Updating GPU Bios

[Sephi_Toderas]

Hi guys,

I got a MSI Sea Hawk X and I want to update the bios on the card.

I got nvflash but I can't find a proper guide on how to do it. The latest guides are from 2014...

Any tips please?

Thanks

 

[jossrik]

NVFlash is pretty straightforward, if there isn't a newer guide, then the old guide probably still works. I haven't used it in a few years now, but with my 980Ti I didn't actually see any benefit from the new bioses and wound up going back to the original. YMMV though. Same basic rules as a motherboard, don't shut anything off when it's flashing, don't do anything while it's flashing, don't unplug anything while it's flashing, just let it do it's thing. Oh, and you can run NVFLash in windows, so no worry about trying to remember stuff. Load up a guide, set it up so you can see your command prompt and the guides, and go from there, one step at a time.

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

See how your system runs first on the existing GPU BIOS, if it runs okay then leave the GPU BIOS (and the mobo BIOS) alone.

Never dive in with BIOS updates (or driver updates) unless something isn't running right.

 

[Sephi_Toderas]

Aren't BIOS updates supposed to make the system more reliable and improve performance?

 

[Sephi_Toderas]

Never mind, it's easier that I thought, I just had to remove the write protect