Updating the bios with a specific usb drive.

Freeze Aim · Mar 24, 2017

Hello everyone!

So I recently bought a USB sandisk ultra with 16gb of memory, and I was wondering if i can use it as a bootable drive only one time?

boosted1g · Mar 24, 2017

The brand/size of usb drive is not a factor.

The only thing that makes a difference is if your board will allow bios update over usb 3.0 slot or not.

Outside of that any USB drive can be used to update bios on any half modern motherboard.

Mister_MO · Mar 24, 2017

Sure, when you plug it in and start your pc, keep pressing key that pops up boot menu and select it there, different boards have different keys, so either it should be shown on screen or look it up on google. Most of time it is ESC, F9, F10, F12, but could be anything else.
But you just need to be sure if your drive have uefi or non-uefi boot files, as some boards have non-uefi disabled by default and you need it enable to see boot non-uefi option.
But for updating bios you need to know if it is from bios or you use dos program you need boot up. Either way use FAT32 filesystem.

Freeze Aim · Mar 24, 2017

Well, I contacted sandisk and they said "It can defect the usb drive". Should I do it either way?

Paul NZ · Mar 24, 2017

Updating the bios and making it a bootable flash drive are 2 different things

If the mobo is an ASUS it doesnt have to be bootable. Most ASUS mobos have ez flash. All you have to do is format it in FAT32

Get the BIOS extract it put it on the flash drive (not in a folder), go into the BIOS find ez flash then flash it

If you want to make it bootable you can use rufus

Freeze Aim · Mar 24, 2017

But they still said it "it can run of the memory faster than it should" or something like that.

Mister_MO · Mar 24, 2017

If there is no pressing need to update bios, like system instability, annoying bug or large fixes, you should avoid bios update. But for try if you can use that drive, format it with fat32, place there new bios update and go to bios and try if you can select it, it should ask you if you want update, if you cancel it nothing will happen but when you press yes you need it to finish.

Freeze Aim · Mar 24, 2017

And if you want to know my specs, here they are

MB: Gigabyte ga z77m d3h
CPU : i5 3570k
GPU : Sapphire nitro+ rx 480
RAM : Corsair vengeance 2x4 @663 MHz
PSU : Corsair CX500

Paul NZ · Mar 24, 2017

And what exactly do you want to do make it bootable just to update the BIOS??

That wont run out of space, the BIOS update is small. Sandisk dont know what theyre talking about

Freeze Aim · Mar 24, 2017

Well, Im in need to update it as it doesnt show any signal on the monitor with my rx 480 but with my 760 (old) it showed signal on my monitor.

Freeze Aim · Mar 24, 2017

What they meant with that is it can defect the usb drive which they cannot replace as I void the warranty because of updating bios....

Paul NZ · Mar 24, 2017

They still dont know what they're talking about. If you cant use it then why do they sell it

Theyre talking out of their a**es!

It may not even fix the prob anyway. Even if you update the BIOS

The other videocard maybe dead

Freeze Aim · Mar 24, 2017

No, Paul. I tested it on Another computer and it worked flawlessly.

Paul NZ · Mar 24, 2017

Well update it then instead of talking about it

If you cant do it in the BIOS make it bootable with rufus http://rufus.akeo.ie/

Put the flash drive in select freedos in rufus down the bottom, then follow what it says to flash it (in the manual) after you get the update

Freeze Aim · Mar 24, 2017

Well, now it got complicated. This drive has a executable file where you save the files there. And I do not know where to put it, in the program or in the drive via exlporer (I know, silly question :/).

Paul NZ · Mar 24, 2017

Read the mobo manual, it'll tell you what it is and how to run it

Freeze Aim · Mar 24, 2017

But did you read my latest question? This drive has a program where you store files there and I don't know if my mobo will recognise the bios files in there.

Paul NZ · Mar 24, 2017

Soon find out try it. Or you wont know. But If you can do it with a bootable disk or in the BIOS, I would do it that way..

Updating a BIOS in windows can be dangerous. If it freezes it can and will brick your system

Freeze Aim · Mar 24, 2017

What do you mean with "a bootable disk" if i may ask?

Paul NZ · Mar 24, 2017

bootable flash drive, if theres a bios update that runs in dos

Mister_MO · Mar 24, 2017

Format your flash drive to fat32 and copy all files there, restart pc and keep pressing END to directly ether bios flash utility or go to bios by pressing F8 and there select q-flash. From it just select where you have your bios update file.

Freeze Aim · Mar 24, 2017

Oh okay. But I still ask my self if i should put the bios files in the disk via Explorer or the program. btw the program is enkrypting the files in the program, making it unable to steal them without a password.

Mister_MO · Mar 24, 2017

Don't use any program, extract them from archive if you didn't and just directly copy them there.

Paul NZ · Mar 24, 2017

If it's the GA-Z77M-D3H dont flash beta bioses. The last 2 BIOS updates are beta BIOSes.

They're buggy. Also make sure you download the right BIOS for the right revision. Since there's a revision 1 and 1.1

The revision should be etched on the motherboard

Looks like (if that is your mobo) the exe file, if you extract its got an autoexec.bat file and the command / update in it. So you may have to make a bootable flash drive with flash drive then copy the extracted files to it. Then boot from the flash drive

Run the autoexec.bat file in dos

Freeze Aim · Mar 24, 2017

Mister_MO :

You may misunderstood me. The flash drive has a program where you keep the files there. Shall i put it in the program or just extract directly to the disk?

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