Question Fast Boot & BIOS on Gigabit A320M-S2H (x64)

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I'm preceding this post with 'Noob' as i have built many PC's in the past but I'm now trying to help my son upgrade his and I feel like a &*&($ dinosaur! He has a Gigabite A320 and wants to flash upgrade the BIOS so he can run his new processor (Ryzen 7 3700X). Easy, I thought - just press F12 on boot go to Q Flash and job done. Sadly Windows has other ideas and I can't get anywhere near the BIOS! What I have tried so far:

Turned off FastBoot in Windows settings
Changed Keyboard for an old USB one, still no luck with DEL or F2
Looked for the CMOS battery, couldn't find it to remove.
Downloaded F32 from the gigabyte website and tried installing using the Gigabyte App Centre/Bios App - I got an error msg 'BIOS Part number is incorrect'.........
Removed HDD to try and get to the BIOS boot up - the boot message I got didn't give me any access to the BIOS, just asked for another boot device.

I'm confident about flashing the BIOS, I just wish I could get to it!

Any suggestions gratefuly received.
 
hi, on modern mainboards bios settings can be skipped to speed up boot process
to get to bios if that feature is enabled, click start (in windows), select power and hold shift key on keboard while pressing reboot
pc will soft reboot into recovery mode (blue screen)
click troubleshoot -> advanced -> uefi firmware settings -> restart (click button on screen)
 
msv1 said:
I'm preceding this post with 'Noob' as i have built many PC's in the past but I'm now trying to help my son upgrade his and I feel like a &*&($ dinosaur! He has a Gigabite A320 and wants to flash upgrade the BIOS so he can run his new processor (Ryzen 7 3700X). Easy, I thought - just press F12 on boot go to Q Flash and job done. Sadly Windows has other ideas and I can't get anywhere near the BIOS! What I have tried so far:

Turned off FastBoot in Windows settings
Changed Keyboard for an old USB one, still no luck with DEL or F2
Looked for the CMOS battery, couldn't find it to remove.
Downloaded F32 from the gigabyte website and tried installing using the Gigabyte App Centre/Bios App - I got an error msg 'BIOS Part number is incorrect'.........
Removed HDD to try and get to the BIOS boot up - the boot message I got didn't give me any access to the BIOS, just asked for another boot device.

I'm confident about flashing the BIOS, I just wish I could get to it!

Any suggestions gratefuly received.
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which version motherboard you have a320m s2h has 3 versions rev 1.x, 2.0, 3.0 check download bios and update accordingly
 
kerberos_20 said:
hi, on modern mainboards bios settings can be skipped to speed up boot process
to get to bios if that feature is enabled, click start (in windows), select power and hold shift key on keboard while pressing reboot
pc will soft reboot into recovery mode (blue screen)
click troubleshoot -> advanced -> uefi firmware settings -> restart (click button on screen)
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Hi - Sorry I should have mentioned, it's a legacy BIOS not UEFI - that doesn't appear on the recovery menu.
We've managed to do it by resetting the CMOS - sometimes the dinosaurs do know something! Many thanks
 
Ds_Tech said:
which version motherboard you have a320m s2h has 3 versions rev 1.x, 2.0, 3.0 check download bios and update accordingly
Click to expand...
We've managed to do it by resetting the CMOS - sometimes the dinosaurs do know something! Many thanks
 
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