Using a “flash bios” USB port?

Zeebedy · 1 Feb 2025 at 13:22

Just curious if it’s safe to use a USB port that’s for flashing the BIOS, as an ordinary port?

Or should it only really be used for flashing?

Quartz · 1 Feb 2025 at 13:27

Zeebedy said:
Just curious if it’s safe to use a USB port that’s for flashing the BIOS, as an ordinary port?

Or should it only really be used for flashing?

Just don't leave a USB drive with a BIOS update attached.

Zeebedy · 1 Feb 2025 at 13:47

Thanks, won’t use the port to be in the safe side.

Was just curious, thanks Quartz!

andy_mk3 · 1 Feb 2025 at 15:12

Can use it no issues at all, dont worry about it. It's simply a dedicated port for updating bios via flashback usually.

hornetstinger · 1 Feb 2025 at 15:12

It's fine as long as you don't hold button in, and the file is named whatever the bios deems as flashback file

mattyfez · 5 Feb 2025 at 19:31

Yes it's fine.
Once you've flashed it via USB drive I'd reformat the thumb drive back to normal just to make sure you can't accidentally try to reflash the bios.