now this is uh the first in a series of videos I've been meaning to do for a
while this is going to be how to update your Motherboard BIOS by Linus we're
going to start with Gigabyte as my first BIOS update video and step one go to
Gigabyte.com the manufacturer website step two click support and downloads
step three go to downloads and search for the name of your board in this case
it is the snooper the sniper now I'm
still using the shipping BIOS on this board so anything I choose will be an
upgrade BIOS so there's a couple ones available we've got F1 which is the
first release no need to download and reflash that we've got F2 which is the
latest um release BIOS and then we've got a beta BIOS I'm not going to be
using a beta BIOS so I am going to use the latest release BIOS I'm going to
ship that somewhere okay in this case why don't I
save it to just straight download and we'll go
from there okay so it's a small file because it's not in EFI BIOS we're going
to extract it to a particular folder
here that slash that slash that/
BIOS then we're going to go
there here we are find that and we are
going to
really yeah I wouldn't think that would work okay so then we're going to take
that file and we are going to copy it to a USB drive so I'm just going to grab a
USB drive here my
trusty Patriot rage plug that into any
USB port on the back of the PC let me
use this one there we go so that's
plugged in now I'm going to take the BIOS file
right here I'm going to cut that and I'm going to throw it just into the
root of my Patriot
Drive all right going to restart the
computer and show you guys how to update from the F1 BIOS to the F2 BIOS
I wasn't planning to do this in real time I was going to cut the video up and
do steps but it's taking so little time that I might as well just uh This Way
aha end so there you press end to get into Q
flash but I think I already pressed delete to enter setup so it'll just be a
moment well it looks like I can also get into Q Flash from here by pressing f8
enter the Q flash utility yes I would like to update BIOS from drive I will be
using this I will be scrolling down to
the the BIOS file and then I will be yes
I'm sure now I highly recommend having your computer plugged in to a UPS while
you are doing a BIOS flash because should there be a power outage right now
uh let me just check I don't believe this board features dual bio although I
could oh it does okay so it features dual bio so even if there's a power
routage in theory there should be uh no no long-term problems with my system I
would just be able to reflash the BIOS but if you have a single BIOS board then
that could be a real issue for you so pressing your key to
continue and that was
it so now we'll go back into Windows and
I'll show you guys how to confirm I've noticed the fact that when flashing your
BIOS uh you will usually overwrite any
settings that have been uh entered into it such as overclocking settings uh
turning off the splash screen when it boots all that kind of stuff and also
I should note that you should always have your system set to the default
settings not overclocked when you are going to flash the BIOS to avoid any
kind of instability during the BIOS flashing process that would cause it to
error out now I will use CPU Z to verify
that my flash was successful you can see I am now using version F2 of the BIOS
which was released on March 29 2011 so
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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