ASRock Radeon RX 7900 XT/XTX VBIOS Update Bricks Some Cards
When ASRock joined the group of AIBs patching Radeon RX 7900 XT/XTX GPUs late last month, everything seemed fine for a few days.
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What happened
When ASRock joined the group of AIBs patching Radeon RX 7900 XT/XTX GPUs late last month, everything seemed fine for a few days. However, multiple users are now reporting that their ASRock GPUs have been bricked after updating the firmware with the latest VBIOS. ASRock has released VBIOS updates for ten of its Radeon RX 7000 series graphics cards, joining Sapphire and GIGABYTE. The new firmware, version 1.0.5, was made available on ASRock's support pages on October 29 and includes updates for the RX 7600 XT Challenger and Steel Legend, RX 7700 XT Challenger, RX 7800 XT Challenger and Steel Legend, RX 7900 XT Phantom Gaming (including the White version), and the RX 7900 XTX Phantom Gaming and Taichi, along with the Taichi White.
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