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April 12th, 2008
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| Hmm ... Interesting  Join Date: May 2007
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|  Can you update a Gigabyte BIOS... Can you update the bios of a gigabyte g33-dsr2 board without inserting a cpu?   Project Luxray: 1st August... |
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April 12th, 2008
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| Colonel Calamity  | Re: Simple Question: Can you update a gigabyte boa no A CPU and memory are required to be on the board before the system will post... also if there is no onboard video then that will require a video card to see what you're doing.  Thanks HL and Corsair! My opinions are my own and not representative of this site or its members.  |
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April 12th, 2008
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| Hmm ... Interesting Join Date: May 2007
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| Re: Simple Question: Can you update a gigabyte boa Hmm well how do i know what bios a motherboard is shipped with? because it requires bios F8b to use a Q9450 but i have no other processor. Now since this is for a friend i dont wanna mess it up. Project Luxray: 1st August... |
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April 12th, 2008
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| I'm Evil  | Re: Simple Question: Can you update a gigabyte boa You might try hitting a local computer shop and asking them to flash it for you. If that doesn't work, you can send it to me and I'd be happy to do it for you. INTEL QX9650 ASUS P5E3 Premium 4GB DDR3-1600 Sapphire HD 3870X2 Danger Den Tower-26 (Custom W/C) 5 x Seagate 250GB HDD in RAID5 BFG ES 800W PSU |
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April 12th, 2008
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| Hmm ... Interesting Join Date: May 2007
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| Re: Simple Question: Can you update a gigabyte boa WOOHOO thx guys this had been perplexing us for a while. It also means my planned build in june has the Q9450 seal of approval. One futher question is that the gigabyte website lists the Q9450 as having a TDP of 65W but ive seen some sellers listing the cpu as having a 95W TDP much like the Q6600. Whats going on? Project Luxray: 1st August... |
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April 12th, 2008
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| I'm Evil | Re: Simple Question: Can you update a gigabyte boa I'd tend to believe the 95W INTEL QX9650 ASUS P5E3 Premium 4GB DDR3-1600 Sapphire HD 3870X2 Danger Den Tower-26 (Custom W/C) 5 x Seagate 250GB HDD in RAID5 BFG ES 800W PSU |
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April 18th, 2008
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| Worker Ant  Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: New Jersey
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| Re: Can you update a Gigabyte BIOS... 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.. Quad Core Xeon 3210@3.22ghz GA-EP35C-DS3R 460FSB x 7 -- 60mm Delta fan on NB 2x1gb OCZ3-1333@1380MHZ Sapphire 4870 512mb GDDR5 2x Raptor 150 ADFD RAID 0--WD320YS RE 16mb Storage Samsung Super WriteMaster 20x DVDRW X-Fi eXtremeGamer w\Logitech Z-2300 Silverstone OP650 54A 12v Rail @50C DamgerDen Torture Rack--MC-TDX--Black Ice GTX240--MCP355 Rev 2--Swiftech MicroRes-- Tygon 3603 3/8"ID Logitech G5 - Logitech LX-710 wireless KB Vista Ultimate 64 |
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April 18th, 2008
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| T-Rex  | Re: Simple Question: Can you update a gigabyte boa Quote:
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April 18th, 2008
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| Colonel Calamity | Re: Can you update a Gigabyte BIOS... current quad cores are anywhere from 95W to 130W... dual cores range from 35W to 80W... and in my experience, Gigabyte over these past few years has to be the easiest BIOS to update. Thanks HL and Corsair! My opinions are my own and not representative of this site or its members. |
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April 20th, 2008
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| Hmm ... Interesting Join Date: May 2007
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| Re: Can you update a Gigabyte BIOS... Thx Guys sorry it took long to reply but ive found a good way to get around the cpu-lessness. I came across a brand new celeron processor for about £10 at my local computer fair and it works with the board so ima use it as my bios updating cpu for future builds :). It shud come in 2 weeks but until then, just to be ready, I just get a normal usb storage drive put the bois on it (zipped or unzipped?) and select the feature during boot up? Project Luxray: 1st August... |
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