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BIOS update for 7th gen

josh conquest
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I have recently bought a gigabyte gaming k3 and an intel i5 7600k and have found that I need to update the BIOS. can the gigabyte z170 gaming k3 update from USB or do I need to get a 6th generation processor to update it? also would someone be able to send me a link to a guide on how to flash the BIOS?

no one replied on my last discussion so I've reposted

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You need a skylake processor to update the bios of a skylake motherboard to accept Kaby Lake, I done it myself.

 

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8 minutes ago, josh conquest said:

I have recently bought a gigabyte gaming k3 and an intel i5 7600k and have found that I need to update the BIOS. can the gigabyte z170 gaming k3 update from USB or do I need to get a 6th generation processor to update it? also would someone be able to send me a link to a guide on how to flash the BIOS?

no one replied on my last discussion so I've reposted

Looking at the specs, your motherboard does to support any features akin to Asus 'USB Bios Flashback'. So your computer must be able to POST to upgrade the BIOS so that it can POST on your CPU.  It's a Catch-22 situation.  Your board will need a 6th gen CPU temporarily installed to update the BIOS so that it can run a 7th gen CPU.

Contact Gigabyte, they may let you 'trade' the board for one with a newer BIOS flashed on.  It's also possible that a computer store will do it for you.  As an example, I bought a Haswell mobo with a Broadwell CPU at NCIX, while the board SHOULD have been new enough to have the necessary BIOS update from the factory, the staff at NCIX said that if it didn't, I could bring it back and their techs wold flash a newer BIOS on for me. ...Though the BIOS from the factory was sufficient for Broadwell.

 

There are motherboards that can do what you want but you don't have one.  My Asus X79 board could only run Sandy Bridge-E but I bought an Ivy Bridge-E CPU.  Asus 'USB BIOS Flashback' can flash the BIOS without even a CPU or RAM physically installed into the board.  Part of the reason I picked that board, I knew I'd need the feature. :)

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