Sandy bridge mobo - any chance to upgrade bios having only ivy cpu?
netrick
Well I have a h61 mobo which was said to support ivy bridge - however, now I read that it requires bios update first... I don't have any sandy bridge and my ivy bridge cpu is already ordered.
Is there any chance that after putting in the ivy bridge I will be able to flash it somehow?
your 3 options are: 1) get ahold of a sandybridge cpu temporarily. 2) contact gigabyte and ask them to mail you an updated bios for that motherboard (it comes on a chip you replace with the one already there.) 3) send the motherboard back and get a different one which supports ivybridge right out of the box.
netrick
Is there any chance that I got a version with updated bios?
From Gigabyte: The manufacture date can be verified by the serial number found on the product. The first four digits after "SN" determine the year and week of manufacturing date. For example: "4719331822101 SN082540084966" represents the 25th week of 2008
Well so it looks like the bios with ivy support was out at 14.10.2011 and my mobo was produced between 17-23.10.2011. So I guess there is a little chance.
alexoiu
Then I suggest waiting for the CPU, install it and test with the board outside the case and a minimum configuration. There are chances that the CPU is supported.