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now this is uh the first in a series of videos I've been meaning to do for a

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while this is going to be how to update your Motherboard BIOS by Linus we're

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going to start with Gigabyte as my first BIOS update video and step one go to

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Gigabyte.com the manufacturer website step two click support and downloads

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step three go to downloads and search for the name of your board in this case

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it is the snooper the sniper now I'm

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still using the shipping BIOS on this board so anything I choose will be an

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upgrade BIOS so there's a couple ones available we've got F1 which is the

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first release no need to download and reflash that we've got F2 which is the

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latest um release BIOS and then we've got a beta BIOS I'm not going to be

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using a beta BIOS so I am going to use the latest release BIOS I'm going to

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ship that somewhere okay in this case why don't I

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save it to just straight download and we'll go

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from there okay so it's a small file because it's not in EFI BIOS we're going

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to extract it to a particular folder

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here that slash that slash that/

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BIOS then we're going to go

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there here we are find that and we are

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going to

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really yeah I wouldn't think that would work okay so then we're going to take

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that file and we are going to copy it to a USB drive so I'm just going to grab a

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USB drive here my

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trusty Patriot rage plug that into any

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USB port on the back of the PC let me

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use this one there we go so that's

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plugged in now I'm going to take the BIOS file

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right here I'm going to cut that and I'm going to throw it just into the

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root of my Patriot

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Drive all right going to restart the

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computer and show you guys how to update from the F1 BIOS to the F2 BIOS

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I wasn't planning to do this in real time I was going to cut the video up and

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do steps but it's taking so little time that I might as well just uh This Way

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aha end so there you press end to get into Q

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flash but I think I already pressed delete to enter setup so it'll just be a

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moment well it looks like I can also get into Q Flash from here by pressing f8

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enter the Q flash utility yes I would like to update BIOS from drive I will be

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using this I will be scrolling down to

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the the BIOS file and then I will be yes

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I'm sure now I highly recommend having your computer plugged in to a UPS while

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you are doing a BIOS flash because should there be a power outage right now

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uh let me just check I don't believe this board features dual bio although I

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could oh it does okay so it features dual bio so even if there's a power

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routage in theory there should be uh no no long-term problems with my system I

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would just be able to reflash the BIOS but if you have a single BIOS board then

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that could be a real issue for you so pressing your key to

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continue and that was

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it so now we'll go back into Windows and

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I'll show you guys how to confirm I've noticed the fact that when flashing your

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BIOS uh you will usually overwrite any

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settings that have been uh entered into it such as overclocking settings uh

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turning off the splash screen when it boots all that kind of stuff and also

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I should note that you should always have your system set to the default

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settings not overclocked when you are going to flash the BIOS to avoid any

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kind of instability during the BIOS flashing process that would cause it to

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error out now I will use CPU Z to verify

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that my flash was successful you can see I am now using version F2 of the BIOS

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which was released on March 29 2011 so

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there you go thank you for checking out my BIOS update guide don't forget to subscribe to lonus techtips for more

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