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Gigabyte Qflash Help

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Kato1144

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I was trying to update my brothers GA-AX370-Gaming 5 to a new BIOS (going from F25- F30 - F30 - F40 - latest, I think i have to do it in a certain sequance accroding to the webpage)

Anyway the flash failed for some reasion and it just freezes at POST, thankfully the MOBD has dual BIOS and I was able to get it to boot from the secondary, but it turns out the MOBD maunal has not page on the QFLASH utility for some dam reasion and i dont want to risk bricking the PC with another attempt at updating the BIOS with out fist fixing the primary BIOS, so plsplspls can some one tell me how to flash the other BIOS, what is the diffrence between dual and single boot ect as i cant find any documantion on this

Thanks and i dont care about my spelling right now kinda panicking
 
the dual bios is really just a backup/auto-recovery. the backup bios doesnt get flashed and will recover a failed update by reflashing the main bios automatically. if you try to update again, it will only apply to the main bios and if it fails again, it will recover itself again.
that reddit isnt about what youre experiencing.
 
Kato1144 said:
I was trying to update my brothers GA-AX370-Gaming 5 to a new BIOS (going from F25- F30 - F30 - F40 - latest, I think i have to do it in a certain sequance accroding to the webpage)

Anyway the flash failed for some reasion and it just freezes at POST, thankfully the MOBD has dual BIOS and I was able to get it to boot from the secondary, but it turns out the MOBD maunal has not page on the QFLASH utility for some dam reasion and i dont want to risk bricking the PC with another attempt at updating the BIOS with out fist fixing the primary BIOS, so plsplspls can some one tell me how to flash the other BIOS, what is the diffrence between dual and single boot ect as i cant find any documantion on this

Thanks and i dont care about my spelling right now kinda panicking
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Well, which exact CPU is on that motherboard? You see, some newer BIOS versions do not support older CPUs at all! So, you cannot update the motherboard’s BIOS to anything higher than a certain version with that CPU without literally bricking that mono.
 
pendragon1 said:
the dual bios is really just a backup/auto-recovery. the backup bios doesnt get flashed and will recover a failed update by reflashing the main bios automatically. if you try to update again, it will only apply to the main bios and if it fails again, it will recover itself again.
that reddit isnt about what youre experiencing.
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for this system there is no auto recovery i think as it just froze on the POST screen, either way the key was to boot with the backup BIOS adn then switch it to the Primary after i was in Qflash, then I recoverd the BIOS with the Backups copy "F20" BIOS then ended up just using the soft BIOS utility and the lates firmware, now its all good and windows 11 ready... not that im pumped about windows 11 but gotta rip that bandaid off sooner or later...

anyway the fact this information is no in the book is just sad, BTW what does the single/dula BIOS swtich do if you know, i sure would
 
E4g1e said:
Well, which exact CPU is on that motherboard? You see, some newer BIOS versions do not support older CPUs at all! So, you cannot update the motherboard’s BIOS to anything higher than a certain version with that CPU without literally bricking that mono.
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an 2700X
 
E4g1e said:
Well, which exact CPU is on that motherboard? You see, some newer BIOS versions do not support older CPUs at all! So, you cannot update the motherboard’s BIOS to anything higher than a certain version with that CPU without literally bricking that mono.
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those bioses only lost the 1000 series chips, iirc, and hes using a 3000 series. the notes also say "no support for bristol ridge" from F30 and up, so i think the spu is fine.

Kato1144 said:
for this system there is no auto recovery i think as it just froze on the POST screen, either way the key was to boot with the backup BIOS adn then switch it to the Primary after i was in Qflash, then I recoverd the BIOS with the Backups copy "F20" BIOS then ended up just using the soft BIOS utility and the lates firmware, now its all good and windows 11 ready... not that im pumped about windows 11 but gotta rip that bandaid off sooner or later...

anyway the fact this information is no in the book is just sad, BTW what does the single/dula BIOS swtich do if you know, i sure would
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oh, does it have a jumper to flip then? the last gb board i used with it it was auotmatic...
well thats good then. youll get used to 11, its just 10 with a new skin really.
yes, that is a pita.
 
Actually, the OP’s brother’s system has a 2000 series CPU. And I believe that the OP got the instructions wrong. The OP must update the AMD chipset drivers on that system before he can update the BIOS. And then, the BIOS must be updated to version F31 first before updating to version F40. If he went to F30 first and then skipped F31, the update to F40 will fail no matter what.
 
E4g1e said:
Actually, the OP’s brother’s system has a 2000 series CPU. And I believe that the OP got the instructions wrong. The OP must update the AMD chipset drivers on that system before he can update the BIOS. And then, the BIOS must be updated to version F31 first before updating to version F40. If he went to F30 first and then skipped F31, the update to F40 will fail no matter what.
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actually, it doesnt matter, he figured it out.
 
Just want to thank everyone for there help and input, even though i quickly stumbed on to the answer the fact that so many came out to give me some help so quick was very suprising as this sub thread ususaly is quite dead from what i can tell. Secondly I would like to adress a few things, first off this is not the first time I have had issues with Gigbyte boards, not that this turned out to be an issue, more or less there was just a lack of information for some stupid reason but after some bad RMA experinces I have kinda gotten abit sour with the company and thats why I was swearing them off, sorry if it came off abit dramatic.

Also I just want to add that E4g1e mentioned the chipset driver needeing to be updated for the BIOS to update, it very much was, I'm not sure why F30 and F31 failed but not F53d... Anyhow I did find out after everything the analoge audio out had a bad relay (if it was engaged like thru software then a diffrent audio device was selected thru windows the sound would not switch but keep playing out of the audio out) so that might have casued the POST failure, maybe they had the BIOS do a realy check in the on board's audio for 30 and 31, otherwise I'm not sure what happend im just happy A: the Dual BIOS was working, B: I was able to figure out how to reflash the corrupted BIOS and C: that the latest BIOS took with no more issue.

lastly before I end this, I would like to ask if any one dose know what the Dual BIOS / Single BIOS switch is for, still alittle miffed on its purpose, all I can think maybe it prevents access to the other BIOS when in single mode, I did see an option to write to the secondary BIOS in the softBIOS flash ware, so maybe it's to prevent tampering....
 
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