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Possibly bricked my old 6850

Tomasu
By Tomasu
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God I'm dumb sometimes. sometimes.

 

I had flashed the bios years ago (up to 800/1200mhz from 775/1000mhz iirc), and I was thinking that's what was causing the fan speed issues (always at 75% and freaking loud). so I flashed the latest bios I found for it, and now it won't output anything.

 

I suspect I could probably re-flash it if I put in another card as primary, but what are the chances of that?

 

I'm letting the computer sit off for a while, probably won't help but you never know. At the very least I can't do any more damage ;)

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quite high if all that happened was the wrong bios got flashed

Thats that. If you need to get in touch chances are you can find someone that knows me that can get in touch.

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quite high if all that happened was the wrong bios got flashed

It's possible it was wrong, but I grabbed it from the techpowerup vgabios page. Searched down to the latest xfx 6850 1GB bios. It seemed to be ok with it till I rebooted.

 

Now, I did something potentially stupid on top of that. When It was rebooting, before or just after the computer POSTed, I turned the machine off to unplug something. Is it possible that stopped some part of the bios change?

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