Will BIOS revision be written on my new motherboard?

jumeeno · 27 Mar 2012 at 14:02

I've just bought a new Asus Maximus IV Gene-Z, with the theory of hanging on until Ivy Bridge. I don't currently have any Socket 1155 chip for testing.

The minimum BIOS revision that I'll need for IB support is 0902... is there any way of telling this from the physical motherboard?

wazza300 · 27 Mar 2012 at 14:11

no,you wont know untill you power it up,you can however pull out the bios chip and have it flashed to the latest bios or buy a chip off fleebay pre flashed with the latest bios then put it in and it will support ib cpu

mmj_uk · 27 Mar 2012 at 14:11

Not unless the BIOS chip has some kind of sticker on it, there are ways to flash it if you have a spare motherboard and know what you're doing but the easiest way would be to grab one of these.

It might still boot with an earlier BIOS version though.

The Halk · 27 Mar 2012 at 14:44

Previously where I've had an unsupported CPU in, it's booted with an error running it at a very low speed until I got it flashed. That might happen rather than just not running at all.

paradisiac · 27 Mar 2012 at 14:48

mmj_uk said:
Not unless the BIOS chip has some kind of sticker on it, there are ways to flash it if you have a spare motherboard and know what you're doing but the easiest way would be to grab one of these.

It might still boot with an earlier BIOS version though.

this. for £30ish you cant go wrong, and it leaves you a spare for testing in the future, or pick up a £30-£50 motherboard in the future and you have the base for a HTPC/Web Browser PC

jumeeno · 27 Mar 2012 at 18:22

Excellent, thanks guys. I have a similar post in the CPU Section regarding whether I:

a) Get a 2500K (BIOS ready)

or

b) Get a G530, flash BIOS, then get an IB chip.

Glad that b) is the general concecus here - not too much opinion on the other thread

wazza300 · 27 Mar 2012 at 18:23

a pre flashed bios chip is only a tenner,

Rroff · 27 Mar 2012 at 18:28

Dunno if Asus do it but I've had Gigabyte boards before with a sticker with the BIOS revision printed on them stuck to the board between the PCI-e slots. Even if they do tho the printed number may not be easy to match to what BIOS revision it is.