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EP45-UD3P v1.6 with 1.0/1.1 firmware.Need help on how to flash it back to 1.6 FW

Back in 09, I somehow "upgraded" the CMOS to a rev 1.0/1.1 update. The mobo has worked fine ever since.. Very stable, ive oc'd my C2Q9550 to 4ghz with not too much effort. However, after the flash I lost onboard analog audio, so I just slapped an Audigy2 PCI card in and said forget it.  Everything else works dandy. Now, I am converting this machine to an HTPC and want to flash it back to a 1.6 rev firmware. Gigabyte's FLASHSPI refuses any cmos other than 1.0/1.1 and so does QFLASH. I am positive the board is 1.6, it says it on the board and on the box it came it. Is there some sort of way to force a 1.6 flash onto it somehow without any consequences? As of now I have F10 loaded onto this 1.6 rev board, I am not sure what is stored in the backup bios.

Thanks for any help.
« Last Edit: January 20, 2013, 01:36:32 am by warbird281 »