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    Zotac GTX 1070 bricked?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by razor0601, Apr 29, 2020.

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    Hello, last year I had a working Zotac 1070 but the fan had to control with HWInfo. So I decided to flash another VBios from MSI to get the fan working without HWInfo. Nothing changed. So a NBR member sent me various VBios here to hopefully get my card working. After flashing a GT72VR Bios the card wasn‘t recognized in my AW18 anymore and in an MSI GT60 with Optimus the screen stays black. Now a friend of mine flashed the original Zotac VBios with a programmer. But also the card is not shown in the AW18 Bios and the GT60 screen stays black.
    Does anyone knows what could be the fault?
     
    razor0601, Apr 29, 2020
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    Zotac 1070 mxm are not striaght compatible with laptops which read temp via SM BUS, hardware mod is needed.

    Wrong vBIOS to kill the card, could be so, check all voltages on the card first.
     
    IllusiveMan, May 6, 2020
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    All Voltages are fine
     
    razor0601, May 14, 2020
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    Is there any vBIOS chip activity?
     
    IllusiveMan, May 18, 2020
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    What do you mean by that?
     
    razor0601, May 18, 2020
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    I mean if the GPU is reading the vBIOS chip.
     
    IllusiveMan, May 19, 2020
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    Where to know that the gpu reads the VBios?
     
    razor0601, May 19, 2020
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    With a LED, some low voltage would do it.
     
    IllusiveMan, May 20, 2020
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    So I have to check it directly on the Bioschip with a Multimeter?
     
    razor0601, May 20, 2020
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    With LED.
    SCD to LED - pin and +1.8v to LED + pin.
    It should light up when vBIOS activity is done.
     
    IllusiveMan, May 20, 2020
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