bricked aw18 video card 770m

Hello Mr . Fox and everyone,

I was flashing my 770m vbios and process was interrupted before complete now get 8 beeps on boot. I was trying blind flash with no luck how long does it take? Also is blind flash possible while beeping? I set the usb to #1 boot priority prior to flash and backed up my vbios. I have not removed the videos cards yet or swapped them. What would be best thing to do at this point?

 

Blind flashing the system BIOS only works on the pre-Haswell machines. That will not fix a soft-bricked GPU anyway. If you are referring to a blind vBIOS flash, that will not work if the machine is beeping because it is not moving forward in the boot process. The beep is interrupting the POST operation.

If you only flashed one 770M, try swapping them into opposite PCIe slots and leave the SLI bridge disconnected to see if it will boot with the other 770M in the primary slot. If it does, try re-flashing it.

The Alienware 18 does not have an unlocked BIOS to set SG mode, so using that workaround to re-flash a soft-bricked GPU is only possible in the pre-Haswell machines.

 

Thank you Mr Fox. That did the trick was a pain though swapping cards and heatsinks. Had to swap both cards then I could post. Upon running nvflash it showed one card has invalid Rom. Flashed both cards with unlocked vbios. Just ran some benchmarks with unigine valley and I am getting 5 fps LOWER than stock vbios. Very disappointed don't know why this is. On stock my gpu clock was 901.5mhz @ 0.968v , with oc vbios set at 940mhz @ 1.025v . Temps stayed roughly the same and that is with reusing the TIM because didn't have any with me. Why would I lose 5 fps! Thanks for the help though I was really worried I bricked a card

 

try this Vbios i am using it for my 880M its much better then before
if you cant download then you can still google the name of your file and download it

 

Yup that is the one I used by svl7 Nvidia 770m - 80.06.51.00.0F 'OC edition' - rev02.zip , only thing that changed was the cards got swapped slots and the bios was flashed on both cards. I will double check all my bios settings because reset them to default but there isnt much in there that I could think would affect the fps like that.

 

What driver are you using? I would suggest doing a clean reinstall of the driver.... Also see how the clocks are fluctuating in games etc by using Hwinfo64...

 

Found out what the cause to problem was , turns out I had nvidia shadowplay turned on I guess it has a 5 fps overhead. I was using it to view fps in far cry 4.

 

Not surprising.. It hits your CPU when recording and also whacks your GPU's a bit.. BTW have you checked if any of your hard drive space is being used up by the recorded footage?

 

Shadow play buffers even when off so yes it will take a chunk, the monitoring tool with msi afterburner is pretty good for just getting an FPS display.

 

@TomJGX I havent seen if any space was getting taken up by recording as I do not believe I recorded anything, no matter though I have reinstalled the OS I want to say 3 times since then and havent been using shadowplay anymore.

@Meaker I will give MSI afterburner a shot thanks for the advice