I had just instaled MSI Update on my PC, it serched for updates... It then told me this!
Which translates into this!
I only found this out after runing 3Dmark05 and having artifacts evry where! If my GPU would have fried I would have sued MSI! (still might)
Last edited by myth; 18-12-2004 at 11:11 PM.
Do you actually have a MSI 6800Ultra?Originally Posted by myth
I had just instaled MSI Update on my PC, it serched for updates... It then told me this!
Which translates into this!
I only found this out after runing 3Dmark05 and having artifacts evry where! If my GPU would have fried I would have sued MSI! (still might)
Nope! Yet that didnt stop the MSI update program from OCing it to death!
what card u got?
well I wanted a BFG but instead I have a eVGA 6800 Ultra
Then dont be an idiot and install an MSI bios for a non MSI card.
That's a bit harsh! I don't think he planned on doing that, I think the MSI update just goes and updates everything in one go - in this case mistaking his card for an MSI one and automatically flashing the new bios.
If I caused it to flash the bios then I wouldnt have created a warning thread!
Live Update doesnt stealthily turn itself on, and auto update everything without ever requiring a click.
If it did this, then there is a massive program flaw.
Last edited by KDH; 21-12-2004 at 07:24 AM.
I pushed the intial click, but I never told it to update the gpu bios! Actualy the only click I did was to scan for updates....
It didn't update your BIOS, you need to be in DOS for that and need to use something like ATiFlash. It's impossible to kill a graphics card by overclocking or heat damage, they trip out at a certain temperature.
You have to be in DOS to flash your motherboard BIOS too... oh wait you don't have to any more!
You can kill things by overclocking them... there's no two ways about it. Sure, clocking too high usually don't kill things - you can recover from cockups with varying levels of difficulty, but if that liveupdate program did just go ahead and flash the wrong BIOS onto the card, then I'd be quite worried.
Given that I've not actually SEEN the program do its thing, I can't be sure whether it's a program or user error. Myth, perhaps contact MSI about the issue, see if they have had any reports similar to yours - even search the interweb for similar reports to yours.
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I was under the usumption it just changed a registry key that dealt with the core speeds... I dont think it actualy flashed my bios. If it did it pulled it off in 2 seconds in the background!
Well that's not as bad, but still not ideal.
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is there a program I can use to flash the VGA bios while in windows?
Not that I know of. Although I can't see them being that far away now.
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