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Awesome1

mango4739 wrote: Awesome1 And am i correct in saying that, as this board has dual bios, I only have to do one of the bios chips. I can then update the other once Im up and running?

According to the specs for all ASRock dual BIOS boards, it will take a little trick to do that.

For example:



Note this states, "For the sake of system safety, users cannot update the backup BIOS manually".

Which should mean, if the backup BIOS (BIOS_B) is selected with the jumper or switch, a BIOS update cannot be performed on BIOS_B.

I have never tried this personally, and have never heard of anyone saying they were able to update the BIOS_B.

Assuming this is correct, what can be done about it is this. The Broadwell-E compatible BIOS version (I assume) is in the BIOS_A socket now. You can simply exchange the BIOS chips, putting the chip in the BIOS_A socket in the BIOS_B socket, and vice versa.

Next, you select the BIOS_B with the jumper or switch, and then perform the Secure Backup UEFI operation, to copy it to the chip that is now in the BIOS_A socket.

Finally, when that is complete, set the BIOS selection jumper or switch to BIOS_A, and you are done. You should check that all your settings in the BIOS are as you need them, once you change to BIOS_A.

The first Broadwell-E compatible BIOS version then becomes your backup BIOS version, which is what you want, when using either a Haswell-E or Broadwell-E processor.

Ok... so...