• Welcome to TechPowerUp Forums, Guest! Please check out our forum guidelines for info related to our community.
  • The forums have been upgraded with support for dark mode. By default it will follow the setting on your system/browser. You may override it by scrolling to the end of the page and clicking the gears icon.

Extremely high GPU temperatures after BIOS flashing

Draxiu

New Member
Joined
Nov 28, 2015
Messages
10 (0.00/day)
Hi. Yesterday i've unbricked my hd6850 and it started overheating. GPU is reaching about 105'C. Before flashing it hadn't been reaching more than 70'C. What to do?
 
Hi. Yesterday i've unbricked my hd6850 and it started overheating. GPU is reaching about 105'C. Before flashing it hadn't been reaching more than 70'C. What to do?

Most likely the bios you flashed is still a bit different from the original
 
increase your fan speed
 
replace thermal paste under the heatsink. If it's the original thermal paste on a HD6850, I'm pretty sure it's dried up and not working like it should.
 
I've been replacing it to Revoltec thermal grease. 4,5W/m-k
 
did you try reinstalling drivers again, ive had flashes need that, to work right. oh and reflash if that doesnt work did you bacup your old bios first, try reflashing that one and see if the fault remains.
 
ok, so fan speed is maxed, thermal paste has been replaced (I'm assuming you know not to use too much paste), can you run the program GPU-Z and post a pic of the sensors page while the GPU is at full load?
 
I've been reinstalling whole system. I've got no old bios backup :<
 
Here is photo. I don't have any kombuster, etc. I've been using wow.
 

Attachments

  • Untitled.png
    Untitled.png
    1.8 MB · Views: 1,153
look at the card(use your eyes), is the fan spinning?
 
At least you unbricked it. Good job not an easy task
 
if those temps are accurate, somethings really wrong. is the card too hot to touch with your finger?
 
Interesting. Just a couple of questions...

How high is the temperature in the room your computer is in? (Since it's idling at 38ºC, I'm assuming the air temp is at least 22ºC or more...not seeing OV, so bad case airflow maybe?)
Do if you let the card idle, do the clocks go down?
Oh...does it say 960 shaders?
 
I bet a wrong bios file for different VRM... the VRM kicks in it's max voltage mode... as the table is messed up, I bet the card overclocks like beast now lol
 
hmm..I would try a different BIOS 1st..
Do you have your GPU model#?
Another trick would be to manually edit the voltage table.
Not sure if RBE or VBE7 is what to use..never owned one of those.
Take off the sink and take a pic of the front and back and upload it if possible
 
Msi afterburner sometimes starts up with fan on manual at 40% , which then gpu get hot ( yoh it bugs me)
Make sure on auto at least

Why no fan Monitoring / Rpms , is it not supported ?
Is fan Speed changing when increasing the speed?
Is fan plugged in...
 
Back
Top