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Crossflashing a rtx3050 mobile BIOS on a rtx3060m with 2 faulty memory modules? (downgrade?)

kakkoishonen

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Hello everyone!
I'm asking this if anyone can answer me 'cuz I couldn't find anything on the net about crossflashing a nVidia card.
I'm more experienced to AMD cards and I know I can flash a rx 580 bios on a 570 one for example.
So here is my problem:
I have an Acer Nitro 5 laptop with a RTX 3060 mobile but it has 2 defective memory modules (C0 and C1 on mats).
Considering those defective modules are the last soldered on the motherboard (following the diagram about memory location on nvidia cards)
I wonder if a can flash a RTX 3050 or 3050ti BIOS on the card so I can use the laptop GPU again (knowing 3050s only use 4gb of GDDR6 ram instead of 6gbs on the 3060m).
I plan on ordering an EEPROM Bios flasher and do this trick if it's possible as I saw on the net nvidia is re-using some defective 3060 for some 3050 models on the market.
I'm also planning on ordering 2 working memory modules if this method isn't working so I hope someone could answer me please.
Thanks
 
They're physically different chips (GA107 vs GA106)

Highly doubtful you can flash it the way you want. Use your laptop's warranty.
 
They're physically different chips (GA107 vs GA106)

Highly doubtful you can flash it the way you want. Use your laptop's warranty.
yes I recently knew about the GA107 and 106.
I can't use the warranty unfortunately.
If this trick isn't working then I have to order a pair of h56c8h24air-s2c DDR6 modules then but if I can use the laptop with a 3050 bios then I'll stick to this one as I don't really need a powerful rtx.
I still can use the intel UHD gpu but it's too weak for my online games.
I also saw on some russian and tech repair forums that we can disable faulty memory modules on RTX cards but the method is confidential among techs so it's really annoying asking them the tools and the method :D
 
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