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56 minutes ago, knowlesy said:

Yes it dose let me select the OK and then it takes me into the drive selector but I can not locate the file, I placed the boot CD in and it has the file but after selecting, it tells me that this is not the bios. I am working on a boot usb but I think I am going to have the same problem as the CD 

Normally you get .CAP BIOS files just by putting them on a USB stick. No need to make a bootable drive or something, and I've never heard of a BIOS shipping on the motherboard's DVD. There's no point.

 

Use another PC and go to the support page for your motherboard, download the latest non-beta BIOS, and simply move the file to a USB stick. Put the stick into the PC that's giving you trouble and then go through the process you just did to select a .CAP file. Select the file you downloaded and let it update.

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Hi all please help,

 

so so I did a bios update via the bios and the Internet, something went wrong and I don't know what.... It finished and rebooted then it asks me to load the bios file( .cup file), after all attempts to find the file and ending in fail, I took the cmos bat out turned the power off waited awhile and still same question, so I put the mob disk in to try and recover old bios and it still asks the same thing. I choose the e3pv5.cup and then tells me it is not the bios.

 

i am so lost anyone got any ideas??? I am all out 

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35 minutes ago, knowlesy said:

Hi all please help,

 

so so I did a bios update via the bios and the Internet, something went wrong and I don't know what.... It finished and rebooted then it asks me to load the bios file( .cup file), after all attempts to find the file and ending in fail, I took the cmos bat out turned the power off waited awhile and still same question, so I put the mob disk in to try and recover old bios and it still asks the same thing. I choose the e3pv5.cup and then tells me it is not the bios.

 

i am so lost anyone got any ideas??? I am all out 

It's asking for the .cap file. Not sure whether it's the same as BIOS file, but it should come with the BIOS download.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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1 hour ago, Jurrunio said:

It's asking for the .cap file. Not sure whether it's the same as BIOS file, but it should come with the BIOS download.

The problem is I can not find the .cap file, sorry my pad must have changed it. I even tried to jump the board but the same prompt comes up, I think what has happened is the download got interrupted but had deleted the old bios and now I'm stuck with this 

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17 minutes ago, knowlesy said:

The problem is I can not find the .cap file, sorry my pad must have changed it. I even tried to jump the board but the same prompt comes up, I think what has happened is the download got interrupted but had deleted the old bios and now I'm stuck with this 

what happens if you press enter when you see that screen? Does it let you pick the .cap file? BIOS file of my Asus board is in .cap format, so just grab Version 2105 of your motherboard's BIOS in the manufacturer's site into an USB memory stick and select that.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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7 hours ago, Jurrunio said:

what happens if you press enter when you see that screen? Does it let you pick the .cap file? BIOS file of my Asus board is in .cap format, so just grab Version 2105 of your motherboard's BIOS in the manufacturer's site into an USB memory stick and select that.

Yes it dose let me select the OK and then it takes me into the drive selector but I can not locate the file, I placed the boot CD in and it has the file but after selecting, it tells me that this is not the bios. I am working on a boot usb but I think I am going to have the same problem as the CD 

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56 minutes ago, knowlesy said:

Yes it dose let me select the OK and then it takes me into the drive selector but I can not locate the file, I placed the boot CD in and it has the file but after selecting, it tells me that this is not the bios. I am working on a boot usb but I think I am going to have the same problem as the CD 

Normally you get .CAP BIOS files just by putting them on a USB stick. No need to make a bootable drive or something, and I've never heard of a BIOS shipping on the motherboard's DVD. There's no point.

 

Use another PC and go to the support page for your motherboard, download the latest non-beta BIOS, and simply move the file to a USB stick. Put the stick into the PC that's giving you trouble and then go through the process you just did to select a .CAP file. Select the file you downloaded and let it update.

Current Build:

CPU: Ryzen 7 5800X3D

GPU: RTX 3080 Ti FE

RAM: 32GB G.Skill Trident Z CL16 3200 MHz

Mobo: Asus Tuf X570 Plus Wifi

CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken X53

PSU: EVGA G6 Supernova 850

Case: NZXT S340 Elite

 

Current Laptop:

Model: Asus ROG Zephyrus G14

CPU: Ryzen 9 5900HS

GPU: RTX 3060

RAM: 16GB @3200 MHz

 

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RAM: 32GB G.Skill Trident Z CL16 3200 MHz

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3 hours ago, knowlesy said:

Yes it dose let me select the OK and then it takes me into the drive selector but I can not locate the file, I placed the boot CD in and it has the file but after selecting, it tells me that this is not the bios. I am working on a boot usb but I think I am going to have the same problem as the CD 

Is the file you tried to use Version 2105?

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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