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Issues with 1070 BIOS

something daft already!!

something daft already!!

something daft already!!

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I bought myself a Gigabyte 1070 GTX Rev1 OC Windforce GPU off the bay and it arrived a day or so ago. It had been used for mining for about 10 months. It had a mining BIOS on it and the seller suggested I flash the original BIOS on it and gave me links to the TECH powerup website. I identified the correct model from the list and downloaded the BIOS.

Cut the story short here. After flashing etc, the card would run like a dog. Really slow. Much slower than my old 290x. 18FPS in furmark instead of over 100. I reflashed, uninstalled and reinstalled the driver, while running driver cleaner pro between, still the same. Furmark was reporting the clock speed of 139. It should be around 800 mark I believe?

In the end, I found another BIOS for this card, not the official one techpowerup said and this restored the clock speed after a bit of a nightmare with display port settings.

Anyone else have a similar experience? I'm not sure my troubles are over yet. I will have to check on it when I get home tonight as I have left it on all day today.
 
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orbitalwalsh said:
mmmm bios's must have really changed it from default then . If original flashes cant detect hardware . Mind you there is Samsung and Micron FLASHES! which Memory module is your board using ?
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the thing is I used the BIOS file listed as the official one from TECH powerup.
 
Not judging by the performance. It's very good, however I am having an issue. When idle, intermittently the system will lock up the display. Other things such as audio continue but display is locked. I have to reset to clear. Event viewer have the helpful Kernel Power error with nothing relevant nearby.
 
Got home yesterday and it had crashed again. Last night I ran sfc /scannow command which usually does nothing of any use. I also ran DDU again and chose AMD to remove. I had to reinstall Nvidia drivers as it removed Vulkan support again but this morning the PC had not crashed. I will see how it is later. I don't really hold much hope as I have already raised a return and will send back Saturday if no better.
 
It crashed on Saturday, twice. I reinstalled Windows, it seemed OK but I got up at 5am this morning, checked my screen, it was frozen. I thought *** this, left it and went back to bed. Got up at 7 am and it was unfrozen. WTF?
 
pastymuncher said:
It may be a good idea to flash back to the mining bios that it came with otherwise the seller could turn around and blame the fault on you for flashing it.
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He told me to flash it, due to the problem. He even sent me the link!

I suspect he sent me a faulty card as I got this at a bargain price. I think he knew it was faulty. I could be being paranoid but he is selling a lot of cards, usually for higher than I paid.
 
All new events of today. I sent the card back to the seller, posted it Saturday morning via Royal Mail Special delivery. Paid a little extra to be sure. Due to be delivered today by 1pm. My tracking info still says:

Your item was posted at Post Office® branch, XXXXXXXXXXXXXX on 28-09-2019. More information will be available as it travels through our network.
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Phoned them today at 1pm when it still said the same, was on hold for ten minutes and finally got through to be hung up on half way through so I had to call back again, wait ten or so minutes to be fobbed off with her saying because it was Saturday, it might not be until tomorrow so check back then. The rascals have lost it. Good job I paid the extra for Special delivery. I still will have to wait while they faff around before they pay up though.
 
humbug said:
If you don't mind me asking how much was this Ex-Mining 1070?
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I don't mind, it was very inexpensive, £155 but I won it half way through the month and the listing ended midweek. It might have gone for more.

I had a sneaky feeling he was upset he only got that much for it and sent me an already known faulty item as he was perfectly fine and keen to refund, not swap.
 
New developments. New card turned up. Fitted OK. Ran some benches and played some games, all seemed ok. Then I thought, I'm hungry but I CBA to cook, I popped out to Grubs and to get a burger but their card machine wasn't working so I hit KFC instead. Got home with my "food" and turned on the screen. It had crashed in exactly the same manner. The mouse pointer would move into two positions only and flash between the two very fast. Cant click anything. This was the day before yesterday. That night, feeling a little despair tbh, I did a few things. I found an updated BIOS for my AMD mobo and updated this. I also found a new chipset drivers for AMD, did those. New GPU driver, did that.

No crashes since.
I'm not convinced yet but maybe. Also this has been a nightmare from start to finish.

Moral of this story is to buy new and maybe stick with AMD if you have AMD hardware.
And don't buy KFC.

Edit no.2

I never ate my KFC.
 
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More stuff happened over the weekend. Crashed twice Saturday morning. I decided it was time to bite the bullet. I nuked my install which I have been using and upgrading for around ten years. I completely reinstalled windows and created a new profile. Reinstalled my software and it has been OK since. I have noticed that Video is a little better, I was getting a line across the middle of any video I was playing in no matter what application, this has gone. I am feeling fairly confident that I have fixed it now.

It seems after using AMD for many years, my install did not want to move to Nvidia. Now it will be a case of monitoring and seeing if it is really fixed now.
 
Crashed again, twice last night. This is a new clean install.
Can't be power or the 290x would have failed long ago. It only ever crashes when idle, usually with the screen off.
Cant be software, new clean install, latest drivers for GPU, Mobo.
Mobo BIOS updated to most recent
GPU BIO most recent.
The crash is the display only, everything else works fine, I can logon with teamviewer and access my desktop. I can change the refresh rate from 60 to 30 and this restores the display. Although it wont work in 60 hertz until I hard reset. I'm not sure if I leave it in 30 hertz if it will stop the crashing.

Using an Asus x370 mobo and Ryzen 1700 and I am losing hair over this!

I am using 4k mode with a Samsung 4k TV.
 
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