Nvidia Bios Editor killed my card!

[Xtasy]

It did, i just used it to make a copy of the bios on my gf3 ti450 with sba and fw enabled. I flashed it and it no longer boot. It was dead! B4 the back of the chip was hot, but cold. I flashed the backup bios back using a pci vid card to see around, but it didn't help. It is dead!

 

[Xtasy]

It read my current bios, and i checked off fw disable and sba disable, saved it as gainwardti450.rom. Used nvflash in command prompt in dos, said it flash successful, backed up my old one too, after that, i restarted the compu, boom dead! I put the card in my k6-2 with a pci vid card, flashed my backup, still dead.

 

[Xtasy]

I did a flash b4 on my gts, worked fine, i used all the precations. used nvflash, dos4gw, and my rom.

 

[rogue1979]

I tried to use the same program to edit the core and memory speed of my Geforce2 Ti 500. I ended up with a flashing mess. I managed to reflash the bios to an unedited version by "feel". I got lucky, it works again.

 

[Xtasy]

Wut do u mean by "feel".

 

[Jeff7]

Boot the computer with only the dead card in and type out the commands to reflash without being able to see what you're doing.

 

[TrevL63]

this is why you dont f*ck with bios editors unless you know what your doing.

 

[rogue1979]

I learned my lesson!

 

[Xtasy]

I took the necessary precautions. i exhanged the card.

 

[Xtasy]

EZ 4 u to judge until it has happened to u.

 

[TrevL63]

how did you get the card exchanged when it was YOUR fault? :|

 

[Demonic]

I agree with Trev that you did not deserve a replacement..

Because a statement like that does nothing useful and even though you exchanged the card so you no longer have a problem I will give you a possible solution.

I beleve you simply messed up and saved an altered BIOS file as your backup. The Nvidia Bios Editor site contains the original BIOS files of pretty much all the geforce cards. So you could have downloaded the original BIOS file for your card and flashed with that. Aswell, you could have opened the BIOS files you had now with Nvidia Bios Editor and checked up on the settings in the backup of your original BIOS.

 

[SpeedTester]

I agree with Trev and Demon. Dont Fu^k something up then want a replacement.
Your the kinda person that made me decide not to open a e-store.

 

[TerryMathews]

All you need to repair a bad flash on an nVidia card is a PCI video card, a copy of nvflash, and a working ROM image. Since the ROM on the nVidia card is hosed, the computer won't detect it as a valid video card and will default to the PCI card allowing you to use the computer. Get to a DOS prompt and run nvflash. Very easy.