Strange....3060Ti Gaming X to VENTUS Bios flash worked but fails on reboot 51 to 61MH/s

[IcksAiles]

Hello
I have a new MSI Gaming X dual fan 3060Ti with a bad bios that only hashes about 51MH/s on ETH regardless of the OC settings. so I decided to attempt the old MSI Ventus bios flash trick and it worked well.

HIve says “Rom flashing OK, now reboot”. So I reboot the Rig and the GPU now lists as MALFUNCTION with GA-104… in Hive.

OK…I flash to original bios and GPU is fine again.
Now I flash once more with the VENTUS bios except this time I don’t reboot. Launch spreadsheet and boom ! 62MH/s.

Problem seems solved but on the next reboot the GPU shows “MALFUNCTION” again.

I am really hopeless now after 3 days looking for answers.
does anyone have a clue ? Is it a lock bios issue ? It seems nvidia locks their gpus to a specific bios…

Thanks for any help you can provide.

[keaton_hiveon]

Are you using a bios for the same memory type? (Hynix v1, Hynix v2 or Samsung) and the same lhr type? Those should be the same on the bios as the card.

[IcksAiles]

Thanks for your quick reply.

Both are for Hynix memory but I am not sure about v1 or v2 as I don’t know how to check.

My card uses 94.04.6B.00.A2 out of the box and I am flashing with 94.04.46.00.DE bios techpowerup link

What I don’t get is why the hashrate goes up from 51 to 61 after flashing without rebooting. I tought that gpu bios flash needs a reboot to have effect.

Thank you !

[keaton_hiveon]

That is odd, as the bios should only matter on boot. what clocks are you running? Have you tried any other bios?

[IcksAiles]

I have tried a 6 or 7 other compatible GA-104 2fans 3060Ti bios and nothing works.
So at the beginning the card was hashing 51mh/ with the same OC
after flashing here is where I’m at

and the flash report

now if I reboot the 3060ti goes malfunction (see the red message @1h50 in the first picture)

[Mr4c3k]

I’m having the same exact issue. Any luck? Hashrate goes up after flashing, but card malfunction after reboot.

[IcksAiles]

No luck at all… I have failed everything I tried. So now I am mining ERgO with those cards @ full hasrate
I cannot believe that nobody has the answer. Late MSI BIOS are a pain in the ass for ETH/ETC mining. But hopefully this will end with the merge.

[keaton_hiveon]

Have you tried other vendor bios like evga and asus? What were your results?

[IcksAiles]

I did and get the same issue when drivers were working

[keaton_hiveon]

So, not able to get any other vendor bioses to work after reboot?

[IcksAiles]

not one out of 5 that worked. (EVGA & Pallit)