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Originally Posted by PlayerPawn
I'm smart about some things but not this flashing stuff. If I flash my BIOS on my Ultra with one of these - it's basically the SAME bios, just with edited clock speeds, right? ...
There might be a way to flash even a corrupted card. Since you have internet access, check out some info on nvflash and 'rom strap'.
romstrap j Override the ROM strap setting to allow flashing an image when grounding the...
It also seems to only do this when the CPU is pretty much idling. Give it any processing to do, and it quits. I really need to find out if it's just the CPU I bought off ebay.
Hmm... I tried setting the clock to 6x but leave the voltage at 1.3 and it still did it. When I set the voltage above is when it starts happening.
I think I'm going to pull out the pinmod, and see if the same thing happens with just...
I tried undervolting it a bit to see if it got any quiter, and no luck. Odd thing is, when doing the CPU test in CHC it went quiet, but the minute the test exited it started up again.
I buy as much from ZZF as Newegg. I find ZZF's shipping to be better, and was said, Newegg's selection better. I usually just go to pricegrabber.com for what I'm looking for (which spiders both newegg and zipzoomfly), and then make sure...