Problems updating BIOS on Gigabyte P67-UD4

[happyshoppa2]

Hey guys,

This may be the first of many noob questions so hope I don't annoy you all too much..

Tried to update my BIOS. It was on version F3. Gigabyte have F4, F5, F6, and an F7 beta available for download.

Problem is, the F6 and F7 ones have a note saying you have flash with their "@bios" software, or the command-line exe that comes with the bios download. Well the @bios program crashes every single time (on XP, and yes I have the latest @bios, disabled hyper-threading beforehand like the readme says, and closed all other progs), no matter if I choose to flash from a file or I tell it to download the new bios itself. And the command-line program does nothing at all, whether I use the .bat file it comes with or I use it manually in a cmd window.

So the only way I can flash is by using the Q-Flash feature inside the Bios itself. However this doesn't recognise F6 and F7 as valid files, which explains why they put a note saying I had to use the other methods. So I've used Q-Flash to get to version F5 but cannot go any more recent.

Is there anything I else I can try?

 

[tinytomlogan]

There is a tool on the driver cd to update bios from within windows. Use that

 

[happyshoppa2]

Thanks Tom, but I think that's the tool called @bios, which is the one that always crashes before it completes the update. The version on my CD is the same as the one on their website.

 

[Lsdmeasap]

To update to the newer BIOSes you must use a special version of @BIOS, then after that you can and should use Qflash as you normally would.

Here is the @BIOS version you need, also included are 3 BIOS files - one of which is for your UD4 board

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mr56lfkom5mc63a

 

[happyshoppa2]

Hey Lsdmeasap huge thanks for this

Worked great! (used this @bios with the latest bios files from gigabyte site)

Can't wait to try OCing with the newer Bios' later on.