R7 240 Bios

0de · February 26, 2019

Could someone who owns an Asus R7 240 1gb DDR3 upload their Vbios somewhere? Mine somehow got messed up on my card and I get frequent crashes when using drivers (curiously these don't happen at all on Lubuntu with opensource drivers). I've tried the generic one on TechPowerUp for the R7 240 1gb DDR3 but it doesn't wanna flash that one. Any help or tips maybe are appreciated!

Ericarthurc · February 26, 2019

5 minutes ago, 0de said:

Could someone who owns an Asus R7 240 1gb DDR3 upload their Vbios somewhere? Mine somehow got messed up on my card and I get frequent crashes when using drivers (curiously these don't happen at all on Lubuntu with opensource drivers). I've tried the generic one on TechPowerUp for the R7 240 1gb DDR3 but it doesn't wanna flash that one. Any help or tips maybe are appreciated!

How did you mess up your GPU bios? That usually doesn't just happen, unless your flashing modified bioses. It's more likely that the driver's your trying to use just aren't fully compatible, or your installinf the wrong thing.

But you could always do a GPU bios dump in linux then compare it to the cards stock bios.

0de · February 26, 2019

Well I don't know how it messed up, the drivers just started failing one day. I tried full DDU several times, installed 3 different driver versions (the current drivers still support the GPU but I thought I'd give it a shot).

I'm certain it's the Bios / Drivers because the thing is, it doesn't fail during hard tests (furmark ran for an hour no issue), and most often the drivers crash when decoding video. Everything worked fine up to one point, and then I just kept getting random driver crashes all the time.

Might be useful to mention, after DDU-ing drivers once, Windows refused to boot up into desktop at all, and I had to install the drivers in safe mode. After that, everything worked fine for a couple of days, and then the drivers started crashing again. I've checked the hard drive for any corruption on both Linux and Windows, because I thought maybe the driver files were getting messed up, but neither OS detected any issues.