Bricked GTX 670

[brady121294]

I've bricked my Gigabyte GTX 670 OC WF3, I think.. When I boot up just before the windows screen it blue screens, I can remove the 670 and uninstall the drivers and put it back in and it boots fine but GPU-Z can't read the bios version on the card. Can someone save my 670 🙁?

 

[Ra_V_en]

Can someone save my 670 🙁?

If you didn't mess with that card already, probably only RMA can help 😉

 

[NoOneLt]

Have You done something like BIOS update , OCed it extremely? As it sounds like pure OS/drivers problem if You able to boot ater drivers uninstall.. What is Your Win and drivers version?

If You updated BIOS try to downgrade it to initial release, be careful to choose correct version: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4211#bios

 

[brady121294]

Have You done something like BIOS update, OCed it extremely? As it sounds like pure OS/drivers problem if You able to boot ater drivers uninstall.. What is Your Win and drivers version?

I tried to flash a custom bios onto it for high overclocks.. Windows 7 and latest Nvidia drivers. I can't get @Bios VGA to flash it, nor does NVFlash..

Warranty claim isn't an option, sadly 🙁

 

[NoOneLt]

Yeah then this is sad.. Any of this tools doesn't work? http://www.gigabyte.com/WebPage/40/index.htm

 

[brady121294]

Yeah then this is sad.. Any of this tools doesn't work? http://www.gigabyte.com/WebPage/40/index.htm

No, the EasyBoost doesn't support GTX 600 series and the @Bios gives me an error each time 🙁

 

[NoOneLt]

What errors gives NVFlash and @Bios? Maybe this would help.

 

[brady121294]

What errors gives NVFlash and @Bios? Maybe this would help.

After rebooting I got the follow pictures:

GPU-Z before retrying to flash:

NVFlash attempt to flash (I did -r to remove write protection):

GPU-Z After attempting:

@Bios:

 

[NoOneLt]

I believe You chosen correct version of initial BIOS from gigabyte? AS i thee there is 3 of them available.

If Yes i hope more experienced will l see this thread and help.

 

[brady121294]

I believe You chosen correct version of initial BIOS from gigabyte? AS i thee there is 3 of them available.

If Yes i hope more experienced will l see this thread and help.

Yes and I have also tried it with the Bios file I backed up via GPU-Z.

 

[brady121294]

So I've done absolutely everything I can find and nothing has worked, I've tried flashing from DOS, Windows, with stock BIOS, modded, official updated BIOS, using -r in NVFlash, as well as -4, -5, -6. Guess I'm going to have to sell it as parts 🙁.

 

[NoOneLt]

So I've done absolutely everything I can find and nothing has worked, I've tried flashing from DOS, Windows, with stock BIOS, modded, official updated BIOS, using -r in NVFlash, as well as -4, -5, -6. Guess I'm going to have to sell it as parts 🙁.

Bud luck 🙁 But maybe You can try to RMA it, say them You don't know what happened.. Worst thing can happen they will return it to You.

 

[brady121294]

So I've done absolutely everything I can find and nothing has worked, I've tried flashing from DOS, Windows, with stock BIOS, modded, official updated BIOS, using -r in NVFlash, as well as -4, -5, -6. Guess I'm going to have to sell it as parts 🙁.

Bud luck 🙁 But maybe You can try to RMA it, say them You don't know what happened.. Worst thing can happen they will return it to You.

Can't RMA it, the serial sticker came off when I was disconnecting the PCI-e latch 🙁. Ohh well, at least I still have a 480 laying around!

 

[brady121294]

Bit more info that I missed out on: After disabling the write protection I get a weird eeprom error after it stores the image, when in DOS and Windows.