3060 Ti Founders Edition - NVFlash

[monkeyboy46800]

Hi All,

Just wondering if their is a version of NVFlash which works on 3060 Ti FE, currently I have tried to flash the MSI bios on my FE but get error about mismatched board ID, even after setting protectoff

Would really appreciate your tips

 

[monkeyboy46800]

Hi,

I didnt come to ask your opinion on flashing , just a simple question about flashing Ampere Founders Edition...

If the flash goes bad then completely my fault (thats why I bought two of them, just in case).

 

[monkeyboy46800]

@Isaac`
Second card is actually sat in another pc right next to me now, will be keeping it.
And as this place is techpowerup, if you dont like the type of people who come here and post (overclockers like me) why dont you close your account and go somewhere else ?

 

[dark2099]

Hi All,

Just wondering if their is a version of NVFlash which works on 3060 Ti FE, currently I have tried to flash the MSI bios on my FE but get error about mismatched board ID, even after setting protectoff

Would really appreciate your tips

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Don't think it has been updated to support Ampere yet. If you haven't yet, would be sure to save your old BIOS now.

 

[monkeyboy46800]

Don't think it has been updated to support Ampere yet. If you haven't yet, would be sure to save your old BIOS now.

Thanks dark2099 , Bios saved already, its also already on the Techpowerup VGA Bios collection so I can download anytime if needed.
I heard some people with 3080 FE's are also having issue flashing to AIB Partner bios, not sure if this is because we need to wait for new NVFlash or if we are blocked in hardware.

 

[monkeyboy46800]

The reason I want to do this is because its fun, I have been doing this for the last 12 years going all the way back to the GTX 280 days, I have a suspision that you were probably still in nappies when I was overclocking 280 cards.....

 

[Hachi_Roku256563]

overclocking 280 cards.....

my first computer was a 486 and it was the best in the neighbourhood cause it was 100MHZ instead of 66

 

[nguyen]

People need to chill, your opinions about BIOS flashing are not valued by OP himself, go give your opinions somewhere else.

To OP, FE cards are particularly hard to cross flash, especially for this generation because Ampere use non-reference PCB for their FE cards. You will need modded NVflash to flash your FE card. Anyways you will find more help in overclock.net forum. People in this forum are against BIOS flashing and overclocking for some reasons...

 

[95Viper]

Stay on topic.
Stop the personal attacks.
It is the OP's hardware and it is his prerogative to do with it what he wants.
If you don't want to help the OP, then move to another thread you may enjoy.

Oh, by the way... TPU was, and still is, the go to place to experiment, mod, and OC your hardware.

Thank You and Have a Good Day.

 

[Final_Fighter]

instead of nvflash and keeping a second video card around pick up a ch341a with clip. like THIS. Also, dont let the other people here stop you from the pursuit of ultimate fps. people have been modding stuff for decades. its human nature.

back on topic. that programmer will get you out of a lot of tight places. pm me for the software for it and if you need help.

 

[Hachi_Roku256563]

Has anyone suggest returning the fe and just buying the msi card
surely that will have the performance gains your looking for

 

[monkeyboy46800]

instead of nvflash and keeping a second video card around pick up a ch341a with clip. like THIS. Also, dont let the other people here stop you from the pursuit of ultimate fps. people have been modding stuff for decades. its human nature.

back on topic. that programmer will get you out of a lot of tight places. pm me for the software for it and if you need help.

Thanks @Final_Fighter Just ordered one.

Now to identify which is the bios chip ?

 

[W1zzard]

currently I have tried to flash the MSI bios on my FE but get error about mismatched board ID, even after setting protectoff

From what I understand, NVIDIA locked this down even more on Ampere. Do let us know your results with a flasher, make sure to make a backup of your original BIOS.

My first guess for BIOS chip would be U16, front side, near gpu, google the text on it

 

[monkeyboy46800]

Flasher should be here on Wednesday.
But I think Nvidia's funky power cable connecter may rain on the day with regards to power measurement in bios.

 

[monkeyboy46800]

Hi all, just partially took apart my 3060 Ti to flash the bios, stopped when I got to the part of taking of the ribbon connectors on back top left and back bottom right, is there a special way to remove these from the connectors whithout breaking them ?

 

[W1zzard]

yes, fold the black flap upwards then pull out the cable. check the disassembly section of one of my recent FE reviews, more info there

 

[tabascosauz]

Doesn't look like there's any approved way of doing it. Lift up the black tab and be gentle i guess.

Starting at 7:25 is the ribbon cable

damn, got ninja'd by wizz

 

[monkeyboy46800]

So managed to get the ribbon cables off ( pretty simple really ) , attached rom flasher to bios chip but the software didnt detect what bios chip it was.
Software I am using is : CH341A Mini Programmer (Black Edition) By_NSC.
I pressed read rom and it did read 16MB of data, file here if anybody wants to take a look : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mS8PtWxGAmk2s3-ow0arFTXLJm2YsZI_/view?usp=sharing
But 16MB seems way to big compared to what is available here on the VGA database.

So if anybody has some other software that can read this bios chip i'd be happy to give it another try.

I did take advantage of having the card apart to apply some thermal grizzly as the paste that was on there was hard as nails

Checking through the file I pulled in notepad++ I definately see some references to Nvidia though

 

[W1zzard]

Yeah that is your BIOS. If you look in a hex editor you'll see that data repeats every 1 MB

 

[monkeyboy46800]

Yeah that is your BIOS. If you look in a hex editor you'll see that data repeats every 1 MB

Took it apart again, bios chip is : IS25WP080

Looks like I need software compatible with this chip..

 

[Nemanja]

@Isaac`
Second card is actually sat in another pc right next to me now, will be keeping it.
And as this place is techpowerup, if you dont like the type of people who come here and post (overclockers like me) why dont you close your account and go somewhere else ?

You are no overclocker at all since you lack the knowledge to pull the plastic retention locker out of that flat cable port .... just dump that card , its useless now . Hey how `bout 2 bucks for that gpu cooler ? - you cant add shaders and processors to a gpu so oc-ing is uselless not much of gain for a lot of risk and lost time. You do know that if you scratch that board over surface thats a dead gpu. Nice phone you got there, is it bios moded?

 

[StefanM]

Checking through the file...

Use this command: nvflash64 --version 3060ti.rom

NVIDIA Firmware Update Utility (Version 5.670.0)
Copyright (C) 1993-2020, NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved.


Sign-On Message       : PG142 SKU 20 VGA BIOS
Build GUID            : B7579E85E1124F4EB17FDA49589DBA98
IFR Subsystem ID      : 10DE-147A
Subsystem Vendor ID   : 0x10DE
Subsystem ID          : 0x147A
Version               : 94.04.25.40.E2
Image Hash            : N/A
Product Name          : GPU Board
Device Name(s)        : Graphics Device
Board ID              : 0x025C
Vendor ID             : 0x10DE
Device ID             : 0x2486
Hierarchy ID          : Normal Board
Chip SKU              : 200-0
Project               : G142-0020
Build Date            : 08/26/20
Modification Date     : 09/24/20
UEFI Version          : 0x60009
UEFI Variant ID       : 0x000000000000000A ( Unknown )
UEFI Signer(s)        : Microsoft Corporation UEFI CA 2011
XUSB-FW Version ID    : N/A
XUSB-FW Build Time    : N/A
InfoROM Version       : G001.0000.03.03
InfoROM Backup        : Present
License Placeholder   : Present
GPU Mode              : N/A

 

[zoobaka]

Download the newest one. Ive flashed a zotac twin eagle to asus tuf .
2100 mhz solid now

 

[monkeyboy46800]

Download the newest one. Ive flashed a zotac twin eagle to asus tuf .
2100 mhz solid now

Not working for FE card unfortunately.....

 

[zoobaka]

Funny cause it says"

If you want to flash a RTX Founders Edition board with a non-FE BIOS, use this modded version of NVFlash."

Not working for FE card unfortunately.....

So nvidia app no work on nvidia hardware.
Sneaky basterds.

Did you do 2 dashes ?
--protectoff ?

The nvflash i used didnt need 64
Did you disable the card in device manager ,?

Has anyone suggest returning the fe and just buying the msi card
surely that will have the performance gains your looking for

Then he can flash a asus bios and clock 100 mhz higher