I have a Gigabyte X79-UD3 (rev 1.0) motherboard on F10 bios and have just purchased a Gigabyte GTX 780 Ti Windforce graphics card which isn't playing nicely with my system. I wonder if you guys could help me please? On restarting, Alt + F12 presents the boot override menu (Please select boot drive), as does Alt Gr + F12. Do not worry when you see a recovery comment, that is normal and means it is flashing the backup BIOS."į9 gives me only the current main BIOS version (F6).Īlt + F12 did not register using a USB keyboard, so I swapped out with a PS/2. To do that, reboot and where you would normally press DEL to enter the BIOS, instead press Alt + F12, this will flash the Backup BIOS with the MAIN BIOS contents. You should see both BIOS versions listed, if they do not match please update the backup BIOS to match the current. To check on the versions go into the BIOS and on the MAIN page press F9 for system info. "Once you are sure everything is working as you want it you can synchronise the Backup BIOS to match the Main BIOS. F6 and it seems stable, no issues, overcome with euphoria. Since then, the icon appears each time the drive is inserted. It appears that the drive was corrupted in some way through restarting the system without having 'safely removed' the USB device, resulting in Q-Flash being unable to access the drive for writing/reading.īefore attempting the flash procedure, I did not have the 'remove hardware safely' icon appearing, and Nirsoft's USBDeview had listed the drive as being safe to remove without having to use that facility. Again, removed/ejected drive 'safely' before shutting down re-inserted drive before booting into Q-Flash (End) and successfully flashed BIOS from. I then re-inserted the drive before booting into BIOS, ing to Q-Flash and copying the current BIOS to the drive ed to O/S in order to confirm that the file had been copied successfully. Having saved the BIOS file to the pendrive, I safely removed/ejected it before shutting down. My freezing problem (above) seems to have been caused by following the above instructions verbatim, so I modified the procedure as follows:
AMERICAN MEGATRENDS BIOS UPDATE LEGACY F5 .EXE
exe run it, or if it is a zip file unzip it, and save the files (usually contains 3 files) that you just expanded to the Boot sector or a folder of your choice on this drive and insert the pendrive into a USB port. "Take a USB pendrive and make sure it is formatted with a FAT32 file system. Given the freeze that occurs when attempting to 'Save BIOS to drive', is there a danger of the flashing procedure being affected by a freeze? I guess it won't be a problem if it freezes before the flashing procedure starts, and the dual bios backup is available if it goes fruit salad.I just wondered if anyone here was familiar with my bios-saving issue, and if so, whether you'd subsequently achieved a successful flash? I've tried with various USB sticks and a couple of low capacity cards in a reade, with the same result. Q-Flash recognizes drive, and when selecting 'Update BIOS from file', it identifies the update file on the drive. exe, inserted into rear USB2 port before booting. I've followed the advice offered here: USB flashdrive, under 2GB, formatted FAT32, loaded with unpacked BIOS file from s/e. That doesn't give me much confidence in undertaking the flashing procedure using Q-Flash.
On being prompted to save to drive, BIOS freezes. I decided to first try saving current BIOS to drive for reassurance that Q-Flash was working correctly on my system. My intention is to flash BIOS via Q-Flash.