Can you update a Gigabyte BIOS...

[theburan]

You should be able to just unzip the bios to the flash drive. If there's anything special you might have to do there'll probably be a text file in the file you've unzipped with some extra instructions, but I'm guessing you'll just need to unzip the files onto the flash drive.

Although I still prefer using floppy's to flash my bios.... (I did flash my abit's bios from windows today without crashing the computer though! woot!).

[azianai]

with my board, i just unzipped it on my laptop, put it on my flash drive, and booted up my desktop and selected Q Flash. It detected the update and did it with no issues.

[Bokranator]

Would it be wise (risky) and time saving just to pop the Q9450 in and boot it up with the usb in the comp and select q flash. Or would the board not boot up as the cpu is not supported with the current bios on the board?

[polobunny]

Originally Posted by Bokranator

Would it be wise (risky) and time saving just to pop the Q9450 in and boot it up with the usb in the comp and select q flash. Or would the board not boot up as the cpu is not supported with the current bios on the board?

Try, at worst it doesn't work.

[dttuner]

Originally Posted by RangerXLT8

And remember when flashing the bios on Gigabyte boards it's best to use the bios utility and not the windows based one. Just put the bios on a thumb drive and it takes about 1 minute..

Could you please explain this process in further detail, or provide a link?
It sounds simple enough... but is anything else besides the bios file required on the thumb drive? I tried to upgrade through the onboard Gigabyte Bios update utility (found within bios), and it asked for the file on the A: drive.
I don't have a floppy drive installed yet, and couldn't update it.
Now I have a floppy drive and will install tonight... but still would be nice if it could be done via thumb drive as well.


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[dttuner]

Originally Posted by theburan

You should be able to just unzip the bios to the flash drive. If there's anything special you might have to do there'll probably be a text file in the file you've unzipped with some extra instructions, but I'm guessing you'll just need to unzip the files onto the flash drive.

Although I still prefer using floppy's to flash my bios.... (I did flash my abit's bios from windows today without crashing the computer though! woot!).

Disregard prior post... didn't read down enough to see everyone's answers :)

[Bokranator]

My question now since i got the board is do gigabyte preinstal the board with the latest bios at the time?

[screwballl]

sometimes yes, sometimes no.... I would check to see what version it mentions in the BIOS itself and update it if there is one available on their website...

[RangerXLT8]

Originally Posted by dttuner

Could you please explain this process in further detail, or provide a link?
It sounds simple enough... but is anything else besides the bios file required on the thumb drive? I tried to upgrade through the onboard Gigabyte Bios update utility (found within bios), and it asked for the file on the A: drive.
I don't have a floppy drive installed yet, and couldn't update it.
Now I have a floppy drive and will install tonight... but still would be nice if it could be done via thumb drive as well.


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Okay DL the latest bios. Unzip the entire package to the flash drive. Insert the flash drive and boot up computer. There is only one file needed and that is the bios ROM file. An Example filename would be P35C-DS3R.f3b Go into the bios and select q flash. Select update bios. There will be drive A and Drive B. First try drive A, and if there is nothing there then it is on Drive B. Select the rom file and update it. Whatever you do, do not turn off the PC while it is updating. When using a flash drive, bios updating takes 2 minutes MAX. Doing if off a floppy disk takes atleast 10 minutes and floppies are wayy more prone to messing things up compared to a jump drive.