Gigabyte 970 G1 bios question

[opethdisciple]

A call to all Gigbayte 970 G1 owners.

You may or may not be aware that Gigabyte posted some new bioses on the 22nd of Jan for our cards.

I have successfully flashed mine but wanted to raise a query. Each single bios update file (F3, F42 & F51) actually contains what looks like two bios files inside the archive.

I had to guess in the end which file to go with. My theory was that which ever file you went with if the other was needed, the flash program would grab...

Any way, any one have any idea why each single bios archive actually contains two files?

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Does this sort the vRAM issue out, i.e. can you get a monitoring program to show 4gb usage?

 

[~>Dg<~]

is one the stock one and the new version ?

 

[stulid]

I just flashed my GTX980 and I read the PDF it said to use the DD version.

Only flash to similar digit BIOSes, so F2=F3 is ok, F2= F42 is not etc, F22-F42 is ok.

 

[opethdisciple]

I just flashed my GTX980 and I read the PDF it said to use the DD version.

Only flash to similar digit BIOSes, so F2=F3 is ok, F2= F42 is not etc, F22-F42 is ok.

Hmm.

I flashed mine and it reporst now F42 which is the correct bios. I will have a look to see if there is any documentation.

 

[opethdisciple]

is one the stock one and the new version ?

No idea, but that is a possibility.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

What's the advantage to this new BIOS? Just an update, or are there specific issues addressed?