R9 280X GAMING voltage locked. Will a newer bios help?

I just received two R9 280X GAMING cards from Newegg and am disappointed to see that they are both voltage locked out of the box (at 1.20). Both the manual and website for these cards talk about using Afterburner to adjust core voltage.
Will flashing a new bios onto them help?
Here are the serial numbers:
602-V277-28SB1311071867
602-V277-28SB1311071866

Quote from: SotY on 21-December-13, 21:35:50
This card is not locked. Read this thread #4729320 at Guru3D forums and reply by Unwinder (AB developer). I'm not allowed to post direct links so you would have to find it.
Are you sure you got the thread number right?
Trying to open such thread yields "No Thread specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator"
NVM, found it.

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Quote from: flobelix on 07-January-14, 07:12:08
No that doesn't help. We only need the S/N without the last four digits. Only those are individual. The rest just stands for the model, the batch and the date of manufacturing.
Hi my card voltage locked too serial without last 4 digits is 602-V277-28SB131107 card is r9-280x gaming bf4 edition and i uploded bios here http://turbobit.net/zkiohc83yw8v.html

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Thanks for all informations i asked their answer ''Hi, the new R9 280X,the afterburner does not support the voltage. I had been reflect to our company, please patience to wait for a future version of Afterburner.Thanks! ''
The only thing to do is waiting after this answer.I hope they will do it soon.

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Ok so my first card I was able to get the core voltage past 1.2, now I had to RMA my first card since a fan blade broke . So with the new card I received I cant get past 1.2 volts for core voltage. I am using msi afterburner beta17 to OC/volt tweak. My current bios version is 015.040.000.000.003435. With my old card I was able to hit 1180/1800 with voltage tweak now I cant even get 1160/1700 stable. ASIC is 71.8% if it matters. I'm really tempted to just say F*** it and switch over to a nvidia.
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MSI R9 280X voltage locked!!!

Hi, I have crossfire MSI R9 280X's which I received recently. I am very disappointed that they are voltage locked, I am using the latest MSI Afterburner 3.0 beta 18. The slider for voltage is locked even though I have ticked "Unlock Voltage Control" and restarted my PC. I even tried "Force Constant Voltage" to no avail. This is very disappointing since I am using a high-end MSI card and it is voltage locked yet my old XFX HD 7850 had voltage control in MSI Afterburner......
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I have made ticket to MSI support (shortly : no voltage change supported, but iam running -84mV )
Wysłany:    2014-03-03 13:53:47 (GMT+8),MSI
Treść:    use this bios , the card also under the warranty.
Obraz:
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Wysłany:    2014-02-28 16:36:37 (GMT+8),Lukasz
Treść:    Using 015.042.000.000.003435 BIOS does not affect on warranty ? Regards
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Wysłany:    2014-02-28 08:09:43 (GMT+8),MSI
Treść:    Very good, do you have any questions,? if not, please close the this window,thank you
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Wysłany:    2014-02-27 16:37:46 (GMT+8),Lukasz
Treść:    I have flashed BIOS to version : 015.042.000.000.003435, now I can change voltage under aftrburner. I am running -84mV , temp droped 10 degres, and RPM droped 10%.
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please ues that command: ./atiflash -p 0 TV277MS.350 -f
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the bios of your card is the latest,so you need not update it
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Treść:    sorry we do kown this setting,MSI recommend customer do not modify voltag,This may be damage the graphics card.
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Treść:    Dear sir/madam
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MSI 280X Voltage Locked - Help Please

hi guys
I purchased an MSI 280X Gaming OC GFX and would like to undervolt it
I read on forums to try this bios: techpowerup.com/vgabios/146769/msi-r9280x-3072-131009.html
which i did with ATIflash in DOS, i switched to position 2 on the small switch (switch left direction to back of case), it flashed and said successful but when i boot its just a black screen and no output
when i put the switch back to position 1 (switch right direction to front of case) it works fine with the original bios (015.042.000.003.000000 )
any ideas why i cant boot from switch position 2 with an older bios? is my card faulty?
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many thanks!

Quote from: flobelix on 26-January-14, 08:25:56
Don't know. Ask MSI: >>How to contact MSI.<<
There is nother vbios supporting more features than current vbios TV277MH.380 you provided. To have backup simply flash it on the bricked one. If you can boot your system with onboard/integrated gpu or you have an old spare vga for display boot with the R9 280x switched to the bricked vbios and flash the vbios with your saved one.
That's great. Do you a link to this other vbios please?

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This topic has been moved to BETA & MOD BIOS Section.
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=254187.0

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i have 2x "Msi R9 280x Gaming oc edition included BF4 Limited Edition" Cards serielnumber one is : 602-V277-28SB1311072568 and the serielnumber two is : 602-V277-28SB1311073312
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2. simply if I am uptodate with the bios ?
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when i save my bios with GPU-Z and have the small switch (on the card) on "2"......then is this bios a "legacy image"
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my system !
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summary!
need the newest Bios version !
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why switch 1 is "UEFI image" and 2 is "legacy image" ?
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my first question is what is the newest bios version? because i find in Reviews pages from this card there are always other bios versions than my!
my bios version is: 015.040.000.003.003435(113-C3865000-G77)
some Reviews pages have: 015.040.000.000.003435(113-C3865000-X77) or 015.039.000.001.003331(113-C3865000-M77) or 015.039.000.001.003331(113-C3865000-G77)
why I ask you here ?
None of that is a bios version. We need a link to a copy of your vbios saved to file and uploaded to a file hoster to check if there is a newer version. If not allowed to link yet add a break to the link so it is masked being a link.
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1. with afterburner I can not change the voltage (field-locked)
Others reported that too when using the same card. If unlocking won't work (>>How to use MSI Afterburner<<) contact MSi about it as there seems to be an issue: >>How to contact MSI.<<
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next question is :
when i save my bios with GPU-Z and have the small switch (on the card) on "1" .....then is this bios a "UEFI image"
when i save my bios with GPU-Z and have the small switch (on the card) on "2"......then is this bios a "legacy image"
i check it with VBE7.0.0.7b!
now my question is why is that and on what I should make it if I don´t use UEFI system? please help me
UEFI is aGOP compliant vbios that allows to use secureboot/fastboot (Windows 8/8.1). If not using UEFI booting it doesn't matter which you use. Older mainboards with UEFI but not being GOP compliant on the other hand won't work with a GOP vbios and only the legacy vbios allows to use the card.

MSI 280x Gaming 3G Safe Sustained Temperature

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These cards are now in the hands of MSI, so I'll know more when I have normal 280x cards. With this information, knowing the safe temperatures and expected operating ranges I should be able to utilize these cards, but stop lying to consumers. The specs on the box are clearly their peak performance, and not the performance they can actually operate at.
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Quote from: rritoch on 27-February-14, 16:18:40
I'm also curios if these actual "safe" operational conditions are available via OpenCL, or if it is going to report 1000mhz. If so than any application written to utilize GPU (such as matlab) is likely going to burn up the card if the user doesn't know that it needs to be underclocked.
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Msi R9 280x Gaming 3Gb, texture flickering BF4

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Quote from: flobelix on 03-May-14, 01:44:28
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Board: MSI Z97 GAMING 5
Bios: V1.5
VGA: MSI AMD R9 280X GAMING 3G
PSU: Seasonic S12II-620W 80PLUS BRONZE
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I have flickering in browser, videos and in one game - Hearthsone, then i have artifacts in one game War Thunder and in Autocad 2014, when I play CSGO there is no issues. Then last 3 months PC freeze - 1x in month = 3x.
I had older driver so I try new driver, but I have still problems.
I have another problem, when I uninstall driver and install new driver, PC dont see GPU so I must reinstall operating system, because how I found out I must first install GPU driver then MB driver.

Hi,
Are you able to test this card in different PC? - No.
Also you could update BIOS to v1.9 - I bought new PC with this components 7 months ago and there werent any problems with flickering and atrefacts from begining, so I dont think so flashing MB will help, but I can try.
Did you install MSI Gaming App? - No, should I?
What if you increase/decrease mem and gpu clocks in MSI Afterburner? - When I reinstal operarting system, I dont install MSI Afterburner again, I don´t played with setup, because I don´t know what I should setup and how much increase/decrease things- can you tell me?
So I install MSI Afterburner, there are my settings:
What about flashing bios of graphic card?
PS: So i read forum and found out that using MSI game app can help, but when I use any of app mode I have always 300 MHz - why?

Does the R9 280X GAMING 3G have a UEFI BIOS?

I'm thinking of buying the R9 280X GAMING 3G graphics card.
This card has a switch to select between 2 BIOS settings. Is one of these BIOS settings a UEFI BIOS as supplied from the factory? I need this to configure Windows 8 secure boot.
Is the card reasonably quiet under load compared to other R9 280X cards?

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his card has a switch to select between 2 BIOS settings. Is one of these BIOS settings a UEFI BIOS as supplied from the factory?
Usually yes although we have seen cases where both were legacy. None the less it is intended to have one GOP and one legacy vbios to choose between. In a case where both vbios are wrongly flashed legacy by fab a GOP vbios can usually be provided here after checking the S/N. If a GOP vbios is currently not available for a latest batch MSI can be directly contacted to supply one.
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Is the card reasonably quiet under load compared to other R9 280X cards?
Yes, the new advanced TWIN FROZR IV which is used on all kinds of AMD and Nvidia cards from MSI is very well known for it's quite running. You will hardly find a more silent 280X.

R9 280X GAMING voltage locked. Will a newer bios help?

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