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HD 7770 brick: blocking bootup (video card bios)

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  • Graphics Cards
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December 23, 2013 1:01:18 PM

Hey guys, I have bricked my HD7770's VGA BIOS on flash attempt.
Now I know how to recover such a thing. But, the thing is, the card blocks the PC when inserted. It will not boot up/PC will not even go through the system BIOS when the card is inserted.

It does not block when the power (gpu 6-pins) is out of the card, but this way the card wont be recognized so i cannot flash and recover the videocard's bios.

How can i re-flash my videocard if the card blocks any (tried several) PC from booting with it inserted? Do i need to have a electronic device to flash the chip or is there a way around this?
It seems that the GPU bios has a programmed feature to prevent booting a PC with the damaged video bios on it...

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a c 105 U Graphics card
December 23, 2013 1:21:45 PM

sounds bricked to me. not sure what you can do at that point. sorry :( 

possibly plug it into a secondary pci slot and run the system off the onboard graphics or another gpu. that might work
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December 24, 2013 6:35:32 AM

As mentioned i can't boot up an PC with the card inserted.
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a b U Graphics card
December 24, 2013 6:49:27 AM

Get a new one and don't flash BIOS...
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December 24, 2013 7:34:50 AM

Such helpfull answers.. Bye, tomshardware.
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a c 188 U Graphics card
December 24, 2013 10:10:15 AM

They were helpful, you can't boot to a damaged card, which means you need to boot to a non-damaged card. The only way to flash the ROM of the video card now would be to remove the chips off the card, and program them using a machine which would probably cost you 10 times more than a new even high-end video card.

Not getting the answer you were hoping to get is not cause for thinking it's a bad answer. Dead card = no boot with it. No way around it.
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