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Hijin25

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Greetings. First of all I apologize for my English, it's not my mother tongue.

Recently update the bios of my video card, following a guide on YouTube using NVIDIA NVFlash, one of the steps of the guide was to disable the write protection. The fact is that I made the steps and apparently everything turned out to be successful, but I am left with the question of whether I should re-activate the write protection or there is no problem or risk for leaving it disabled.

Thanks in advance for any clarification.
 
you should re-activate it
if you leave the jumper in it will short the chip out
 
Jumper? Short the chip out? Anyway, no on both. No jumper. And no it wouldn't short anything out even if there were. The jumper has 2 possible configurations for a reason. Either configuration can be used. If/when the jumper is there to use. Which on a graphics card would be unheard of.

As far as the software write protection, it probably wasn't enabled to begin with. Unless you tried flashing it and found it was. At any rate, leaving it disabled won't hurt anything. If you feel like enabling it anyway...go ahead and try. That might not work either. But there's no harm in trying. I base all this on my experience with ATIFlash. In which the lockrom and unlockrom commands do nothing. Maybe they did at some point. But they don't work anymore.
 
Thanks for answering.

I disable writing through the command NVFlash64 --protectoff, to reactivate it I must enter the command NVFlash64 --protecton?

I did not do anything physical on the card everything was through commands on nvflash

The steps of the guide were, disable the write protection, make a backup of the bios and finally update the one that you download from this same site. And restart.
 
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MrGenius said:
Jumper? Short the chip out? Anyway, no on both. No jumper. And no it wouldn't short anything out even if there were. The jumper has 2 possible configurations for a reason. Either configuration can be used. If/when the jumper is there to use. Which on a graphics card would be unheard of.

As far as the software write protection, it probably wasn't enabled to begin with. Unless you tried flashing it and found it was. At any rate, leaving it disabled won't hurt anything. If you feel like enabling it anyway...go ahead and try. That might not work either. But there's no harm in trying. I base all this on my experience with ATIFlash. In which the lockrom and unlockrom commands do nothing. Maybe they did at some point. But they don't work anymore.
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jumper as in jumper wire

I assumed he had wp pulled low or something for flashing with is necessary on most nv cards

because software flashing save for updating a vendor provided image is not a thing on nvidia cards
 
My card is a GTX 1050 Ti OC Low Profile 4G gigabyte. The guide I followed did not say anything about a jumper, I hope I did not bother my card. X (

It's the first time I do a flash.
 
If it flashed ok, don't worry about it. it is ok to leave it like it is now.
 
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