Having issues installing BIOS on a new motherboard with a USB flash drive

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gyogyomega

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Hey all, I recently rebuilt my entire PC, replacing everything except my old hard drives. I planned to use my old hard drives, and so I deleted my old motherboard drivers and all my other drivers.


However, I ran into some issues. The new PC case I bought does not have a CD/DVD ROM, so I can't install the bios for my new motherboard by disc. I did some research and found that I could use a USB flash drive to install the bios. This is where I am stuck. I cannot use my old DVD ROM to install it, because it will not work with my new motherboard, and I have no idea on how to get my physical disk that regularly installs the bios onto a flash drive.

I have done some research but found nothing that shows to how to turn a flash drive into an installation CD, they are all for Windows Operating systems or just turning the flash drive into a boot device, but nothing on how to transfer my installation CD files over to my boot ready flash drive.


Please help!

EDIT: I found and downloaded the bios that I needed for my flash drive. Again though, I am having some difficulty transferring it to the USB flash drive (which I formatted into NTFS).

I got my motherboard bios here:http://www.gigabyte.us/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4964&dl=1&RWD=0#bios

But then I have to extract it, but I'm not sure into where.
 
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The BIOS or UEFI on modern motherboards is stored on a chip and loaded when the PC boots up

You only need to change it if the motherboard maker recomends it to enable a new CPU to be recognised or a new GPU or to fix a bug or enable a new Windows operating system to work properly

There is a risk if the proceedure goes wrong of killing the motherboard
(eg getting the wrong version or having a power failure at a critical time)

Usually to flash the bios you format the usb memory stick at FAT16 or fat32 not NTFS
(as detailed in user guide for motherboard)
then copy rom file to USB and give it correct name (often motherboard model)
then insert usb to a USB 2 port and power on PC & process proceeds automatically

Dont do it unless...
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gyogyomega

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Wait so, when I plug in the motherboard and I already deleted all of my drivers, the bios is already installed on the motherboard and I don't need the disk?
 
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mbarnes86

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Hi

The BIOS or UEFI on modern motherboards is stored on a chip and loaded when the PC boots up

You only need to change it if the motherboard maker recomends it to enable a new CPU to be recognised or a new GPU or to fix a bug or enable a new Windows operating system to work properly

There is a risk if the proceedure goes wrong of killing the motherboard
(eg getting the wrong version or having a power failure at a critical time)

Usually to flash the bios you format the usb memory stick at FAT16 or fat32 not NTFS
(as detailed in user guide for motherboard)
then copy rom file to USB and give it correct name (often motherboard model)
then insert usb to a USB 2 port and power on PC & process proceeds automatically

Dont do it unless advised to do so

If installing Win 7 or 8 Microsoft provides a utility to make a 4GB usb memory stick bootable using a Windows DVD
(obviously using a PC with DVD drive)

Google 'make usb windows 7 install disk'

follow links to Microsoft.com

regards

Mike Barnes
 
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shiitaki

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Gigabyte is supper easy because you can go in to the UEFI bios and flash from there. You need to format the flash drive using FAT, not NTFS. The Gigabyte UEFI flash utility can't read NTFS. You just need to copy the extracted file to the usb drive. Only one file needed, the new firmware. Then with the flash drive connected, boot and enter BIOS. Look for the keyboard short cut for the flash utility. Should be one of the F keys. Once the utility is loaded, select the usb stick and then the file.

Good luck.
 
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GrumpyAeroGuy

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^^^^^^^^ what he said in spades ^^^^^^^^^^^


Ya, and MAKE SURE you name the BIOS file EXACTLY as the MB manufacturer tells you to. Often, the BIOS file you DL wil lbe named billibubba vx_y_zzz.xxx or some format like that, and you should rename it to billibuuba.xxx exactly as the MB wants it.

Just paranoid for you because of scar tissue from past "oversights" on my part... LOL
 
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