GPU Problems After flashing BIOS. PLEASE HELP!

[Ethanh100]

So recently I wanted to increase the voltage on my gpu so i made myself a custom bios with increased voltage values and flashed my bios with it. to this point I had flashed my bios about 5-10 times changing things back and fourth in order to get what I wanted. I always did it safely and disabled my gpu in device manager and made sure everything was good before re-enableing the driver and restarting. earlier today i did a flash and upon restart about 30 seconds into booting windows I get flashing pink/purple and teal blue artifacts across my screen and everything is frozen(picture is below). I turned my pc off and tried to reboot however the probelm persisted. I was sometimes able to have a steady boot and when I did I reflashed the bios with the original stock bios. After restarting the problem kept happening. I threw in a different old card I have and no problems and I decided to uninstall the driver with a tool that completly removes it and then put back in my main card(gtx 960 G1 gaming) and booted with no problems. i then decided to flash the bios with the backup of the origianl bios that I kept on my nas(I did this to ensure the other copy on my c disk wasnt corrupted) and did all of that, restarted with no problems and reinstalled the gpu driver. After having the driver installled and having geforce experience install a game ready driver I restarted and the same problem again. What is happening. clearly it only happens with teh driver running because within the bios it is fine and with it unisntalled it worked. Can someone please help me becuase I really dont know what i would do if i have just bricked this card.... thanks so much!

[iBeast_M0de]

So recently I wanted to increase the voltage on my gpu so i made myself a custom bios with increased voltage values and flashed my bios with it. to this point I had flashed my bios about 5-10 times changing things back and fourth in order to get what I wanted. I always did it safely and disabled my gpu in device manager and made sure everything was good before re-enableing the driver and restarting. earlier today i did a flash and upon restart about 30 seconds into booting windows I get flashing pink/purple and teal blue artifacts across my screen and everything is frozen(picture is below). I turned my pc off and tried to reboot however the probelm persisted. I was sometimes able to have a steady boot and when I did I reflashed the bios with the original stock bios. After restarting the problem kept happening. I threw in a different old card I have and no problems and I decided to uninstall the driver with a tool that completly removes it and then put back in my main card(gtx 960 G1 gaming) and booted with no problems. i then decided to flash the bios with the backup of the origianl bios that I kept on my nas(I did this to ensure the other copy on my c disk wasnt corrupted) and did all of that, restarted with no problems and reinstalled the gpu driver. After having the driver installled and having geforce experience install a game ready driver I restarted and the same problem again. What is happening. clearly it only happens with teh driver running because within the bios it is fine and with it unisntalled it worked. Can someone please help me becuase I really dont know what i would do if i have just bricked this card.... thanks so much!

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As far as I can read ur sure its not ur monitor, right? that said those artifacts might be memory related. u said it was running stock clocks right? try turning the memory down a bit. maybe that will help. and also could u try to put a load on the gpu see what is happening with GPU-z as a monitoring tool and make a screenshot of it?

[Firestrike]

You may have gone too far on your increase ...

[Ethanh100]

As far as I can read ur sure its not ur monitor, right? that said those artifacts might be memory related. u said it was running stock clocks right? try turning the memory down a bit. maybe that will help. and also could u try to put a load on the gpu see what is happening with GPU-z as a monitoring tool and make a screenshot of it?

Yeah im sure its not my monitor cuz it happened on both my monitors every time. I did have my memory overclocked and I though I restored ti to default for now but maybe i didnt. (I only did overclocking in msi afterburner and only changed voltage values in the bios.) So what should I boot and for the few seconds I have see what the clocks are running at and resotre it to defualt.I mean I have tried to reflash the bios many times and i think it is sucsessful however it is still now working which is what makes me confused. I will try to grab the bios from gpuz and look at it to make sure it has the default values.

[Ethanh100]

As far as I can read ur sure its not ur monitor, right? that said those artifacts might be memory related. u said it was running stock clocks right? try turning the memory down a bit. maybe that will help. and also could u try to put a load on the gpu see what is happening with GPU-z as a monitoring tool and make a screenshot of it?

Yes I fixed it! thanks for your suggestion of memory clock failure as that was exactly the problem. So for anyone having a similar problem or just curious I will explain what happened. So when flashing my bios there was some kind of error that caused the card to have a bad flash and made problems. Somehow the settings for my clocks were altered and the sliders on MSI afterburner were pushed up all the way so i had a +1000mhz clock on my memory. That is what caused the problem and explains why it was only happening with windows booted(cuz afterburner automatically applied the profile) and with the driver installed because it can not change the clocks without the driver installed. So I just popped another card in and uninstalled all my overclocking utilities and now about 5-10 min into boot i am error free. Thanks a lot for your insight as I probably wouldnt have thought about that myself! 

[iBeast_M0de]

Yes I fixed it! thanks for your suggestion of memory clock failure as that was exactly the problem. So for anyone having a similar problem or just curious I will explain what happened. So when flashing my bios there was some kind of error that caused the card to have a bad flash and made problems. Somehow the settings for my clocks were altered and the sliders on MSI afterburner were pushed up all the way so i had a +1000mhz clock on my memory. That is what caused the problem and explains why it was only happening with windows booted(cuz afterburner automatically applied the profile) and with the driver installed because it can not change the clocks without the driver installed. So I just popped another card in and uninstalled all my overclocking utilities and now about 5-10 min into boot i am error free. Thanks a lot for your insight as I probably wouldnt have thought about that myself! 

There u go ;D no problem. I recognized the artifacts and recalled that that had something to do with either bad memory or a unstable memory overclock

[iBeast_M0de]

Yes I fixed it! thanks for your suggestion of memory clock failure as that was exactly the problem. So for anyone having a similar problem or just curious I will explain what happened. So when flashing my bios there was some kind of error that caused the card to have a bad flash and made problems. Somehow the settings for my clocks were altered and the sliders on MSI afterburner were pushed up all the way so i had a +1000mhz clock on my memory. That is what caused the problem and explains why it was only happening with windows booted(cuz afterburner automatically applied the profile) and with the driver installed because it can not change the clocks without the driver installed. So I just popped another card in and uninstalled all my overclocking utilities and now about 5-10 min into boot i am error free. Thanks a lot for your insight as I probably wouldnt have thought about that myself! 

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[Vellinious]

So recently I wanted to increase the voltage on my gpu so i made myself a custom bios with increased voltage values and flashed my bios with it. to this point I had flashed my bios about 5-10 times changing things back and fourth in order to get what I wanted. I always did it safely and disabled my gpu in device manager and made sure everything was good before re-enableing the driver and restarting. earlier today i did a flash and upon restart about 30 seconds into booting windows I get flashing pink/purple and teal blue artifacts across my screen and everything is frozen(picture is below). I turned my pc off and tried to reboot however the probelm persisted. I was sometimes able to have a steady boot and when I did I reflashed the bios with the original stock bios. After restarting the problem kept happening. I threw in a different old card I have and no problems and I decided to uninstall the driver with a tool that completly removes it and then put back in my main card(gtx 960 G1 gaming) and booted with no problems. i then decided to flash the bios with the backup of the origianl bios that I kept on my nas(I did this to ensure the other copy on my c disk wasnt corrupted) and did all of that, restarted with no problems and reinstalled the gpu driver. After having the driver installled and having geforce experience install a game ready driver I restarted and the same problem again. What is happening. clearly it only happens with teh driver running because within the bios it is fine and with it unisntalled it worked. Can someone please help me becuase I really dont know what i would do if i have just bricked this card.... thanks so much!

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1.  Which card is this?

2.  How much did you increase the voltage?  MOST of the cards out there won't let you go above a certain point anyway....usually between 1.212v and 1.3v.  1.3v being the max for pretty much all of them.  Certain exceptions, obviously, but.....you'd have to do more than just bios mod to get there.

NM...saw you got it fixed.  congrats.

 

[Hemant7756]

My laptop display show like this some times and after turn of display and than on it will all oky it happens some times what's the problem it's hardware problem or software 

[Hemant7756]

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