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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with AMD processors => Topic started by: vpctv on January 18, 2011, 04:02:49 am

Title: INVALID BIOS IMAGE after falsh of F7
Post by: vpctv on January 18, 2011, 04:02:49 am

im just puting together a new pc system and have installed all of the compoments and have attempted to flash the bios downlaoded from the gigabyte website.
GA-880GA-UD3H rev 2.0. i have down loaded correct new bios from the website and installed to floppy.88GAUD32.F7
when running the floppy through QFLASH from within the boot screen it reads the floppy gets all of the way through to the end and then give me
"Invalid bios image".
WHAT SHOULD I DO AND HOW DO I FIX THIS?
I have never flashed bios before and have average knowledge of systems.

help would be appreciated..

Title: Re: INVALID BIOS IMAGE after falsh of F7 - SORTED
Post by: vpctv on January 18, 2011, 04:58:47 am

OK NOBODY TOLD ME YOU CANT DO A JUMP FROM F1 TO F7 BIOS.

you have to do it increments..

i went to F4 and it loaded and then i jumped to F6 and it loaded and now im doing F7

DO THE BIOS FLASHES IN INCREMENTS..!!

IM A DUMMY I KNOW..

Title: Re: INVALID BIOS IMAGE after falsh of F7
Post by: Dark Mantis on January 18, 2011, 07:05:28 am

Hi
Yes it is one of those things that sometimes you can get away with but you have found now that the safest way is in stages. ;)