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    bricked 5850help

    Discussion in 'Alienware M15x' started by elflegolas, Aug 1, 2011.

  1. elflegolas

    elflegolas Notebook Consultant

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    Well it start with when i trying to overwrite the sub vendor and card id to an 5870,i tot i using a 5850m bios to edit that,could just change the name as 5870m,well....now i have prove myself wrong and the gpu is dead
    i've called dell to come tmr,but wt shud i tell the tech?
    shud i just say i dun know y ,it suddenly dead
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    shud i say i try to upgrade dell's vbios and it fail,then dead
    please advice :(
     
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  2. Greatass

    Greatass Notebook Enthusiast

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    I would just tell him the card died. Say you were in the middle of playing a game and it died. If you have no image and the card truly is dead, he has no way to check if it was a error of bios flashing. He should not care too much anyways. I imagine he will just claim it a faulty card.
     
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    I can probably fix it. I can send you a new chip with a proper VBIOS on it, but you'd need to desolder the chip on your card and solder back the new chip, or you send me the card and I do the whole procedure. It's not completely free though.

    Edit: Does your system still POST or not? You might be able to blind flash it.
     
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  4. elflegolas

    elflegolas Notebook Consultant

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    @great thx for advice，hope later he wont find out

    @sv thx man，if dell wont change it for me or charge me an unreasonable price，maybe i'll buy one chip from u，but i asked my frd to disolder it 4me yst
    he said he couldn't program my chip，cant write into it at all. He said maybe the chip is dead？but i did nth but only changing the card id to 5870 and that's it，or maybe the programmer he used didnt support that chip？i dk this kinda thing XD
     
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