MSI GTX 760 BIOS MOD

[Bjørgersson]

Hiya everybody!

I have an MSI GTX 760 Gaming 2 GB VGA and - as you may know - the fans are running on 34% in idle, so with this speed the VGA is the loudest component in my PC (in idle).
My question is, could someone help me reduce this speed to 20% and then flash that modded BIOS to the VGA?

Thank you very much in advance!

Oh and of course, merry christmas to everybody!

 

[hat]

Step 1: download GPU-Z. To the right of the box that says BIOS VERSION, there's a little icon you can click that will save your BIOS to a file.
Step 2: download Kepler Bios Tweaker. Right on the front page there's a field for minimum fan speed, change this as desired. Save the edited BIOS (to a different file, always keep your original)
Step 3: Download the latest NVFlash, load your modified BIOS into it, and hope for the best...

It's possible this process may fail and brick your card. It might be easier to just download a tool like MSI Afterburner, and set the fanspeed from there. That said, I understand the allure of BIOS flashing, as there is no extra software required/running in the background. You do it once, it's permanent (unless you decide to change it again), no extra bullshit running.

 

[Bjørgersson]

Step 1: download GPU-Z. To the right of the box that says BIOS VERSION, there's a little icon you can click that will save your BIOS to a file.
Step 2: download Kepler Bios Tweaker. Right on the front page there's a field for minimum fan speed, change this as desired. Save the edited BIOS (to a different file, always keep your original)
Step 3: Download the latest NVFlash, load your modified BIOS into it, and hope for the best...

It's possible this process may fail and brick your card. It might be easier to just download a tool like MSI Afterburner, and set the fanspeed from there. That said, I understand the allure of BIOS flashing, as there is no extra software required/running in the background. You do it once, it's permanent (unless you decide to change it again), no extra bullshit running.

The problem is I can't go below 34% neither in Afterburner nor in nVidia Inspector, here's a screenshot.

Step 1: done
Step 2: sounds fairly easy, gonna try / do it tomorrow
Step 3: now this, how do I do it?

How possible is it to brick my card? Like, is it possible for me to mistype something and that causes to brick my card, or simply the card gets bricked while flashing the BIOS for some odd reason?

 

[Bjørgersson]

So, the thing is, I opened the BIOS I saved from the VGA and the minimum fan speed is 20% already. [pic] Now what?

 

[hat]

Mistyping not so much. But there's a chance power could go out while flashing for example, or something just goes wrong for some reason...

Not sure about the Windows version of nvflash honestly. I always used the DOS version, but I figured Windows would be easier to deal with.

-ed So the fan speed is already 20% minimum, but it's running higher than 20% while idle? I'd be going back to GPU-Z and investigating temps and GPU usage. Not sure what could be hogging the GPU while idle, but still...

 

[Bjørgersson]

Oh, I see. It doesn't sound so promising. :/

Exactly. [pic] GPU usage is ~0%, temperature is 22-23 °C yet the fans are running on 34%.

 

[Bjørgersson]

So, I successfully flashed the BIOS and it seems like the fan controller cannot let the fans go below 34%, no matter what is in BIOS.

 

[Kanan]

So, I successfully flashed the BIOS and it seems like the fan controller cannot let the fans go below 34%, no matter what is in BIOS.

Maybe because below 34% the fans would shut down entirely, because they need a minimum voltage to work and it's on 34% speed. Well nice try anyway