Hey all, new to the forums, and starting off with some bad news (for me at least anyway) and a word of warning about attempting this bios flash if you are an idiot noob like me.
I got myself a pair of XFX 6950's and bios flashed them to the 6970 spec. Kept getting artefacts in 3D, so decided to backtrack and reflash them back to their original bios's.
First card flashed back smooth, no problems....
But then i take out the first card and stick in the 2nd one to go to flash that back too, turned my pc on, and BAM... instant artefacts all over the place, from the moment i turn my pc on and it starts loading up the motherboard welcome screen, windows 7 loading screen, desktop etc etc, wobbly artefacts are everywhere.
So i uninstall CCC, do the usual safe mode driver sweeper thing, then boot again (artefacts still everywhere) and reinstall CCC, hoping it may fix things. After its done installing it of course tells me to reboot, so i do, except now whenever i get to the Windows 7 logo loading screen, i just get a blue screen of death, stating something about a Video driver reset timeout error. So now i cant get back into windows to unflash the 2nd card!
I've tried flicking the switch on the card to reset the bios, but i still get the same scenario of artefacts straight away from boot, straight into a BSOD at windows loading screen.
So i'm guessing that i must have done something wrong and fried something like the core or the memory... and now i cant flash it back, meaning its doubtful i can get a refund on the card (even though it would be dishonest to do so now of course, but that kind of cash is a lot for someone who only works a part time job :\)
Any suggestions, ideas, advice, cash donations (joke) would be very helpful.:\:'(
Thanks.