Asus Sabertooth X58 mobo - Updating the bios question

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chrisbek

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I have an Asus Sabertooth X58 motherboard.

I am thinking of updating the BIOS because I have recently been having some stability issues with the computer which I mention here in this thread:

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2613015/sabertooth-x58-boot-issues.html

I am debating updating the BIOS but I am not sure if I should.

The current BIOS that the board is running is the original 1304 version.

Since this version there have been 10 updates which are:

Sabertooth X58 0308 BIOS
Sabertooth X58 0402 BIOS
Sabertooth X58 0505 BIOS
Sabertooth X58 0603 BIOS
Sabertooth X58 0802 BIOS
Sabertooth X58 0902 BIOS
Sabertooth X58 1006 BIOS
Sabertooth X58 1201 BIOS
Sabertooth X58 1304 BIOS
Sabertooth X58 BIOS 1402

I have never updated the BIOS before and my motherboard manual says updating the BIOS is potentially risky and that if there is no problem using the current version of BIOS that I should not manually update it as inappropriate BIOS updating can result in the system failure to boot.

My question is if I decide to update the BIOS do I download each update one at a time and apply in order. Example install 0308, then 0402, then 0505 and so on.

Or do I simply download the last known update which is 1402 and just install that and only that?

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No just update to the latest bios, it will have all the updates from previous versions.

Just gone through your other thread. It certainly looks like a PSU issue, time will tell with your other PSU.

Its a pretty old system so i guess its been running well for a very long time and now all of a sudden? Yea, doesn't seem bios related. Hoping it's just the PSU, they do age - 5yrs is, i've read, about the time to change, depending how much is constantly used.

There's no harm in trying an updated bios, can only be of fixes made so good luck. Just cross your fingers that while the bios is updating --The power doesn't cut out :O
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No just update to the latest bios, it will have all the updates from previous versions.

Just gone through your other thread. It certainly looks like a PSU issue, time will tell with your other PSU.

Its a pretty old system so i guess its been running well for a very long time and now all of a sudden? Yea, doesn't seem bios related. Hoping it's just the PSU, they do age - 5yrs is, i've read, about the time to change, depending how much is constantly used.

There's no harm in trying an updated bios, can only be of fixes made so good luck. Just cross your fingers that while the bios is updating --The power doesn't cut out :O
 
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yea what he said. Looks like a PSU issue to me. I just recently changed my PSU because I had some similar issues.
 
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