Looking for a quick BIOS flash guide.

CrixxzeH

CrixxzeH

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I have the GA-z77-D3H and am not too sure what BIOS I am currently using, will check later today. Although I do not think it is the latest (F18).

Could you please tell me what are the steps to flashing the BIOS successfully as I've never done this, wasent too sure if you take the GPU out or not.


i5-3570k - not overclocked.
8GB
z77-D3H
win 7 -64b
 
download and extract the bios to a usb memory stick,restart pc and boot into bios with memory stick attached,then follow the qflash guide and update the bios

f8 or end key for qflash I think

no need to remove gpu
 
The best way is to use Qflash within the BIOS.

Download the update, extract the BIOS onto a USB drive, enter the BIOS, select Qflash, select update from drive, locate the file and let it do its thing.

If Qflash says it is out dated then you need to then use @BIOS which is a windows based utility.
 
wazza300 said:
download and extract the bios to a usb memory stick,restart pc and boot into bios with memory stick attached,then follow the qflash guide and update the bios

f8 or end key for qflash I think

no need to remove gpu
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Just a bit paranoid of something going wrong as I've always used the first version of the BIOS from the website, what would be the procedure IF something do go wrong to rollback?

ps - thankyou for the quick reply.
 
Whats not working that makes you need to flash a new BIOS? Only reason I ask is some things are better left if they aren't broken.
 
the board will auto recover from the backup bios chip automatically should it go wrong,aslong as you flash with qflash you'll be ok,and you can flash to latest version from the first bios just fine
 
Steveocee said:
Whats not working that makes you need to flash a new BIOS? Only reason I ask is some things are better left if they aren't broken.
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always used the first version of BIOS (f18) . Just thinking of getting the newest part from the beta (f22) which, might add better CPU/GPU support.
 
Read my first reply.

You may have to use @BIOS which will update QFlash and the BIOS at the same time.

Really depends on the BIOS you are trying to flash onto the board.
 
beta is fine to use,using one myself

you only need to use @BIOS if it wont flash with qflash,qflash sometimes needs updating so to flash bios's more than 2mb and only way to do it is with @bios,once updated go back to flashing with qflash as its safer
 
Qflash is the built-in updater, sometimes it needs updating itself as its out of date.

@BIOS is the only way to do this and update the BIOS at the same time.
 
CrixxzeH said:
Isen't that a motherboard utility? that doesnt seem like the f22 version that is on the gigabyte site here.. http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4140#bios

just to add the latest version for the GA-z77-D3H is a beta version, which i deffinitely do not want to risk.
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That gigabyte link is the actual bios. The @BIOS is a program that will update it for you without the need to go into the bios menu or use a usb stick.

Download the @BIOS program from Stulids link and then run it. You can then just click on 'update bios from gigabyte server' and it will do it for you....simples :D I use it for my Z77X board
 
qflash is dos based (inside your actual bios pages utility)

@BIOS is windows based utility (if windows crashes while its flashing then you can corrupt the bios) resulting in a bad flash
 
wazza300 said:
beta is fine to use,using one myself

you only need to use @bios if it wont flash with qflash,qflash sometimes needs updating so to flash bios's more than 2mb and only way to do it is with @bios,once updated go back to flashing with qflash as its safer
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ahh thankyou, ill check that now..
 
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