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Bought a Asus Z690 Maximus Hero but saving it for Raptor Lake; Possible to update bios for Raptor Lake Support?

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Hello! I made a thread a while back concerning manufacturing defects found on several replacement Z690 Hero motherboards received from Newegg which I eventually got a refund for and bought from B&H Photo. Long story short, B&H photo had "normal" stock of the motherboard that didn't appear defective so I settled with my purchase from them. Anyway, I have decided to forgo my purchase of Alder lake so that I may finally upgrade my 9700k when Raptor Lake comes out, but I had a question. Considering that Raptor Lake will support LGA 1700 CPU socket, making my Z690 Hero compatible with Raptor Lake with a firmware update, how would I be able to update the firmware of my particular Z690 Hero without having to install a Alder Lake CPU in it first just to update the BIOS? Would I simply have to send my motherboard to ASUS to have them update it for me to support Raptor Lake? I appreciate any and all advice! Thanks!

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If Intel wants to make Revenue this Year Im sure there will be a Bios Update to accept 13th Gen. 

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43 minutes ago, Rivettz said:

If Intel wants to make Revenue this Year Im sure there will be a Bios Update to accept 13th Gen. 

Well, there actually is bios update for the ASUS Z690 Maximus Hero motherboard, but my issue is that I currently have my motherboard in it's retail box and am waiting for Raptor Lake to use it. My question was, how would I be able to update the BIOS to the Raptor Lake supported version without installing the motherboard with an Alder Lake CPU?

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56 minutes ago, cladinshadows99 said:

Hello! I made a thread a while back concerning manufacturing defects found on several replacement Z690 Hero motherboards received from Newegg which I eventually got a refund for and bought from B&H Photo. Long story short, B&H photo had "normal" stock of the motherboard that didn't appear defective so I settled with my purchase from them. Anyway, I have decided to forgo my purchase of Alder lake so that I may finally upgrade my 9700k when Raptor Lake comes out, but I had a question. Considering that Raptor Lake will support LGA 1700 CPU socket, making my Z690 Hero compatible with Raptor Lake with a firmware update, how would I be able to update the firmware of my particular Z690 Hero without having to install a Alder Lake CPU in it first just to update the BIOS? Would I simply have to send my motherboard to ASUS to have them update it for me to support Raptor Lake? I appreciate any and all advice! Thanks!

You can update that BIOS without even having a CPU or memory installed.  Never heard of the BIOS Flashback feature?

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43 minutes ago, Falkentyne said:

You can update that BIOS without even having a CPU or memory installed.  Never heard of the BIOS Flashback feature?

Never heard of it! Thanks for the reply. So I simply load up a USB flash drive with the BIOS update (in this case ASUS provided a USB drive), plug it in the BIOs USB Port on the IO, then I can turn on motherboard without the CPU installed (with just the motherboard power cable plugged in) and simply press the Flashback button on the IO and it should update the BIOS?

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Thats what the manual states. Been that way for over a decade for their good boards.

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Why wouldn't you just wait for 700 series

Before you reply to my post, REFRESH. 99.99% chance I edited my post. 

 

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