Cannot flash BIOS, EX58-UD5

henrycharge

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Hi Guys,

I have the Giga-byte EX58-UD5 board and i'm trying to flash my bios to the latest version but it says this:

- Unsupported 16-Bit Application --------------------------- The program or feature "\??\X:\Downloads\motherboard_bios_ga-ex58-ud4_f7d\FLASHSPI.EXE" cannot start or run due to incompatibity with 64-bit versions of Windows. Please contact the software vendor to ask if a 64-bit Windows compatible version is available.

This is on Windows 7 and I want to flash my bios for this reason:

Every time i boot my pc with my new ssd in ahci mode, it has an automatic delay when it searches for the drives, and it actually says this will take a few seconds and it takes 10 seconds. I'm hoping with a bios flash it might not do this anymore?

Pleas help!!
 
Can you find the option to boot from USB?

You could make a USB bootable drive and install the flash utility and bios file on it then run from the USB drive after booting. This will require using DOS or similar command line, or automating it with a batch file.

andy
 
henrycharge said:
Well the download from gigabyte has a batch file with it so could I launch this in dos?
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Yes, that is probably the way to do it. The batch file should call the flash utility with the correct bios file and any switches. You can open in notepad to read the batch file and see what it does.

I still use a floppy with drdos boot disk installed, you can use a CD or pen drive instead of the floppy with the same drdos boot files.

google bootdisk.com and the driver free disk for bios installation or if you have a floppy, drdflash.exe will write it for you.

andy.
 
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Download the latest BIOS file from Gigabyte Website, stick it into a USB pen drive, then plug it into a spare USB slot on your mobo, power up the system and press delete to enter the BIOS, then on the BIOS mainscreen press F8 which will take you into the Q-Flash utility.

From here, just flash BIOS from disk, and then browse to the BIOS file that you copied onto the USB pen drive and then let it do it's thing.

It is also recommended that after the BIOS has been flashed, and the system restarts you then need to enter the BIOS and load optimized defaults, then save and exit, then once you've done that you can re-enter the BIOS and start overclocking, and setting HDD modes to whichever it is that you use (RAID, AHCI, or IDE mode).

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Also, when I was running my old X58 UD5 board, I too experienced the hanging when using AHCI mode, when I flashed to F9 and above it cleared this issue up and there was no more waiting time.
 
Thanks to everyone for their help, I've successfully flashed to the latest bios but there's another problem! Now when it goes through the isrc ahci loading it takes the same time as before if not longer and says that my ocz vertex smart command failed!? Is there a noticeable difference running in ide mode? Because the delay is really annoying me, I might just change back to IDE mode.
 
I've noticed sweet FA difference using ahci compared to ide and suffered the same delay (writing bios.....) so went back to ide and havn't looked back.
 
Also remember that you have to manually flash the backup BIOS if you want it the same.

On boot hold down ALT and F12 to get the option.

Should your overclock or something else fail for whatever reason your backup BIOS may kick in and reflash the main BIOS.

I had this happen a few times before i figured out what the hell was going on.

I had flashed to F7 and noticed a few weeks later it was back to F6... i was questioning my sanity for a while before i learned of the backup reflashing without asking or telling you thing.
 
Just flashed my bios with the f13m ... and hell has it made a difference :)

OCing is easier with the newer bios layout and the achi/ssd problem as gone far, far away

Thanks for starting this thread and reminding me to do something about it :)
 
Just a little note to people that @BIOS that Gigabyte supply for flashing your BIOS in Windows works very well, and even if you are unfortunate enough to get a bad flash most of their motherboards come with DualBIOS now I think.
 
I have just seen so many boards bricked after a OS based flash. It is so quick using the q-flash with the Gigabyte boards I really can not see any need to go the OS route. But good point about the dual bios with the Gigabyte boards there richb93. :)
 
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