Please help adding support for flashing Nvidia GF116 cards - for rescuing the world electrical waste

[Nico Huber]

Hi hsjfd,

you asked in the subject for help adding support? How can we help you?

If you just wanted to ask if somebody else is willing to do the work,
you might have more luck asking Nouveau developers. They probably know
the hardware best. Or, fund it...

On 10/23/18 3:11 PM, hsjfd dfjdfgrescuing the world electrical waste wrote:
> You can get those GPUs for free thanks to ebay and paypal. You have to write to 
> the chinase scammer over ebay and requrest a refund. They would refuse. Then 
> enable PayPal and DONT tell at any point about "fake". Just tell them that the 
> gpu should for example support vulkan api but it does not and crash when you try 
> to use vulkan. Then you get whole money back again (because card is "broken" or 
> name it like you want).
>
> Why missing flashrom support is so important: The gpus cant be used in any 
> propper way until a working bios is been flashed.
> Info: 128Bit in naming mean GTS450. 192bit in naming means 550TI.
>
> Here some links to those fake gpus: https://www.ebay.com/itm/323491959810
> GTS450: https://www.ebay.com/itm/153159438208
> 550TI: https://www.ebay.com/itm/253516107926
>
> Then all cheap-people can start buyng those, refunding those and using flashrom 
> to get a free GTS450/550TI card and thus ruin the profit making chinese scammers.

Can you provide any evidence that the above mentioned refunding works
100%? Any clue that you are not working for these scammers (even by
accident, if it worked for you only by chance)?

Nico

[.]

Thanks for the reply. Yes, i asked for someone with the knowledge who could add support for those GPUs. It just hurts in my hearth to see hardware being produced just for shipping from asia to the rest of the world where someone is being scammed. This person then have to either learn how to solder in and out SPI chips (in circuit flashing dont work on any of those cards i tested) or learn how to write flashrom support for that. Both things are completely out of the capabilities of 99% of the people that got scammed.
Like written, when you flash once the correct GPU model bios, then nvflash detects the gpu correctly and start working. So its just a software issue why the GPUs cant be flashed. Using free software like flashrom could solve that. Thats why i am asking here and described how you can get such a GPU card for free from those chinese scammers.

Hopefully i can motivate anyone to help reducing the electrical waste. The GPUs that are being shipped are with Nvidia GF116 chips. Those chips can be used with linux-libre + nouveau and you can run a fully free (as in freedom) software system.

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Von: Nico Huber 
Datum: 23.10.2018 17:23:34
An: hsjfd dfjdfg , [e-mail]
Betreff: Re: [flashrom] Please help adding support for flashing Nvidia GF116  cards - for rescuing the world electrical waste

Hi hsjfd,

you asked in the subject for help adding support? How can we help you?

If you just wanted to ask if somebody else is willing to do the work,
you might have more luck asking Nouveau developers. They probably know
the hardware best. Or, fund it...

On 10/23/18 3:11 PM, hsjfd dfjdfgrescuing the world electrical waste wrote:
> You can get those GPUs for free thanks to ebay and paypal. You have

to write to
> the chinase scammer over ebay and requrest a refund. They would refuse.

Then
> enable PayPal and DONT tell at any point about "fake". Just

tell them that the
> gpu should for example support vulkan api but it does not and crash

when you try
> to use vulkan. Then you get whole money back again (because card is

"broken" or
> name it like you want).
>
> Why missing flashrom support is so important: The gpus cant be used

in any
> propper way until a working bios is been flashed.
> Info: 128Bit in naming mean GTS450. 192bit in naming means 550TI.
>
> Here some links to those fake gpus: https://www.ebay.com/itm/323491959810
> GTS450: https://www.ebay.com/itm/153159438208
> 550TI: https://www.ebay.com/itm/253516107926
>
> Then all cheap-people can start buyng those, refunding those and using

flashrom
> to get a free GTS450/550TI card and thus ruin the profit making chinese

scammers.

Can you provide any evidence that the above mentioned refunding works
100%? Any clue that you are not working for these scammers (even by
accident, if it worked for you only by chance)?

Nico

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