SLI BIOS Flashing

[compgeek89]

What's the beef on flashing cards in SLI?

Can I flash both at the same time, or does it only flash the card in slot 1, or will it totally screw something up?

Using NVFlash on a floppy of course.

 

[thilanliyan]

Why don't you flash one card at a time?? (ie. remove one, flash, then do the other)

OT but jeez what kind of cooling you got on the 7900GT with 1.69(!!!)v???

 

[josh6079]

I did the same things with my 7800's only I used a flash drive instead of a floppy. Just take one card out, flash it, and clock it. Put another one in, flash it, and clock it. Then you'll have same absolute cards.

 

[compgeek89]

Im on water, and it's a huge PITA to remove the cards each time.

 

[thilanliyan]

Originally posted by: compgeek89
Im on water, and it's a huge PITA to remove the cards each time.

Damn, even with water...1.69v??? Isn't stock like 1.4v for the 7900 core or something??

I hear ya about removing the cards though...I'm on watercooling too.

Just unseat one card (your cooling lines are flexible enough??) without taking it out of the case and then flash the other...then repeat for the other card.

 

[compgeek89]

ive done it twice already, was just wondering if i had to do it every time. A user @ g3d says he's flashed SLI 79GTXs with v5.18 without removing the cards.

Stock is 1.2v for the 79GTs

 

[TheRyuu]

Yes, you can flash if you have two cards. I belive that NV Flash (or whatever it's called) SHOULD ask you for which card that you want.

You might want to check into it though and test it out (like do a dump of a bios and see if it gives you a selection)

 

[josh6079]

Oh, yeah....water.....I'm on that now too and it does suck when you have to take out components.

Unless you know how to select which one to flash through NVflash, you're better off doing what thilan29 suggested and simply taking the card out from the connection just a little bit. Just as long as the motherboard doesn't register it, you're good to go. If you do know someone at g3d who knows how to do both at once, try finding out from him and let us know. I'm curious as to how to make that work as it would solve some headaces. Sorry I can't be much more help as I've already pawned off my 7800's.

Let us know what happens.

 

[compgeek89]

Well, NVFlash just tells me both cards dont match the BIOS when I try to flash both together, and it doesnt give you the option to force the flash unless you are in single card mode, so I had to use that.

 

[josh6079]

I thought the option to force the flash was like 4,5, and 6? Also, isn't there a command that you can put in to bring up a menu that tells you what all of the possible commands can do and how they are writtten?

 

[compgeek89]

-5 -6 is a given, i always use it

I checked every command and didnt see a way to do it.

 

[josh6079]

Okay here we go, I thought there was a 4 in there somewhere to force it. This is the site I used when I had to do mine. They made me a pretty sweet custom bios and gave nice guides on how to do it:

CLICK

 

[compgeek89]

hmm, that's using 5.13, I was using 5.18 and 5.36

 

[Kyanzes]

Originally posted by: compgeek89
hmm, that's using 5.13, I was using 5.18 and 5.36

Where did you get that engineering sample cpu of yours?

 

[compgeek89]

XS

 

[Kyanzes]

Originally posted by: compgeek89
XS

Could you please elaborate? What is XS? Nice speed on that CPU indeed. I know I'm on the edge of offing your topic but care to share some benchmark results on that rig?

 

[compgeek89]

XtremeSystems

My Records thus far:

Aquamark 3: 199,311
3D Mark 2005: 21,419
3D Mark 2006: 12,795
Super PI 1M: 12.844s

 

[compgeek89]

Scratch that, I just ran 13,005 in '06

http://img473.imageshack.us/img473/2851/3d2006130059ty.jpg

 

[josh6079]

NICE. Did you decide to use 5.13?

 

[compgeek89]

no, i took the card's out. :S

 

[josh6079]

Well, whatever gets the job done. When there's a will, there's a way.

I hope that didn't mess up any water tubes or connections.

 

[compgeek89]

nah, ive done it quite often, just tired of it...