tried to flash the bios on my x800 and pretty much fubard it. for some reason i can' t get anything on screen when i use the card and my pci card even after changing the display to pci in the bios. i was able to blind flash to a different bios and still nothing. could i have killed the card in a couple mins by flashing the bios??

9/21/2006 4:56:20 PM

yes

9/21/2006 7:37:03 PM

all signs point ot yes

9/21/2006 9:48:34 PM

all signs point to pwnt

9/21/2006 10:34:27 PM

Stop, take it to Mitsuba, I tried opening the extra abilities of my video card once (lesson learned), he was able to fix it.

829-0294. Ask for Mr Yang.

9/22/2006 8:26:53 AM

I killed an old Quattro 2 with a video BIOS misflash once.

9/22/2006 1:35:17 PM

I don't suppose they have a jumper on the card to revert back to the factory BIOS flash do they? I know it is done on some motherboards so if you toast it during the flash you can at least boot back up and re-flash.

[Edited on September 22, 2006 at 2:27 PM. Reason : s]

9/22/2006 2:27:15 PM

^ yeah that saved me the other day with my pc. i changed some memory settings and the bastard wouldnt start...just kept beeping at me haveing a good ol time. played with the jumper and was golden.

9/22/2006 2:47:35 PM

Are you sure that wasn't a jumper to restore the bios to default settings?

The one I'm talking about would actually revert to a completely separate running copy of the bios stored on the board that can't be overwritten by the BIOS flash. It's basically there just so that if you have a catastrophic failure during a flash you can boot up, re-run the bios flash (which only flashes the fubared copy), switch the jumper back, and reboot with the latest BIOS. Saves the board 99% of the time.

I don't even know if they put them on desktop MoBos, but it would be nice as standard equipment on just about anything with an EEPROM that has to be flashed.

[Edited on September 22, 2006 at 3:35 PM. Reason : s]

9/22/2006 3:34:10 PM

^ Generally, only nicer hardware manufactures add that feature.

9/22/2006 3:50:24 PM

yeha i actually ddi the blindflash again , i realized it the cd i burned with the bios ahd something on it and was going to abort,retry,fail. wasn't able to unlock any pipelines but at least it's workin

9/22/2006 4:32:31 PM

pretty hard to really screw something with corrupt/incorrect firmware, if it isn't required for boot... and even if it is the mainboard it probably has a JTAG interface without the header, or PCI JTAG interface you can reflash with

[Edited on September 22, 2006 at 8:24 PM. Reason : *]

9/22/2006 8:21:17 PM

been there done that. a spare pci card is always nice. so is knowing what keys to press without seeing the screen

9/24/2006 3:30:55 AM