Question Gigabyte APP Center and Control Center

[TiCoyote]

Perhaps this is more of a gripe than a question. I built up a system with a Gigabyte Z690 UD AX DDR4 MoBo in 2022. After I built it up, I used APP Center, which was the included software, to update the BIOS, and that was a pretty quick an easy process. I ran into a problem with my M.2 drive after the most recent Windows update, and I decided to update the Bios again. This time, APP Center wouldn't run. I downloaded GCC, and it made me uninstall APP Center. However, GCC did not list any BIOS updates in the MB Bios screen, even though updates were available on the website.

I was able to update many other drivers with GCC. Eventually, I downloaded the BIOS onto a flash drive, and used Q-Flash. I had to format the flash drive NTFS. Default was exFAT, but that didn't work.

I know a lot of people on this forum don't like APP center or GCC. Still, it's disappointing. It seems like if the program worked well, it could make the stressful process of BIOS update much smoother.

 

[Lutfij]

You don't update the BIOS using an App unless you want to brick it. You should update the BIOS using the Q-FLASH BIOS button on the board. You also cross reference the drivers you have on your platform and the one's listed on your motherboard's/chipset maker/GPU chip maker's support site. You don't use 3rd party app's to tell you what's pending an update or needs updating, since that too has lead to platforms going South for the Winter.

I know a lot of people on this forum don't like APP center or GCC.
A lot of people on the www, don't like the automated thing since it ruins an already working device/hardware/platform. Driver Booster is guilty of the above, as is Windows 10/11.