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POLARIS BIOS EDITOR FAQ BIOS MOD
Indeed Miners edited this page Jan 6, 2021
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What GPUs can you mod with PBE - click to expand
- You can mod pretty much 99% of AMD GPUs with Polaris architecture.
- That means RX460, RX470, RX480, RX550, RX560, RX570, RX580, RX590
- With 2GB, 4GB or 8GB memory, there are some with 16GB that aren't supported (https://github.com/IndeedMiners/PolarisBiosEditor/issues/10)
Can you mod RX5700, RX6700, RX6800, Vega etc? - click to expand
NOPE
How to save bios from your GPU card - click to expand
- Download the latest ATIWinflash and run it as Administrator - https://www.techpowerup.com/download/ati-atiflash/
- Pick your card and save the bios with (*.rom)
How to mod bios with PolarisBiosEditor - click to expand
- Download the latest version of PBE or build on your own - https://github.com/IndeedMiners/PolarisBiosEditor/releases
- Start the Polarisbioseditor.exe
- Click on "OPEN BIOS" and find your save bios from ATIFLASH
- Once you load the bios you can simply hit the "ONE CLICK TIMING PATCH" button. It will apply appropriate timings for your GPU card or ask if you want this timing or not. If it ask for timing to be applied or not, I suggest you to click on "Yes" and try mining with that. If the performance of the card is not as expected, then load the stock bios again and instead of clicking on "Yes" when it ask click on "No" and it will apply second timing.
- After that you can save your modded bios file. Never overwrite your stock bios file! Always keep your stock bios file saved!
- This is pretty much everything you need to do in PBE. You can change clocks and voltages, but you can do that in Afterburner or other utilities.
If you want better and faster timings with automatic overclocking and undervolting features you need PBE 3 PRO
https://mining-bios.eu/product/polaris-bios-editor-3-pro-pbe-3-pro-performance-timings/
I do not recommend changing voltages from dynamical values (65286) to static values (950)
How to flash modded bios to your GPU- click to expand
- Run the latest ATIWinflash as Administrator
- Pick your card
- Load bios
- Click program. Your PC will freeze for few seconds so patiently wait!
- It's recommended to wipe drivers with DDU (with reboot), you may do it even twice - https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html
- After reboot install the latest AMD drivers or drivers recommended by the miner you use. Do not install those old (2017) Blockchain drivers!
- You will probably need apply ATI Pixel Patch, rename the file to "atikmdag-patcher-bios.exe" first to only patch signature - https://www.monitortests.com/forum/Thread-AMD-ATI-Pixel-Clock-Patcher
- Switch cards to compute workload - https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/faq/dh-024
- Reboot
- Make sure you don't have any OC enabled, run all cards witch stock values and start miner to see if it's working good
- After that you can start to tweak core and memory clocks also voltages
My card is unstable when mining - click to expand
- You probably have too high memory clocks
- If you use Windows, simply download HWINFO and check if your card has memory errors - https://www.hwinfo.com/download/