Honestly I never trusted EVGA, I bought a 6600GT from them a few years back, crappiest POS I have ever seen for a $200 GPU... The power connection on it has finaly broken loose, ended up soldering a old fans power connection to the damned thing so my sister can use it. Heatsink fan still works though... Anyways, all they would have to literaly do, is offer a actual new BIOS chip for like $5.00 or something and ship it with the clips that remove the old bios, and just pop the new one in... I remember hearing about how they used to do that with the old stuff, because they couldn't flash it, all that EPROM, and PROM and such...