NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 570 560 460 ATI Radeon HD 6970 6950 6870 5970 :: MVKTech :: On the Edge of Technology - Re:Bad flash

Home

Forums

Main Menu

Price Comparison
Compare prices Australia Laptop Tomtom Digital Camera Mobile Phones Ink cartridges VOIP Compare prices NZ Compare prices ZA

Latest Version

May.21

NiBiTor v6.06

Latest Downloads

May.21	NiBiTor v6.06
May.10	EVG GTX680 (HC) PCIe 2048MB - Rev 01
May.10	ASU GTX680 (DT) PCIe 2048MB - Rev 01
May.10	ZTC GTX680 (DF) PCIe 2048MB - Rev 01
May.10	EVG GTX680 (SC) PCIe 2048MB - Rev 01

MVKTech Support Forums

home | post reply | threaded view | help

Boardwalk :: Forum List

NVIDIA Graphics Cards

NVIDIA GeForce BIOS

<< Start < Prev 1 2 Next > End >>

martymcf
User

Junior Boarder

Posts: 10

Karma: 0

Bad flash - 2005/03/01 21:23 I am new here and have a big problem... I just ruined my new 6600GT that I got back from RMA yesterday. Sad... I was so excited about the card, so I decided to flash the BIOS to a better one. The flash failed, even though the firmware was supposedly correct. So now I have a non-functioning card. Is there any way that I can fix this without RMAing it again. I am crying because I know how much my father will yell at me like he did last time. Is there anything I can do?

| | The administrator has disabled public write access.

Mavke
Admin

Admin

Posts: 18525

Karma: 492

Re:Bad flash - 2005/03/01 22:00 Well we can maybe help you. So what we need to know is which brand you have and if it is an AGP or a PCIe card? And what did you exactly do? What did you try as flash and why...

| | The administrator has disabled public write access.

martymcf
User

Junior Boarder

Posts: 10

Karma: 0

Re:Bad flash - 2005/03/01 22:16 I explained why I flashed, just being overzealous. It is the XFX 6600GT AGP. I tried flashing to this BIOS...
XFX 6600GT 128MB - Rev 03

It was a newer version than my old one. I made an emergency flash disk, but it seems that when the card is in, the computer doesn't access the floppy drive, as if it is not even POST'ing. If it helps, I also posted on OCC...
Please Help!

| | The administrator has disabled public write access.

SetSero
User

Senior Boarder

Posts: 116

Karma: 3

Re:Bad flash - 2005/03/03 01:08 Hmm if you have an old PCI card you can try to boot with both cards but using the PCI card for your monitor. If it works, you should be able to simply flash back to your old BIOS. If nothing happens, make sure that your card is placed correctly in the AGP (or PCI-Express) Slot. And also check the additional power connector on the Card.

Well I really hope you'll get your card to work again.

| | The administrator has disabled public write access.

martymcf
User

Junior Boarder

Posts: 10

Karma: 0

Re:Bad flash - 2005/03/03 01:58 How do I specify in nvflash to flash the AGP card and not the PCI card?

| | The administrator has disabled public write access.

Mavke
Admin

Admin

Posts: 18525

Karma: 492

Re:Bad flash - 2005/03/03 10:45 In your mainboard BIOS did you set to boot from Floppy? Cause then it should work. When you have a PCI VGA card then just put that one in yoru system and bootup. And you can use the same nvflash commands normally.

| | The administrator has disabled public write access.

martymcf
User

Junior Boarder

Posts: 10

Karma: 0

Re:Bad flash - 2005/03/08 13:03 Okay. So I fixed the BIOS. I reflashed to the Rev.02 BIOS here. Now I get much worse performance, as in 3000 less points on 3DMark03. What could be causing this and what is a remedy?

| | The administrator has disabled public write access.

Mavke
Admin

Admin

Posts: 18525

Karma: 492

Re:Bad flash - 2005/03/08 19:30 Well did you try the Rev.01 as well? What does that give? And didn't you make a backup before flashing your card?

| | The administrator has disabled public write access.

martymcf
User

Junior Boarder

Posts: 10

Karma: 0

Re:Bad flash - 2005/03/09 01:35 i id try all of the bioses i could find. None of them helped. Do you think that maybe i damaged the card itself? It is strange though, if that happened, that it works normally, just slow.

| | The administrator has disabled public write access.

Mavke
Admin

Admin

Posts: 18525

Karma: 492

Re:Bad flash - 2005/03/09 08:08 And you tried with the Original BIOS on the card? Cause that should give you the same results as before... Did anything else change?

| | The administrator has disabled public write access.

<< Start < Prev 1 2 Next > End >>

Boardwalk :: Forum List NVIDIA Graphics Cards NVIDIA GeForce BIOS

Joomlaboard Forum Component 1.1.2 Stable
Two Shoes M-Factory

Compare Prices
Compare prices Canada LCD TV GPS Digital Cameras Smartphones Laptops LCD Monitors MP3 Players Appliances

Comptoir Hardware

MyPMS Professional

Inbox
	You have 0 new message(s).

New Reviews

	Patriot Xporter Magnum 64GB USB Flash Disk
	Gainward GeForce GTX 260 Standard Version
	Gainward BLISS 9800 GX2 Dual-GPU Version
	PowerColor Radeon HD 3650 Xtreme Cooling
	Dragon Lasers Hulk Green Laser Technology

New Previews

	NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 Dual-GPU Version
	PowerColor Radeon HD 3850 Xtreme Edition
	PowerColor Radeon HD 2600 XT 256MB Card