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Still says 0.9v when i flash via atiflash :/ even with 022...

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Does anyone have 021 vbios with stock voltage of over 0.975v?

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hey mate, on techpowerup bios collection you can find 017- 019-021-022 vbioses for dell 7970m cards but i dont know if you can go back to previous versions if you flash with 022 or 021 (dunno if it's reversible, never tried), hope it helps...

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Still says 0.9v when i flash via atiflash :/ even with 022...

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Does anyone have 021 vbios with stock voltage of over 0.975v?

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hey mate, on techpowerup bios collection you can find 017- 019-021-022 vbioses for dell 7970m cards but i dont know if you can go back to previous versions if you flash with 022 or 021 (dunno if it's reversible, never tried), hope it helps...

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Still says 0.9v when i flash via atiflash :/ even with 022...

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Does anyone have 021 vbios with stock voltage of over 0.975v?

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hey mate, on techpowerup bios collection you can find 017- 019-021-022 vbioses for dell 7970m cards but i dont know if you can go back to previous versions if you flash with 022 or 021 (dunno if it's reversible, never tried), hope it helps...

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Still says 0.9v when i flash via atiflash :/ even with 022...

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Does anyone have 021 vbios with stock voltage of over 0.975v?

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hey mate, on techpowerup bios collection you can find 017- 019-021-022 vbioses for dell 7970m cards but i dont know if you can go back to previous versions if you flash with 022 or 021 (dunno if it's reversible, never tried), hope it helps...

Hmm that's interesting - the claim that vbios version 017 uses a different stock 3D voltage from 021. Is that really true?? I've run both on my Dell card and monitored with HwInfo64, and I see 1.00v for my 3D clock with both, even though the vbios patcher tool lists the 3D voltage in my 017 vbios ROM file as 1.05v. I've also run the 1.1v and 1.075v modified versions of the 017 vbios by svl7 and in those cases HwInfo64 does pick up the stated 3D voltages as they're advertised. Weird. And as for the question of whether it's possible to downgrade the vbios, I started with 021 and can downgrade to 017 and back without issue.

i'm having issues (my card works only at 300/150mhz, unable to run at 3d mode 850/1200 causing crashes and artifacts) with my dell 7970m 0.17 vbios and i'd like to try also 021 and 022 bios versions but i was afraid not to revert it to 017, so it seems possible...true?

Hi Xonar and everybody, i've upgraded my gx660 laptop with 7970m but it seems not to work correctly.

Flashing the unlocked bios at page 1 (MSI16F1unlocked) could someway increase stability? do i need to set manually any particular option for pci ex or similar? thx for your replies...

I think @Meaker got the 7970m to work in the GX660, maybe try asking him. I can only guess...

thanks bro, i'm writing also in gx660 thread at NBR forums, Meaker is there but still no useful answers....

hi svl7, many congrats for your work with vbios pack, i've flashed my dell 7970m with your default one included in it and finally i had my card working at least in 2d mode without artifacts.

Now the problem is that, no matter what catalyst version is use, the card works only at 300/150mhz@0,900v and seems not able to increase it's frequencies and voltage to 3d mode (850/1200@1,050v).

I dont understand if it's an hardware failure or something related with vbios or software.

Would be great to try a modified vbios which increases 2d voltage to 1,05v (i know it will make the card work hotter), in order to fix the voltage at that level, hoping to raise the frequencies automatically (now the card doesnt throttle, simply crash the system with bsod when attemps to raise from 2d mode).

I tried also your overvoltage vbioses but they all increase voltage only for 3d performance state (as is obvious, since the aim is to reach the highest freq!!) so the dont solve my issue.....i need something with 2d mode 300/150 @ 1,00

OSD is on screen display, but it also enable some specific buttons, on my M15x, one of this buttons is stelth mode which i think limits power so u have more battery life. So in fact in you case with msi notebook this will not work, but maybe you you shoud look if there is somethig like this, i remember i have something simmilar on my assus before power for gear or something, which again limit power.

But i suggest you to first test beta 13.2 drivers from benchmark3d Drivers Search – BenchmarK3D

thanks for sharing, i'll report!

I have simmilar problem on my M15x, it alweys stay low clock, than I find out that maybe this was related with my OSD driver probably because somehow without this driver system was in stelth mode. After I installed it clock go high, but still did,t go 850/1200, this was with latest oficial driver from ati site. Then I download I think 13.1 Beta 4 from some site benchmark3d, and all work flowless at the moment. Hope this will help you.

it sounds very interesting, can you post a link so i can try?

What do you mean for OSD driver? do you mean vga drivers or a specific one for lcd panel?

hi mates, looking at this thread i've read about a strange issue with 7970m: i'm running this card in a msi gx660 laptop, chipset pm55, cpu i7 840qm, 8gb ddr3.

The card (dell type, bios 15.017)installs properly the drivers and everything seems perfect but it works only in 2d mode!

Frequencies are stuck to 300/150 @ 0,900v and in this way can also run msi kombustor stress test for hours (reaching max 42°C, due to low performance state).

AC power is connected to a working dell 180w psu but to be sure i've tried also a 240w psu and the original 150w...nothing changes.

Vga can't switch 3d frequencies at 850/1200 @ 1,050v, no matter if i've changed every catalyst since 12.8 to latest one, no matter if i've flashed different vbioses from svl7 collection pack....

Win 7 64bit fresh installation.

Is this vga card damaged someway? need some suggestions from you, boys!