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my xfx 6800 GT PCI-E probably just died

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Heinrich

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been working GREAT for 2 months. I unplugged it to go to SLI mode with the evga version that showed up. There's a nice aluminum strip on top covering the SLI port. I unscrewed the SLI port, and put the card aside. The evga works great.

Suddenly, the XFX, solo, gives odd graphics blocks, lines, and vomit text - the BIOS screen looks like the grass in Ultima IV.

I tried flashing different bios files and it only made it worse. Going to reflash it back to the bios that came with it and have begun the RMA process.

How disappointing. I can understand a new card being DOA, but how did this thing croak this morning? Frustrating.:disgust:
 
As far as i know you have to have cards with a matching bios for SLI to work properly (NV reccomends the same card but ive seen same bios on diff cards work).

Edit: sucks that your XFX died, the RMA process is terrible with them.
 
I never got to the SLI part. I was checking them out individually when the original one died. All I did was unplug the XFX, plug in the eVGA, unplug it, and plug the XFX back in. I had decided to flash the XFX bios but I never got that far when it was giving me computer vomit. At that point, after reseating, resetting CMOS and other activities did I begin flashing the BIOS trying to recover the card. It now produces extremely beautiful, colorful computer vomit.

What's interesting is that the PC runs fine, I just can't see anything. I know that when I'm in DOS I can type DIR and the computer responds, for instance. It's not locked up.

I just can't see anything.

minor detail..
 
That sucks dude. Good luck with the RMA. I wouldn't have started messing with the BIOSs if I were you, but oh well.

BTW, alot of Ananders will probably flame you for seeking an RMA now, even though you didn't over clock, but because you flashed a different BIOS onto it.
 
Originally posted by: BobDaMenkey
That sucks dude. Good luck with the RMA. I wouldn't have started messing with the BIOSs if I were you, but oh well.

BTW, alot of Ananders will probably flame you for seeking an RMA now, even though you didn't over clock, but because you flashed a different BIOS onto it.
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No, I doubt it. The card went faulty before he did anything to it. Flashing it was just an attempt to try to rectify the problem. Most won't fault him for that.
 
Originally posted by: Avalon
Originally posted by: BobDaMenkey
That sucks dude. Good luck with the RMA. I wouldn't have started messing with the BIOSs if I were you, but oh well.

BTW, alot of Ananders will probably flame you for seeking an RMA now, even though you didn't over clock, but because you flashed a different BIOS onto it.
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No, I doubt it. The card went faulty before he did anything to it. Flashing it was just an attempt to try to rectify the problem. Most won't fault him for that.
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Yeah but what happens during the RMA process. Before they send him a new card they'll have to check this one to find a new BIOS on it. ?
 

I backed up the original BIOS before I tried to flash it. That BIOS is going back on it....as I said, the card and PC are responding it's just computer vomit. I made autoexec.bat files to auto-flash, and I can tell that they work by the moving different colored blocks of vomit and how they "line up" to the manual commands. Besides, when I flash the BIOS, the vomit changes color and shape, so I know it's taking.

It just isn't fixing.
 
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