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Phew..... I nearly poo'd myself.....

waso_dude

waso_dude

waso_dude

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Just went to reflash my 8800gt with the modded vcore BIOS,

All went okay and successfull. then reboot and nothing!!!!!!

Run downstairs rip apart rents PC to get a PCI GFX card. have to reflash back to stock.

But i was pooping myself for about 10mins....

I'll have another go tomorrow night :D
 
Now here's a lesson for all you you potential bios flasher's, wear a nappie before you go in for the flash :p

Good luck with the flash.;)
 
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What have you done to make the flash fail?? :eek:

Is it ok to have a second PCI-E card on a sli mobo to flash the primary card back or does it have to be a cheapo PCI card?
 
If your Force Flashing it could try Flash the spare lol.

I use a old PCI GPU or Blind Flash, infact I dont as its made into a Autobat file all I need do Blind is press "Y".
 
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i'm not sure wjhy it failed, it was the modded bios from XS.

I think it was more luck that the rents computer is pants ;) First of all, all i could find was a agp card thats about 5 years old...

I might just write my own modded bios using the stock bios tonight and try that.
 
waso_dude said:
i'm not sure wjhy it failed, it was the modded bios from XS.

I think it was more luck that the rents computer is pants ;) First of all, all i could find was a agp card thats about 5 years old...

I might just write my own modded bios using the stock bios tonight and try that.
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I think its the same bios I used, went fine for me, you using latest version of NVFlash?
 
When i flash, I normally run the flash several times to try and make sure it's done (bit like pressing C or CE on a calculator multiple times because I could never remember which one clears everything lol).

But lesson number #1: Always make up a disk FIRST to flash blindly back to your original bios. (and if your clever enough a usb stick to boot from (which can be a pain in the rear end).

Matthew
 
The Asgard said:
I don't think you can wreck a graphics card through bios flashing.

If it fails you just drop in a PCI card and flash again or create an automated boot disk.
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Think again mate, I have a very dead 6800GT that I killed by flashing incorrectly, no matter how many re-flashed I carried out, it never worked again.

Its still around here somewhere in a jiffy bag! :o
 
The Asgard said:
I don't think you can wreck a graphics card through bios flashing.

If it fails you just drop in a PCI card and flash again or create an automated boot disk.
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It is possible, pretty unlikely though. So long as you have a blind flash disk to hand and set your mobo to boot from CD > HDD first you should be able to rescue it.
 
willhub said:
Cant you try get an RMA on it lol?
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I wonder.... Actually it was around £305 inc VAT when I bought it, so that must make it about 3 years old at least (Leadtek Winfast A400 GT TDH) GX-068-LT is the Oc/Uk stock sticker on the box , which I still have!

I think its a tad out of warranty..... :o
 
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