Bricked my MSI 6950 Twin Frozr II trying to unlock

[Saul]

The title says it all really.. won't even POST :'( weirdly the flash went along fine :/ I used the batch tools so I already have a backup of my BIOS but I can't get into Windows to flash it back?

Any ideas? Well and truly ****ed up here lol

 

[Saul]

There is no BIOS switch on the Twin Frozr :/

 

[Saul]

Hell it's just not my day.

I have a 4870X2, but it (for a reason completely unknown to me) will not fit into the primary PCI-E slot fully. Even when it's only half-connected, it's too ****ing big to have my R6950 underneath anyway, but it fits perfectly fine vice versa.

Long story short I'm going to have to stay using my rocket-engine-sounding 4870X2 in Safe Mode with Networking until I can go to my friend's house and flash it back.

By the way I don't know what blind flashing is, but I don't think it's even posting because there's the BOOT_DEVICE_LED is lit :/

Thanks for the suggestions all, I thought I was going to have to RMA it at first!

 

[Saul]

Can't you switch your primary pcie lane in your bios? It should let you set peg2 as default...

If this works I'll love you for life. Hold on ;D

 

[Saul]

He knew well enough that non-reference cards couldn't be unlocked easily and he still took the risk. Silly if you ask me.

I didn't, it's not mentioned whatsoever in the stickied thread here on OC :/ plus no MSI cards were marked as "Not flashable", I presumed it was safe.

Either way, lesson's learnt the hard way. Also I can't find how to set PCIE lane priority in my BIOS (check mobo in sig), any ideas? Google won't deliver :/

 

[Saul]

^
Both from the sticky, I'm afraid you must have missed it.



Mobo isn't in your sig by the way, what is it?

Ah fair enough :s and it's an Asus Sabretooth X58.

Its horrible when things go wrong, I really hope you can get it sorted, i wanna flash my 580 bios just to adjust the fan but i'm **** scared of doing bricking it

Thanks me too.. I'm not really complaining the 6950 is a very quiet and fast card anyway.