DS4 bios update fail?

Steevo38 · 27 Sep 2006 at 20:17

Am hoping that someone can throw some light on this.

Trying to update the bios from F3 to F5

@BIOS just crashes (used this method last time?)
also tried from floppy using the utility at boot up and that just hangs when pressing enter to proceed.

Totally stumped here. :confused:

Regards
Steevo

Stelly · 27 Sep 2006 at 20:44

hmm... I will do my DS4 tomorrow mate and let you knwo how it goes... I'm not at home tonight

Stelly

Steevo38 · 27 Sep 2006 at 21:00

Cheers Stelly,

Have even downloaded from 3 different places in case the first was corrupted but all 3 do the same?

F3 isn't bad but wanted to try and see if I could squeeze a bit more on the overclock with F5.

??????????

Duke · 27 Sep 2006 at 21:06

Are you using the latest version of @BIOS?

Steevo38 · 27 Sep 2006 at 21:26

Duke said:
Are you using the latest version of @BIOS?

1.10b (think that's the latest version)

SOSAGES2 · 27 Sep 2006 at 22:45

dont use latest - uninstall and use version off cd

i had same problem as u

Steevo38 · 27 Sep 2006 at 23:09

Bit scary as Gigabyte say don't use original version. :eek:

stoofa · 28 Sep 2006 at 10:39

I recently upgraded to the F5 final BIOS.
However I simply copy the BIOS file to floppy disk, boot into the BIOS and then use the features in the BIOS to update.
I was however upgrading from the F4 and not the F3 BIOS.

I'm usually 100% happy upgrading a BIOS from within Windows, however as I wanted to update first the primary BIOS and then update the backup BIOS from the Primary it just all seemed a lot easier doing it from within the BIOS.

I can confirm that the copy of the F5 BIOS I have mirrored on my site is 100% OK as I used it to upgrade myself:
http://www.cifi.com/computing/files.html

wizardmaxx · 28 Sep 2006 at 10:43

stoofa said:
I recently upgraded to the F5 final BIOS.
However I simply copy the BIOS file to floppy disk, boot into the BIOS and then use the features in the BIOS to update.
I was however upgrading from the F4 and not the F3 BIOS.

I'm usually 100% happy upgrading a BIOS from within Windows, however as I wanted to update first the primary BIOS and then update the backup BIOS from the Primary it just all seemed a lot easier doing it from within the BIOS.

I can confirm that the copy of the F5 BIOS I have mirrored on my site is 100% OK as I used it to upgrade myself:
http://www.cifi.com/computing/files.html

Found any benefit from new bios....still on f3

Steevo38 · 28 Sep 2006 at 10:52

stoofa said:
I recently upgraded to the F5 final BIOS.
However I simply copy the BIOS file to floppy disk, boot into the BIOS and then use the features in the BIOS to update.
I was however upgrading from the F4 and not the F3 BIOS.

I'm usually 100% happy upgrading a BIOS from within Windows, however as I wanted to update first the primary BIOS and then update the backup BIOS from the Primary it just all seemed a lot easier doing it from within the BIOS.

I can confirm that the copy of the F5 BIOS I have mirrored on my site is 100% OK as I used it to upgrade myself:
http://www.cifi.com/computing/files.html

Thanks Stoofa,

Will give your version a try tonight.
Will also try F3 - F4 - F5 and see if that works.

Cheers
Steevo

Virdi · 28 Sep 2006 at 14:21

I also had problems with the @BIOS from the gigabyte website.

However, the version on the Motherboard CD works fine.

I've personally had the best results with Bios Version: F5c.... I'm running an e6300 @500x7 on air cooling

Steevo38 · 28 Sep 2006 at 15:16

Virdi said:
I also had problems with the @bios from the gigabyte website.

However, the version on the Motherboard CD works fine.

I've personally had the best results with Bios Version: F5c.... I'm running an e6300 @500x7 on air cooling

Nice!

Hoping for somewhere near to that myself.