curiousmike
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I have that feeling in my stomach right now.
I totally just lept before I looked.
Heres what I did.
1. Yesterday, buy a new Sapphire 4770.
2. Today, discover an ASUS bios will make it faster.
3. Hardly read.
4. Download GPU-Z; managed to save Sapphire BIOS before proceeding.
5. Found a copy of ASUS4770.BIN; purportedly my savior.
6. Downloaded WINFLASH.
7. Downloaded RBE.
8. Didn't read instructions for RBE, just mashed buttons.
this is where I get hazy
9. Load BIOS... (The ASUS Bios)
9.5 Browsed to where WinFlash was
10. Acquire/flash -> ticked "Force flash"
11. "Flash Bios"
12. Flash successful, you must reboot.
13. Reboot. To black screen and nothing is coming up.
14. Power off machine. Power on machine. repeat
15. Goto 14 with fingers crossed.
16. Post this thread.
Is there a chance the card is salvageable?
I can take the card into work ( where a floppy drive exists... I did read something about that.)
I also read that if I can find a mobo with onboard video ( or an old PCI card ), I might be able to fix this?
I'm sure there are 20 threads about my predicament here.... but when it happens to you, you sorta panic.
Help me!
I totally just lept before I looked.
Heres what I did.
1. Yesterday, buy a new Sapphire 4770.
2. Today, discover an ASUS bios will make it faster.
3. Hardly read.
4. Download GPU-Z; managed to save Sapphire BIOS before proceeding.
5. Found a copy of ASUS4770.BIN; purportedly my savior.
6. Downloaded WINFLASH.
7. Downloaded RBE.
8. Didn't read instructions for RBE, just mashed buttons.
this is where I get hazy
9. Load BIOS... (The ASUS Bios)
9.5 Browsed to where WinFlash was
10. Acquire/flash -> ticked "Force flash"
11. "Flash Bios"
12. Flash successful, you must reboot.
13. Reboot. To black screen and nothing is coming up.
14. Power off machine. Power on machine. repeat
15. Goto 14 with fingers crossed.
16. Post this thread.
Is there a chance the card is salvageable?
I can take the card into work ( where a floppy drive exists... I did read something about that.)
I also read that if I can find a mobo with onboard video ( or an old PCI card ), I might be able to fix this?
I'm sure there are 20 threads about my predicament here.... but when it happens to you, you sorta panic.
Help me!