GA-B85M-D3H and Haswell refresh series

[gilberfun]

Hi, I'm planning to buy the Gigabyte GA-B85M-D3H and the Intel i5 4460, so my question is... Will the motherboard be able to boot/post with the unsupported CPU and flash it with the last version?, because in the download section of GA-B85M-D3H says that BIOS version F12 is needed in order to support Haswell Refresh.

Thank you

[autotech]

No need to worry about that really. Get a usb flash drive and format it to fat 32. On a different computer download the latest bios you will need to flash your board with, It will be a zipped folder so download to desktop.

With usb plugged into the computer you downloaded it on unzip it to the usb drive.

Take the usb drive  to the computer you want to flash. Plug usb drive in and then start computer and hit the end key that will bring up a bios flashing tool tell it to update from drive and point it to your bios. After the flash let it restart and take out usb drive it will now see your CPU for what it is. Just don't start the computer until you are ready to flash it.

I did the same thing many time it works like a charm and stops you from having to have a supported CPU and the new one you want to install.

[gilberfun]

Thanks for your advice autotech, I will try what you say 

[autotech]

It has worked every time for me so far so I don't see why it wouldn't work for you. I have a bad habit of getting motherboards that need bios updates to work with the CPU I bought. Is the reason I buy gigabyte most others don't have that feature.

[dfk]

No need to worry about that really. Get a usb flash drive and format it to fat 32. On a different computer download the latest bios you will need to flash your board with, It will be a zipped folder so download to desktop.

With usb plugged into the computer you downloaded it on unzip it to the usb drive.

Take the usb drive  to the computer you want to flash. Plug usb drive in and then start computer and hit the end key that will bring up a bios flashing tool tell it to update from drive and point it to your bios. After the flash let it restart and take out usb drive it will now see your CPU for what it is. Just don't start the computer until you are ready to flash it.

I did the same thing many time it works like a charm and stops you from having to have a supported CPU and the new one you want to install.

Hi there, are you saying it's possible to boot / POST into the BIOS utility with a Haswell Refresh proc?