Z370 Aorus Gaming 5 needs F7 bios for CPU

[marcosious]

Hello, my roommate recently ordered a Z370 Aorus Gaming 5 paired with a 8086 which needs the bios revision F7 for support, however we do not have a spare 1151 socket cpu to throw in and do the update, so the PC is just stuck in a endless power cycle. Is there any quick fix to this solution? I am going to now try and see if the mobo will allow me to update without cpu, but I doubt it.

 

[dederedmi5plus]

https://www.gigabyte.com/MicroSite/121/tech_qflash.htm download F7 BIOS via laptop save on empty USB flash, follow the instructions here https://www.gigabyte.com/MicroSite/121/flashbios_qflash.pdf