[SOLVED] How do I update my bios, with unknown motherboard?

[ProDigit10]

I bought this motherboard recently:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DL1TNB9/

CPUz reports:

DMI BIOS		
	vendor			American Megatrends Inc.
	version			4.6.5
	date			04/24/2018
	ROM size		6144 KB

DMI System Information		
	manufacturer		To be filled by O.E.M.
	product			To be filled by O.E.M.
	version			To be filled by O.E.M.
	serial			To be filled by O.E.M.
	UUID			{*******} <- Scratched out
	SKU			To be filled by O.E.M.
	family			To be filled by O.E.M.

DMI Baseboard		
	vendor			INTEL
	model			X79 INTEL (INTEL Xeon E5/Corei7 DMI2 - C600/C200 Cipset
	revision		V3.5C

I don't know where to find a BIOS update.
Intel uses totally different numbering systems in their bioses, found here:
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/23825/BIOS-Update-SIX7910J-86A-?product=70396

Their auto-driver program,didn't find any updates either.

I have a feeling the motherboard doesn't recognize my RTX 2070 graphics card.
It gives a '99' code when it's in the PCIE 16x slot, and a 'B4' code when I use a riser in a PCIE 1x slot. Either the card is faulty, or my motherboard doesn't recognize it.

 

[13thmonkey]

no website listed in the manual?

 

[faalin]

Its not an actual intel board, its made by Procaja. Its basically a chinese knockoff

Intel only made 3 x79 boards and they are all full size ATX boards. DX79SI, DX79SR, DX79TO

 

[ProDigit10]

Thanks Faalin, you found a name I couldn't even find!
It brought me to their local website
http://www.xlzmotherboard.com/

With google translate, I'll see what I can understand from that site.


The boards are solid and good, but won't run GTX 1070 or higher, or RTX cards.
The bios is pretty good. Runs everything pretty stable, except for at cold boot, one needs to enter the bios, first (and exit), in order for the CPU fans to slow down. Paid only $100 for it, and it's 'served' me well, even if it's older technology!

no website listed in the manual?

What manual?
:/

 

[13thmonkey]

there's a lot of of buts and excepts to it being solid and good, no >1070, no RTX, no cold booting, that's not good.

 

[ProDigit10]

It may not be good, but it works just fine for older hardware (up to GTX 1060), and on a reset, or CTRL+ALT+DELETE, the fan doesn't ramp up to full speed.
This server was probably never meant to run bitcoin or folding with many graphics cards.
It does have about 6 SATA ports, and can run 16-23GB of RAM.

 

[13thmonkey]

If you insist. IMO a board with faults like that is not a good board.