Hi zzpulp and everyone,

I have an Asus C90s, i dont play PC games, usually only internet games and so, and im not an overclocker altough i did overclock my card and reverted back to originals over a year ago, i had my Nvidia card working perfectly until 2 days ago, i was navigating the internet and suddenly bam, strikked colors all over the LCD, i tried to flash the VBIOS with nvflash and Nibitor to reduce the bootclock speeds but didnt work, i continued to have garbled characters.

Then i tried another VBIOS rom but apparently from an 8600M GT 256MB DDR3 whereas mine is 8600M GT 512MB DDR2. And here it got worse...

My notebook would not POST correctly anymore, the LCD showed some very fainted signs of striked lines as tough he was trying tu turn on but couldn't. The numlock led turned on but after 10 seconds the whole system crashed, looping the striked lines on the LCD, the only option was turning off.

So i removed the card ( because the notebook could POST this way) and tryes hot pluging the card to see if NVflash would detect it and it didnt.

Now, after the hot plugin, the card doesnt even work anymore (no signs of video output whatsoever) , but the notebook does post properly all the time now ( which makes me wonder if i blown the card with the hotplugin or the motherboard, but i can boot from USB so i suspect everything on the motherboard side to be ok).

But when i try to do a BLIND FLASH with a bootable USB ion these circumstances, NVFLASH says it can't detect the card anymore.

So i guess the only thing that is left for me to try is the -j option and the grounding of the STRAP_SUB_VENDOR pin but i dont know where to go from here...

Now, i dont want to spend a lot of money fixing this, even if i have to buy a new MXM card, but a hardware repair sure is tempting.

BTW Thank you very much for all your threads and dedication zzpulp

Yeah the only route you could take is hardware now since nvflash no longer recognizes your card. Unfortunately, I don't have the whitesheets for any card so I don't know where the subvendor pin is or how to locate it. Apparently, someone sent their EEPROM to be reprogrammed but I have never reprogrammed a chip so I can't help there either. Anyway, sounds like your card went dead (vertical bars and problems at post) and not even a proper BIOS flash would have saved it. Sorry man, but I think you're just gonna have to get a new GPU.

Hi zzpulp and everyone, i endep setting up an RMA, i feel any hardware attemps i may perform may broke something else. Hope the warranty will cover it all as it is clearly a design flaw from the graphics card, sudden corruption of the video while doing simple tasks and reset doesnt help is a sign of burned memory modules ( probably used already when they were placed on the card), so even if i would succeed with the strap subvendor pin i would have to fix the memory modules which is wayy out of my hands. Thank you for your cooperation, and if anyone else has the same problem, this is related to corrupted memory modules, so reflashing wont help. Thanks again

Sorry for the bump. Guide will receive final update soon. This is just a reminder to me.

nvflash 5.15 hotflash (unconfigured)

BUMP! hehe