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Z68 Exteme3 Gen3 win 19 upgrade

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Topic: Z68 Exteme3 Gen3 win 19 upgrade

Posted By: Fuzzy
Subject: Z68 Exteme3 Gen3 win 19 upgrade
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2016 at 10:36am

I am thinking of upgrading my z68 Extreme3 Gne3 motherboard from win 7 to Win 10 before the free upgrade ends. I am not sure what level of bios I need to have installed on my board. I have been running win7 pro since I build the system.

I still have the original bios P1.30 on the board. Do I need to upgrade to 2.30. Also I remember in the past when I was thinking of upgrading the bios, there was an upgrade path 2.10 to 2.20 then to 2.30. Can I go straight to 2.3 or am I screwed since ASRoack has taken town the older bios and the installation files.

Thanks for any help you guys can give me.

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Posted By: parsec
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2016 at 1:32pm

Fuzzy wrote:

I am thinking of upgrading my z68 Extreme3 Gne3 motherboard from win 7 to Win 10 before the free upgrade ends. I am not sure what level of bios I need to have installed on my board. I have been running win7 pro since I build the system.

Thanks for any help you guys can give me.

If you check the date of the 2.30 UEFI version, it is 7/5/2012. That is long before Windows 10 existed. So that UEFI version will do nothing to support Windows 10 specifically.

You won't find any ASRock UEFI/BIOS updates that includes "Add Windows 10 support". Some people on the Internet claim a BIOS update fixed their problems with Windows 10, but they really did not know what actually happened. We have no idea how old the BIOS version they used was.

The 2.10 UEFI is the Sandy to Ivy Bridge compatibility update. Along with that is an update to the IME software and Intel video driver. The 2.30 UEFI will also contain the changes in 2.10, there is no skipping of the Ivy Bridge updates possible.

If you decide to update to 2.30, the only way is via Instant Flash (thank Gawd!!)

If you do this update, be VERY SURE to leave the USB flash drive in the USB 2.0 port on the IO panel until the PC boots completely into Windows after the 2.30 update.

If you don't, you will have botched the update.

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