How do I save bios to usb stick? please.

Plug in usb stick
Hit the button used to save profile to bios (it's F12 or F11, unsure which)
Choose the option near the end of the list to save to hard drive/usb stick
Do so
 
This is when in the bios. It's F11 to save, F12 to load. The options is called "File in HDD/FDD/USB" which stand for hard disk drive, floppy disk drive, universal serial bus.

I do not know what file formats are acceptable as I also haven't bothered to look in the motherboard manual for how to use this basic feature. I used fat16.
 
Just for interest I have read the manual and it says "it allows you to save to a profile, create up to 8 profiles" does no say anything about saving to USB. Moreover, as I purchased an overclocked bundle I don't want to take the chance of overwrighting the bios settings in error. Thanks for your help.
 
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Strange, perhaps it was added as an afterthought.

I can confirm that it works politely and without any risk of deleting your settings. It doesn't see my hard drives for some reason so I write the profile to a 1gb fat16 usb stick and copy it onto a drive when in the operating system.

If you're planning on updating the bios and then reapplying the profile from usb stick please be aware that it's unlikely to be stable without tweaking, different bios's seem to require sllightly different settings. Feel free to look around the bios, the first page has overclocking things in and the others have enable/disable lan ports and similar. Just choose "no" when it asks you if you want to save your changes when you're finished.

edit: I believe if you accidentally erase your settings you just send ocuk a webnote and they email you a copy of your original settings, but I don't have personal experience of this process.
 
It's a piece of cake, it's done exactly as Jon has stated, I've got a USB pen drive filled with different BIOS profiles, and BIOS'es...

The only way you risk losing OcUK's profile is if you overwrite it...

All you do is connect the USB drive, then enter the BIOS, on the main screen press F11, and then it asks you where you want to save the profile, call the profile whatever you want, and then press enter.

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One thing to remember is, you can't use a BIOS profile from say F7 on F9e.. it just doesn't work at all, or at least it wouldn't for me...
 
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hanks for that, my problem is I bought the overclocked package and it has a couple of problems, 1 will not wake up from a standby/sleep state, 2 will not see the network connection to the internet unless I unplug the network cable and then replug it into the other network socket, each time which ever socket its in at the start!! I am having difficulty contacting OCUK by phone help line always busy, no help at present via web mail! Now I am retired I thought I would go for an easy option, bundle already overclocked and was hoping after contacting OCUK that a bios update and then reloading there settings would work, without an fiddling!!
 
I remember having an issue with the ethernet ports on the UD5 a while back, it turned out to be the drivers I downloaded from Windows Update, so I went back to using the network drivers from the disk that was supplied with the mobo, and that did the trick.

There seem to be a lot of folk having issues with the sleep function on this mobo as well, however the newer F9e and F9m beta BIOS is meant to fix this issue, I can't say for sure whether it does or not because I don't use the sleep function..
 
Or....

After startup, when you would press DEL to get into the bios, press the END button instead and it will take you to a load/save bios menu.
Make sure you have the USB memory stick in place.
(best to insert the USB memory stick when the machine is running and then 'restart' to the splash screen.
 
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