Azurite
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Built a new system today and i cant update to the newest or second newest bios version. I extract it like i always do. It says that this isnt a efi bios file. Any suggestions?
I did update a asus pro 1155 a few days ago, and that happend smoothly.
Really need a bios update. Temps are 30-26-41!-27 on the four cores. Newest bios fixes instability in the system. Argh!
Wrote Asus a mail about this. Will probably RMA it asap, as i cant stand hardware that isnt stable. Well il see what Asus says first.
The asus software that this board comes with doesnt work at all. Klicking the set up file only makes the "do you want to install this file box" pop up like a bad hickup again and again. Was thinking about trying to update bios trough the asus updater, but since i cant install the software, that will be hard. Going to try and install it from the dvd that came with ther mobo, tomorrow when i get off my nightshift.
I get so pissed off when new hardware have all these problems. Why do asus even bother to include software with theire mobos?
Many people had same issues. Heres from a reviewer of that board: "I spent quite a bit of time with the ASUS Maximus IV GENE-Z. First experience out of the gate was a bad BIOS flash using a USB Flash drive. Let me say up front that it seems a BIOS that I downloaded from the ASUS China FTP site was corrupted. I downloaded it twice and got the same results. The corrupted BIOS load went very well as far as botched BIOS loads go. The Maximus IV GENE-Z POSTed back up, and gave me text suggestions on what to do. The board ended up pushing me back to BIOS version 0208 which gave me an operational motherboard. I went through this process a few times in order to verify what the problem was. I downloaded version 0403 from another ASUS site and was able to update the BIOS without issue. I look at all of this as a good thing. ASUS had some rock solid backup support built into this board if you experience a bad flash."
I did update a asus pro 1155 a few days ago, and that happend smoothly.
Really need a bios update. Temps are 30-26-41!-27 on the four cores. Newest bios fixes instability in the system. Argh!
Wrote Asus a mail about this. Will probably RMA it asap, as i cant stand hardware that isnt stable. Well il see what Asus says first.
The asus software that this board comes with doesnt work at all. Klicking the set up file only makes the "do you want to install this file box" pop up like a bad hickup again and again. Was thinking about trying to update bios trough the asus updater, but since i cant install the software, that will be hard. Going to try and install it from the dvd that came with ther mobo, tomorrow when i get off my nightshift.
I get so pissed off when new hardware have all these problems. Why do asus even bother to include software with theire mobos?
Many people had same issues. Heres from a reviewer of that board: "I spent quite a bit of time with the ASUS Maximus IV GENE-Z. First experience out of the gate was a bad BIOS flash using a USB Flash drive. Let me say up front that it seems a BIOS that I downloaded from the ASUS China FTP site was corrupted. I downloaded it twice and got the same results. The corrupted BIOS load went very well as far as botched BIOS loads go. The Maximus IV GENE-Z POSTed back up, and gave me text suggestions on what to do. The board ended up pushing me back to BIOS version 0208 which gave me an operational motherboard. I went through this process a few times in order to verify what the problem was. I downloaded version 0403 from another ASUS site and was able to update the BIOS without issue. I look at all of this as a good thing. ASUS had some rock solid backup support built into this board if you experience a bad flash."