Bad bios flash now card wont work?

[Guest]

My brothers GTS250 Has alot of heating problems so he want to flash it to a 9800gtx not plus. Anyways is this possible?

 

[notty22]

This person at school i was speaking to said he wanted a new card and had no cash so he overvolted his gpu on purpose to get it to burn and he got a gts 250 in return.

I hope you don't find anything intelligent in that.

Do you have the ability to change out your own graphics card ?
I ask because You just had this computer built, for some reason you flash the bios, and you physically have to lug the whole box back to the shop, lie, so they will fix it. You know they will have to change out the card to do this.
Now your bringing up burning cards so as to gamble you will get a magic upgrade ?

 

[Guest]

I hope you don't find anything intelligent in that.

Do you have the ability to change out your own graphics card ?
I ask because You just had this computer built, for some reason you flash the bios, and you physically have to lug the whole box back to the shop, lie, so they will fix it. You know they will have to change out the card to do this.
Now your bringing up burning cards so as to gamble you will get a magic upgrade ?

I dont plan to do what he did. Im just saying. Anyways I think they might let me choose if they dont have gts 250 in stock. Maybe ill just choose a 9800gtx or something or 5770

 

[wa1]

9800GTX is about the same performance with GTS250, so if they gives you options then HD5770 is more powerful...

But again, next time, don't do something to your components if you aren't sure what are you going to do...

 

[Guest]

I wont ever flash a card ever again. Ill just stick with good ol. overclocking anyways
if anyone here is reading this. Never flash a card without experience.

 

[iam2thecrowe]

flashing BIOS is normally safe, just not trying to change the model of your card using some dodgy BIOS from the net, or from a different manufacturer.

 

[Guest]

Yep but still dangerous.

 

[Guest]

Ill tel you guys what happens tommorow.

 

[Shaun o]

AFAIK alot of people get away with just RMA'ing it. And sometimes they give u second hand cards.

Khalid1.

There are two ways to fix the problem of the card not working as mentioned, in another post.

Your first option is if the board has its own onboard graphics port use that to get a picture on your monitor.
If you dont, then hunt around for a PCI graphics card.

What you have to do then is find the origonal bios file the card came with, you can do this by searching online.
Or if you had enough sense use the old bios image you should of backed up.

All you need to do is use the flash software and the bios file, flash it with the correct bios file and program and it will work after a re-boot.

Before you ever do something make sure you know what your doing and how to fix the problem.

 

[deweycd]

Khalid1.

There are two ways to fix the problem of the card not working as mentioned, in another post.

Your first option is if the board has its own onboard graphics port use that to get a picture on your monitor.
If you dont, then hunt around for a PCI graphics card.

What you have to do then is find the origonal bios file the card came with, you can do this by searching online.
Or if you had enough sense use the old bios image you should of backed up.

All you need to do is use the flash software and the bios file, flash it with the correct bios file and program and it will work after a re-boot.

Before you ever do something make sure you know what your doing and how to fix the problem.

We have been trying to tell Khalid1 this but they don't seem to be listening.

 

[Guest]

Khalid1.

There are two ways to fix the problem of the card not working as mentioned, in another post.

Your first option is if the board has its own onboard graphics port use that to get a picture on your monitor.
If you dont, then hunt around for a PCI graphics card.

What you have to do then is find the origonal bios file the card came with, you can do this by searching online.
Or if you had enough sense use the old bios image you should of backed up.

All you need to do is use the flash software and the bios file, flash it with the correct bios file and program and it will work after a re-boot.

Before you ever do something make sure you know what your doing and how to fix the problem.

That doesnt work if you graphics card is in your computer you cant just use the motherboard internal graphics. It only works if you take out the graphics card. And you need he graphics card to be in your computer to reflash.

 

[benski]

There is likely a bios setting that will enable your IGP regardless of whether it detects a card in the PCI-E slot or not, but there's no reason to diverge into reality at this point.

 

[Guest]

Back from the shop they gave me a free INNO3D GTS250 1GB, do you recon its safe to overclock it? It has a giant ass cooler.

This is how its looks

 

[Guest]

why?

 

[wa1]

Yeah. you can OC it, but again, know what you are going to do...

 

[Guest]

yeh, Iv been an overclocker for years. Just i havent been a flasher.

 

[Guest]

Do you guys recon this cooler is big?

To me this is quite giant xD. It has a way bigger cooler than my old asus gts 250

 

[Guest]

what? Overclocking isnt bad?

 

[Guest]

Also the bad side is that this card they gave me is a green edition on 675 core and 1620 shader instead of 738 core and 1836 shader. But most GTS250's are Green for some reason.
And Inno3D has more green gts250's

 

[wa1]

yes, OC is great, but (again), if you OC it too far then you can make your card overheat or something bad, just do it slowly and watch for temps...

But again, if you ruined your card again then just... go away...

 

[wa1]

green edition = forget about overclocking.

 

[Guest]

Why forget about overclocking?

 

[Guest]

Do you recon i can overclock this baby to standard clocks?

 

[notty22]

Why don't you just do some gaming for a while ?
If you want to do some o/c , do some reading and experimentation slowly.
To do it right, you need to get many baseline results and game play feel.
Then you tweak things and see if you made things better or worse.
Then you come back and report your results instead of asking us.

 

[Guest]

Well im running it at gts 250 standard speeds even though its green and its working fine. And temps didnt even change? Am i stupid because i dont overclock ram, for some reason i dont care for overclocking my vram becuase i only run at 1650x1050

 

[wa1]

Is inside your mind you only think about "overclocking"?
Oh, this thread will gonna be looong...