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BIOS on a vid card?

Sylvanas

Sylvanas

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what does a bios flash do on a vid card? any increase in performance? i have a gigabyte radoen 9600pro i overclock it to 489/334(668) would i benefit with a bios flash?
 
Probably won't benefit much. Sometimes a bios flash will increase voltages which can help to oc a little. Sometimes it does nothing though. Don't flash your card unless you're willing to accept your card becoming a paperweight, as can happen with a flash gone bad.
 
if i did do the wrong thing could i reset the bios to default? what does flashing it intail (eg making a statup disk and loading it from there or on some dos prompt)
 
A BIOS is supposed to be a permanent instructions that can be overwritten due to today's technology. But it's not an easy overwrite because it's a hardware overwrite. A BIOS can only be flashed so many times. This is getting a program to overwrite the BIOS. If the program fails to execute properly, the Graphics board is no more. The BIOS stands for Basic Input Outpu System. Without it nothing would work since it is the one who starts up the system. Flashing is a very risky duty because you are overwriting hardware, meaning that you are actually burning in transistors and such. Very danerous.
 
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