8800 gt has the wrong bios - anyone else ?

[Sir Random]

V1N,

I presume your card worked fine with the wrong BIOS, but just had the wrong clocks?

The OP's card actually crashes his PC on it's own, indicating a hardware problem. His friend noticed that it has a newer revision BIOS than his other card (which works), so he's blaming the BIOS for the crashing of the PC.

 

[V1N]

V1N,

I presume your card worked fine with the wrong BIOS, but just had the wrong clocks?

The OP's card actually crashes his PC on it's own, indicating a hardware problem. His friend noticed that it has a newer revision BIOS than his other card (which works), so he's blaming the BIOS for the crashing of the PC.

Oops, sorry about that... too busy trying to be helpful, than to reread the OP... my quick read lead me to think it was just in SLI it was having problems.

Sorry about that.
Ah well, if PSU has been ruled out, then RMA is the only way to go.
(unless, because of the two different BIOS versions running at different clock speeds is causing stability problems?)


V1N.

EDIT: and yes, my first card worked fine.

EDIT2: Hang on, it does say that the card only crashed in SLI mode? It doesn't say which card worked fine on its own

He has now discovered that one of the cards has the wrong bios on it which is no doubt why when in sli mode the pc would crash

 

[Sir Random]

V1N,

If you read his last post and my first post, you'll see what I'm talking about.

From the OP's last post:

"The card crashes my pc if used by itself or if it's used in sli with my other card but if i use the card with the correct bios version then my pc doesn't crash at all & runs perfectly."

His first post is very misleading.

 

[V1N]

V1N,

If you read his last post and my first post, you'll see what I'm talking about.

From the OP's last post:

"The card crashes my pc if used by itself or if it's used in sli with my other card but if i use the card with the correct bios version then my pc doesn't crash at all & runs perfectly."

His first post is very misleading.

OK, I apologise again.

I've had one of those mornings where I've had lots on the go at once, so I read the OP, and glanced through the rest quickly before making a post, as I've just finished with an experience with the wrong BIOS too.
Now I've had a chance to sit down and read through properly, I see what you mean. Either way, best to RMA the card and NOTE TO SELF: Don't reply to posts if you don't have time to read previous posts first

V1N.

 

[adsldave]

Ok just to let everyone know i have rma'd my card back to overclockers after speaking to them & speaking to bfg. Overclockers have refunded me after finding the card did have the wrong bios version & was faulty due to it.
I forgot to mention that my cards core speed was 675 & the cards memory speed was 1975 with the bios version that was on it which no doubt caused all the problems.
I know i could have re-flashed it to the correct bios version myself but i was concerned about damaging the card when flashing it & wheather the card had already been damaged by days of use before realising the bios version was incorrect.
Sorry i confused some of you stating that my friend tested my new system with just one card & it worked fine but he obviously happened to test with the good card by chance as he thought it was an sli problem at the time.

But anyway i've been using my single 8800gt with no problems, Doubt i will bother getting another 8800gt as the only game that would really benefit from the extra power is crysis (when drivers & patches arrive that is).

p.s - call of duty 4 rocks, great single player game & great multiplayer game.