How do I update BIOS with a .CMO file?

ringo747 · 11 Feb 2010 at 17:42

As title suggests really. I have a profile from OCUK which I need to add to my BIOS. Do I burn this to disk and then import? Its a gigabyte P55-UD5 mobo.

Anyone know how I go about doing this?

J.B · 11 Feb 2010 at 17:47

Most modern BIOS let you read off a USB drive. HAve you check the mobo manual?

ringo747 · 11 Feb 2010 at 18:00

Nothing in the manual that I can see. Will try usb drive.

ringo747 · 11 Feb 2010 at 18:15

There is an option in BIOS to load CMOS from BIOS. Under that option I can click to load from a file but it only shows a floppy drive, which unfortunately I don't have.

ringo747 · 17 Feb 2010 at 23:45

Just reviving this thread slightly. I have a .cmo file on a usb stick but my gigabyte mobo BIOS doesn't see the file. Is there any other file extension I can use so that my profile can be loaded? Thanks

Con Man · 14 Jul 2012 at 07:33

Did you ever get a solution to this? I have the same bundle as you and have lost the BIOS settings. I have a CMO file but exactly the same problem so I have no way of getting back my overclocking..

OptimaLnrg · 14 Jul 2012 at 07:47

Make sure the usb stick is empty, formatted to fat32 and the file is in the root directory (the only thing on the stick, no folder structure or w/e)

Does that work?

Con Man · 14 Jul 2012 at 07:53

OptimaLnrg said:
Make sure the usb stick is empty, formatted to fat32 and the file is in the root directory (the only thing on the stick, no folder structure or w/e)

Does that work?

I'll give that a try. I only really need to see the settings as it is a newer BIOS so may not work but if I copy the settings I can apply them manually, well hopefully I can :-)

thanks for the advice.