GhostlyCrowd

So quick update, the Bios chip on the Gigabyte P106 is a W25Q40EW which requires 1.8V logic to program instead of 3.3V so I'm currently waiting on a 1.8V adapter for my programmer from China, I had it express shipped so hopefully it arrives in 7-14 days as advertised. 

Edit here - So i took a risk of eraceing the eeprom which worked fine, i know it cannot be programmed as the logic is 1.8V and it wont be able to program all the pages with the 3.3v logic but it was able to wipe them.

Using NV flash after wiping it, it skips all checks because the eeprom is erased and it knows it. The only check it does do is the PCI hardware id which is physical. So it wont allow me to flash anythign that doesnt match vendor id 1C07. If we can figure out what resistors and values to change on the card for it to appear as a 1C06 which is the 1060 then all users would need to do is wipe/corrupt the  the eeprom and then it would be able to flash the 1C06 firmware. 

So quick update, the Bios chip on the Gigabyte P106 is a W25Q40EW which requires 1.8V logic to program instead of 3.3V so I'm currently waiting on a 1.8V adapter for my programmer from China, I had it express shipped so hopefully it arrives in 7-14 days as advertised. 

Edit here - So i took a risk of eraceing the eeprom which worked fine, i know it cannot be programmed as the logic is 1.8V and it wont be able to program all the pages with the 3.3v logic but it was able to wipe them.

Using NV flash after wiping it, it skips all checks because the eeprom is erased and it knows it. The only check it does do is the PCI hardware id which is physical. So it wont allow me to flash anythign that doesnt match vendor id 1C07. If we can figure out what resistors and values to change on the card for it to appear as a 1C06 which is the 1060 then all users would need to do is wipe/corrupt the  the eeprom and then it would be able to flash the 1C06 firmware. 

We will see i suppose
Well I plan on trying it. flashing the Gigabyte Windforce 6GB bios on my P106 its the exact same PCB and even the bioses look similar in a binary compare. I'll let you guys know how it fairs. 

We will see i suppose
Well I plan on trying it. flashing the Gigabyte Windforce 6GB bios on my P106 its the exact same PCB and even the bioses look similar in a binary compare. I'll let you guys know how it fairs. 

We will see i suppose
Well I plan on trying it. flashing the Gigabyte Windforce 6GB bios on my P106 its the exact same PCB and even the bioses look similar in a binary compare. I'll let you guys know how it fairs.