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Asus GTX 590 BIOS Woes!

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New Asus GTX 590 Owners I need your BIOS!! Help!

Hi guys,

I've just purchased a new Asus GTX 590. Stupidly proceeded to download what i though to be the latest bios from the downloads section from the Asus website. Once the bios was installed, I restarted the machine and now graphic corruption occurs pre Windows & while booted into Windows.

I can just make out the desktop but something has clearly gone worng! Things I've tried are re-installing the bios which confirms it was successful, also using nvfash from a USB key with the identical bios version downloaded from the web 70.10.37.01 & 70.10.37.02 (SLI Bios)

What I did notice was that the bios version that was present on the card in GPU -Z was a higher version to which I'm unable to trace on the internet. I stupidly did not back up this fiile....

If any new Asus GTX 590 owners could export their BIOS via GPU-Z it would be nuch appreciated - I'm positive it was 70.10.42.00.02 or similar.

Hope any Nvidia pro's can assit! :(
 
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I was a big Nvidia fan for years going through the 6 series to the 9 series then moved to ATI.

Right, you should never touch the BIOS of a GPU unless you know what you are doing and you have made sure you have the right BIOS in the first place.

Only thing you can do is boot into windows using safe mode and see if that makes any difference.

By flashing the BIOS you have probably voided that nice little warranty on that £600 beast of a card.

Flashing the BIOS on a motherboard is simples but graphics cards are more dangerous to flash. Flashing a 6950 to a 6970 voids the warranty straight away and if something goes wrong (like it has done with you) then you are well and truly screwed and will have pay and get your wallet out for a nice shiny new replacement card.

Boot into safe mode, if that don't make any difference, your card is done for!

Also try booting into windows off the onboard gpu by taking the GPU out. If that works fine, then we know it is your GPU that is screwed.

May I ask why you have flashed a £600 GPU for?

Ring up the place (hopefully OCUK) you got the card from and ask, but I am sure by flashing the BIOS, your warranty is dead in the water!

Sorry dude, hope this helps!

CinderzFTW
 
I'm assuming the ASUS BIOS you used has different voltages/frequencies and so is causing the issue's your experiencing.

I'd recommend tracking down a stock GTX590 BIOS (anyone with a stock GTX590 will be able to give you one with the use of GPU-Z), then flash your card with that stock BIOS

Always take a backup of your orginal BIOS before flashing! :)
 
Guys,

I upgraded this bios due to it being out of date by a few months. I had faith in what was provided on the Asus website for this graphics card. BIG MISTAKE!!

The card does display so it still functions, the images is just corrupt and can just make the desktop out.

I can hopefully recover from this if someone could provide a most recent Asus 590 bios.

We all learn by mistakes, and I know now just to leave things be!!! :(
 
Don't they have a dual bios? :)
Didn't you backup your old bios? Maybe you've noted down which version it is?
 
Thats correct, you have to flash the first GPU, then the second.

The orginal BIOS was v GPU 1 70.10.42.00.01 & GPU 2 70.10.42.00.02
 
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You realise that under normal naming conventions BIOS 70.10.37.... would be older than 70.10.42....

On the face of it your original BIOS was newer than the one you flashed it to.
 
Surveyor said:
You realise that under normal naming conventions BIOS 70.10.37.... would be older than 70.10.42....

On the face of it your original BIOS was newer than the one you flashed it to.
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Surveyor, your spot on there. Asus do not provide any data on the downloads website for what version the bios is which I find shocking. If I knew the version was older I would not have flashed it at all. I'm fuming!

The original BIOS that I require is Ver 70.10.42.00.02

Anyone have this version?
 
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I think you need to find someone with a very recent card.

Even the latest BIOS I can find on the net is 70.10.37.... from mid August 2011.

As all the 3GB GTX 590's seem to be reference design cards a 70.10.42.... BIOS from any brand of card would probably do.
 
hi mate, thanks for looking. Yeah it seems very new, so only the new adopters including myself will have this version.

I might have to contact Asus directly....
 
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I think you need to find someone with a very recent card.

Even the latest BIOS I can find on the net is 70.10.37.... from mid August 2011.

As all the 3GB GTX 590's seem to be reference design cards a 70.10.42.... BIOS from any brand of card would probably do.
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You have a link to those MSI versions?
 
Ahh man. I hope someone finds the latest BIOS. In the mean time, do you get graphical corruption in the Motherboards BIOS, or just on Windows itself? Might be worth a try tweaking with MSI afterburner to see if anything will help.

(Just re-read you mentioned pre-windows) :(
 
Can't u ask on the Asus forums ? if it's an Asus card i would have thought u would have a decent chance on there or even try their support to see if they will send u the right one.
 
Was the card working okay before you flashed it? if you've done it right away it could be that the BIOS is not the problem and the card was faulty to begin with.
 
Krony said:
Can't u ask on the Asus forums ? if it's an Asus card i would have thought u would have a decent chance on there or even try their support to see if they will send u the right one.
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hi pal,

I've logged the problem on Asus forums and logged a ticket with them also. I have pointed out because they do not provide the BIOS version on their download site, other users of the same product could potentially fall into the same bear trap!

The card was working fine prior to the flash, it was the last change done to it.

Does everyone out there just leave the BIOS as it is at stock?
 
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