Hi all:
New Gigabyte user here, recently switched from an ASUS board based on recommendations from my local computer shop.
I'm running the system in my signature and the board came with BIOS F2 installed. Last night I decided to flash to F3 final BIOS. I already have XPSP3 and other items installed.
I saw in the manual that BIOS updating can be performed from a USB stick - since I have no floppy drive I had done this before on my ASUS board no problems with a FAT32 filesystem on the USB stick.
I did read threads here related to this and saw a mixed bag - some success - some failures.
I had no luck whatsover getting Q-Flash even to see the USB stick either to write to or read from. I tried rear panel USB ports and USB ports attached to both headers on the mobo. I also tried using two different sized and manufacturer USB sticks.
One thing that dawns on me this morning is that I have "Legacy USB Storage Support" Disabled in the BIOS at present. Is this required to be Enabled in order to flash BIOS from USB ? With this Disabled I can see, read, and write the sticks just fine in Windows.
Do you have to physically disconnect every SATA and IDE drive in order to flash BIOS using a USB stick ?
Do you have to physically disconnect any other USB connections in order to flash BIOS using a USB stick ?
I never had to disconnect anything and in fact once I had a properly formatted USB stick it was simple to update BIOS in this fashion on my ASUS board, but perhaps things are different with Gigabyte.
I'd appreciate any thoughts; particularly from people who have had success updating BIOS from a USB stick.
Thanks!
New Gigabyte user here, recently switched from an ASUS board based on recommendations from my local computer shop.
I'm running the system in my signature and the board came with BIOS F2 installed. Last night I decided to flash to F3 final BIOS. I already have XPSP3 and other items installed.
I saw in the manual that BIOS updating can be performed from a USB stick - since I have no floppy drive I had done this before on my ASUS board no problems with a FAT32 filesystem on the USB stick.
I did read threads here related to this and saw a mixed bag - some success - some failures.
I had no luck whatsover getting Q-Flash even to see the USB stick either to write to or read from. I tried rear panel USB ports and USB ports attached to both headers on the mobo. I also tried using two different sized and manufacturer USB sticks.
One thing that dawns on me this morning is that I have "Legacy USB Storage Support" Disabled in the BIOS at present. Is this required to be Enabled in order to flash BIOS from USB ? With this Disabled I can see, read, and write the sticks just fine in Windows.
Do you have to physically disconnect every SATA and IDE drive in order to flash BIOS using a USB stick ?
Do you have to physically disconnect any other USB connections in order to flash BIOS using a USB stick ?
I never had to disconnect anything and in fact once I had a properly formatted USB stick it was simple to update BIOS in this fashion on my ASUS board, but perhaps things are different with Gigabyte.
I'd appreciate any thoughts; particularly from people who have had success updating BIOS from a USB stick.
Thanks!
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