Flashing Your Video Card's (GPU) BIOS

Flashing the BIOS of your video card

Everything in our computer has some form of a BIOS/Firmware. We as overclockers been modifying the video card's BIOS or using other modified BIOS' for years now. It is not only us overclockers flashing our video card's BIOS, this day and age just about everyone has, had to, or will need to flash the BIOS of their video card. I have been tweaking the video cards BIOS for years now. I have been using other manufacturer's BIOS', and then flash my video cards BIOS to get more overclockability.

No matter what I was doing or what I was going to do to my video card BIOS, I always made a back up of the original BIOS from the video card itself before I made any attempt on modifying or flashing my video card with another video card BIOS. Another area I make sure that I don't do is flash the video card with in the Window's GUI. I flash the video card(s) BIOS inside of DOS mode, and yes you can still load into a Windows 98/ME DOS mode on today's current hardware. This guide is all about how to do that, and also recover from a bad video card flashing.

Unlike motherboards when you have a failed flash this normally renders that motherboard dead, or bricked. Video cards we can recover if we used the wrong BIOS, if we had a power failure, to having catastrophic computer failure during the flashing process. On today's computers, anything can happen to us during our most vulnerable time. One of these ways is somewhat unorthodox; this way is called "Blind Flashing" or what I like to call "A Wing and a Prayer Flashing", because we have no idea if the flash took hold until we reboot the computer. What makes this type of flashing more nerve racking we do not know when to reboot the computer, because we cannot see anything hence why it is called "Blind Flashing.”

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