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Geforce 6800 PCI-E was flashed to a 6800 Ultra BIOS, got flashed back, still no go?

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HollowRopes

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A friend of mine tried to flash his old Geforce 6800 with a 6800 Ultra BIOS (which you can't do unless it's the AGP kind, which this wasn't). Luckily he saved his old BIOS before flashing it, and has now flashed the card back with the old BIOS that was saved from it from before it was flashed with the Ultra's BIOS. Now, when the card is in the machine and the machine is turned on, there's signal to the monitor, but the computer never posts or goes beyond a black screen.

Originally when he had flashed it with the Ultra's BIOS, the computer would beep four times when it was started (indicating a problem with the card [usually memory, I've been told]) and would not give any signal to the monitor.

Now that the card has been flashed back to it's original BIOS, it gives signal to the monitor, but the computer never posts or gives any beeps indicating a problem. Could it be that flashing his card with the Ultra's BIOS damaged the card physically in some way, and now that even though the original BIOS is back on it, the card is broken? Just kinda curious what I can try now, I feel better now that I'm actually getting a signal from the card to the monitor, but without getting any error beeps it's starting to seem like the card is just downright broke. Anyone have any ideas or suggestions?
 
I really have no idea what he was trying to do, he might not have even done it right to begin with, he brought the card to me telling me what he tried to do and when I stuck it in my machine, it gave me the four beeps so I just figured he successfully flashed it with a BIOS not meant for the card and messed it up.

Since them I've been trying to do the 'blind flash' maneuver since his system has one PCI-E slot, but I've had no luck. I had to bring the card to my house and put it in my secondary PCI-E slot and flash it back to the original BIOS that way.

Either way, the BIOS was flashed back to the one he had saved from the card originally, but now the system won't boot up with the card in it, but won't give any video error codes either. That's why I'm confused.
 
The card was actually snuck out of his mother's machine, and is currently using an old 64MB Matrox card instead of the 6800 now that it's dead, or whatever's wrong with it. Luckily it wasn't a more expensive card, otherwise I'm sure my friend would be pissed. I just thought I'd try to fix it for him and when I noticed that it actually gave a video signal, I felt like I was a step closer to fixing the problem. Now thinking back on it, I think it just proved that the card is dead.
 
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