GPU Repair Diary

Hello, it's the incompetent me.

The condition upon arrival was truly awful.

・After submersion

・Rust on the board

So, I thought it would be scary to just power it on as is, which led me to do this.

Drying

However, I failed at flashing the modified BIOS, so I decided to find the BIOS chip directly and flash it.

Generally, the BIOS chip for this type of graphics card is often located near the power supply section.

Also, as a precaution, if you flash something you just downloaded from the internet as is, it's generally impossible, so please make sure it's a properly extracted ROM file before flashing.

The reason is that ROM files found online are generally meant to be overwritten, so if you flash them as is, there will always be missing parts.

I tweaked the settings for "that graphics card" – the very niche one that isn't AMD and is rarely talked about in Japan – to achieve better benchmark scores than the original version.

People in Russia were saying that Adobe Premiere wouldn't run, but it worked fine for me.