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I can't find RTX 3060m 12gb vbios if my life depended on it

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Hi! I bought a 3060m 12gb and it's acting all kinds of weird, and I thought maybe flashing the bios could help. The brand is Golden Memory. I coulndn't find their website or anything and I can't find its vbios anywhere! Can a vbios wizard help me out ???
 

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it's acting all kinds of weird, and I thought maybe flashing the bios could help.
What do you mean and how did you come to this conclusion? Bios isn’t like drivers the card is bad or it isn’t (or in this case literally unsupported and hacked together)
 
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What do you mean and how did you come to this conclusion? Bios isn’t like drivers the card is bad or it isn’t (or in this case literally unsupported and hacked together)
Sometimes it shows itself as having ZERO vram. I heard that it usually happens with a corrupted vbios.
 
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Post a GPU-Z screenshot at least, there is literally no information to go on.
 
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You bought an RTX 3060m which is a mobile chip that some 'company' (I use that term loosely) put on a desktop video card?
The 'company' name "Golden Memory" doesn't seem to actually exist.
The card doesn't work correctly.

Personally, I would be trying to return this card & getting a refund.
 
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You bought an RTX 3060m which is a mobile chip that some 'company' (I use that term loosely) put on a desktop video card?
The 'company' name "Golden Memory" doesn't seem to actually exist.
The card doesn't work correctly.

Personally, I would be trying to return this card & getting a refund.
I am doing both to cover my sides. Trying to fix it felix and to return it.
Here are pictures of it both when it loads up fine and when it loads up all wonked up.
 

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There are modded drivers for the desktop frankenmodded mobile GPU's, have you tried it with them as it won't work correctly with normal Nvidia drivers, though if you are returning it don't bother flashing the bios as it gives the seller an excuse to not accept the return and offer a refund
 
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There are modded drivers for the desktop frankenmodded mobile GPU's, have you tried it with them as it won't work correctly with normal Nvidia drivers, though if you are returning it don't bother flashing the bios as it gives the seller an excuse to not accept the return and offer a refund
Yes yes, I have a November frankendriver. That's not the issue.
 
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A quick look up of the bios version found these two bios' you could try, they're also desktop 3060M's so they may work. Just make sure you save the original bios first as a backup.

 
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A quick look up of the bios version found these two bios' you could try, they're also desktop 3060M's so they may work. Just make sure you save the original bios first as a backup.

Won't the memory size disparity automatically disqualify them? Mine is 12gb....
 
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Won't the memory size disparity automatically disqualify them? Mine is 12gb....
It's the same number of memory chips just double the size so I don't think it'll really matter.
 
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ok, done it using nvflash. I am now running kombustor on it. If it survives over 1 hour on it I will consider it a great success lol
ty for the advice.

PS: it does detect my vram.

Thank you, it did not solve my problem tho :')
 
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