Can I unlock my r9 390?

[jascraft123]

On CUInfo it says this:

Adapters detected: 1

Card #1 PCI ID: 1002:67B1 - 148C:2358

DevID [67B1] Rev [80] (0), memory config: 0x500066AA Hynix

Hawaii-class chip with 11 compute units per Shader Engine

SE1 hw/sw: F8010005 / 00000000 [..........x]

SE2 hw/sw: F8010005 / 00000000 [..........x]

SE3 hw/sw: F8010005 / 00000000 [..........x]

SE4 hw/sw: F8010005 / 00000000 [..........x]

40 of 44 CUs are active. HW locks: 4 (R/O) / SW locks: 0 (R/W).

Sorry, all 4 disabled CUs can't be unlocked by BIOS replacement.

 

But I have heard of people who have unlocked their cards when the program spits this out. My card has dual bios so I can always boot from the other chip if I screw up. Is it possible for me to unlock those 4 cores?

[byalexandr]

Give it a try and if it bricks, switch to the other BIOS. If it works, tell me, I might try it on my 290 because it spits out the same thing.

[Morgan MLGman]

It's a hit or miss, but it's a miss much more often. Not worth the risk if you asked me.

[byalexandr]

It's a hit or miss, but it's a miss much more often. Not worth the risk if you asked me.

Not much of a risk with dual BIOS.

 

I'm about to try it myself based on the fact that he said some users got it to unlock despite the readout.

[jascraft123]

Not much of a risk with dual BIOS.

 

I'm about to try it myself based on the fact that he said some users got it to unlock despite the readout.

I'll try it maybe over the weekend and see if it works.

[jascraft123]

Give it a try and if it bricks, switch to the other BIOS. If it works, tell me, I might try it on my 290 because it spits out the same thing.

Does your 290 have dual bios?

[byalexandr]

Does your 290 have dual bios?

Yep. I'm about to reboot and try it. If it doesn't work I'll borrow my dad's system and flash it back.

[jascraft123]

Yep. I'm about to reboot and try it. If it doesn't work I'll borrow my dad's system and flash it back.

People are advising not to flash a new bios to the gpu. I might not do it.

[byalexandr]

 

Yep. I'm about to reboot and try it. If it doesn't work I'll borrow my dad's system and flash it back.

 

It sort of worked. Didn't brick my card, which got me really excited as it booted into Windows and all. I opened GPU-Z and it showed the 1000MHz base clock and all, and I started stress testing it but it still said it was a 290. Went back to GPU-Z and it showed that I still only had 2560 shader cores despite the 290X BIOS. If it worked I would have had 2816 cores.

[jascraft123]

It sort of worked. Didn't brick my card, which got me really excited as it booted into Windows and all. I opened GPU-Z and it showed the 1000MHz base clock and all, and I started stress testing it but it still said it was a 290. Went back to GPU-Z and it showed that I still only had 2560 shader cores despite the 290X BIOS. If it worked I would have had 2816 cores.

Maybe I will try it. I don't want to lose my 390 though.

[byalexandr]

Maybe I will try it. I don't want to lose my 390 though.

You probably won't. I don't think it's worth it to be honest though, after trying it myself.