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BIOS update problems

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pfc_m_drake

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Long story short, I have a Gigabyte B550I Aorus Pro AX motherboard. For the life of me and the love of God I can't update the BIOS.
I've tried 6 different USB keys (all different flavors) with Q-Flash and get 'Invalid Bios Image' error every time (yes, I've verified that I've downloaded the correct BIOS a dozen different times).

Also tried the Q-Flash Plus option (where you update with the power off by pushing a button and waiting until the LEDs stop flashing. No dice.

Even broke down and downloaded Gigabyte Control Center and was going to update through Windows - but no updates are listed.

Google wasn't much help
Any thoughts/help/suggestions would be appreciated.
 
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Nobu said:
You have to rename the bios file to gigabyte.bin or something like that. Yeah, took me a while to figure out too.
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Unfortunately I did that too. I suspect something about the board is borked. The reason I need to update is because there's a known issue in the version I have where bluetooth interferes with the onboard wireless controller (which doesn't show up in Windows).
I suspect I need an RMA (by no means is this my first rodeo...) but I don't have time in my life to tear this (new build) down, RMA the board, and rebuild, so I'll solve the problem by adding an external wireless NIC.

If anybody else has anybody ideas I'm all ears but I've tried every which way from Sunday to no avail so I think I'm just screwed.
 
i would confirm which rev you have, get the bios, rename it, reformat your newest usb to fat32, plop the bios on it in the root and try again.
 
pfc_m_drake said:
I do NOT know which version I have. I will check. Thanks for the links.
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that could be all thats wrong then. the box might say on it, otherwise its down here:

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pfc_m_drake said:
As it happens, upon inspecting the motherboard I discovered I had version 1.3 and was trying to flash BIOS 1.0
Downloaded the correct BIOS, WiFi is up and running, and the new HTPC build is installed in our master bedroom.

Thanks Nobu and pendragon1 for your help!
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good stuff!
no prob
 
Wonder if I have that bt issue too. My 5Ghz wifi is okay, but it drops periodically (like, every 30 seconds). The antennas are obscured under my Fractal Mood case, but so were the antennas on my x570 before I upgraded, and they worked fine.
 
Nobu said:
Wonder if I have that bt issue too. My 5Ghz wifi is okay, but it drops periodically (like, every 30 seconds). The antennas are obscured under my Fractal Mood case, but so were the antennas on my x570 before I upgraded, and they worked fine.
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In my master bedroom I had use something like this to move the antenna up on top of the TV stand. HTPC was in the bottom rack of the stand with antenna obstructed, and I couldn't get any signal from my router.

I suspect my situation is different than yours in that windows wouldn't load the driver for my onboard wifi adapter (known issue needing BIOS update). You seem to have intermittent signal which is a different issue I think.
 
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