Mining 470 Sapphire 580 and VEGA 64 repair 

Very generous doing a "no fix no fee" for the person who wasted your time with the fully functional V64.

With the Vega 64, it might have been overheating and just needed repasting. Those reference models benefited from having washers put in between all of the pressure screws to give the GPU/HBM better contact. I had constant overheating issues with my 2x MSI Vega 64 reference models (they'd turn on and then shut off the entire PC during boot) before taking GamersNexus' advice to add the washers to add more contact pressure. After that, I had no issues, and just applied a bit more aggressive fan curb to keep the GPU's nice and cool.

This man is a living legend blessing us with knowledge and entertainment. Keep up these interesting videos, they are appreciated!

the rx470 miner edition its from the panda miner custom miners sell on their own page as you could see theres no real bios for it but you can edit it manually with some hex editor or bios editor making things short gigabyte bios are the mose commun to fit and the board its the same as the reference one, well if i can help i have some bios i use to fix the same problem on the same gpus from acustomer that had 10 of these cards

I have learned something new today. Thank you for the video.

Please do a livestream once in a while. It will boost your channel, we'll see your thought process from beginning to end and you'll make a few bucks on the side.

Your videos are very infomative. Good luck !

wow 2 cards were ok..im glad. which every gamer needs that..thank you for the vids northwestrepair

That transition from the benchmark to your workstation was very smooth. I was like ive never seen that part. Then the realization hit me ypu cut scenes.😂 Great job as usual. You are the graphics card whisperer!

This channel is going to grow a lot more, mark my words!

Excellent job (and video ) as always

Another excellent video sir. You are an inspiration to many people hoping to get into eletronics repair. Is there any chance you will mess with the mining card again for a second attempt at fixing it? Doesn't matter how many times I watch these videos, it's insane how you can solder things that small and precisely. My shaky hands would never allow anything close to that.

Ahhhhhh, nothing beats northwestrepair's video before going to bed. 😅

Three for one? You're spoiling us! 😁👍

love your videos

I truly enjoy your program. It is so relaxing and informative, thanks.

In the future, plug in an RX400, 500 series, Vega, 5000 series and use ATIflash to flash the bios. This is common for miners to flash the bios and undervolt to save power during mining. You don't need to de solder the bios chip. I have done it many times, and the utility is really easy to use. Hope that helps! Oh, almost forgot, a lot of those AMD bioses have an auto backup internally. If you short two of the pins while on, it will restore automatically the original bios. I bricked an RX470, and brought it back to life like that (no dip switches, I had to solder the wire to two pins on the bios). Also, I believe the HBM starts to strip from the substrait on those Vega cards over time. This will cause the no posts, which eventually leads to error code 43. I have a card that still works, and after plugging and unplugging the card several times, it will come back to life, and the HDMI will work again. BTW... I use to mine. haha :)

I would love it if you commented your thoughts on why memory fails.

Top dog. Love your videos

Is nobody gonna say nothing about how that Vega 64 processor setup looks like a modern delidded 5950x cpu?

Ok, I see ... that capacitor on the 580 looked to be on the first PCIE lane.

I flash the gpu card bios spi IC use CH341A but with a special technique because the diffrent rom and bin files, so I manually convert the rom file into bin file first which is adjusted to the capacity of the spi IC then finally it works good.

Im so interested about those old cards!

What was your impression of the Sapphire model in terms of its cooling design and overall quality?

...wait, i can only count to 3.....epic:))). It's first time for me to see you repair an AMD graphics card, i thought you repair only Nvidia GPU's.

the original bios from 1st green card with passive cooler maybe is just fine. Big number off % code 43 come from rx 460/560/470/480/570/580 who have modded memory timing straps. Adrenalin driver won't work with them. SO you need : 1. install driver ; 2 start atikmdag-patcher-1.4.5. ; 3- restart windows. (in normal situation after all be good). I hope you didn't delete the "original bios". 215 ohm from 3,3v low (2,1k ohm normal) but for some card are ok if isn't = dead core . edit 2 Watched 2nd time. the memory test PASS so core & mem are OK. Im sure 99% is driver issue (need atikmdag patch & blockchain drivers)

I'm trying to repair my no detect vega64 that has no shorts that i can find... I'm missing the power good signal but in the schematics and board view i can't understand which component generates it... Do you know if it's a part of the phase controller IC or it justs feeds power good signal to it? Thank you in advance man, your videos and drive files have helped me a ton ^^ I lend the card to a friend for benchmarking and he messed with an EVC, maybe the controller is fried :/ Or maybe the EVC actually programs the controller and somehow it got blanked out?

it would be great if you can do a tear down video of Inno3d rtx 3060, as this card is the cheapest 3060 from where i live and after watching your several videos, i'm starting to get skeptical why this card is cheaper than the rest 😄

TY So much for showing the music!!!!!!

i learned that we should take a backup for the VBIOS before we flash another one :D :D :D :D

The chip has a grey color ish material . If it turns brownish orange that’s wax damage and vent to substrate

Hello Sir, what do you think will be the problem with an rog-strix-rxvega64-o8g-gaming that fan not spin while pc running, fan only spins a few seconds when pc start but after that not spinning at all

why couldnt you flash the bios via DOS?

Fun and informative videos to watch, i was wondering though about the tool that you have on the right, right beside the tooth brush ? a link maybe, coz watching your videos it seems like a versatile tool

Excellent work, recently i saved one xfx rx480 gtr from ewaste which has a slight artifacts problem. What is tserver and where do i get it?

Ive had lots of experience flashing AMD bios as well as Nvidia bios and im just wondering why you dont use the software thats available on guru3d? All you need is to have an igpu or a primary gpu to connect to your monitor and flash it using the software. I've had a 100% success rate when flashing compatible bioses (same brand same everything just different version) and 80% success in vendor bios swaps (gigabyte bios to sapphire) For nvidia its a bit harder since It doesn't have a gui but ive fixed a corrupt bios gtx 660 and given that to my friend.

How difficult is it to find a Vega 64 core to replace any defective ones?

Can u use mods for testing AMD cards ? And may i ask wich version u got and were from ? Kind regards and ty for your videos , im learning allot !

It's pretty common on those old Polaris cards to flash the BIOS to get a constant configuration for mining.. but like... why not use ATIFlash BIOS flashing tool instead of removing the BIOS chip? It's pretty easy to flash BIOS on AMD to different brands, etc using ATIFlash.

I have a Sapphire Liquid Cooled Vega 64 and I would like to change thermal pads. Do you know the proper height or how hard/soft they should be?

How would you recommend to start learning this? Just buy a broken GPU and use it for practice?

Which ISOs/tools do you recommend for testing different cards? I just received 5 old AMD R9 350 gpus from ebay and want to test them to make sure they work and are legit. GPU-Z says this one is an R9 350 with 2GB of GDDR5, but when I click "lookup" the site says it's an R7 250 with 1GB of DDR3. How can I tell which one is correct? Thanks!!!

Hi can you provide me the links of memory testing linux software, same as you are using?

first off, I LOVE your content!! was wondering if you could point me in the right direction to buy new thermal pads for my asus 1080ti so i can mod and add the pads like your Does ASUS make good graphics cards? Part 1 video or if you sell them yourself. I want to try to get as much life out of my card because I just do NOT have the money to replace it if it dies nor even find a car for that matter. please if you or anyone knows were to buy the correct pads and were I should mod/ass some pads would me so helpful. if my card kicks the bucket, I'm in some serious trouble

What do you think about Sapphire's build quality?

Hello Sir, what could cause artefacts in post screen for an Saphire nitro R7 370 4 GB and after instal driver black screen appear.

Fixing mining cards is a pain in the a** as most of them have the display output disabled in the BIOS or they don't have video outputs at all.

oh no

Team Rocket is booting up again!...

Howdy, just don’t get caught up in a copyright lockout. Last one I’m working on , xfx Rx 470/480 4gb/8gb the chip is to fast for the ram so it pulls it out of timing. SkHynix ram still finishing up but full dead chip with wax damage recovered.

I was going to comment to ask why Vega cores die so much and two sentences later you answered it. That's a strange design... Thinking about it, hopefully, the same does not happen with the 5800X3D CPUs!

See you later. Friend..

May I ask what music you are using? Really works for this kind of repair video! Love your work and knowledge!

Is that you in the thumbnail Tony?

w8 is that some custom 3d printed head strap at 12:41

Next is 1070 ti 1080 and 1080 ti

To me "No charge" is unfair. You did spend some time on it. A small charge for a basic diagnostic is fair. After all the customer believed something was wrong and you did more than a basic check over and re pasting.

i your fix gpu yes

You tested memory with wrong bios on card and probably wrong timings??????

bump

Second

Man I'm curious to know who the fuck pays to have an RX470 (~$70 on ebay) repaired in 2022 lol

Command... That is too bad!! LOL

lol That command.

The "kill" command should earn you a like from all who watch this video. 👍

Let's go Brandon!!

The socialist party of gpu fixers

Afterall, thats ADVANCED Milking Devices 🥱