Ok, well this has just turned interesting:

Card 1 - 70.00.1A.00.82
Card 2  - 70.00.1A.00.82
Card 3 - 70.00.1A.00.80
Card 4 - 70.00.1A.00.82

All cards purchased as SC's

It absolutely amazes me how many cards EVGA put out with the wrong BIOS installed. How in the world does that happen??

It would be really funny to find out that after all stevemr2t's been through with his four gpu's, that it could all come down to an incorrectly flashed BIOS.

jdookie

It absolutely amazes me how many cards EVGA put out with the wrong BIOS installed. How in the world does that happen??

It would be really funny to find out that after all stevemr2t's been through with his four gpu's, that it could all come down to an incorrectly flashed BIOS.

well makes you think are those SC cards with vanilla bios's are really SC models or just a mix up

Yer how else can we tell there nothing else different makes me think if the Vanilla and SC are the same card with only a bios modification

yer i think the same we are paying more just for a bios, i think every card can oc different just like every cpu you probably find a SC betting a FTW .

GNielson If the .80 bios gives you the correct superclocked frequencies, then it's a superclocked bios, but someone just forgot to change the number in the bios. I'd love to get one of these to do a hex-diff with "regular" SC bios. As some might remember from a thread I started here...but got no evga response to....you can have bioses with the exact same bios version ID, but have different checksums and differ in minor ways. I don't really know what's going on with this, as I'd think everyone at evga who's doing bios flashes should be working with identical bios files, but they're clearly not, or at least weren't in the past.

What you say makes total sense. I wish I would have kept the .80 BIOS they had installed in my SC, so you could analyze it for us. Don't worry though, people are popping up like crazy with wrong BIOS versions, so just keep an eye out and catch one of them before they flash it.

Actually, I think "Governator" has an SC with an .80 BIOS right now. Shoot him a pm, and see if he can email it to you before he junks it.

Yeah, its the original Nvidia BIOS number. Can't remember what the number was, but its not an EVGA number at all. You want me to get it for you?

jdookie

GNielson If the .80 bios gives you the correct superclocked frequencies, then it's a superclocked bios, but someone just forgot to change the number in the bios. I'd love to get one of these to do a hex-diff with "regular" SC bios. As some might remember from a thread I started here...but got no evga response to....you can have bioses with the exact same bios version ID, but have different checksums and differ in minor ways. I don't really know what's going on with this, as I'd think everyone at evga who's doing bios flashes should be working with identical bios files, but they're clearly not, or at least weren't in the past.

What you say makes total sense. I wish I would have kept the .80 BIOS they had installed in my SC, so you could analyze it for us. Don't worry though, people are popping up like crazy with wrong BIOS versions, so just keep an eye out and catch one of them before they flash it.

Actually, I think "Governator" has an SC with an .80 BIOS right now. Shoot him a pm, and see if he can email it to you before he junks it.

It's pretty interesting to look at bios differences with a hex editor (I use Hex Workshop, but there's others too of course). Comparing regular, Superclocked and FTW versions show's stuff like the change in dates and board ID's, the area where the desired frequencies are set (3 byte hex values), and of course the checksum at the end of the file. The FTW bios has the same bios version ID as the corresponding SC bios, but I think that's just because someone forgot to change an "82" to an "89" in the internal bios version. The board number has been changed from 1482 to 1489 to correctly identify the FTW, just not the bios version number.

Update: I should add that even when you understand where to make frequency changes in the bios and tweak them correctly, you can screw things up with something as simple as not computing the new checksum and fixing it at the end of the bios file. I was in a hurry and did that a few year's ago playing with the 6800's bios trying to fix (successfully) a lockup problem it had, and fortunately it's possible to recover from it. It's normally best to just use tools like Precision and Afterburner to set frequencies (coolbits in the old days, but that wouldn't work in the 6800 case I'm referring to).

jdookie

loveordie

yer i wouldn't mind having a look to see if it matches mine my stick was right with the bios that come on it.

Okay, I'll get it for you in the morning though. Signing off for the night.

ok np man

jasonelmore

I keep getting failed to read BIOS on both the thumb drive method, and when i burn it to a CD. Any ideas?

Using SirJames's Tutorial verbatim, and his bios's and utilities. I have the original 80 bios, and i'm just wanting to get the better load temps that the 82 offers.

Vanilla btw.

Thanks

 
I'm getting this same error. I followed the tutorial down to the letter, and it doesn't create a bootable disk. I get boot errors on the thumb drive when I try and boot up.

ugh I just ordered that card from the egg. hopfully its not the wrong bios. (I have a 285 that I bought from bfg that had the wrong bios and fryed)  of course they replaced it after it fried but it took almost a month for them to return the new card.

When I go to restart it says Boot Failure.....Any ideas?
 

jdookie

loveordie

yer i wouldn't mind having a look to see if it matches mine my stick was right with the bios that come on it.

Okay, I took a look and both cards have 70.00.1A.00.02 on the stickers. Is that what yours have on them?

mrdrunk

ugh I just ordered that card from the egg. hopfully its not the wrong bios. (I have a 285 that I bought from bfg that had the wrong bios and fryed)  of course they replaced it after it fried but it took almost a month for them to return the new card.

Don't worry about it. Even if they send it with the wrong BIOS, its an easy fix.

yes mines the same so the 70.00.1A.00.00 bios u got on one of your cards was wrong to the sticker, so if u didn't know and u RMA evga would say u void your warranty lol , what do u think of my sig i just made it :)

jdookie

loveordie
yes mines the same so the 70.00.1A.00.00 bios u got on one of your cards was wrong to the sticker, so if u didn't know and u RMA evga would say u void your warranty lol , what do u think of my sig i just made it :)

Yep, exactly. This kind of throws a monkey wrench in EVGA's stand with only honoring warranty with the original BIOS, doesn't it, lol.

I love the sig, just not sure about the rainbow of colors. Just a flashing red heartbeat would be cool.

I feel like I'm more in the dark than ever about this warranty thing. You could be right the RMA and it being voided, with it not being your fault. But I really would trust EVGA they've been good to me in the past and have earned it.
Your sig is so fitting to what I'm listening to right now. Psyradio.fm prog channel via Winamp.