There are ways to "attempt" recovery of a failed flash. It's not guaranteed but there are ways if you are an "advanced" user. Glad the video helped someone. It's nice to be able to see it done before you do it.
Yes, Gigabyte has had dual bios on all high end boards for years. It is very nice. While you're in the BIOS press F9 and it will show you what version you have in that backup. It will normally keep the default BIOS it came with. Some BIOS files will be set up to flash the back-up and there are ways to flash the back-up to a newer version too.
Thank you. I was stuck trying to install Win10 on my machine. Suddenly, it wouldn't boot to USB. Could only get to the BIOS. Since I couldn't boot to USB, I had trouble being able to flash the BIOS. Came across your video and realized I could use the Q-flash to load the new BIOS. Once that was done....BOOM, booting to USB. Thanks
hey i've got the gigabyte ga-m61sme-s2l mobo but when going to update section it doesnt show the USB just the floppy how do i enable the usb i;ve tryed everything
Great point. The fail rate is much higher that way but will work most of the time. This way is more dependable. Just takes more thought. The new BIOS (s) coming out are getting easier and much different.
@StevieLaner I am glad this video helped you. That's why I made them. I was looking for the information at one point.......after I learned.....I decided to pass it on. The web is great that way! Have a great day and new year.
It will work....I'm simply saying the people at Gigabyte say it has a higher failure rate. Go to TweakTown forums in the official Gigabyte forum and ask the Gigabyte reps there. They will tell you the same thing. No big deal, use whatever you wish. All the best.
@Dragstrength Yes, I have seen this before. You need to try another flash drive OR re-format it FAT32 and try again if it's the only one you have. One of mine simply will not work and I don't know why. Yours may be like that one....in that case you may need another one. Even a cheap small one will do fine.
I do not know. I would get into the BIOS and look at every feature on every page (pushing "enter" whenever possible to see submenus) and just look for the feature. If your CPU and BIOS allow it will be there. If it's not there, your hardware may not allow you to use it. Hope this helps. Good luck
Pendrive formatted to FAT 32, check revision on MB (rev. 1.0 for example), download and unpack EXE file, copy file with F6 file or similar. The rest like in the video. Worked perfectly for me. :)
Thanks for the vid. You can't save all the bios settings first, then load them up after to make it easier? Also I have a RAID 0 config on two non windows drives, will this mess is up? Thanks again man.
Good video, it "helped somebody some day" I'm curious though, if the power did go out in a worst case scenario. Are you just left with an overpriced door stop at that point? Or is there anything you can do? Aside from purchasing a new motherboard. Although I'm guessing that's what you'll have to do.
Yea, and because the Flash disk was easy, I think I'll go with that since my CD failed a check after it was finalized and I don't really want to update the bios with a possibly problematic OS. Really though, great video, much appreciated.
The new P55 boards have duo bios so even if you're flashing your board and it shuts down, you don't need to sweat cuz you still have the backup bios which will kick in.
i think most board are designed to be pci-e today, most cards manufactured today are pci-e.. are you using your workstation what specific purpose or work?
This has become a very old method for old systems. It is still a great method if all your hardware and software supports it. I made this video in 2009. In tech terms it's ancient, although I still have a Gigabyte board running 5 SSDs in my main desktop. I had to upgrade to Windows 10 recently. Found a free way to do it.
@radeonfighter Hello, I am only up to F8 on my P55 board. I have not tried F9 yet. For my revision they only have F9c "beta" out. Sorry I cannot answer your question but good luck.
So far, Q-trash won't recognise my USB drive. I've tried FAT32, different ports, different drives, and it only lists in a non-existent floppy drive. I'd be curious to hear Gigabyte's excuse for failing to recognize such a common device; if I weren't so annoyed right now. It's 2013!
That's a board I have used MANY times in builds. You probably just need to format the USB drive or try another one or another flash method. It's a good board.
It IS a procedure you need to read your manufacturers website and perhaps forums to get it right. The settings are not too hard. There are only a few you really need to worry about. It's the "flashing" you need to worry about most. It's the most "dangerous" the settings can be changed later....good luck. I ahve some more "in depth" tutorials I posted under the same user name today. I am still getting part 3 up. Part 1 and 2 are up now. good luck!
@Ryd3r22 Not re-install Windows but yes on the BIOS OC. You can however save BIOS settings to a USB stick and load them intot he new BIOS if you want. Hope that helps.
Nice tutorial, thanks. I guess you aren't plugged in to UPS. Utility power and UPS can both fail, sure but you will be more at ease with these operations. Good idea to optimize after flashing. The optimization, for those who asked, is mostly for the overclocking and power tweaks. Good practice to set to defaults with a new BIOS then start your overclocking fresh after that. If you didn't know this you should not be overclocking anyway.
Yes, they are Intel CPU "throttling" features. If you are overclocking, I would disable them until you find a stable overclock, but if not....enable them and leave them. They are good features. All the best.
@mupp33n I'm having the same problem!! did you ever find a solution? Any help would be appreciated as I'm at a total loss and can't boot my PC/Format it..
Assembled a PC that was laying around, no post and it is determined to be DOA (most of the time these are due to bad bios). Some folks say they have recovered bad boards by recovering the bios rather than RMA. Not sure how they do it... I recall using a floppy disk back in the day which has worked for me, but what about more recent systems? When you're met with a black screen, can you do what you do with floppy disks to a CD or USB drive instead?
@mrblackout2000 Yes, if you have no reason to flash.....be very careful. It's not something to do for fun. You should have a need to flash or want to gain the experience.
I have a gigabyte motherboard when i turn on my computer and it start to beep. After that the computer said " Warning: MAIN BIOS CHECKSUM ERROR! " Then "BIOS Auto-Recovering....." But it keep doing it the same thing everytime i turn on my computer......is it normal?
hey ... iwe just got gigabyte motherboard and it have F2 bios ... i seen on their site that there is F6 ... do u maybe know if i can update to F6 over F2 or i need to update F3,F4 ,F5 first ?? thx.. nice video wery helpfull..
@crniyo Yes, check to see if the heatsink is fastened correctly if you think it may be a heat issue. Also, your PSU, video card are also suspect if your computer is shutting down under load.
@Trip506 It's a safety measure. The Gigabyte pros say to do it. Bad things CAN happen if you don't. Chances are you would be fine not doing it but why take a chance if it only takes a minute. Thats my answer, I asked the Gigabyte pros and that;s what they told me.
I don't understand this problem. I have flashed countless BIOS and it's happened to me twice. Each time I used another and it flashed fine. You do know it will read as a "hard drive"? Probably so.....the only thing to do if no flash drive will work is to do it through the OS. (Windows)
Hey sorry Im a noob, but i download the BIOS from gigabyte and now how do i get to the blue screen?
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Where can I get this BIOS image from? The Phoenix website only offers Windows-based upgrade utility. I have no Windows, I'm trying to upgrade my BIOS to allow new Linux server run smoothly (the current BIOS hangs on GRUB2 boot loader and, even worse, on Debian's installation CD.
You can also update ur bios directly from windows using @BIOS utility. Anyway, you havent set the sata controler in ahci mode which is more advanced than ide and Win7 can benefit fro that (there is a big chance that you cannot change that without reinstalling system again, but you wont know without cheching. Also no smart cabability is set do disabled people say that updating using dos mode or Qflash is safer than using windows tool, so good work with showing how to do that in a proper way.
I have a GA X58A UD3R Rev1. and I tried to update to the last bios version F7. When I run Q-Flash on the bios, and find my pen drive with the file X58AUD3R.F7L it say, wrong size and I can´t do the update. Do you know what happened? Thanks, and sorry my little english.
@awsed25 if you want to do it in windows you have to install a program from the motherboard cd you know that one u got when u bought the motherboard the program is called @BIOS
@sonyxploder Loading optimized defaults is simply a safety issue. There are some changes you might have made to the current BIOS that might make the flash fail. If you need to use a beta BIOS it's no problem. Just flash again when the final is released. As far as safety precautions......I like to mention them in my videos......but chances are 99% you would be fine not even using optimized defaults before or after. I just think it's a small price to pay for an easy thing to do....good luck.
@Ryd3r22 No, the settings you had before will be the same. It should be the same as before you flashed. It has risk. You shouldn't do this unless you need to or the new BIOS has better OC features. Good luck.
If the BIOS says it's the wrong size then most likely it is the wrong file. Make sure you have the correct REVISION of your motherboard. It makes a big difference. Look it up on the net.
I tried to update BIOS from desktop on W7 but whenever I try to run it ..it just closes up and writes file has stopped working windows is searching for solution
@nate42nd i downloaded program to monitor cpu temperature and normaly its around 40-45*C but when i play game it goes over 50-55*C ... i think it shut down on 60*C ... should i try with windows reinstal ?
thank you man thank you so much I am very disturb because of my computer does not boot from USB drive and when I think to update my bios and watch Your Tutorial I just seen an option in your video and I just set up in my bios now I am able to boot from USB and thank you again to make this type of useful video.
hey ... iwe just got gigabyte motherboard and it have bios F2... iwe seen on their site there is bios F6 .... can i update F6 over F2 or i need to update F3,F4,F5 first ???? thx.. nice video wery helpfull :)
hey ... i did flahs bios and everyting was ok ... i did that coz my procesor phenom II 955 3.0 was working on 1.6Ghz and rest was slow also.... now when i did it my processor works on 3.2ghz and when i start game or something computer shut down ... im guessing CPU is overheating or something... should i reinstal windows or what ,,, do u have any idea ?
hey i am trying to find the onboard aurio in BIOS and i cant find it i am using Gigabyte EX58-UD3R and i believe i have to update BIOS .I am also using an Ati HD5700 series graphics card which comes with a sound card. When i play games there is no sound while they talk, so i updated all my drivers but still nothing happened. Do you have any idea of what i must do, do i have to update my Bios so i can find onboard audio and enable it? Or must i update it so my drivers can become up to dat inBios?
@IrishTopgun12 I would try another USB stick. I have seen this before. It needs to be formatted FAT32 or FAT BUT I have still seen this before. I switched sticks and it worked fine. Good luck.
There are ways to "attempt" recovery of a failed flash. It's not guaranteed but there are ways if you are an "advanced" user.
Glad the video helped someone. It's nice to be able to see it done before you do it.
Thanks for the documentation- I need to try this soon and it always helps to see a run through like this before your first time
Yes, Gigabyte has had dual bios on all high end boards for years. It is very nice. While you're in the BIOS press F9 and it will show you what version you have in that backup. It will normally keep the default BIOS it came with. Some BIOS files will be set up to flash the back-up and there are ways to flash the back-up to a newer version too.
Thank you. I was stuck trying to install Win10 on my machine. Suddenly, it wouldn't boot to USB. Could only get to the BIOS. Since I couldn't boot to USB, I had trouble being able to flash the BIOS. Came across your video and realized I could use the Q-flash to load the new BIOS. Once that was done....BOOM, booting to USB. Thanks
hey i've got the gigabyte ga-m61sme-s2l mobo but when going to update section it doesnt show the USB just the floppy how do i enable the usb i;ve tryed everything
Great point. The fail rate is much higher that way but will work most of the time. This way is more dependable. Just takes more thought. The new BIOS (s) coming out are getting easier and much different.
I am SO glad that helped. There are 3-4 formats you can use. They are all FAT related. Variations on FAT. FAT 32 ect......Thanks for the comment.
@StevieLaner I am glad this video helped you. That's why I made them. I was looking for the information at one point.......after I learned.....I decided to pass it on. The web is great that way! Have a great day and new year.
It will work....I'm simply saying the people at Gigabyte say it has a higher failure rate. Go to TweakTown forums in the official Gigabyte forum and ask the Gigabyte reps there. They will tell you the same thing. No big deal, use whatever you wish. All the best.
@Dragstrength Yes, I have seen this before. You need to try another flash drive OR re-format it FAT32 and try again if it's the only one you have. One of mine simply will not work and I don't know why. Yours may be like that one....in that case you may need another one. Even a cheap small one will do fine.
I do not know. I would get into the BIOS and look at every feature on every page (pushing "enter" whenever possible to see submenus) and just look for the feature. If your CPU and BIOS allow it will be there. If it's not there, your hardware may not allow you to use it. Hope this helps. Good luck
i was having a bit hesitant before watching this, but now i think i can do it without any issues, cheers :)
great video. helped me flash the bios i now have a usb 2.0 bios flashing stick with a massive 128MB of storage.
128mb? I guess 5 yrs ago was about right! Haha
Pendrive formatted to FAT 32, check revision on MB (rev. 1.0 for example), download and unpack EXE file, copy file with F6 file or similar. The rest like in the video. Worked perfectly for me. :)
11 years later. Thanks man.
Thanks. I wasn't sure where and how you flash the bios on Gigabyte motherboards. Much appreciated.
Thanks for the vid. You can't save all the bios settings first, then load them up after to make it easier? Also I have a RAID 0 config on two non windows drives, will this mess is up? Thanks again man.
Good video, it "helped somebody some day" I'm curious though, if the power did go out in a worst case scenario. Are you just left with an overpriced door stop at that point? Or is there anything you can do? Aside from purchasing a new motherboard. Although I'm guessing that's what you'll have to do.
Yea, and because the Flash disk was easy, I think I'll go with that since my CD failed a check after it was finalized and I don't really want to update the bios with a possibly problematic OS. Really though, great video, much appreciated.
The new P55 boards have duo bios so even if you're flashing your board and it shuts down, you don't need to sweat cuz you still have the backup bios which will kick in.
lo compraste en mercado libre, mañana me aviento el flasheo y te digo como me fue, es el que viene con el amd fx6100???
is it okay to use a hard drive, and not a usb stick?
I am happy to hear I helped in some small way. Good job.
Thanks. Your video helped me demystify how to flash a BIOS on a Gigabyte MOBO. Thanks again.
@nate42nd
thx for info...on what safety precautions u think ?
i think most board are designed to be pci-e today, most cards manufactured today are pci-e.. are you using your workstation what specific purpose or work?
@StevieLaner Any flash drive has to be formatted FAT, FAT32, or one other format I cannot remember. Good point. Thanks for the good words.
Thanks for the help we only needed the first 2 mins of the video :D
Glad to hear it was a help. All the best.
I'm glad it helped. Thanks for the kind comment.
@DXcellence718 Gigabyte boards are simple to flash. If there IS a problem.....just let it auto-recover. It's easy. All the best man!
This has become a very old method for old systems. It is still a great method if all your hardware and software supports it. I made this video in 2009. In tech terms it's ancient, although I still have a Gigabyte board running 5 SSDs in my main desktop. I had to upgrade to Windows 10 recently. Found a free way to do it.
This video was extremely useful thank's, now my fx-4100 is working the way it's suppose to!
@radeonfighter Hello, I am only up to F8 on my P55 board. I have not tried F9 yet. For my revision they only have F9c "beta" out. Sorry I cannot answer your question but good luck.
hey nate how did you get your flash drive to come up on the q flash ulitity screen, mine seems not to be recongized?
So far, Q-trash won't recognise my USB drive. I've tried FAT32, different ports, different drives, and it only lists in a non-existent floppy drive. I'd be curious to hear Gigabyte's excuse for failing to recognize such a common device; if I weren't so annoyed right now. It's 2013!
Does the USB pen need to be boot-able to flash the Gigabyte bios using Q-flash?
That's a board I have used MANY times in builds. You probably just need to format the USB drive or try another one or another flash method. It's a good board.
It IS a procedure you need to read your manufacturers website and perhaps forums to get it right. The settings are not too hard. There are only a few you really need to worry about. It's the "flashing" you need to worry about most. It's the most "dangerous" the settings can be changed later....good luck. I ahve some more "in depth" tutorials I posted under the same user name today. I am still getting part 3 up. Part 1 and 2 are up now. good luck!
@brianthesnail1234 Thanks for the good words. I made this in part to remind myself in the future. Glad it helped.
Phew, that was nervy but got there in the end. Thanks for sharing this video, made the task easier...
@Ryd3r22 Not re-install Windows but yes on the BIOS OC. You can however save BIOS settings to a USB stick and load them intot he new BIOS if you want. Hope that helps.
Nice tutorial, thanks. I guess you aren't plugged in to UPS. Utility power and UPS can both fail, sure but you will be more at ease with these operations. Good idea to optimize after flashing. The optimization, for those who asked, is mostly for the overclocking and power tweaks. Good practice to set to defaults with a new BIOS then start your overclocking fresh after that. If you didn't know this you should not be overclocking anyway.
I am seeing No drive found when i press update bios from drive. What do i do
Cant use Qflash with my usb stick, no drives found, cant even detect my hdds.
haha yes in 2023 watching videos from 13 years ago shed tears
Make sure your flash drive formated to FAT Or FAT32. NTFS format won't work.
THANK YOU
Yes, they are Intel CPU "throttling" features. If you are overclocking, I would disable them until you find a stable overclock, but if not....enable them and leave them. They are good features. All the best.
@Mythstae I am happy to hear that! All the best to you!
Where's the any key?
What is flash?
@mupp33n I'm having the same problem!! did you ever find a solution? Any help would be appreciated as I'm at a total loss and can't boot my PC/Format it..
Assembled a PC that was laying around, no post and it is determined to be DOA (most of the time these are due to bad bios). Some folks say they have recovered bad boards by recovering the bios rather than RMA. Not sure how they do it... I recall using a floppy disk back in the day which has worked for me, but what about more recent systems? When you're met with a black screen, can you do what you do with floppy disks to a CD or USB drive instead?
@mrblackout2000 Yes, if you have no reason to flash.....be very careful. It's not something to do for fun. You should have a need to flash or want to gain the experience.
I have a gigabyte motherboard
when i turn on my computer and it start to beep. After that the computer said " Warning: MAIN BIOS CHECKSUM ERROR! "
Then "BIOS Auto-Recovering....." But it keep doing it the same thing everytime i turn on my computer......is it normal?
What i Need to do if i presa update bios from drive and hes not finding my driver
wat doez this do to ur computer becuz my laptop ram doesnt show up :(
hey ... iwe just got gigabyte motherboard and it have F2 bios ... i seen on their site that there is F6 ... do u maybe know if i can update to F6 over F2 or i need to update F3,F4 ,F5 first ?? thx.. nice video wery helpfull..
@101m4n Thanks for the comment. It's not hard. Go for it! All the best.
@mupp33n Something must be wrong. I would try another flash drive first. If that does not work, format it and try that.
@Scorpion9709 Yes, me too, It doesn't recognise my pendrive, I donno why?
@crniyo Yes, check to see if the heatsink is fastened correctly if you think it may be a heat issue. Also, your PSU, video card are also suspect if your computer is shutting down under load.
Hello will the BIOS settings be changed after getting flashed??
thank for uploading this video ! its helps with my new cpu ^^
Good job thank you updated mine as well with no problem .THANK GOD !
@Trip506 It's a safety measure. The Gigabyte pros say to do it. Bad things CAN happen if you don't. Chances are you would be fine not doing it but why take a chance if it only takes a minute. Thats my answer, I asked the Gigabyte pros and that;s what they told me.
I was told to save the BIOS first and now it seems to be frozen....should i just reset my computer?
Thank you! That's useful video. I'm using GA-G31M-S2L.
I don't understand this problem. I have flashed countless BIOS and it's happened to me twice. Each time I used another and it flashed fine. You do know it will read as a "hard drive"? Probably so.....the only thing to do if no flash drive will work is to do it through the OS. (Windows)
@GT5Enthusiast That's your problem. Using anything but Q-Flash will fail a certain % of the time. (a lot more than Q-Flash)
Help.. my drive not showing on the Q-flash. How to display it?
Hey sorry Im a noob, but i download the BIOS from gigabyte and now how do i get to the blue screen?
Where can I get this BIOS image from? The Phoenix website only offers Windows-based upgrade utility. I have no Windows, I'm trying to upgrade my BIOS to allow new Linux server run smoothly (the current BIOS hangs on GRUB2 boot loader and, even worse, on Debian's installation CD.
You can also update ur bios directly from windows using @BIOS utility. Anyway, you havent set the sata controler in ahci mode which is more advanced than ide and Win7 can benefit fro that (there is a big chance that you cannot change that without reinstalling system again, but you wont know without cheching. Also no smart cabability is set do disabled
people say that updating using dos mode or Qflash is safer than using windows tool, so good work with showing how to do that in a proper way.
I have a GA X58A UD3R Rev1. and I tried to update to the last bios version F7.
When I run Q-Flash on the bios, and find my pen drive with the file X58AUD3R.F7L
it say, wrong size and I can´t do the update.
Do you know what happened?
Thanks, and sorry my little english.
i have a problem. can't go there because my keyboard disable. how to enable back?
@awsed25 if you want to do it in windows you have to install a program from the motherboard cd you know that one u got when u bought the motherboard the program is called @BIOS
can u fix it if it goes rong or is your board totally useless
Thank you LTSP007. I like to hear it helped someone.
@sonyxploder Loading optimized defaults is simply a safety issue. There are some changes you might have made to the current BIOS that might make the flash fail. If you need to use a beta BIOS it's no problem. Just flash again when the final is released. As far as safety precautions......I like to mention them in my videos......but chances are 99% you would be fine not even using optimized defaults before or after. I just think it's a small price to pay for an easy thing to do....good luck.
@Ryd3r22 No, the settings you had before will be the same. It should be the same as before you flashed. It has risk. You shouldn't do this unless you need to or the new BIOS has better OC features. Good luck.
@radeonfighter Yes, I have. I think it's F10 now. I cannot remember which board this is. If it's the UD3P it's on F10
If the BIOS says it's the wrong size then most likely it is the wrong file. Make sure you have the correct REVISION of your motherboard. It makes a big difference. Look it up on the net.
I tried to update BIOS from desktop on W7 but whenever I try to run it ..it just closes up and writes file has stopped working windows is searching for solution
FAT32, FAT16, FAT12 will work BUT FAT32 is best and I would use that. Hope that helps.
@Chicagoman36 i don't think your supposed to have windows installed.
saved mine to the HDD could i load it from that, i don't have a USB drive
@nate42nd
i downloaded program to monitor cpu temperature
and normaly its around 40-45*C but when
i play game it goes over 50-55*C ... i think it
shut down on 60*C ... should i try with
windows reinstal ?
Will it damage our data present in hard disk???
Thanks for the demo... Very helpful
Which is why I'm happy my Gigabyte board has DualBIOS. :D
why I have a dual bios mb and it makes no difference as it still got corrupted and died
You still should be able to recover
Where´s the any key?
thank you man thank you so much I am very disturb because of my computer does not boot from USB drive and when I think to update my bios and watch Your Tutorial I just seen an option in your video and I just set up in my bios now I am able to boot from USB and thank you again to make this type of useful video.
hey ... iwe just got gigabyte motherboard and it have bios F2... iwe seen on their site there is bios F6 .... can i update F6 over F2 or i need to update F3,F4,F5 first ???? thx.. nice video wery helpfull :)
hey ... i did flahs bios and everyting was ok ... i did that coz my procesor phenom II 955 3.0 was working on 1.6Ghz and rest was slow also.... now when i did it my processor works on 3.2ghz and when i start game or something computer shut down ... im guessing CPU is overheating or something... should i reinstal windows or what ,,, do u have any idea ?
@nate42nd
i only have 450w of psu that could be the problem ?
@MkmIq Just go to the web page and download it. You will have to look at your board anyway to see what version you have.
hey i am trying to find the onboard aurio in BIOS and i cant find it i am using Gigabyte EX58-UD3R and i believe i have to update BIOS .I am also using an Ati HD5700 series graphics card which comes with a sound card. When i play games there is no sound while they talk, so i updated all my drivers but still nothing happened. Do you have any idea of what i must do, do i have to update my Bios so i can find onboard audio and enable it? Or must i update it so my drivers can become up to dat inBios?
@IrishTopgun12 I would try another USB stick. I have seen this before. It needs to be formatted FAT32 or FAT BUT I have still seen this before. I switched sticks and it worked fine. Good luck.
@trkka I've never done an MSI board, but they have a good utility from what IO've seen. Good luck.