Updating Gigabyte Bios

Teaguenunya

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Hi, Having a great deal of trouble getting my Gigabyte Bios updated.
Currently I'm using a P35C-DS3R board and the Bios is at F4. I am trying to get it up to F12. I have made a USB bootable flash drive and I have downloaded the Bios update from the Gigabyte website under the board details and I extract the file onto the USB stick and reboot.
Then using the QFlash option with the End key in the start up I enter the Bios QFlash interface and choose update Bios. I see the USB flash drive and when I choose it there are no files on it.

I have tried multipal times to do this and everytime there is never any files on the flash drive But when I boot the computer in to Windows I am able to see the files on the drive.

Running Windows 7 64bit

Any help I would really appreciate.
And Thanks i advance.
 

Teaguenunya

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I agree but for the processor and video card I have in it it's recommended on the Gigabyte website to have F12 for the Bios version. Also I am have a great deal of trouble overclocking and this is also being caused by the out of date Bios.

This is a need to update situation.
 

Teaguenunya

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OK I have heard the @Bios utility is a bad utility to use but I'm willing to try anything at this point.
The next question I don't understand what you are asking? Revision? it's currently at F4 if thats what you are asking.
 

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P35C-DS3R rev. 2.0, and the USB drive is formatted in Fat32 and is only 2gb. I used CMD prompt to format it to a bootable Fat32 drive.
 

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Done and Done.

Thanks Again werner123.