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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: zme-ul on March 21, 2017, 10:04:57 pm

Title: GA-H170-D3H GigaByte releases F22 BIOS but not usable?!
Post by: zme-ul on March 21, 2017, 10:04:57 pm
today I checked if my mobo has any BIOS updates, found the F22 was released roughly a week ago http://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-H170-D3H-rev-10#support-dl

downloaded the archive, extracted the file to a FAT32 USB drive and went to QFlash to update the BIOS ... QFlash sais it can't read the file ?!?!?!! tried couple of USB thumb drives, all FAT32 formatted; redownloaded the archive from different servers

went back in Windows, fired up @BIOS utility and checked each server for the latest BIOS file - it still sais F21 is latest
so, what gives?!
Title: Re: GA-H170-D3H GigaByte releases F22 BIOS but not usable?!
Post by: dmdilks on March 22, 2017, 12:41:23 pm
Did you check TweakTown they have F21a and not F22. I don't know if F21a is the same as F22. Plus it does show F22 on Gigabyte too. You having problems or just want update the bios?

https://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/28441-gigabyte-beta-bios.html
Title: Re: GA-H170-D3H GigaByte releases F22 BIOS but not usable?!
Post by: zme-ul on March 22, 2017, 01:30:26 pm
You having problems or just want update the bios?
just wanted to update BIOS

anyways, I finally managed to but the way I did it makes no sense at all
I practically tried multiple times in QFlash, it showed error, I presses ENTER and tried again and about 4rd time it read the god damn file ........ what!?  :o
something is really off with QFlash
Title: Re: GA-H170-D3H GigaByte releases F22 BIOS but not usable?!
Post by: dmdilks on March 22, 2017, 02:56:21 pm
The thing about updating the bios. Is that every time you do. You are taking a 50/50 chance that something will go wrong. This is up each and how they update a computer. I don't update any thing unless I having a problem.

As I say "If it isn't broke don't fix it".
Title: Re: GA-H170-D3H GigaByte releases F22 BIOS but not usable?!
Post by: zme-ul on March 22, 2017, 06:35:31 pm
The thing about updating the bios. Is that every time you do. You are taking a 50/50 chance that something will go wrong. This is up each and how they update a computer. I don't update any thing unless I having a problem.

As I say "If it isn't broke don't fix it".
I like f***ing things up, that's why I work (sort of) in the tech industry

"if it ain't broke don't fix it" is for the people at home not for us who have to fix the s*** other people brake - and this one situation I haven't encountered before
it shows a design flaw in QFlash that should be addressed

I don't usually update BIOSes, but that description for this BIOS release made me wonder - "improved stability"
Title: Re: GA-H170-D3H GigaByte releases F22 BIOS but not usable?!
Post by: dmdilks on March 23, 2017, 12:40:37 pm
Ok you are right. I have only been doing this for 35 yrs. So there is a difference between a home computer and the one you use as a industry computer, a computer is a computer.