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Re:Easy guide to Video BIOS flashing (NVIDIA)
Wednesday, December 09, 2009 4:23 PM
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Well I have gtx 275. I clicked the tech power up linked that loveordie posted. All the BIOS for GTX 275 are the same, the one with like 713 core clock only has 1 difference from what i can tell, is the volt is 1.18 vs the other 3 with 1.17..
not sure if that type of overclock/BIOS changing is worth that. I'll keep my where it is at. A gain of 0.01v may actually make a slight difference. Certainly not worth voiding your warranty for such a small change. Loveordie, I really don't know why you still haven't placed into your post a disclaimer that doing the things your are instructing will void the video card warranty. It isn't very wise to lead people into doing something without explaining the risks.
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Re:Easy guide to Video BIOS flashing (NVIDIA)
Wednesday, December 09, 2009 5:25 PM
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Ty, I like Warranty and my EVGA toys too much, so that 0.01 volt may make a slight difference but not enough to void warranty and take a chance of damaging my toys =( aside from that, don't think I could even I wanted too...OCing scares me enough as it is, BIOS flashing a video card, nutt uh leave me out that =)
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Re:Easy guide to Video BIOS flashing (NVIDIA)
Wednesday, December 09, 2009 5:47 PM
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Bad idea unless you know exactly what you're getting into.
And, it's deplorable to even suggest re-flashing a messed up card to 'scam' EVGA if you mess it up. Really.
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Re:Easy guide to Video BIOS flashing (NVIDIA)
Wednesday, December 09, 2009 6:26 PM
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There are way too many people who suggest flashing back to original BIOS for RMA reasons. That is BS. If you flash your card to another BIOS and purposely void the warranty it is rediculous to even consider a RMA in the future.
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Re:Easy guide to Video BIOS flashing (NVIDIA)
Wednesday, December 09, 2009 6:41 PM
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I believe in honesty. I bought a lian-li P-80, I wanted the door open too the right and I had too switch the lock over also. Well while un-doing the little bolt on the lock, well in short the lock broke. So I went and contact Lian-Li about buying a new lock from since I believe it was my fault.
Well George contacted me, after I sent a e-mail asking where I could buy a new lock from, since I didn't see it their website or any where online.
George, asked me too take picture of lock, i did and explain too him, what happen mainly that lock broke when I was taking bolt off. George email back told they was shipping a new lock free of charge, since the blame could be their fault also (instructions not clear), I told him I would be happy to pay, he said there is no payment needed and I got new lock.
Point of the story is
If you did something, own up too it.
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Re:Easy guide to Video BIOS flashing (NVIDIA)
Sunday, January 10, 2010 5:03 AM
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change autoexec to read roms not bin files because NVflash only reads roms
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Re:Easy guide to Video BIOS flashing (NVIDIA)
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 7:58 AM
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Warranty issues aside — why would you want a different BIOS just to change either the clocks or the voltage?
I admit to BIOS altering, but it's because apps like Precision can't follow me through all of the OSs that I boot into with these cards — no software app that I am aware of has ported to everything.
But apps like NiBiTor allow you to do quite a bit without having to use another BIOS altogether...
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Re:Easy guide to Video BIOS flashing (NVIDIA)
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 9:31 AM
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Software overclocking via EVGA Precision is far better and far safer than attempting to do this with a self built video card BIOs
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Re:Easy guide to Video BIOS flashing (NVIDIA)
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 10:14 AM
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self built ?? lol its not self built is modified by a trusted tool, and precision cant do every thing a bios flash can, plus flash your MB bios is no safer then flash your video cards bios, i flashed my bios so it would run at 100% fan speed at lower temps and i flash my normal 280 to a FTW bios so i could sli.
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Re:Easy guide to Video BIOS flashing (NVIDIA)
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 10:49 PM
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the main point is if your card dies and you cant flash it back to RMA it your screwed 
actually, even if your card stops displaying, the bios on the card may still be accesible via bootable usb/floppy/cd. just because the chip fried, does not mean the bios chip on the card did as well. but there are advantages to updating the bios on your video card, of course, within the guidelines of the manufacturer. one is you can get optimizations, and sometimes it will fix bugs. you can get better clocks from your card, more stability, and better voltage regulation (limited though as hardware does this for the most part). though i did a naughty 6 or so years ago with my ati 9800pro. this 9800pro was special as it wasnt 128bit ddr memory, but it had the full 256bit hynx ddr memory found on the 9800xt. infact, this card was a 9800xt come to find out, it just was flashed to 9800pro (it had the r360 chip which was supposed to be 9800xt). difference was clock speeds. i found the bios for the 9800xt with hynx memory, flashed it, and artifacts of dooom!!! it was probably a defective chip they just downclocked so it would run stable. i didnt really notice any performance difference anyway when overclocked. stock core was i think 340, i clocked it to 400 no problem, but as soon as you got to 403 and up, artifacts. stock clock of 9800xt is 411. so i got stuck with a 9800xt i had to downclock to run stable lol. but the days of 130nm are over XD.
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Re:Easy guide to Video BIOS flashing (NVIDIA)
Friday, January 15, 2010 10:48 AM
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i dont care if my card dies its getting old now and its worked from release so i dont think it will die any time soon
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Re:Easy guide to Video BIOS flashing (NVIDIA)
Saturday, April 10, 2010 11:51 AM
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updated to nVFlash 5.91.01
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Re:Easy guide to Video BIOS flashing (NVIDIA)
Saturday, April 17, 2010 3:31 PM
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Okay, I fully understand how flashing your BIOS to a non-EVGA BIOS will void the warranty, that's obvious, and would be expected.
The part I don't understand is,.... take me for example:
I have two brand new GTX 480 SC's. They each have different BIOS versions. One is the latest version for the GTX 480, and one is the previous version.
Could I not flash the older one to the newer one so they both match, and it still retain the original warranty?? It would be an EVGA approved BIOS for my 480's part number, so that would be okay, right?
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Re:Easy guide to Video BIOS flashing (NVIDIA)
Sunday, May 02, 2010 6:44 PM
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Thanks for the guide, I finally figure it out, and got it to work perfectly!
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Re:Easy guide to Video BIOS flashing (NVIDIA)
Monday, May 03, 2010 2:24 AM
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ADDED YOUTUBE VIDEO GUIDE
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Re:Easy guide to Video BIOS flashing (NVIDIA)
Monday, May 03, 2010 3:55 AM
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Oh yeah, NOW you add a youtube video, lol.
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Re:Easy guide to Video BIOS flashing (NVIDIA)
Monday, May 03, 2010 5:34 AM
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Sometimes very slight tweaks are made to a BIOs to adjust for slightly different components. Even though the part numbers might be identical the BIOs numbers may differ for a technical reason so please NEVER flash your video card with another video card BIOs unless it is listed on the EVGA downloads portion of the EVGA website.
If it is listed on the EVGA website then that video card BIOs has been properly tested by EVGA for all video cards listed for that part number.
For the people who are flashing their bios on their video card, please consider this EVGA EMPLOYEES RESPONSE. And to answer the questions about flashing your bios to the new version of the same card. It may be the same card (same part number) but the card itself might have different components built on the card itself so a newer bios may be accompanied for this update on the physical parts of the card. Just because two graphics cards are the same model but different bios version doesn't mean it won't brick your graphics card if you flash it. I would just stick with the BIOs version you were given and get Afterburner for OC or fan controls.
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Re:Easy guide to Video BIOS flashing (NVIDIA)
Monday, May 03, 2010 8:32 AM
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I use NiBiTor all the time. I don't change or swap the BIOSs with any other card, however. What is the logic of going to another, different piece of hardware and compounding the risk exponentially when all you have to do is change the numbers on what you have? See - you don't even have to play the warranty merry-go-round to point out the shortcoming there. Even fan speeds can be changed without destroying the integrity of the card's BIOS. The default Dynamic Profile's even changeable from this  to this  To simply start grabbing BIOSs off the web and start flashing cards just so the model listings match, or so the clocks match, or to "set up SLI" also implies an act of utter desperation rather than a structured approach to the problem and definitely displays one's shortcomings in actually understanding what's going on with the hardware...
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Re:Easy guide to Video BIOS flashing (NVIDIA)
Monday, May 03, 2010 11:26 AM
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NiBiTor is compatible with the 4xx card yet. DarkOwnage_
rjohnson11
Sometimes very slight tweaks are made to a BIOs to adjust for slightly different components. Even though the part numbers might be identical the BIOs numbers may differ for a technical reason so please NEVER flash your video card with another video card BIOs unless it is listed on the EVGA downloads portion of the EVGA website.
If it is listed on the EVGA website then that video card BIOs has been properly tested by EVGA for all video cards listed for that part number.
For the people who are flashing their bios on their video card, please consider this EVGA EMPLOYEES RESPONSE. And to answer the questions about flashing your bios to the new version of the same card. It may be the same card (same part number) but the card itself might have different components built on the card itself so a newer bios may be accompanied for this update on the physical parts of the card. Just because two graphics cards are the same model but different bios version doesn't mean it won't brick your graphics card if you flash it. I would just stick with the BIOs version you were given and get Afterburner for OC or fan controls.
LOL your so wrong there JacobF said it was fine to update to the newer bios and it would not void warranty on our cards and sorry to say they dont change the components on one card maybe if they did it would say REV 1.00 or 1.01 and so on like they do on motherboards, and NVFlash would not flash the card if the bios wasn't compatible yes u can force flash but thats at your own risk, i flashed my 280 with a SC bios and one card was brought on release the other a year and a half later, so don't listen to rjohnson11 because he doesn't know what hes on about.. jdookie
Oh yeah, NOW you add a youtube video, lol.
yer sorry i thought i make one after helping you :)
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Re:Easy guide to Video BIOS flashing (NVIDIA)
Monday, May 03, 2010 11:36 AM
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loveordie
NiBiTor is compatible with the 4xx card yet.
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Sometimes very slight tweaks are made to a BIOs to adjust for slightly different components. Even though the part numbers might be identical the BIOs numbers may differ for a technical reason so please NEVER flash your video card with another video card BIOs unless it is listed on the EVGA downloads portion of the EVGA website.
If it is listed on the EVGA website then that video card BIOs has been properly tested by EVGA for all video cards listed for that part number.
For the people who are flashing their bios on their video card, please consider this EVGA EMPLOYEES RESPONSE. And to answer the questions about flashing your bios to the new version of the same card. It may be the same card (same part number) but the card itself might have different components built on the card itself so a newer bios may be accompanied for this update on the physical parts of the card. Just because two graphics cards are the same model but different bios version doesn't mean it won't brick your graphics card if you flash it. I would just stick with the BIOs version you were given and get Afterburner for OC or fan controls.
LOL your so wrong there JacobF said it was fine to update to the newer bios and it would not void warrnty on our cards and sorry to say they dont change the components on one card maybe if they did it would say Version 1 or 2 like the motherboards do, and NVFlash would not flash the card if the bios wasn't compatible yes u can force flash but thats at your own risk, i flashed my 280 with a SC bios and one card was brought on release the other a year and a half later, so don't listen to rjohnson11 because he doesn't know what hes on about..
jdookie
Oh yeah, NOW you add a youtube video, lol.
yer sorry i thought i make one after helping you :)
Seriously when your going to insult someone openly you could at least provide proof of your statement .Not saying your right or wrong here but to insult Rj and not back it up with some facts is wrong and in poor taste .
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Re:Easy guide to Video BIOS flashing (NVIDIA)
Monday, May 03, 2010 11:42 AM
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Sorry but he has disagree with me before and be proven wrong then and again here, when they change components on a video card or a motherboard really any think they change the REV from 1.00 to what ever , and that does not change the bios, you wouldn't know but they do this alot with motherboards and there are never 2 bios released for both VER both have the same bios . and im sorry if i come off in the wrong way there to you and rjohnson11
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Re:Easy guide to Video BIOS flashing (NVIDIA)
Monday, May 03, 2010 2:09 PM
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i am sorry for that but so many people posting on this thread went off topic saying it a bad thing to flash a video cards bios when it no different then updating your bios on you motherboard, i like modding my fan speeds so i dont have to use software in windows ill have to wait for NiBiTor for the 4xx cards 
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