Monday, December 07, 2020 9:03 PM
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I just received my EVGA 3060 ti FTW3 and no issues during installation and the gpu worked seemingly well after installing nvidia's latest gpu drivers(457.51). When I ran EVGA Precision X1, the program notified me of a firmware update for my graphics card, which I installed. It is at this point, I started to run into issues. Windows Explorer froze up and I restarted my machine.
After restarting my machine, my nvidia drivers started to fail(as reflected in Device Manager) and I was limited to one low resolution display output. Reinstalling nvidia drivers did not resolve this issue. I could no longer launch EVGA Precision X1, trying to run it just showed the splash screen and the application never opens. Evga Precision wouldn't launch in Windows Safe Mode. Reinstalling EVGA Precision, after first uninstalling it, verifying no install directory data, user app data, or program data remained, did not resolve the issue and EVGA Precision still wouldn't launch.
I completed a entire Windows 10 reinstallation, completed all the windows updates, installed the latest Nvidia drivers and EVGA Precision X1, and still see all the same behaviors as before.
I suspect my vbios is to blame. While I was told EVGA Precision would not modify the vbios, I still wonder if it might corrupt it somehow during the firmware update and I wonder if flashing my vbios to a confirmed working version might help. If anyone could assist me by exporting their 3060 FTW3 vbios(using gpuz) so I can try flashing mine with NVFlash, I'd very much appreciate it.