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Limit to BIOS flashes?

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Arcus

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Hey all, I have an MSI 6950 that I flashed to 1536 shaders. A couple days ago I flashed it back to its original 1408 Bios. ( I know I could have just flipped the switch to the 2nd bios position but it has a different fan profile, hot and quiet.)

The reason I flashed it back was because while playing the Witcher my driver crashed and recovered. The same symptom of when i overclock the core to high. So I hastily determined it was a possibility that the extra shaders on my card my be not quite 100% stable, I was running at stock speeds & voltages when the driver crashed.

Now I'm leaning more towards the Witcher just being slightly buggy under Win7 and will most likely flash it back to the 1536 bios. Everything else I play seems to be fine with 1536 shaders, Played BF3 beta fine, play BFBC2 all day, WoW, Kombustor, 3Dmark, etc.

So, is it a bad thing to flash Bios too much? Is there a realistic limit as to how many times the Bios can take being erased/writen?

I'm just curious and doubt I would reach the point where i couldn't flash anymore just wondering.
 
I've seen a dodgy game cause lockups and BSODs, but I've never seen a bad game cause driver recovers. I think that's definitely indicative of an unstable GPU.
 
I just wonder why the driver crash only occurred while playing this particular game, and everything else is solid :( , and it not like a constant thing, had been playing for a few hours before it happened. I must have OCD cause stuff like this bothers me. lol

Its just hard to troubleshoot a problem that only happens after hours of playing a certain game if at all.
 
Happens sometimes, I know someone who had a card that would only ever artifact in Crysis, but artifact badly it did...
 
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