"Dead" Video Card

[TheTomatito2]

Hi everyone, a few weeks ago, my GT210 died. That day I installed a VGA Bios in it, when I restarted the computer there only was some weird violet lines (as seen in the picture). The fan spins. I tried downgrading the VGA Bios using my G31 onboard chipset to get video, but it didnt made any difference. I know its an old and bad gpu (even when it came out by 2009), but its a huge difference from a G31 chipset.

Sorry for bad grammar and ortography, my primary language is Spansih. Hope you guys can help me

Thanks.

[LabRat]

are you looking for someone to tell you to buy a new card? okay, buy a new card.

[007agentHP]

get a new GT 210

[BolginNT]

8 minutes ago, TheTomatito2 said:

Hi everyone, a few weeks ago, my GT210 died. That day I installed a VGA Bios in it, when I restarted the computer there only was some weird violet lines (as seen in the picture).

Just to be clear... did this happen after or before you tried to update a bios on your GPU? 

[TheTomatito2]

1 minute ago, BolginNT said:

Just to be clear... did this happen after or before you tried to update a bios on your GPU? 

After, I made it because (for no apparently reason) my gpu was automatically undervolting, and I thought it could related to bios/drivers

[BolginNT]

9 minutes ago, TheTomatito2 said:

After, I made it because (for no apparently reason) my gpu was automatically undervolting, and I thought it could related to bios/drivers

I might be wrong but it seems to me that you just bricked your own GPU. Either you are doing something wrong during flashing of a new bios or the GPU is really bricked beyond help and thus dead.

Even if the GPU was undervolting, was it still working? I know its little bit too late for such advice but you should have left the bios as it was.

 

Edit:

As a last resort, check THIS article, follow the procedure and pray to gods.

[TheTomatito2]

2 minutes ago, BolginNT said:

I might be wrong but it seems to me that you just bricked your own GPU. Either you are doing something wrong during flashing of a new bios or the GPU is really bricked beyond help and thus dead.

Even if the GPU was undervolting, was it still working? I know its little bit too late for such advice but you should have left the bios as it was.

It was working Just fine. 

You have 3 modes (850mv,900mv and 1000mv) In 850mv clock speed is 135, in 900mv is 405mv and in 1000 its 520. The problem is that after a few minutes of "gaming" the games stop and then I get a message saying that nvidia drivers has crashed and it has restarted, after that message the gpu limits itself to 900mv, so games where a lot more laggy. 

 

It wasnt de to temperatures, because they always where standing at 45-50

[SLAYR]

4 minutes ago, TheTomatito2 said:

It was working Just fine. 

You have 3 modes (850mv,900mv and 1000mv) In 850mv clock speed is 135, in 900mv is 405mv and in 1000 its 520. The problem is that after a few minutes of "gaming" the games stop and then I get a message saying that nvidia drivers has crashed and it has restarted, after that message the gpu limits itself to 900mv, so games where a lot more laggy. 

 

It wasnt de to temperatures, because they always where standing at 45-50

That sounds like a nvidia driver issue.

[TheTomatito2]

1 hour ago, BolginNT said:

I might be wrong but it seems to me that you just bricked your own GPU. Either you are doing something wrong during flashing of a new bios or the GPU is really bricked beyond help and thus dead.

Even if the GPU was undervolting, was it still working? I know its little bit too late for such advice but you should have left the bios as it was.

 

Edit:

As a last resort, check THIS article, follow the procedure and pray to gods.

Thanks a lot for your help, I really appreciate it. I saw that post but I wasnt shure about it, now you gave me the security to make it. Bye

[LabRat]

did you pull the card and enable the on board graphics? and if you did, if it's the same as the card, your motherboard may be bad. ( and you did hook the monitor to the motherboard when you say it was the same didn't you )?

[TheTomatito2]

12 hours ago, BolginNT said:

I might be wrong but it seems to me that you just bricked your own GPU. Either you are doing something wrong during flashing of a new bios or the GPU is really bricked beyond help and thus dead.

Even if the GPU was undervolting, was it still working? I know its little bit too late for such advice but you should have left the bios as it was.

 

Edit:

As a last resort, check THIS article, follow the procedure and pray to gods.

Thanks a lot for your help, I really appreciate it. I saw that post but I wasnt shure about it, now you gave me the security to make it. Bye

[TheTomatito2]

11 hours ago, LabRat said:

did you pull the card and enable the on board graphics? and if you did, if it's the same as the card, your motherboard may be bad. ( and you did hook the monitor to the motherboard when you say it was the same didn't you )?

Yes, when I turned the pc on without the gpu, I turned the onboard chipset to "always enabled", that way I could interact with my computer while having the video card installed. After that I tried to download another gpu bios (a original one) but I couldnt find it. I also re-installed the originals drivers from the CD that came with the graphics card, had no result. Just to be clear right now my pc works with the onboard chipset. 

Im going to try to get a graphics card to test it on my motherboard or get a motherboard to test the graphics card on. 

Thanks for the reply

[LabRat]

for whatever reason you thought you needed to update the bios on the graphics card............. you borked it.

[TheTomatito2]

4 hours ago, LabRat said:

for whatever reason you thought you needed to update the bios on the graphics card............. you borked it.

Idk what "borked" means, but ok. 

I thought I could deal with the undervolting by installing a bios so then I could change the settings in msi afterburner (or other oc utility)