Over a year later and this guide still works like a charm! Thank you so much for making this video! I have the exact same board referenced in this vide (Gigabyte B650I Aorus Ultra Rev 1.0) with a much newer BIOS version F31 pre-installed. I have built a few PCs but have never updated the BIOS out of fear of bricking the mobo. Happy to say I just got done successfully updating to version F33e (literally came out 1 week before posting this) by following these very simple steps! Thanks again!
I don't know if you're still reading these comments, but I just wanted to say thanks. I'd have struggled to do this on my own. You're a scholar and a gentleman.
Bro thank you so much man. Was having issues on my new build. I had lots of memory issues since waking up from a 3 month coma and I will this video helped me so much plus now am updating the bios now and did it step by step. Thank you much
I opened the PDF just for laughs and I was like naaahhh you can just select the file FROM within the BIOS itself (assuming you have the flash drive with newer file in already) and do it from there. TBH new users can get terrified if they see that PDF 🤣 Thanks for this simple but very clear video, even if I'm over a year late to the party 😉
Thanks for the content brother. I kept having issues with my pc since the last Nvidia update back in Sept and I couldn't figure out why. So I randomly decided to see if I need to update the bios and I did, surprise surprise. But I also didn't update the bios since I built my pc back in 2020. And now that it's updated, its running smooth af
Flashing as a troubleshooting step to try and fix some system instability. No clue if it'll help yet, but thanks for the easy walkthrough to make it less painful
Make sure you have the correct revision of motherboard, it should say somewhere on the bottom left corner of the board, had me stumped all day 😅 but do not overlook this!
So this is just a question for bios. Does the latest file have all the previous file features when I do a bio update? This will be the first time I’ve ever done a bio update on a motherboard. I’m just asking because I don’t want to keep updating previous files, updates onto the motherboard. And I’m asking this question because I am an autistic individual. So I want to have all the relevant information. Question and fully available. I hope this is fully explained?
I learned the hard way that you basically HAVE to use a USB-2.0 thumb drive of less than 32 GB or it simply won't work. For some reason I had to dig thoroughly through many resources till I discovered this. It's actually a massive detail that get's left out a lot. I also have a Gigabyte motherboard, it's the B650 Aorus Elite AX (rev 1.1). I tried using a USB-C drive since my only other computer is a Mac and I kept getting the infamous "BIOS ID check error" when I tried flashing. I even bought an adapter for the USB-C dive and had partitioned a 16 GB (FAT32) file system - no matter what I did, it refused to flash. I did double check whether it was the right bios too, trust.
The motherboard and my ram ( last item needed to build my new computer ) have finally arrived at the nearest parcel center; maybe I will receive them in a few hours:D I started to invest more than a year ago with a box, usb key, fan and power supply; and unfortunately ram ( DDR4 ) on sale with an SSD nvme, soon after but having not yet chosen the processor it was a bad idea. a few months ago the processor ( 7950x :D ) I’m so excited xd
Great video! Thanks for your work! I have this motherboard and after updating to the latest F9 it has a new UI. It looks nice but i cant find anything yet.
started off good, then just went right over my head. all i want to know is when i go to the download of the bios, how do i just get it to go to my usb? i have no idea how to un zip things or what to unzip or how to move that etc! please make another video explaining this in more detail for us people who are very new to pc stuff. thanks. :-)
Thanks for the feedback. I'll keep that in mind in future. support.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/zip-and-unzip-files-8d28fa72-f2f9-712f-67df-f80cf89fd4e5#:~:text=To%20unzip%20(extract)%20files%20or%20folders%20from%20a%20zipped%20folder&text=To%20unzip%20all%20the%20contents,and%20then%20follow%20the%20instructions.
@@TheProvokedPrawn thanks. ive been watching other videos as well and pretty much eveyone skips over this as well. my mobo needs an update, i can see it on their web site, but im scared to try downloading it as not sure if what i put on the usb will be correct. i have a gigabyte aorus x570 xtreme and a ryzen 9 5900x cpu.
Hey mate, great video. Unfortunately whenever I try to update my Bios (B550 Gaming X AX) I click the reboot button and then it's just a black screen and the Dram light stays on. Any idea why this is happening?
Hello, thanks again for this informative video. If I can, let me ask you something, does this motherboard (B650I AORUS ULTRA) have WiFi and LAN Drivers pre-installed so that I can download the new motherboard update from the same computer or do I need to have them on a USB Drive before building the new PC?
Comes with none of those drivers. Bit of a pain but yeah, be prepared to get those setup with another device After which it would help getting driver easy if you're lazy like me and it'll grab everything else from there
Idk what I'm doing wrong. I have the right cpu for my board. All things are plugged but I'm stuck at test because nothing will power on to open bios. I check my cpu, it's fine. Everything's plugged in my mobo has integrated graphics but I get nothing. And I know power is on because when I hit the qflash button it blinks on for second. According to gigabyte I don't need an bios update.... this has held me up for HOURS
They said its not recommend to update beta bios and just update the non beta, I've updated my bios to beta and I want to downgrade my bios to a non beta. But everything is working. Should I downgrade to non beta or just leave it?
how i should connect ram (2x16 gb --6000mhz) in a gigabyte eagle ax b650 for dual channel ??? some MB use 1 and 3 slots, but in this one i read it was 1 and 2
when i downloaded the zip and extract it to my usb it wasnt in a file its 2 documents but when i click on either of them my computer asks me how i want to open this file. is it fine to proceed to bios or do i need to do another step?
well, followed your instructions and after the first boot, display is gone and vga popped out on motherboard, I don't know what is going on. still running and its been 20 minute or so. what should i do.
I can't get it to run at all. Just bought 7950x3D and I'm on F8 bios version. I can get into the BIOS - but if I insert the USB into the BIOS USB it doesn't recognize an inserted drive. When I insert it in the red 3.2 USBs it shows me the EFI drive with the update file F21. I start QFlash and it works fine until I get to the point it needs to reboot because of "Secureflash". And then nothing happens. It's constantly captured in the BIOS boot cycle. I also can't install windows from my other USB drive. It worked flawlessly 6 weeks ago on an MSI board. 🤷🏻♂️ I'm really disappointed. Such an expensive motherboard and I've seen quite a few people having trouble with it.
Edit: I even tried QFlash plus. Doesn't do crap either....brand new motherboard - got it delivered today. Pressed the reset button on the MB itself. Changed te BIOs settings to default. Using a 8gb Fat32 stick. I'm really at the end of my wisdom - don't what else to do. 😩
At 3:42 the first time I did mine my pc shut down before I got to click reboot and wouldn't turn back on. So I flicked the psu off and on and re did it and it worked fine. Can anybody tell me what this what about and was it normal? Because it was VERY SCARY.
@ 2:31 you said you need a blank thumb drive. but you need a bootable thumb drive, right? so that is another process to populate the stick with bootable bits first?
make sure to use USB 2.0 and no more than 32 gb of capacity otherwise your bios will not recognize the device. I managed to make it work with an old 16 gb drive only
There are three revisions of this board, 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2. Make sure you're downloading for the correct board revision. The version number is printed on the bottom left of the board. It's also on a sticker on the side of the box.
Hi man / need help I hVe GIGABYTE Z790 AORUS ELITE AX motherboard Deep cool LT720 3600 liquid cooler , Gpu 4090 / powersupply 1050w thermaltake Please tell me is these setup can be fitted on CASE (LIAN LI011D evo Mide Tower ) Will be very thankful Because i need best airflow Thankyou
Thanks for this video! I’m getting an ASUS B650-A mb and a 7800x3d cpu, will these MB’s require bios updating straightaway as I’m guessing they will contain the old bios issue?
@@TheProvokedPrawn 😭😭 it's okay I managed, your lian li lancool 216 build helped me a ton though! I would have struggled a hell of a lot more without it to thanks!
Over a year later and this guide still works like a charm! Thank you so much for making this video! I have the exact same board referenced in this vide (Gigabyte B650I Aorus Ultra Rev 1.0) with a much newer BIOS version F31 pre-installed. I have built a few PCs but have never updated the BIOS out of fear of bricking the mobo. Happy to say I just got done successfully updating to version F33e (literally came out 1 week before posting this) by following these very simple steps! Thanks again!
Glad it helped! Thanks for taking the time to comment!
I don't know if you're still reading these comments, but I just wanted to say thanks. I'd have struggled to do this on my own. You're a scholar and a gentleman.
Thanks Alexander. Appreciate it
Mad satisfied with how you showed everything I needed to see. You showed that spooky PDF I almost fainted at how “made to my standards” this is. Bravo
PDF?
Bro thank you so much man. Was having issues on my new build. I had lots of memory issues since waking up from a 3 month coma and I will this video helped me so much plus now am updating the bios now and did it step by step. Thank you much
Glad I could help. Sorry to hear about the Coma. Hope you are ok
Just want to say i just built my first gaming PC, all from watching your videos. Thank you.
Nice. Hope I helped out then!
Thank you so much for the video. I was paranoid about bricking my motherboard. But now, BIOS update installed and I’m ready to upgrade my CPU!
Glad it helped. Hope you enjoyed enough to subscribe 🦐
Thank you so much! Haven’t updated my bios since 2018 so to have it up to date is a relief!
You're welcome!
I opened the PDF myself and thought: what the actual fuck am I supposed to do with this, thank you for making this guide, you've saved me.
I opened the PDF just for laughs and I was like naaahhh you can just select the file FROM within the BIOS itself (assuming you have the flash drive with newer file in already) and do it from there.
TBH new users can get terrified if they see that PDF 🤣
Thanks for this simple but very clear video, even if I'm over a year late to the party 😉
This video was easy to follow and built my confidence I updating my bios again in the future. Thank you!
@@SofaKingA excellent. I aim to please.
Worked like a charm, you're the man! thank you.
Thanks for the content brother. I kept having issues with my pc since the last Nvidia update back in Sept and I couldn't figure out why. So I randomly decided to see if I need to update the bios and I did, surprise surprise. But I also didn't update the bios since I built my pc back in 2020. And now that it's updated, its running smooth af
Excellent 👍
Flashing as a troubleshooting step to try and fix some system instability. No clue if it'll help yet, but thanks for the easy walkthrough to make it less painful
👍🏼 hope you get it sorted
Make sure you have the correct revision of motherboard, it should say somewhere on the bottom left corner of the board, had me stumped all day 😅 but do not overlook this!
Yep mine is revision 1.2 but the first results are for 1.0 and 1.1
You’re a real one for that
wow thank you i definitely overlooked this i was so confused
It's also on the side of the box.
I wasted 1hr on this lol. Good thing I saw this
Thank you sir! Also your voice is amazing
Thanks. Sub to hear more of it
Make sure your USB stick has FAT32 file system. Mine was NTFS and I spent hours trying to figure out why it wasnt showing in the Q Flash.
Says that on the Gigabyte instructions.
Thanks bro
Hasnt mattered for me as long as its on the right USB slot, doesnt need to be the BIOS slot, but some slots are not recognised in BIOS
Yeah he missed that important piece of advice !
Super quick and easy to follow. Thank you sir
You are welcome
Very informative for my new build was following along while I flashed the bios,Thank you for your help great videos
Glad it helped
Thank you! I don't know if it will fix my problem but I am getting the bios update started.
100% you make it easy to follow and understand.
Glad you found it helpful. Hope you enjoyed enough to subscribe 🦐
So this is just a question for bios. Does the latest file have all the previous file features when I do a bio update? This will be the first time I’ve ever done a bio update on a motherboard. I’m just asking because I don’t want to keep updating previous files, updates onto the motherboard. And I’m asking this question because I am an autistic individual. So I want to have all the relevant information. Question and fully available. I hope this is fully explained?
Yes. As far as I know the newest bios has all the previous updates in it
I learned the hard way that you basically HAVE to use a USB-2.0 thumb drive of less than 32 GB or it simply won't work. For some reason I had to dig thoroughly through many resources till I discovered this. It's actually a massive detail that get's left out a lot.
I also have a Gigabyte motherboard, it's the B650 Aorus Elite AX (rev 1.1). I tried using a USB-C drive since my only other computer is a Mac and I kept getting the infamous "BIOS ID check error" when I tried flashing. I even bought an adapter for the USB-C dive and had partitioned a 16 GB (FAT32) file system - no matter what I did, it refused to flash. I did double check whether it was the right bios too, trust.
Yes this is a huge detail thank you.
Good news, I bought a USB a year ago and I just checked if it was a 32GB USB 2.0; and it is:D
The motherboard and my ram ( last item needed to build my new computer ) have finally arrived at the nearest parcel center; maybe I will receive them in a few hours:D
I started to invest more than a year ago with a box, usb key, fan and power supply; and unfortunately ram ( DDR4 ) on sale with an SSD nvme, soon after but having not yet chosen the processor it was a bad idea. a few months ago the processor ( 7950x :D )
I’m so excited xd
I've updated lots of BIOS without a USB 2.0 drive. I don't think this is true.
USB 3.0 is backward compatible I don't think this is true.
Good video, quick and clean!
Thanks.
MATE, U HELP ME SOOO MUCH !
Awesome! Thank you, I also have a Aorus board so this was great.
Glad it helped!
Subscribed! Thank you so much!
Glad to be useful. Thanks for subbing. Appreciate it
Your a legend thank you
No. You are! Thanks for watching
Great video! Thanks for your work! I have this motherboard and after updating to the latest F9 it has a new UI. It looks nice but i cant find anything yet.
Motherboard driver updates might fix the unusual high temps too
Thank you!!!!
55c ideling in bios is not a heathy thing, but nice work telling ppl how to update
Good job;)
Thank you! Cheers!
muchas gracias, debo actualizar mi BIOS para instalar Windows 11 y lo hare en el correr de los días.
Do you have any info on Bios settings for the Ryzen 7800X3D for more performance on the Gigabyte B6501 Mother Board
Are you having stuttering issues?
Thanks 🙏
You’re welcome 😊
started off good, then just went right over my head. all i want to know is when i go to the download of the bios, how do i just get it to go to my usb? i have no idea how to un zip things or what to unzip or how to move that etc! please make another video explaining this in more detail for us people who are very new to pc stuff. thanks. :-)
Thanks for the feedback. I'll keep that in mind in future. support.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/zip-and-unzip-files-8d28fa72-f2f9-712f-67df-f80cf89fd4e5#:~:text=To%20unzip%20(extract)%20files%20or%20folders%20from%20a%20zipped%20folder&text=To%20unzip%20all%20the%20contents,and%20then%20follow%20the%20instructions.
@@TheProvokedPrawn thanks. ive been watching other videos as well and pretty much eveyone skips over this as well. my mobo needs an update, i can see it on their web site, but im scared to try downloading it as not sure if what i put on the usb will be correct. i have a gigabyte aorus x570 xtreme and a ryzen 9 5900x cpu.
Hey mate, great video. Unfortunately whenever I try to update my Bios (B550 Gaming X AX) I click the reboot button and then it's just a black screen and the Dram light stays on. Any idea why this is happening?
same here, no idea what's going on
MAKE SURE FILES ARE READ AS “FAT32” look into that
I bought the same mother board as you but how do I tell what revision I have since there is more 1.0 1.1 and 1.2?
I think you can see that in the bios or with CPU-Z
The version number is printed on the bottom left of the board. It's also on a sticker on the side of the box.
Hello, thanks again for this informative video. If I can, let me ask you something, does this motherboard (B650I AORUS ULTRA) have WiFi and LAN Drivers pre-installed so that I can download the new motherboard update from the same computer or do I need to have them on a USB Drive before building the new PC?
Comes with none of those drivers. Bit of a pain but yeah, be prepared to get those setup with another device
After which it would help getting driver easy if you're lazy like me and it'll grab everything else from there
Update the bios... whether directly to the last series or gradually one by one, because there are many series
Directly to the latest one
Idk what I'm doing wrong. I have the right cpu for my board. All things are plugged but I'm stuck at test because nothing will power on to open bios. I check my cpu, it's fine. Everything's plugged in my mobo has integrated graphics but I get nothing. And I know power is on because when I hit the qflash button it blinks on for second. According to gigabyte I don't need an bios update.... this has held me up for HOURS
do you manually click those ready to reboot buttons when they show up??
They said its not recommend to update beta bios and just update the non beta, I've updated my bios to beta and I want to downgrade my bios to a non beta. But everything is working. Should I downgrade to non beta or just leave it?
I’ve seen videos of people taking out the RAM, CPU, do I have to do it on the newer models?
You don't need to do that
how i should connect ram (2x16 gb --6000mhz) in a gigabyte eagle ax b650 for dual channel ??? some MB use 1 and 3 slots, but in this one i read it was 1 and 2
when i downloaded the zip and extract it to my usb it wasnt in a file its 2 documents but when i click on either of them my computer asks me how i want to open this file. is it fine to proceed to bios or do i need to do another step?
well, followed your instructions and after the first boot, display is gone and vga popped out on motherboard, I don't know what is going on. still running and its been 20 minute or so. what should i do.
How did you solve it?
yall figure anything out?
Can this help with "status_access_violation" errors I keep getting on many applications?
I can't get it to run at all.
Just bought 7950x3D and I'm on F8 bios version.
I can get into the BIOS - but if I insert the USB into the BIOS USB it doesn't recognize an inserted drive.
When I insert it in the red 3.2 USBs it shows me the EFI drive with the update file F21. I start QFlash and it works fine until I get to the point it needs to reboot because of "Secureflash".
And then nothing happens. It's constantly captured in the BIOS boot cycle.
I also can't install windows from my other USB drive. It worked flawlessly 6 weeks ago on an MSI board. 🤷🏻♂️ I'm really disappointed. Such an expensive motherboard and I've seen quite a few people having trouble with it.
Edit: I even tried QFlash plus. Doesn't do crap either....brand new motherboard - got it delivered today.
Pressed the reset button on the MB itself. Changed te BIOs settings to default.
Using a 8gb Fat32 stick.
I'm really at the end of my wisdom - don't what else to do. 😩
@@willionaire77did you find a fix for this
At 3:42 the first time I did mine my pc shut down before I got to click reboot and wouldn't turn back on. So I flicked the psu off and on and re did it and it worked fine. Can anybody tell me what this what about and was it normal? Because it was VERY SCARY.
Can i update the BIOS version from F2 to F29 directly? Is it risky to do that ? 😢
@ 2:31 you said you need a blank thumb drive. but you need a bootable thumb drive, right? so that is another process to populate the stick with bootable bits first?
no it does not need to be bootable
make sure to use USB 2.0 and no more than 32 gb of capacity otherwise your bios will not recognize the device. I managed to make it work with an old 16 gb drive only
I’m getting a “BIOS ID check error” on mine. Any clue why?
There are three revisions of this board, 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2. Make sure you're downloading for the correct board revision. The version number is printed on the bottom left of the board. It's also on a sticker on the side of the box.
Make sure to suspend bitlocker before proceeding!
Thx
You can’t make fat32 stick in windows 11 😮😮 had to make it on my old pc . Just be aware.
Hi man / need help
I hVe
GIGABYTE Z790 AORUS ELITE AX motherboard
Deep cool LT720 3600 liquid cooler ,
Gpu 4090 /
powersupply 1050w thermaltake
Please tell me is these setup can be fitted on CASE (LIAN LI011D evo Mide Tower )
Will be very thankful
Because i need best airflow
Thankyou
Why does it keep saying Invalid BIOS image?! I can NOT fix this omg
Have you checked you're downloading the right revision version?
Thanks for this video! I’m getting an ASUS B650-A mb and a 7800x3d cpu, will these MB’s require bios updating straightaway as I’m guessing they will contain the old bios issue?
I would
i just update my z790 aero from GCC.
How do you get to the EFI shell mode?
how do u do it if you dont get display
thank you, why cant gigabyte own freaking website tell you this instead of the bs efi directions
Are you like, in my walls? I had to update a gigabyte mobo a couple days ago 😭
Sorry I wasn't fast enough
@@TheProvokedPrawn 😭😭 it's okay I managed, your lian li lancool 216 build helped me a ton though! I would have struggled a hell of a lot more without it to thanks!