NVIDIA GTX 680 GPU BIOS flash failed and card is bricked
I own NVIDIA GTX 680 GPU and I wanted to flash it’s BIOS because I read that it is possible to flash it to GTX 770. So I downloaded GTX 770 BIOS and read all tutorials. Now all what I got is a bricked GTX 680…
I tried to make DOS-stick to flash it back, but problem is that I can’t see what is really happening when I plug the GPU because it destroys even integrated GPU’s signal. I tried the stick without the GTX and it booted and it says that there is no NVIDIA cards attached which is correct. How can I get my 680 back to alive?
My motherboard is ASUS P8-Z77-V PRO.
EDIT: I managed to get the card to work. All I have to do is change motherboard to something which doesn't check the gpu and it worked without backup flash, so now I have GTX680 which performance equals to GTX770. Now my question is how do I get this to work with my own mobo? What the heck really. The mobo I managed to get it to work is Asus P8H77-M PRO.
2 Answers
You don't need to see anything (unless things go wrong), just follow instructions. I once recovered a card in such way, but I used a 4MB PCI card as primary so I could actually see what I'm doing. Following the re-flash procedure blindly should work...but if something unknown goes wrong it's best that you see what happens.
So if your MB has 2 PCI-E slots, put in another card, if it's old MB with standard PCI, use an ancient PCI card. That will make things significantly easier.
Since a lot of MBs do have 2+ PCI-E x8/16, just borrow a card to use so you can fix your own.
16GPU wasn't bricked at all. My PCs motherboard just recognized that the GPU have different model (GTX770) BIOS on it and refused to start. When I plugged the GPU to my server, there was nothing wrong with it.
I flashed it back to original BIOS and then modded it to match GTX770 specs and everything was alright.
Thanks to all of you for help!
