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GTX 1060 6GB - Flash / Repair Question

Sintjago

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I have two cards that are pretty much the same, apart from one being from EVGA and one from ZOTAC (both mini 1060 6GB cards, same bios #, and clock settings). Zotac one is working well, while the EVGA one is not displaying an image but when I did a 3DMark benchmark I got values from the non-functioning one and it shows on both device manager and GPU-Z. I am not trying to run both in one system (No SLI support), but I was hoping by having them on the same system I could use the working one to recover the broken one (copy rom over). I tried flashing with Nvflash64 but it tells me that the card is unconfigured. I was thinking of flashing to the EVGA one the rom from the working ZOTAC card (or flash a generic 1060 6Gb rom from the rom library) to the EVGA card but not sure how to do this if the card is "not accessible" by Nvflash64. Would love to get the EVGA card working. The ZOTAC reports Cuda while EVGA doesn't in Z-GPU. 3DMarks for some reason is listing the EVGA one as primary (however it doesn't recognize it as a 1060), even when the output was through the ZOTAC HDMI port only. I cannot output video via the EVGA one. Any suggestions?

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I really can't understand what you're trying to do.

Try to flash the original BIOS from MS-DOS mode.

You can also try HyperSLI to patch Nvidia drivers.

If the card was bricked before, and you flashed it in attempt to resurrect, I suggest trying another method (e.g. oven).
 
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Someone has flashed the wrong BIOS on to the non working card. The BIOS numbers should be unique to the device I.D. s shown.
Try: https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/186328/evga-gtx1060-6144-160902
Thanks for finding the bios for it! I'll try that. I haven't been able to flash anything to it. First time using Nvflash. Glad I hadn't flashed it yet, since I didn't have the right bios before. nvflash64 tells me it is not accessible and I don't know how to flash if they are not accessible.

Try to flash the original BIOS from MS-DOS mode. You can also try HyperSLI to patch Nvidia drivers. If the card was bricked before, and you flashed it in attempt to resurrect, I suggest trying another method (e.g. oven).
Just trying to fix it, by hopefully flashing it. I'll try to flash it from MS-DOS instead of CMD in Windows. Haven't been able to flash anything to it because Nvflash64 says it is not accessible. Havent wanted to mess something up by using the wrong commands in Nvflash, and also wasn't sure what to flash to it. Not sure what HyperSLI is. I'll try flashing it with the right bios first, look into HyperSLI, and if none of those options work, then I guess give up on it?

Thanks for the feedback. Sorry, haven't tried to repair a video card before.
 
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