Issues With Zotac 3060 Ti Twin Edge OC LHR

[Teritas]

Hi,

I recently bought a few Zotac 3060 Ti cards off of FB marketplace but unfortunately ran into issues when attempting to get them to work. First and foremost, on some of the cards, I get fan spin on startup. However on one or two of the others, I don't. I've tried to do work on the cards that have fan spin first as those seem to be easier. I'm guessing the previous owner messed with the VBIOS, as when any of the cards are plugged in, there is no image nor does it show up in device manager. These cards also do not show up in GPU-Z when plugged in. The only place I am able to see that the card is connected is using nvflash. In the screenshot below, the GPU-Z image only detects my Gigabyte card which is in my first pci-e slot. The nvflash screenshot shows both cards are plugged in, whereas the Gigabyte is in the first 16x slot while the Zotac card is in the third. I have tried two versions of the vbios which work with this card, both with no significant result. If anyone has any advice for what I may be doing wrong or any suggestions, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

[izy]

Are you sure you flashed the right bios for them?

 

[eidairaman1]

Update your motherboard bios first then get back to us.


Also the 1st problem, is you bought cards from facebook market which have no means of buyer protection in case the product is defective. Most likely you bought Mining Abused cards which no longer work for anyone. Its possible these being Zotac they have fuses like the sister company Sapphire cards have.

You are not using a riser cable are you? Have you tried putting the working card in the 3rd slot only and boot from there with no other gpus attached to verify your 3rd slot isn't defective?

I'm also going to suggest to you to use the Intel UHD 630 IGP to boot up from (hook your monitor up to the motherboard IO ports) with the Zotac card installed where your gigabyte card is, remove the gigabyte card completely from the system so you don't brick that 1 too.

Get t he whitesticker pics of the zotac cards (card back or side of heatsink near pcie blade) and also while booted from the intel uhd switch the gpu-z screen to see the zotact card info.

 

[izy]

What i would try is first to download this new tool: https://www.igorslab.de/en/igorslab...e-in-the-registry-detect-and-delete-practice/ , delete all devices (not the iGPU), put the GPU in first slot ( the non working GPU) , boot with iGPU and work from there (flashing , checking if GPU-Z is detecting the card etc..). For me even with bad vbios but with the generic windows driver the GPU "worked" in the way that had video output and was detected by GPU-Z ( i couldnt even flash it in some cases before removing the driver with a bad vbios).

 

[Teritas]

Are you sure you flashed the right bios for them?

I was able to get the cards with spinning fans working. After flashing the bios version ending in 40.0E, which is from https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/235333/zotac-rtx3060ti-8192-210519, a quick reboot and reinstallation of the Nvidia drivers got them properly working.

However, when plugging my card in which doesn't even have fan spin, I get the following when trying to list the device using nvflash.

What i would try is first to download this new tool: https://www.igorslab.de/en/igorslab...e-in-the-registry-detect-and-delete-practice/ , delete all devices (not the iGPU), put the GPU in first slot ( the non working GPU) , boot with iGPU and work from there (flashing , checking if GPU-Z is detecting the card etc..). For me even with bad vbios but with the generic windows driver the GPU "worked" in the way that had video output and was detected by GPU-Z ( i couldnt even flash it in some cases before removing the driver with a bad vbios).

Did the following and had no significant results.

Update your motherboard bios first then get back to us.

My motherboard bios is currently updated to the latest version that is available.

Also the 1st problem, is you bought cards from facebook market which have no means of buyer protection in case the product is defective. Most likely you bought Mining Abused cards which no longer work for anyone. Its possible these being Zotac they have fuses like the sister company Sapphire cards have.

I’m guessing they probably were mining abused cards. Since they are LHR, I’m wondering if the previous owner tried to alter software to try and bypass the limiter.

If these cards do have fuses like Sapphire cards, is it possible that the card may be completely bricked down to the hand ware level?

You are not using a riser cable are you? Have you tried putting the working card in the 3rd slot only and boot from there with no other gpus attached to verify your 3rd slot isn't defective?

I am not using a riser. I have tried the card in a riser, but the same issues persisted. The third slot works without issues. Removed my working GPU and inserted the non-working one into the first slot with the same problems.

Get t he whitesticker pics of the zotac cards (card back or side of heatsink near pcie blade) and also while booted from the intel uhd switch the gpu-z screen to see the zotact card info.

 

[eidairaman1]

See if gpu--z detects the gpu while using the intel uhd