GA-X79-UD3 replacement.

[Cristari]

Playing with your bios and CMOS resetting is also a gamble. I figured if it didn't work it would only mean I would need to buy a new mobo sooner than expected.

Your help was appreciated.

[dmdilks]

P.s used the @BIOS facility and worked like a charm.

That's gambling sir.  Recommend you ALWAYS use QFLASH...  much safer.  Glad its sorted 

I don't think he could Qflash on that one he had to update bios to a new rev 2.33. But after that he can if they ever come out with a update.

[nick_m]

dmdilks,

Late to the game here, but this thread addresses my issue, too.

I have an X79-UD3 Rev 1.0 at BIOS F10 and want to upgrade to a GTX 970. I understand this will require flashing to at least the F16 BIOS, but that version appears to require the use of @BIOS, whereas F20 does not. Can I go directly to F20 using Q-Flash?

[dmdilks]

Read what absic has to say on it, about flash to a new bios. The save way is make a boot-able flash drive. I think you can go right to f20 using the flash drive too. You can't do it with Q-flash.

http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php?topic=2441.60

[nick_m]

dmdilks,

Thanks for the quick reply. I read that thread earlier - twice - but it ends before any mention of F20. Absic advocates the use of Q-flash and says it can be used once you've upgraded past F5 (I'm at F10), but it sounds like you're saying I can't use it for F20; why is that? Does that mean I must use the method absic describes in Reply #62 of the referenced thread, or just that it's safer to use than Q-flash?

[dmdilks]

Yes use the flash drive to update the bios. There was a guy I sold a board like this to and that is how he did it. Why you do it with the flash drive is because the bios can't use the new flash software. But when you use the flash software from the flash drive you by passing the Q-flash.

 

[nick_m]

dmdilks,

Thanks for the explanation.