Flash Drive not recongnized in flashing bios!

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As stated I have a GA-P55A-UD3 mobo that has been randomly shutting down once a day. So Ive tried the usual hardware testing( memory,harddrive, windows 7..etc) and last resort is updated Bios. I have the orginal F4 version and would like to update to F9 version, Loaded the newest bios on a flash drive and went through Q-flash.
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When prompted on the q-flash ultiltity screen it doesnt show my flash drive only floppy drive. I know my flash drive works but how do i get it to show up?Flash drive is supposed to show up as HD 1-0, any suggestions?
 
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John_VanKirk
Hi ShineOn,

I just took a recent flashdrive that I updated my BIOS with to see if there are any steps you, or we, might be missing.
First of all, all 3 files, autoexec.bat, the exe file, and the UPDATE.F? files should be on your USB drive. Nothing else.
Plug the Flash drive into the USB port, next to the PS/2 keyboard plug so you know it is controlled by the chipset.

Boot up to the BIOS system setup, and click on F8 to start the Q_Flash utility. Then click on "select drive"

On my system, it shows the USB drive as HDD 1-0, not a USB drive that you might think, because it sees it as a storage drive.
If you click on HDD 1-0, or yours might be HDD 0-0, and it will bring up the BIOS Update file you are looking for, to click on to...
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