BIOS update

[TurkishBTW]

Hello so I want to update my bios and have formatted the usb and extracted the bios and i put the 2 things into the usb but 1 of the 2 things is a text document do i have to delete it first before updating my bios and is there anything else i should do before updating I have a msi Z790-P 

[Tetras]

6 minutes ago, TurkishBTW said:

but 1 of the 2 things is a text document do i have to delete it first before updating my bios

Are you using the motherboard utility, or flashback?

 

If you're using a motherboard utility, they usually don't care much anymore, they can pick out the BIOS even in a whole folder of junk.

 

If you're using flashback, then I'd take more care that you're preparing the flash drive exactly as instructed.

 

You can find instructions on YouTube for most motherboards, e.g.:

 

[TurkishBTW]

4 minutes ago, Tetras said:

Are you using the motherboard utility, or flashback?

 

If you're using a motherboard utility, they usually don't care much anymore, they can pick out the BIOS even in a whole folder of junk.

 

If you're using flashback, then I'd take more care that you're preparing the flash drive exactly as instructed.

 

You can find instructions on YouTube for most motherboards, e.g.:

 

I’m using utility and this might be a dumb question but do I need to put the usb in the flash usb slot I don’t think so but just want to be sure 

[Blasty Blosty]

2 minutes ago, TurkishBTW said:

I’m using utility and this might be a dumb question but do I need to put the usb in the flash usb slot I don’t think so but just want to be sure 

Yes, you do

[Tetras]

Just now, TurkishBTW said:

I’m using utility and this might be a dumb question but do I need to put the usb in the flash usb slot I don’t think so but just want to be sure 

Those slots are labelled for flashback, which you are not using.

[mariushm]

The USB port marked as BIOS Flashback is a special USB port for when you want to program the BIOS automatically, without even installing a CPU on the socket.

To do that, you may need to format the USB stick using FAT32 and name the bios file a specific way  for example MSI.ROM  or 7E06.BIN  (7E06 being the model number of your motherboard). Then you press the button on the back of the board and wait up to 5-10 minutes for the bios to be read from usb stick and written.

 

To update the BIOS using the utility inside the BIOS itself, any basic USB connector on the back should work, including that special bios flashback port (basic as in USB 2.0 or 3.0, not 10gbps/20gbps ports, those are not guaranteed to work, those may require drivers the BIOS doesn't initialize)

So you should be fine just extracting the bios onto a USB stick (it should work with sticks formatted as FAT32, ExFAT or NTFS), you go and select the BIOS file on the stick and select the bios file from the usb stick.  You may need to plug the USB stick before you enter bios, for the bios to show your stick (at least that's how it goes on my gigabyte board)