Re: [opensuse] Upgrading the BIOS - A THANK YOU

On 29/04/12 18:12, Werner Flamme wrote:
[29.04.2012 08:38] [Basil Chupin]:
On 27/04/12 21:37, David Haller wrote:
Hello,

On Fri, 27 Apr 2012, Basil Chupin wrote:
To the question about which motherboard it is, it is a Gigabyte
GA-990FXA-UD3 with an Award BIOS.
That should have the "builtin" Q-Flash utility, i.e. you just need
to unpack the BIOS-file to a floppy, USB-stick, Harddrive with FAT32
(<32G to be safe). Follow the instructions in the MoBo-manual on using
the Q-Flash utility.

HTH,
-dnh
AHA, thanks for this. It would have to be an USB memory stick if
anything because the system doesn't have a floppy and there is nothing
Windows in sight on this system.
The Q-Flash utility works with FAT32, Windows or not :-).

You need a FAT32-formatted USB stick or a FAT32 formatted hard disk oder
a FAT(12) formatted floppy disk... The utility does not recognize any
other filesystem format.

I tried with other formats on a USB stick, to no avail :-(

Regards,
Werner

Thanks Werner. I do have a couple of FAT32 formatted USB memory sticks so will use one of these if I finally decide to flash the BIOS.

BC

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