Curious about flashing BIOS on my Gigabyte GTX 560 to fix it? (need someone very skilled with graphics cards)

Craig M

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Ok, I'm not sure if graphics cards even have BIOS lol Long story short, I got this card a while back and it for some reason just stopped working after I shut down the computer a few times. Keep in mind that I had to change my motherboard's BIOS to support the CPU so that the computer would turn on and work for the first time which it did. I shut the computer down a few times after that and then it wouldn't turn back on at one point and it was the graphics card error beep code. I bought a low profile graphics card and the low profile graphics card works on the computer now and is what I'm using currently. I was just wondering if the BIOS in the Gigabyte GTX 560 messed up after a bit and if I can flash it and fix it? I have another desktop that I could attempt this if needed. I feel that after I had to change the motherboard BIOS (to support the cpu that I had for computer at the time) that it messed up the BIOS in the graphics card somehow after a few uses. Thanks
 

Craig M

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Could installing the wrong drivers for the GPU cause it to stop working after shutting down like this? I may have downloaded the wrong drivers for it because I was confused about which driver to download for it at the time. And does the gpu have anything that may need to be reset or flashed to fix this if the wrong drivers is not the answer? Thanks
 

Craig M

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Could installing the wrong drivers for the GPU cause it to stop working after shutting down like this? I may have downloaded the wrong drivers for it because I was confused about which driver to download for it at the time. And does the gpu have anything that may need to be reset or flashed to fix this if the wrong drivers is not the answer? Thanks
 

maxalge

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you might need to go into the bios and load optimized defaults


also could be the power supply is no longer powerful enough if you upgraded to a better cpu
 

Craig M

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I think you're right about it being the power supply, but it could be that the card is bad now since it was refurbished to begin with. I may have to try putting the graphics card in the oven. I know that sounds a bit off lol But it's something that has worked for a lot of people and I've seen videos of this and it for some reason that I'm unsure of works lol That's just if it can't be recognized by my other computer and if all else fails lol