EVGA GTX 980 ACX bad bios flash, what to do now?

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I was messing with bios files and came upon the hof 980 bios... When I flashed it to my evga acx 980 It was successful, followed by a reboot and when I log in my pc the display turns blank.. I have tried using igpu to flash original bios but pc will freeze... I have also tried using the dos USB method but when typing nvflash.exe (rom name) it says no nvidia adapters found... I have also tried safe mode but.. I guess Windows 10 safe mode is broken.. Idk what to do and I don't wana lose this card.. Any help will be greatly appreciated. I just need to flash the original bios... Somehow..

Edit: The closest i have gotten so far was by booting into safe mode with command prompt, and navigating to the nvflash folder but it wont work, due to services not being enabled.

 
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As I said above try a different version of Windows and cross your fingers. That's about all you can do.
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Congratulations on your $500 brick. This is why we leave BIOS alone unless it's necessary.

In all seriousness you probably killed the card but you can try flashing it with a different version of Windows.
 
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I do not think it is bricked, the card still will boot into windows, but the display will go blank after afew seconds, i think a bricked card will not display at all...
 
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As I said above try a different version of Windows and cross your fingers. That's about all you can do.
 
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Sigh.. I could install windows 8, and could i just insert the gpu and try flashing? But then the very odd thing is, when my gpu is plugged in while using igpu, i get a black screen after booting screen... :( And when gpu is out everything is fine..
 
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Why didn't you just use Precision X or Afterburner and overclock the card? 2 or 3 FPS from a possible BIOS flash aren't worth destroying a $500 card for, well not unless $500 is a nothing amount to you.
 
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Im going to message you...
 
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I re-installed windows 10 through igpu, used nvflash and all was good, but i think all that had to be done was uninstalling the nvidia drivers, and running through igpu. Thanks!
 
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