Jojobaplant
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Hey there,
I had a question about the card as per title of this post. Like so many others I mistakenly thought that flashing a gpu bios was like flashing a mobo's bios - the latest being the best. I went down in flames on that one and my card bricked as a result. After a few days I managed to get it to work by flashing it in safe mode with the card disabled. However, the ONLY bios that worked was the bios of a cheaper model with less hdmi ports etc. The Gigabyte geforce gtx 1050 ti OC is about 50 to 100 quid cheaper than the model I bought last month and has only one hdmi port instead of the three for which I bought this one. And it acts as such: only one port is working and the others are dead. I was more or less forced to use this lower end card's bios as for whatever reason the bioses for my own card did not do a thing. As this seemed odd to me, I contacted Gigabyte tech support, but they basically told me to go f* myself and contact the seller if I had any issues with my card. While this was an interesting standpoint from a service provider for me as a service quality manager, I knew what would happen when I would send it back to the seller - I'd be losing it like for six weeks and then at long last, I'd get a refurbished other one back. And to me that's not an option - I paid more than 200 quid for this thing - I want one that has not been used by anybody else.
My question now is: is there anybody here that has had the same issue where they had to downgrade to a lower model in order to get it to work and if they fixed it, how did they? Or is RMA'ing it the only option if I want to use the card the way I paid for it? Thanks and apologies for the kinda long story - I write for a living, it's a habit to write long explanations. Cheers from Dublin.
Gr,
J.
I had a question about the card as per title of this post. Like so many others I mistakenly thought that flashing a gpu bios was like flashing a mobo's bios - the latest being the best. I went down in flames on that one and my card bricked as a result. After a few days I managed to get it to work by flashing it in safe mode with the card disabled. However, the ONLY bios that worked was the bios of a cheaper model with less hdmi ports etc. The Gigabyte geforce gtx 1050 ti OC is about 50 to 100 quid cheaper than the model I bought last month and has only one hdmi port instead of the three for which I bought this one. And it acts as such: only one port is working and the others are dead. I was more or less forced to use this lower end card's bios as for whatever reason the bioses for my own card did not do a thing. As this seemed odd to me, I contacted Gigabyte tech support, but they basically told me to go f* myself and contact the seller if I had any issues with my card. While this was an interesting standpoint from a service provider for me as a service quality manager, I knew what would happen when I would send it back to the seller - I'd be losing it like for six weeks and then at long last, I'd get a refurbished other one back. And to me that's not an option - I paid more than 200 quid for this thing - I want one that has not been used by anybody else.
My question now is: is there anybody here that has had the same issue where they had to downgrade to a lower model in order to get it to work and if they fixed it, how did they? Or is RMA'ing it the only option if I want to use the card the way I paid for it? Thanks and apologies for the kinda long story - I write for a living, it's a habit to write long explanations. Cheers from Dublin.
Gr,
J.
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