BFG GeForce GTX 285 OC version right original BIOS needed? - 2010/03/04 06:28Last year I bought this card at Best Buy only to find out it was clocked to high. Instead of the normal 666/2484MHz it was running at 694/2592MHz. Word on the street was that BFG had many GeForce GTX 285 OC's with the wrong BIOS. How do I get a hold of the correct BIOS for this card? And no BFG won't send it to me, I know I can edit the existing one and change the clocks, but I don't want to do that unless I know that is the only setting that is incorrect.
So if you know what BIOS I need or what I need to look at on the card to figure out the correct BIOS, please let me know. I have been underclocking the card all this time to the correct speed and it's been rock solid. I am just tired of running an extra program just to make my card work and it's time to fix it right. Thanks.
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Re:BFG GeForce GTX 285 OC version right original BIOS needed? - 2010/03/04 09:13seanmcd wrote: Word on the street was that BFG had many GeForce GTX 285 OC's with the wrong BIOS. How do I get a hold of the correct BIOS for this card? And no BFG won't send it to me, I know I can edit the existing one and change the clocks, but I don't want to do that unless I know that is the only setting that is incorrect. Sorry to first just speak my mind, but what are you complaining about really, cause does your card work at 694MHz? Or did you really have to lower the clocks due to experiencing issues or artifacts? Cause yeah, this isn't the first time it has happened with BFG and even some other manufacturers but it has been proven that they actually sold higher graded cards with higher clocks as a lower version, meaning you just gotten a much better graphics card at a lower price.
Now as we want to help you going to a lower grade version as you are requesting can you share with us the original BIOS of your graphics card so we can check it against the the original BIOS's from the different OC versions we have on available on our downloads section? Now in almost all cases the only changes with higher grade versions is just the clock speed but we can verify all that once you have shared your own original BIOS with us.
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Re:BFG GeForce GTX 285 OC version right original BIOS needed? - 2010/03/04 15:35Yes, the graphics card is unstable at the given speeds. Trust me I wouldn't be complaining otherwise. The card is rock stable at the speeds it's supposed to run at. Thanks, I will post the original BIOS when I get home today!
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Re:BFG GeForce GTX 285 OC version right original BIOS needed? - 2010/03/04 20:45Okay, good that is what I wanted to know and be sure about as that would indeed mean that BFG has released cards with a wrong BIOS and if they woud realy give solid support they should just provide your the original BIOS for your card. Yes if you can share the original BIOS that is currently on your version we can check which lower clocked BIOS would be best fit.
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Re:BFG GeForce GTX 285 OC version right original BIOS needed? - 2010/03/05 01:45Here is the original BIOS that I have extracted. One clue I have is that there is a sticker on the board that says the version. Is there any other numers I can look for on the back of the card or the box? Thanks!
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Re:BFG GeForce GTX 285 OC version right original BIOS needed? - 2010/03/05 19:55seanmcd wrote: Here is the original BIOS that I have extracted. One clue I have is that there is a sticker on the board that says the version. Is there any other numers I can look for on the back of the card or the box? Thanks! Well the sticker is not always a good reference, only for the first cards but afterwards not as they got flashed with newer BIOS before they get shipped. Now I checked your current BIOS which is giving you issues and I would say to downclock it by using NiBiTor and set lower clocks speeds and flash your graphics card. Yeah you may ask why, and the reason is very simple none of the original OC versions we got have the ame memory timings which could lead to more issues. So modify your own BIOS and flash that one as for the rest it is not really different, as voltages are the same.
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Re:BFG GeForce GTX 285 OC version right original BIOS needed? - 2010/03/06 00:38Okay thanks. Is there a current guide for flashing a the GeForce GTX 2xx series? Oh, nevermind I just went by memory and flashed the edited BIOS. All is good, thanks for the assistance!
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Re:BFG GeForce GTX 285 OC version right original BIOS needed? - 2010/03/06 15:48seanmcd wrote: Okay thanks. Is there a current guide for flashing a the GeForce GTX 2xx series? Oh, nevermind I just went by memory and flashed the edited BIOS. All is good, thanks for the assistance! Excellent, thanks for the update and enjoy your card the way it was meant to be, as an OC edition. It is till a bit strnge that BFG didn't want to share the original, but most likely they know that they had several relases already with different memory brands and that they could not be sure which one you would need. Enjoy your original tweaked verion.
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Re:BFG GeForce GTX 285 OC version right original BIOS needed? - 2010/08/27 15:15This is what I believe is the issue with my graphics card as well. Hopefully I will get some responses to the thread I started a little bit ago. When my issues started, I read about this particular problem online and called BFG asking them for the BIOS file so I could flash the card myself and they informed me that they do not release BIOS files to customers. Oh well, great policy now that they are liquidating.
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Re:BFG GeForce GTX 285 OC version right original BIOS needed? - 2010/08/27 21:21EScottH wrote: This is what I believe is the issue with my graphics card as well. Hopefully I will get some responses to the thread I started a little bit ago. When my issues started, I read about this particular problem online and called BFG asking them for the BIOS file so I could flash the card myself. Okay, can you make sure you stick to just one thread, and I think the best way is your own one. So, can you leave this one alone and we will pick up your troubles through the other one and see what that is all about if it is at all related. But we hate that users are posting in many thread about the same thing thinking it will make us work faster? Well no we don't work that way, we like quality and don't like duplication.
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