Updating the BIOS bricked this PC... You'll never guess what the issue was...

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[bennyk]

Jay, I hope you end up reading this comment, I truly thank you from the cold black abyss of my heart. I received problems after updating my BIOS about 2 months ago. Testing lead me to believe my Zotac 3080ti was the culprit, which I RMA'd. When i received news back from zotac that the card tested fine and that they were sending it back as nothing was wrong. I received it today 4/23 and it would do the same hang on BIOS black screen problem that i encountered a month ago. My friend Jeff sent me this video, and after watching it, did as you suggested and updated the DisplayID via the Nvidia tool. It posted immediately after and has been working flawlessly since... Confirmed at least one person has been saved by this video! I appreciate you buddy

[BobBobson]

"I spent 2 1/2 hours on a 25 second fix" sounds exactly like every computer repair I've ever done.

[vinicius_nunes]

Amazing video! This is basically an impossible task for a standard user to actually figure out. Aside from the knowledge and 'know-how' to even know where to start with, just to have all the extra equipment to check the hardware to see what's working is already the worse problem. We appreciate your work on these obscure issues. Thank you!

[brian_serafin]

Many of us would've spent hours reposting on Reddit, forums, and other places waiting for an answer or solution. You should share this in the NVIDIA subreddit if the mods don't act like dictators and remove it. Many people are upgrading their systems from 5 and 6 years ago and may run into this issue especially with some Z690 boards needing a BIOS update to detect the 13th gen chips.

Great work J

[cherrypoptart]

Choosing pc parts and building it is the fun part. Updating the bios is the scary part.

[ripleyhrgiger]

I've been building my own custom PC's for 25 years and have been in the IT field as a technician, analyst, and system admin for 23 years and never have I EVER seen something like this happen! This is a rare gremlin to discover and no doubt has helped to educate all of us of this potentiality of occurring during system building/updating. Phil, your problem became a boon for so many of us because we learned a lot from it. I'm very glad you didn't have to replace your video card! Good work Jay!!!

[northwestaudio]

This is brilliant, I wouldn't have ever imagined that a unique id would change in a piece of hardware, or that it would be removed from a module to continue operating.

[slyace]

Updating bios was the most stressful thing I've did ever since building my pc. I didn't sweat that much even when I changed the paste on my cpu.

[RichWhiteUM]

In essence, Phil was right when he asked, "Maybe, it just doesn't like 3080 Tis?" 🤣

[mrOfficial]

These types of videos have helped me solve a many issue. I like watching the over the top builds, but these are the ones that have kept me from replacing parts so many times.

[Sunnfjordingen]

As a car mechanic, I cant even imagine how many times that problem happens to me.
Car makes noises or has a fault for months. When they're at the dealer for troubleshooting, it's all fine.

It's happened so many times I've started to think the cars becomes self aware and is just messing with us...

[Man_f_Culture]

Jay steadily taking on the BS we run across with our PC's and fixing it after hours of trial and error in just a few seconds is a true gift especially since he tells you how he fixed it in the end. Dude just did everyone a solid.

[uss_liberty_incident]

Thank you so much for this kind of content. You never know when someone else will encounter the same issues.

[vanveenmatt]

I've been on the fence about whether or not I should upgrade the BIOS in my computer. I think I'm just going to leave it as it is. It's working just fine. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

[ScaerieTale]

"I'm jus- *stares*" lmao my eternal struggle with weird computer problems right there. It always makes me smile when an expert like Jay gets this weird crap too (like that time the screen went magenta)

[chrisguli]

My last takeaway from this is also - when updating the BIOS - don't power down or reset anything even if the system seems hung...let it finish doing its thing even if it takes a half hour. Better safe than bricking the PC.

[j.m.]

16:30 Even though I haven't encountered this type of problem, it's really nice to know that there are some complicated pc problems which I now know how to troubleshoot.

[rickwiggins]

Agreed. After building countless high-end PCs I can't imagine doing it without having one or more extra working PCs in the house and a giant bin of spare parts.

[moonlacer]

Never experienced anything like this on any of my systems after a BIOS update, that is a really unique issue

[martinkatz]

THANKS, as a repair tech. little bits of information like this are invaluable. Also thanks for your channel . No one can know everything but having learning opportunities like these makes life easier.