Problem with friends GTX 970

[MachoGamzer]

Hello LTT Community!

This is my first post and I hope you guys have some knowledge to share with me today.

 

My friend bought my old 970 about the time the GTX 1080 Founders came out, because I got myself the 1080.. and he had an 560 or something along those lines.

From the date he put my old 970 into his computer, there has been an boot code showing up on screen "B2" and "A2", but the PC eventually booted up and "worked" fine. (Extending the boot time very much)

But he ignored it (I was not told about this) and kept on having it this way.

 

Some days ago he contacted me about this and asked if updating the BIOS would do anything to help his problem, and I said sure, It might help. But his computer skills are next to none, so I eventually offered to take the PC to my house and look at it personally. I found someone else with the same B2 boot code and they suggested that a Bios update on the video card did the trick, so I tried doing that (pretty sure I chose the correct update) after that I restarted the PC and finally got into the motherboard BIOS (yes I didn't manage to get into bios before updating the bios on the video card) and flashed that as well. Now, when I start this PC, there is a continuous black screen and then I tried pulling the video card out, and booting when having a DVI in the built in graphix, then the boot time was next to none, and everything worked perfectly.

 

Now I don't really know what to do.. I was thinking of maybe if I could throw his card into my computer and try to flash it with that, but haven't had time to test this..

 

Any suggestions or comments are very welcome, thank you LTT Community <3 

[Jasun]

2 minutes ago, MachoGamzer said:

I was thinking of maybe if I could throw his card into my computer and try to flash it with that, but haven't had time to test this..

This is your best bet. Just put it in your own computer and see if it even boots up. If it does then you have a problem with your friend's computer itself not the GPU.

[LabRat]

does the card still work in your machine?

what power supply does he have?

does it work when your power supply is in his machine?

does his old card work in his machine?

how many pci-e slots on his board?

[MachoGamzer]

4 minutes ago, Jasun said:

This is your best bet. Just put it in your own computer and see if it even boots up. If it does then you have a problem with your friend's computer itself not the GPU.

Hello, thanks for the reply. I have a question about that, Is it possible to have both of the cards in my computer when starting it, and then flashing the 970 with the nVFlash or what it's called, I forgot but hopefully you know what I mean

[MachoGamzer]

Just now, LabRat said:

does the card still work in your machine?

what power supply does he have?

does it work when your power supply is in his machine?

does his old card work in his machine?

how many pci-e slots on his board?

I have not had time to test his card in my machine

500w PSU

Have not thought of changing PSU's

His old card does not work in his machine, in the meaning of that the machine wont boot, only blackscreen (although my monitor detects a signal from the 970 gpu)

1 pci-e slot in his board

[TheRandomness]

You've just bricked your 970...

Use a different GPU as your primary one, and put the 970 in another slot. Then when using nvflash or whatever, list the video adaptors and make sure you have the correct card selected.

[Jasun]

Just now, MachoGamzer said:

Hello, thanks for the reply. I have a question about that, Is it possible to have both of the cards in the computer when starting it, and then flashing the 970 with the nVFlash or what it's called, I forgot but hopefully you know what I mean

I'm not very experienced in flashing things because I just don't do it.  Also, what do you mean by two cards in the computer? You can put two cards in the computer but if it doesn't have the SLI bridge then you can use them simultaneously. I'm not sure if you can switch between cables, for example, you plug in your cable into your own gpu and then unplug the cable and plug it into your friend's gpu while your computer is still running. 

[MachoGamzer]

2 minutes ago, TheRandomness said:

You've just bricked your 970...

Use a different GPU as your primary one, and put the 970 in another slot. Then when using nvflash or whatever, list the video adaptors and make sure you have the correct card selected.

So there is no problem with having 2 different card in my own machine and flashing his GPU while using my own as the primary one?

[TheRandomness]

Just now, MachoGamzer said:

So there is no problem with having 2 different card in my own machine and flashing his GPU while using my own as the primary one?

Yeah. Just make sure you don't accidentally flash your main card.

[MachoGamzer]

1 minute ago, TheRandomness said:

Yeah. Just make sure you don't accidentally flash your main card.

Alright, thank you! I will test this in the morning and come back here with the result

[LabRat]

1 hour ago, MachoGamzer said:

I have not had time to test his card in my machine

500w PSU

Have not thought of changing PSU's

His old card does not work in his machine, in the meaning of that the machine wont boot, only blackscreen (although my monitor detects a signal from the 970 gpu)

1 pci-e slot in his board

don't flash anything. that's not, or shouldn't have been the problem..........

do everything I listed above. then get back to us......

 

and don't say 500watt PS.......... what power supply?

[MachoGamzer]

4 hours ago, TheRandomness said:

Yeah. Just make sure you don't accidentally flash your main card.

Alright, so I first tried only with his GPU in my machine, then the same thing happened that happened to his. The Monitor got a signal, but only blackscreen, and the keyboard and mice did not light up.

 

Then I tried with both of the GPU's and it slowly started to boot up very slow and finally got into windows. But then it crashed, and then I remembered that I only have a 650w PSU, and it bearly makes the stuff I have in it now run around, so my bad on that end. But I removed it and my own machine works fine back to normal now. So now.. Is there anything I can do except getting a new PSU for my machine ?