new pc Downloading BIOS update

[damefr]

Hello, im finally got all my parts to build my first pc and my motherboard and cpu are compatible but on a different bios version. I have a GIGABYTE z390 AORUS PRO WIFI, and an intel i5-9500, i need to download Bios Version 9 and I only have a mac on hand... i was wondering if i have to leave the contents in the folder or extract them, ill give a picture for reference. This is extracted but i'm not sure if i need all three of these, leave it how it is or put back into the folder. Need help thank you! not sure if this should be under this topic or not.

 

Edited August 30, 2021 by damefr
not sure if this is meant for programming tab i have no idea where to put this

[LIGISTX]

5 minutes ago, damefr said:

Hello, im finally got all my parts to build my first pc and my motherboard and cpu are compatible but on a different bios version. I have a GIGABYTE z390 AORUS PRO WIFI, and an intel i5-9500, i need to download Bios Version 9 and I only have a mac on hand... i was wondering if i have to leave the contents in the folder or extract them, ill give a picture for reference. This is extracted but i'm not sure if i need all three of these, leave it how it is or put back into the folder. Need help thank you!

 

Just leave them there like that and leave them there without being extracted. It won't let you flash it with something that it doesn't recognize. So if it wants the zip, itll use that, if it doesn't seem to like that, enter this "extracted" directory and it should be happy with that. Itll make sense once your in the BIOS trying to udpate.

[damefr]

3 minutes ago, LIGISTX said:

Just leave them there like that and leave them there without being extracted. It won't let you flash it with something that it doesn't recognize. So if it wants the zip, itll use that, if it doesn't seem to like that, enter this "extracted" directory and it should be happy with that. Itll make sense once your in the BIOS trying to udpate.

thank you, and could it cause any issues if i put it as a zip file and it doesn't like it? or will it just not update. could i also just have the file extracted and have the zip both on the flashdrive?

[C2dan88]

I would say the bios requires only the .f9 file the other two files are windows specific

 

The bios will only perform an update if it finds the file it can read.

[damefr]

1 minute ago, C2dan88 said:

I would say the bios requires only the .f9 file the other two files are windows specific

 

The bios will only perform an update if it finds the file it can read.

ok thank you, just wondering if it could cause any problems if i dont have all the files or if it just wont do the update

[C2dan88]

No it wont cause any problems. 

[damefr]

1 minute ago, C2dan88 said:

No it wont cause any problems. 

thank you

[LIGISTX]

9 minutes ago, damefr said:

thank you, and could it cause any issues if i put it as a zip file and it doesn't like it? or will it just not update. could i also just have the file extracted and have the zip both on the flashdrive?

It won't hurt anything to have both options on there. It will only pick something it actually knows what to do with.

[-rascal-]

It needs to be extracted.

Extract what you downloaded, and put it onto the USB stick, without any folders / subfolders.

Especially so, if you are flashing firmware from within the BIOS.

 

Not recommended to update the BIOS while within the OS / Windows anyways...more chance for flashing errors.

[damefr]

1 minute ago, -rascal- said:

It needs to be extracted.

Extract what you downloaded, and JUST put the Z390AOPW.F9 file onto the USB stick, if you are flashing firmware from within the BIOS.

Not recommended to update the BIOS while within the OS / Windows anyways...more chance for flashing errors.

ok, my house is full of macs so its kinda my only option atm, is a flashing error an easy fix?

[-rascal-]

14 minutes ago, damefr said:

ok, my house is full of macs so its kinda my only option atm, is a flashing error an easy fix?

 

Depends how severe...could be just failed BIOS flash, and you can re-try, or it could be as bad as corrupt BIOS / bricked motherboard.

The Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Pro WiFi has Dual BIOS chips (i.e. second BIOS chip), so it's like a safe guard.

 

Some higher-end motherboards have the ability to fix a bricked / corrupted BIOS using a BIOS Flashback feature.

 

[damefr]

27 minutes ago, -rascal- said:

 

Depends how severe...could be just failed BIOS flash, and you can re-try, or it could be as bad as corrupt BIOS / bricked motherboard.

The Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Pro WiFi has Dual BIOS chips (i.e. second BIOS chip), so it's like a safe guard.

 

Some higher-end motherboards have the ability to fix a bricked / corrupted BIOS using a BIOS Flashback feature.

 

thank you for your help, and if i find a windows computer to download it from is there less risk?

[mariushm]

If you can, format the USB stick with the FAT32 file system, it's a file system that's very basic and simple to work with, so the bios won't have any issues reading from it. 

The BIOS may also support exFAT file system, if you can't format to FAT32 from Mac (since fat32 is a microsoft thing macs may not use it, but exFat is more modern and popular with SD cards and other things, so Mac should understand it)

 

Extract the contents of the zip onto the usb stick, and then from bios you have an option there to update the bios, and you select the file from a menu, or the bios automatically detects the file.  Hit update, and it should be done within a minute or two. 

 

[damefr]

12 hours ago, mariushm said:

If you can, format the USB stick with the FAT32 file system, it's a file system that's very basic and simple to work with, so the bios won't have any issues reading from it. 

The BIOS may also support exFAT file system, if you can't format to FAT32 from Mac (since fat32 is a microsoft thing macs may not use it, but exFat is more modern and popular with SD cards and other things, so Mac should understand it)

 

Extract the contents of the zip onto the usb stick, and then from bios you have an option there to update the bios, and you select the file from a menu, or the bios automatically detects the file.  Hit update, and it should be done within a minute or two. 

 

ok thank you, and doing this from windows is it automatically formatted to fat32? my usb is fat32 btw.. or should i look up a tutorial

[mariushm]

13 minutes ago, damefr said:

ok thank you, and doing this from windows is it automatically formatted to fat32? my usb is fat32 btw.. or should i look up a tutorial

Nothing is automatically formatted , because a format causes loss of data (the data on the usb stick is erased).

You right click on the usb stick letter, select Format, and it will give you options

 

In Windows 7, this is how it looks (picture on the right) :

In my picture, NTFS was selected because that's how the stick is already formatted, but you can see I have options for FAT32 and exFAT.  

Note that Windows may not let you chose FAT32 if the stick is bigger than 32 GB.

 

If  it's already formatted fat32 then leave it be, no need to format it again... just extract the zip on the stick and you're good to go.

[damefr]

1 minute ago, mariushm said:

Nothing is automatically formatted , because a format causes loss of data (the data on the usb stick is erased).

You right click on the usb stick letter, select Format, and it will give you options

 

In Windows 7, this is how it looks (picture on the right) :

In my picture, NTFS was selected because that's how the stick is already formatted, but you can see I have options for FAT32 and exFAT.  

Note that Windows may not let you chose FAT32 if the stick is bigger than 32 GB.

If  it's already formatted fat32 then leave it be, no need to format it again... just extract the zip on the stick and you're good to go.

ok, if my stick on mac says fat32 does that mean its good to go or do i still need to go through windows to be safe. just wanna make sure im doing everything right so i dont brick the motherboard.

[mariushm]

Yeah you're fine. extract the files to stick then go in bios and hit update bios option and be patient, let the bios update itself, should take at most 1-2 minutes .