how to upgrade bios?
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Topic: how to upgrade bios?
Posted By: wayne04112
Subject: how to upgrade bios?
Date Posted: 19 May 2017 at 4:09pm
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" rel="nofollow - My board is AB350 Pro4. I want to ask how to upgrade bios from 1.30 to 2.50? I can't find Instant Flash, please give me some suggestions. Thanks! |
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Posted By: Rares
Date Posted: 19 May 2017 at 4:33pm
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You can flash (without problems) in Windows... Just dload Win version... ------------- X370 Gaming K4 / Ryzen 1700 @ 3.725 / G.Skill FlareX 14-14-14-14-34 @ 3200 XMP / Sapphire Nitro RX480 / SSD x 3 |
Posted By: Conraire
Date Posted: 19 May 2017 at 11:25pm
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" rel="nofollow - First, do you have a USB flash drive to use? The safest option, if you can't use instant flash, due to the bios revision being too old, is to use a bootable USB to do a DOS based bios flash. If you need help making a bootable USB flash drive just ask. |
Posted By: Xaltar
Date Posted: 20 May 2017 at 12:24am
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I do not recommend the Windows based update, it is the least safe method. Any instability or issue during the process and your board will be bricked. The DOS method is your best bet if your BIOS version does not support instant flash. Once you have updated then instant flash will become available (it has been added) and will make things easier the next time you need to update. ASRock made a video here that shows the basic steps for all the different methods. The one you want is either instant flash or DOS. ------------- 
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Posted By: xman
Date Posted: 29 Dec 2020 at 3:53pm
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where can i download the DOS bios executable version? my board is with old bios and does not have instant flash in the tool button of menu bar. thanks |
Posted By: datonyb
Date Posted: 29 Dec 2020 at 9:47pm
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xman it does seem the asrock support page for your board has only bios version 2.5 upwards and all are listed as instant flash only which i think is the problem your facing may i suggest contact asrock directly using the support 'ticket' system e.g. open the issue as a broken motherboard and request a dos based bios file to be emailed to you please clearly state to them the exact bios version and bios date you are using at the moment AND ALSO the exact cpu you are using they will send you a dos based file to update to the latest version suitable for your cpu that will then enable the instant flash option for any future upgrades to later 2000/3000 cpus ------------- [url=https://valid.x86.fr/jpg250]  [/url]3800X, powercolor reddevil vega64, gskill tridentz3866, taichix370, evga750watt gold |
Posted By: xman
Date Posted: 29 Dec 2020 at 10:04pm
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thank you for your reply i did write to ASRock but haven't received any reply yet. but i found one bios 1.4 dos executable from softpedia, link below: https://drivers.softpedia.com/get/BIOS/Asrock/ASRock-Fatal1ty-AB350-Gaming-K4-BIOS-1-40.shtml i downloaded and updated the bios successfully. after update, instant flash was available. then i updated till bios version 5.80 and now i could run newly bought Rams at 3600mhz. i am posting reply back because i think someone could benefit from softpedia link. btw thanks a lot |
Posted By: Gene_Starwind
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2020 at 10:03pm
| You can also run a BIOS update while in the BIOS setup. You'll have to have the core file from the BIOS .zip file on a USB flash drive. |