I actually have a universal programmer and thats how I flashed the card to begin with
I made a dump of the original bios just in case, so I'll just flash that back on there, IIRC the bios's had different build numbers.
So what happened is this:
Card wasn't working (I had not found the busted trace yet)
Desoldered the bios and whacked it into my programmer (I had read that people like to tweak these cards via the bios)
Dumped the bios twice
Downloaded a newer build of techpowerup.com
Flashed it..
once I had the card working I tried using the gigabyte tool to update the bios, it reported I had an F30 bios (no such thing for this card)..
messed around and managed to flash the latest gigabyte bios