tax Return down in near-gale force winds !

Neither looked appealing so I have unsoldered EEPROM, stuck it into my programmer, flashed it with "Sapphire 512Mb" ROM from the latest ATI flashing tool package 1.2 and put EEPROM back on the video card. So I am back to business.

However, I cannot get it to work without Natit injector. Even if I flash it with "4870/Sapphire 512mb/mac modified.rom" it just shows black screen unless injector is applied.

Any ideas?

Card is Sapphire HD4870 512Mb PN 288-10E85-030SA SKU# 11133-03

 

[lbodnar]

Hi Cindori and everyone else,

after some struggeling I created a working rom for my Sapphire card.

HD4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E DUAL DVI/TVO

PN 288-10E85-030SA SKU# 11133-03

It works very well with my two 23" ACD´s but one thing confuses me: in my system profiler I see two 4870`s, see the following image.

Kind regards,

David

Hi David,
I am a bit confused. I have exactly the same card as you do. Your linked image seems to be different from the one included in latest ROMS.zip in the folder "Sapphire 512Mb". Does image in the ROMS.zip work for you?
Cheers
Leo

 

[F.A.D.]

Hi Ibodnar,

I have exactly the same card as the one on your picture. The Rom in the ROMS.zip package did NOT work for me. I bought the card because I thought it would be the same card but it is a different one. Cindori made a Natit for my card a page ago which worked fine, maybe you could use that to boot and than flash the card with my rom.

Did you have both power cables connected to your card?

On my card I shortened the srews under the card so it won´t bend to much, maybe you have no contact on the lower pins because the cards is bend to much because of the srews being to long.

Kind regards,

David

 

[lbodnar]

Hi Ibodnar,
Did you have both power cables connected to your card?

On my card I shortened the srews under the card so it won´t bend to much, maybe you have no contact on the lower pins because the cards is bend to much because of the srews being to long.

Yes, David, I had to replace the heatsink screws with shorter ones to be able to slide it into the 1st (bottom) slot.

I have both cables attached to optical drive bay connectors for now. I have bought Molex mini-jacks and will convert the cables to logic board connection soon.

I am confused because our cards have the same PN and SKU as the ones at the beginning of this thread so I assumed ROMS.zip contains images that came from exactly the same card.

 

[TheStrudel]

What size screws do you use for that? I hate to digress, but it's something I keep forgetting to go back and do.

 

[F.A.D.]

Ibondar: maybe it will work when connected to the mainboard, maybe it´s a different power source. The Rom from the ROMS.zip will not work but the one I made and uploaded works like a charm !!!

The Strudel: I just used my Dremel and shortened the screws with a cut of wheel.

 

[lbodnar]

Ibondar: maybe it will work when connected to the mainboard, maybe it´s a different power source. The Rom from the ROMS.zip will not work but the one I made and uploaded works like a charm !!!

I have tried your ROM and it works for me as well - thank you for that!
I also have two entries for PIC-card in the profiler.

 

[sbeehre]

Hi Everyone! ive been reading this thread with interest and have bought a Saphire 4870 with the SKU of 11133-19-20R which i believe will work fine with a ROM attached earlier in the thread... I've decided to make my own cables from the 2 that came with the card as my super drive bay only has SATA power and i cant find a SATA to Molex connector. Ive ordered the molex connecters mentioned in the first post and was wondering where i connect each wire, could anyone give me any tips? Attached is a pic of the connector that goes onto the card itself, the other end has a standard 4 pin molex connector which i want to change to the mini one to fit onto my motherboard.

 

[lbodnar]

Hi Everyone! ive been reading this thread with interest and have bought a Saphire 4870 with the SKU of 11133-19-20R which i believe will work fine with a ROM attached earlier in the thread... I've decided to make my own cables from the 2 that came with the card as my super drive bay only has SATA power and i cant find a SATA to Molex connector. Ive ordered the molex connecters mentioned in the first post and was wondering where i connect each wire, could anyone give me any tips? Attached is a pic of the connector that goes onto the card itself, the other end has a standard 4 pin molex connector which i want to change to the mini one to fit onto my motherboard.

I have done the same. It is, basically, one-to-one connection. In fact all pins near the tab side (4,5,6) are connected to GND and all pins on the other side (1,2,3) are +12V so if you swapped two yellow wires - don't panic. I have left one +12V pin unconnected on logic board side because the wires are quite thick and difficult to make a jump wire on the micro side.

 

[Supaklaw]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270464636969&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

This guy's selling them on eBay for $15.