NVFlash Download v5.541.0

Posted by: Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 12/20/2018 11:32 AM [ 11 comment(s) ]

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Download NVFlash. NVFlash os the official NVIDIA utility to flash the graphics card BIOS (firmware) on GeForce RTX 2070, 2080, 2080 Ti, Titan V, GeForce 1080 Ti, 1080, 1070, 1060, 1050 and older cards.

NVFlash is used to update the firmware stored in the EEPROM of an NVIDIA display adapter. It can also be used to perform other tasks on the adapter such as saving a copy of the current firmware image to a file, displaying the version of the firmware image, or determining the EEPROM part present on a display adapter. NVFLASH is a command line utility that can be run standalone from the command prompt, run from batch files, or spawned from other programs.

Make backups with the following command (in dos): nvflash -b filename.bin
Flash your bios with: nvflash -f filename.bin or nvflash filename.bin

Use at your own risk, only flash when it's absolutely necessary. Of course, make sure you create a backup of your original bios. This version is a Windows compatible build.

Warning
There is a real danger of a display adapter becoming unbootable and thus preventing the entire system from booting if the update process is interrupted due to a software fault, power failure, the operator manually resetting the computer (for example via a reset switch), or the operator updating an adapter with the wrong firmware image. For this reason, care should be taken when using this utility.

5.513.0 (September 30th, 2018)

Adds support for Turing GPUs

5.469.0 (June 18th, 2018)

Adds support for Tesla V100-FHHL-16GB

5.449.0 (April 26th, 2018)

Added support for:

Tesla V100-DGXS-32GB
Tesla V100-PCIE-32GB
Tesla V100-SXM2-32GB

Added ability to dump VBIOS for notebooks without discrete GPU EEPROM

Editor's Note:
5.513.0 (September 30th, 2018) Adds support for Turing GPUs

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ScottishPickle
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#5220508 Posted on: 01/19/2016 01:58 AM

Question: I have a Zotac nVidia 970 standard 1076 Clock, 1753 Memory. The bios is 84.04.1F.00.6B

What are the pros and cons of updating my bios? Sounds dangerous but intriguing.

Thanks

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#5220510 Posted on: 01/19/2016 02:03 AM

wait nvidia they actual released tool for this? or your just using stock nvidia picture?, Nothing bad can happen from this nothing bad at all.

Usefull to the people that know what they doing and know how to READ before hand.

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#5220557 Posted on: 01/19/2016 06:49 AM

I don't think nvidia released this, it's done by hobby overclockers. Like mentioned JoeDirt for instance, there's a couple of hundred pages on Maxwell overclocking on overclock.net where you could read this up.

And yes, with the wrong BIOS you can brick your card, make your rig not boot, push in too much voltage etc. like tsunami said, definately you should read into it.

ScottishPickle
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#5220568 Posted on: 01/19/2016 07:43 AM

I was planning on reading up on it. I just wanted to know what people thought of upgrading your bios but instead l got a dick and a half. Thank you very much for your wealth of knowledge. Have a great day.

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#5220572 Posted on: 01/19/2016 08:18 AM

Question: I have a Zotac nVidia 970 standard 1076 Clock, 1753 Memory. The bios is 84.04.1F.00.6B

What are the pros and cons of updating my bios? Sounds dangerous but intriguing.

Thanks

If there is a updated bios available for a GPU then as far as I know it's usually tweaks to stuff like voltage, fan speed curves and other small fixes and improvements although it can vary from one manufacturer to another and also depend on if it's a stock GPU or a more customized third party design.
(Some manufacturers also release bios updates more regularly than others whereas in some cases new bios revisions have to be dumped from new revisions of the GPU and made available third-party via say I think it was TechPowerup that had a GPU bios database to name one.)

(Though you want to be careful if using a dumped non-official bios just in case it wasn't dumped correctly or if it's not appropriate for your GPU so ideally if your GPU has a bios switch you can revert to default by switching that or even dump the original bios and re-flash if it goes badly.)

ScottishPickle
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#5220741 Posted on: 01/19/2016 05:39 PM

Thanks Jonas. Have you done it?

Those guys really thought that I was just going to blindly start
flashing my videocard bios lol that's just silly. Of course it's dangerous and not very common and yes I know I could have had a look at Overclock.net but I thought of the craziest thing and thought about asking here.

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#5220767 Posted on: 01/19/2016 07:16 PM

I don't often flash the GPU's bios so I'm not very knowledgeable on how it all works and best practices and such though one last bit of advice is to be careful if you do it under Windows as some of the available flash utilities might work as intended only in a boot-loader / "DOS" environment to be able to fully restart or access the GPU device although by now I'm sure there's well tested Windows versions too, maybe this is one of them so it might not be as big of a issue these days. (Same with motherboard bios updating although these days with USB nearly automatic bios management / flashing on newer boards it's much easier to do.)

Last GPU I flashed was a AMD 6970 where I had one of the faulty models with incorrect clock speeds set, turns out (I learned this later.) that the 6970 was locked so flashing the GPU nearly bricked it if it hadn't been for the bios switch this model had.

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#5220823 Posted on: 01/19/2016 10:24 PM

flashing gpu bios for years, always make sure you got a backup igp or gpu in case something goes wrong.

ScottishPickle
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#5221181 Posted on: 01/20/2016 08:00 PM

flashing gpu bios for years, always make sure you got a backup igp or gpu in case something goes wrong.

Yeah having a IGP is the key l think. Safety first!

I flash everything l can, from my Nexus 6/5x to my motherboard.

larsiano
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#5590992 Posted on: 10/01/2018 11:15 PM

Never flashed a GPU i think. I have been thinking about flashing my asus 1080ti oc to a Poseidon firmware as it runs a little faster still. But a good firmware is hard to come by?

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#5592122 Posted on: 10/04/2018 02:17 PM

If it ain't broke leave it be.

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