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Originally Posted by drdeathx
Troller. Help the guy and if you read the thread, it is not a paper weight.  |
Actually, it probably is. He said:
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Originally Posted by Detection
I have tried a few different BIOS's, even one I had saved from an identical card and the same result with them all, either that or they brick the card again
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If the BIOS for that particular video card doesn't work, there is a very good bet that the 6870 BIOS damaged the GPU for one reason or another.
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Originally Posted by drdeathx
Detection, I read a while back that flashing a 6850 to a 6870 is bad. The VRM's run much hotter and the cards have a high chance of burning up the VRM's/
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You beat me too it. It also runs the VRMs are the wrong voltage so components can be damaged as well as the VRMs.
Like I said, a hard lesson learned.