What to Do With Your Expectations

The other day I had a session with a beautiful and courageous woman who had a big realization.

She realized that in romantic partnership, she comes in with a script for how her partner is supposed to respond to her. What he’s supposed to say, what tone she’d like to hear it in, and exactly what it looks like for him to “get it right.”

And yep, you guessed it. If he didn’t “get it right,” he was wrong.

Sound familiar? We all do this sometimes. I know I have.

She’d honed this script over many years so she knew exactly what she wanted. On one hand, her clarity is admirable.

But on another hand, as she so bravely discovered, it was a set up for her to feel disappointed and betrayed over and over again.

She and I are doing some powerful healing work around what it is she really feels disappointed and betrayed about, so that she can get even more freedom from this, but that part is between she and I.

I see this all the time when I work with couples. It’s so common that we have an idea of how our partner is supposed to be, what they’re supposed to say, or how they’re supposed to do it. Been there?

It’s like there’s a book called, “How Exactly to Be With Mary” as if there’s only one way.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s good to know what you want. But, when you’ve got that tight a handle on how things need to be, there’s no room for your partner to be who they are.

And then you’re not really in a relationship any more. You’re in some kind of a power struggle .

So, if you find yourself doing this and you can see the ways it’s negatively impacting your connection, you probably want to work on it.

Here’s how:

Consider how you feel when your partner doesn’t follow the script. Angry? Betrayed? Afraid? Confused? Take a few moments to get curious about this.

Notice how that emotion feels in your body. Do you get smaller? Tight? Less present? Warm? See if you can map the bodily experience of that emotion. Do this all very slowly.

Now, does this feel familiar? Do you remember feeling this way before? When you were young?

Don’t try to answer these questions, but rather open them up and just see what awarenesses or memories or sensations come up. If you’re confused about this, you can always see a therapist to help you get more clear about the connections here.

If the feelings you feel when your partner doesn’t follow the script seem familiar to you, they probably are. And in present day they might have less to do with your partner and more to do with that old familiarity.

Practice this the next time you notice yourself expecting a narrow window of response from your partner.

And leave me a comment below! Have you ever caught yourself having a script for your partner and making them wrong if they didn’t follow it? Have you been on the receiving end of someone else’s expectation in this way? I’d love to hear about it.

And finally, I’d just love it if you’d share this on Facebook.

All my best,

Sundara

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GIGABYTE TIPS & TRICKS – EASY TECHNIQUES FOR FASTER RMA HANDLING!

Physical layout and CPU socket check

Below you will find a checklist so that you can easy do a pre-check before wasting time trying to test a motherboard that is physically damaged.

  • Check all major chipsets, for instance if the customer says that the LAN does not work, make sure the LAN chip is not cracked.
  • Check the entire PCB for scratches or other types of damage, if there is a long scratch that cut several lines there is no need to run further tests.
  • Check the PCI and PCIEX sockets and make sure they are not damaged
  • Take a close look at the CPU socket, if there are any bent pins this can cause everything from obvious errors like ”reboot loops” to errors you might not relate with bent pins like the sound card is not working or that the graphics card does not give a signal to the monitor. The amount of errors you may encounter by bent pins can be almost endless.Always check if there are any bent pins before you’re wasting time and money on running a test that could have been settled in 30 seconds by looking carefully in the CPU socket.

If the motherboard looks ok and it all checks out then it is time to assemble the system and run any tests that may be required.

Example of CPU socket in terrible shape

 

Scenario 1 – The motherboard is stuck in a reboot loop or the monitor is not getting a signal

  • Perform the ”Physical and CPU socket check” if this has not already been done

Clear CMOS

  1. Locate the CLR_CMOS pins on the motherboard (If the motherboard does not have a CLR_CMOS continue to number 4.)
  2. Connect the 2 CLR_CMOS pins by placing a jumper on them (if you do not have a jumper connecting them with a screwdriver or other metal object will also work).
  3. Remove the jumper after a couple of seconds. This will clear any faulty BIOS settings and load ”optimized defaults” BIOS settings.
  4. If you do not have a CLR_CMOS feature on your motherboard please remove the battery and keep it out for 2 minutes, this will achieve the same results.
  5. Start the system and see if this technique helped or not.

 

If you could not get the system to boot by clearing the CMOS then try the following technique.

Recover from GIGABYTE Backup BIOS  (Only for motherboards with Dual BIOS technology)

Method #1:

  1. Shut off the powersupply by pressing the button on the ”PSU” or by removing the power cable.
  2. Press the powerbutton 3-4 times to empty the stored energy in the power supply.
  3. Turn on the powersupply
  4. Press and hold the powerbutton, the system will start the bootup procedure but will shut down after a few second. Release the powerbutton after the system have shut down completely.
  5. Press the powerbutton to start the system.
  6. If this technique was successful the system will boot and you will see the following image.

Method #2:

  1. Shut your PC down.
  2. Hold the power AND the reset button for about 10 sec, than release.
  3. Backup BIOS should kick in anytime soon now.

Method #3:

  1. Short out pins 1 and 6 on the main BIOS chip (pin #1 should be marked with a red dot or whatever)
  2. Tell a friend (or a relative) of yours to press the power on button
  3. Remove the ghetto-like jumper you’re holding between pins 1 and 6 as soon as you hear a beep.
  4. Backup BIOS should kick in again and everything will (hopefully) be fine.

 

If you still cannot get the system to boot please try with another graphics card (internal graphics should also be tested if available), test another CPU/APU and different memory modules. If the system is still not booting up, then please request RMA for the motherboard.

 

Scenario 2 – The motherboard works with a older CPU/APU/Graphics card but not with a brand new one Update your BIOS on GIGABYTE motherboards

Some newer graphics cards as well as CPU’s and APU’s requires that you update the BIOS on the motherboard. You can find a guide how to update the BIOS on GIGABYTE motherboards here:
HOW-TO: Update your BIOS on GIGABYTE motherboards

NOTE: Graphics cards also contains a BIOS and sometimes this BIOS and the BIOS on the motherboard will not be compatible, updating the BIOS on the graphics card after updating the BIOS on the motherboard can solve also of compatibility issues. You can find a VGA BIOS collection with the latest BIOS available for your graphics card here:
Video BIOS Collection

 

Extra resources

GIGABYTE BIOS updates, drivers, utilities, manuals and CPU support list’s:
Support & Downloads

System unstable / Overheating: Download and install AIDA64 Extreme – Run the system stability test and use the sensor feature to monitor the temperatures
AIDA64 Extreme download

FLASH / UPDATE BIOS ON GIGABYTE FM2+ MOTHERBOARDS TO SUPPORT THE NEW KAVERI APU

Choose one guide of the following below, to flash your GIGABYTE motherboard:

VERSION 1 DOS

(fastest way if you do it one time per year).

 

You only need one file, the BIOS file for your motherboard.

  1. To download the latest BIOS for your motherboard go to gigabyte.com and enter the model of your motherboard in the search field located in the top right corner.
    Click on the tab “Support & Downloads”
    Set “Download Type” to BIOS
    Download latest BIOS file.
  2. Unpack the file you just downloaded.
  3. You now see three files, Efiflash, autoexec together with a file that’s called the same as your chosen motherboard. In this example we will use the BIOS from G1.Sniper A88X.
  4. Copy the file SNIPER88X.F7 to a USB flash drive. (.F7 indicates the BIOS version)
  5. Reboot your computer, and during boot press ”END” (when you normally press ”DEL” to enter BIOS”).
  6. GIGABYTE Q-flash utility will now start, and you can load your new BIOS from the USB flash drive.
  7. Choose ”Update BIOS from Drive”
  8. Select your device – press enter and pick your BIOS file.
  9. Q-Flash will now start the process and update the BIOS on your motherboard.
  10. Done!

VERSION 2 DOS

(fastest way if you have several computers to flash, or you just like to flash. This includes to create bootable USB flash drive)

You need three files:
HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool
Win98boot
BIOS file for your motherboard.

  1. Run hpusb.exe to install the utility.
  2. Plug in you USB flash drive to your computer.
  3. Run the program you just installed (HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool).
  4. Select your USB flash drive as your device.
  5. Choose FAT32 as file system.
  6. (Optional) Select Volume label if you want to give your USB flash drive a name.
  7. Under format options, choose create a DOS startup disk.
  8. Select ”using DOS system files located at” and point the program to the folder ”win98boot” which you just downloaded (you need to unzip this folder).
  9. Then click the start button.
  10. Now when you have created your bootable USB flash drive, you need to input the BIOS.
  11. Download the latest BIOS for your motherboard from gigabyte.com
  12. Unpack the file that you just downloaded.
  13. You now see three files, Efiflash, autoexec together with a file that’s called the same as your chosen motherboard.
  14. Copy all three files to the USB flash drive.
  15. Choose ”replace all files on destination”
  16. Reboot your computer, and during boot press ”F12″ (when you normally press ”DEL” to enter BIOS”.
  17. Choose ”boot from USB”.
  18. EFI flash will now start the process and update the BIOS on your motherboard.
  19. Done.

FLASH / UPDATE BIOS ON GIGABYTE BAY TRAIL MOTHERBOARDS J1800 & J1900

Download the following files:

HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool
Win98boot
BIOS file for your motherboard

Pick your model from the list
Click on the tab “Support & Downloads”
Set “Download Type” to BIOS
Download BIOS file.

Preparing the USB Flash drive with the BIOS files:

  1. Run hpusb.exe to install the utility.
  2. Plug in you USB flash drive to your computer.
  3. Run the program you just installed (HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool).
  4. Select your USB flash drive as your device.
  5. Choose FAT32 as file system.
  6. (Optional) Select Volume label if you want to give your USB flash drive a name.
  7. Under format options, choose create a DOS startup disk.
  8. Select ”using DOS system files located at” and point the program to the folder ”win98boot” which you just downloaded (you need to unzip this folder).
  9. Then click the start button.
  10. Now when you have created your bootable USB flash drive, you need to input the BIOS.
  11. Download the latest BIOS for your motherboard from gigabyte.com
  12. Unpack the file that you just downloaded.
  13. You now see three files, Efiflash, autoexec together with a file that’s called the same as your chosen motherboard.
  14. Copy all three files to the USB flash drive.
  15. Choose ”replace all files on destination”

 

Change BIOS settings on your Bay Trail motherboard (This allows Legacy boot, also needed to boot Linux etc):

  1. Plug in your monitor via D-SUB
  2. Enter BIOS by pressing DEL on your keyboard
    (You may may have to use a PS/2 keyboard or USB to PS/2 adapter depending on what keyboard you are using)
  3. Go to the ”Save & Exit” menu and press Restore Defaults
  4. Go to the ”Advanced” menu, enter the ”CSM Configuration” sub-menu
  5. Change the setting for CSM Support to Enabled, make sure that the Boot option filter is set to UEFI and Legacy
  6. Go to the ”Save & Exit” menu and press Save Changes and Reset

Flash your BIOS:

  1. Connect your USB Flash drive that you prepared earlier
  2. Boot up the computer
  3. The GIGABYTE SPI Flash BIOS Update Utility will start automatically and update your BIOS
    (If the update process does not start automatically then please press F12 during POST and
    choose USB Flash drive as boot device or disconnect any HDD/SSD/Etc that you may have connected)
  4. After the update utility is finished remove the USB Flash drive and reboot your system
  5. DONE!

CREATE BOOTABLE USB FLASH DRIVE

You need two files:
HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool
Win98boot

  1. Run hpusb.exe to install the utility.
  2. Plug in you USB flash drive to your computer. (Please note that all current files will be deleted, so use an empty key)
  3. Run the program you just installed (HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool).
  4. Select your USB flash drive as your device.
  5. Choose FAT32 as file system.
  6. (Optional) Select Volume label if you want to give your USB a name.
  7. Under format options, choose create a DOS startup disk.
  8. Select ”using DOS system files located at” and point the program to the folder ”win98boot” which you just dowloaded (you need to unzip this folder).
  9. Then click the start button.
  10. Done
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Hpusb 2.0 MiB 5568
Win98boot 670.6 KiB 5248

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HOW-TO: FLASH / UPDATE YOUR BIOS ON GIGABYTE 100-SERIES MOTHERBOARDS

This how-to guide will show you how you can flash/update your BIOS on GIGABYTE motherboards. There are several ways to do this but we will show you two ways here. One that’s fast, if you do this only once per year and one that’s faster if you do it more often (of if you flash other GIGABYTE motherboards when you produce PCs for friends).

Do you always get the message: ”The version of this file is not compatible with the version of Windows you’re running…” when you try to run the flash tool?

Its not so strange, since you always should try to avoid flash/update BIOS from Windows environment. Our software that comes along with the BIOS, when you download from our homepage, needs to be execute from ”DOS” and not Windows. So, this is how you should do…

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VERSION 1 DOS

(fastest way if you do it one time per year).

You will need one file, the BIOS file for your motherboard.

  1. Download the latest BIOS for your motherboard from gigabyte.com
  2. Unpack the the file you just downloaded.
  3. You now see three files, Efiflash, autoexec together with a file thats called the same as your chosen motherboard. In this example we will use filenamne.F2.
  4. Take the filename.F2 file, and copy it to a USB flash drive (needs to be FAT32 formated).
  5. Reboot your computer, and during boot press ”END” (like you normally press ”DEL” to enter BIOS”.
  6. GIGABYTE flash tool will now pop up, and you can load your new BIOS from the USB flash drive.
  7. Choose ”Update BIOS from Drive”
  8. Choose your device – press enter and pick your BIOS file (named filename.F2).
  9. Done!

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VERSION 2 DOS

(fastest way if you have several computers to flash, or you just like to flash. This includes to create bootable USB flash drive)

You need three files:
HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool
Win98boot
BIOS file for your motherboard.

  1. Run hpusb.exe to install the utility.
  2. Plug in you USB flash drive to your computer. (Please note that all current files will be deleted, so use an empty key)
  3. Run the program you just installed (HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool).
  4. Select your USB flash drive as your device.
  5. Choose FAT32 as file system.
  6. (Optional) Select Volume label if you want to give your USB flash drive a name.
  7. Under format options, choose create a DOS startup disk.
  8. Select ”using DOS system files located at” and point the program to the folder ”win98boot” which you just dowloaded (you need to unzip this folder).
  9. Then click the start button.
  10. Now when you have created your bootable USB flash drive, you need to input the BIOS.
  11. Download the latest BIOS for your motherboard from gigabyte.com
  12. Unpack the the file you just downloaded.
  13. You now see three files, Efiflash, autoexec together with a file thats called the same as your chosen motherboard. In this example we will use X79UP4.F2 (since we have a GA-X79-UP4).
  14. Copy all three files to the USB flash drive.
  15. Choose ”replace all files on destination”
  16. Reboot your computer, and during boot press ”F12” (like you normally press ”DEL” to enter BIOS”.
  17. Choose ”boot from USB”.
  18. Done.

Next time you need to change the BIOS on any GIGABYTE motherboard, you just have to follow step 11-18 since you have already prepared the USB flash drive.

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Hpusb 2.0 MiB 5565
Win98boot 670.6 KiB 5246

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GIGABYTE BRIX GB-BXI7-4770R VS I7-4770K (BRIX VS DESKTOP)

Quite often we get the question: How good is the BRIX compared to a ordinary PC. We can now bring you the ultimate test, where our lovely GB-BXi7-4770R takes on several desktop CPUs.

We guess that you will find the results from GB-BXi7-4770R quite impressive.

Please note that we also marked the Intel Core i3-4330 in below diagrams. The reason for this is simple: More or less you can compare the desktop i3 with our GB-BXi3-5010 based on the facts that our GB-BXi7-4770R performs very similar to the i7-4770K CPU.

BRIX is super powerful, and its extremely compact. The future is here.

COMPARISON PROCESSOR CONFIGURATIONS
CPU
AMD
Intel
A10-7850K
A8-7600K
A10-6800K
A8-6500T
Core i7-4770K
Core i5-4670
Core i5-4440
Core i3-4330
Core i7-4770R
Chip TDP
95W
65W/45W
100W
65W
84W
84W
84W
54W
65W
Current price
£130
£90
£105
£80
£240
£160
£130
£95
NA
Motherboard
ASRock FM2A88X-ITX+
Gigabyte Z87-D3HP
Gigabyte M4HM87P
BIOS
1.90
F5
NA
Chipset Driver
AMD Catalyst 13.12
Intel Inf 9.4.0.1027 and IMEI 9
DDR3 Memory
AMD Gamer Series 16GB (2x8GB)
G.Skill 8GB (2x4GB)
Memory Timings
10-11-11-28-2T @ 2,133MHz
9-10-9-27-2T @ 1,600MHz
9-10-9-27-2T @ 1,866MHz
11-11-11-28-2T @ 1,600Hz
Integrated Graphics
Radeon R7
Radeon R7
HD 8670D
HD 8550D
HD 4600
HD 4600
HD 4600
HD 4600
Iris Pro 5200
IGP driver
AMD Catalyst 13.30 RC3
Intel 15.33.8.64.3379
Disk Drive
Samsung 840 Pro 250GB
Intel mSATA 180GB
Chassis
Corsair Graphite 600T
Gigabyte Brix
Power Supply
Corsair AX760i
Gigabyte external
Operating System
Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit

CPU AND MEMORY BENCHMARKS
HEXUS PiFast Our number-crunching benchmark stresses a single core by calculating Pi to 10m places
CineBench R15 Using Cinebench’s multi-CPU render, this cross-platform benchmark stresses all cores
wPrime 2.1.0 Another number-crunching benchmark that stresses all available CPU cores/threads
AIDA64 v4.00.2805 Benchmark that analyses memory bandwidth and latency

MULTIMEDIA BENCHMARKS
LuxMark 2.0 An OpenCL rendering benchmark
MuseMage 1.9.6 An OpenCL image-manipulation benchmark (64-bit)
HandBrake 0.9.9.1 Free-to-use video encoder that stresses all CPU cores (64-bit)

SYSTEM BENCHMARKS
PCMark 8 v2.0 System-wide examination that uses the Home preset, run with OpenCL acceleration
3DMark DX11, run at the Firestrike default test
SiSoft Sandra 2014 Aggregate score that takes a composite of 12 system-wide benchmarks

GAMING BENCHMARKS
BioShock Infinite DX9, 1,280×720 and 1,920×1,080 medium quality
GRID 2 DX9, 1,280×720 and 1,920×1,080 high quality
Total War: Rome II DX9, 1,280×720 and 1,920×1,080 medium quality

MISCELLANEOUS BENCHMARKS
Power Consumption While idling and when running wPrime and GRID 2

Source: http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/cpu/67021-intel-core-i7-4770r-22nm-haswell/

Benchmark: Single- and Multi-core

 

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WHY BENT PINS ARE NOT COVERED BY WARRANTY

Bent pins in the CPU socket on Intel based motherboards can cause many different issues like:
“Dead” motherboard, only 2 Memory DIMM slots work, one or more PCIEX slots does not work, random bluescreens or unexplainable instability and the most common one, reboot loops.
Below you can find some of the most common questions regarding bent pins.

When I opened the package the motherboard already had bent pins / After testing my system that did not work I saw some bent pins, I did not damage any pins, this was damaged before I got the board.

We do not mistrust our users but the fact is that every single motherboard that leaves our factories are manually tested and inspected before shipping out. The pins are very fragile and it can be easy to damage them without even noticing.
We have a short video of how a motherboard is made and how it is tested. You can find the video here:

I have used my motherboard for some time but it has been unstable, now it wont even start, when I look at the socket there are some bent pins.

It is possible to run a motherboard with bent pins depending on which pins are bent. After a while the motherboard may stop working because while using it there have been small powersurges between bent pins, this have caused soot to form on the surrounding pins until the point where the system will not start.

Is it safe to use my motherboard if it has bent pins?

Using a motherboard with bent pins in the CPU socket can cause a short circuit and damage the motherboard and other components.

Is it possible to repair bent pins or to replace the socket?

Depending on how damaged the pins are it may be possible to bend back. Some retailers will help you with this. To replace a socket is an advanced and time consuming process:

 

Inet (One of the biggest retailers in the Nordics) posted the following in this matter:

“This is unfortunately a big problem for us and we end up in a very unfortunate situation because we have no reason to mistrust our customers but no manufacturer takes bent pins on the warranty since they have extremely high quality checks for this before it is shipped.

Some of the larger manufacturers even take a high resolution photo of every socket that can be traced back through the serial number. Not one of the cases where it was “absolutely” damaged from the factory, it has proven to be so. It is something that we can confirm ourselves as we have built over 25 000 machines (Taurus / Vox and custom built to customers) and have never encountered a single motherboard with bent pins from the factory.“

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HOW-TO: FLASH / UPDATE YOUR BIOS ON GIGABYTE MOTHERBOARDS

This how-to guide will show you how you can flash/update your BIOS on GIGABYTE motherboards. There are several ways to do this but we will show you two ways here. One that’s fast, if you do this only once per year and one that’s faster if you do it more often (of if you flash other GIGABYTE motherboards when you produce PCs for friends).

Do you always get the message: ”The version of this file is not compatible with the version of Windows you’re running…” when you try to run the flash tool?

Its not so strange, since you always should try to avoid flash/update BIOS from Windows environment. Our software that comes along with the BIOS, when you download from our homepage, needs to be execute from ”DOS” and not Windows. So, this is how you should do…

——————————————————————————————————

VERSION 1 DOS

(fastest way if you do it one time per year).

You will need one file, the BIOS file for your motherboard.

  1. Download the latest BIOS for your motherboard from gigabyte.com
  2. Unpack the the file you just downloaded.
  3. You now see three files, Efiflash, autoexec together with a file thats called the same as your chosen motherboard. In this example we will use X79UP4.F2 (since we have a GA-X79-UP4).
  4. Take the X79UP4.F2 file, and copy it to a USB flash drive.
  5. Reboot your computer, and during boot press ”END” (like you normally press ”DEL” to enter BIOS”.
  6. GIGABYTE flash tool will now pop up, and you can load your new BIOS from the USB flash drive.
  7. Choose ”Update BIOS from Drive”
  8. Choose your device – press enter and pick your BIOS file.
  9. Done!

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VERSION 2 DOS

(fastest way if you have several computers to flash, or you just like to flash. This includes to create bootable USB flash drive)

You need three files:
HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool
Win98boot
BIOS file for your motherboard.

  1. Run hpusb.exe to install the utility.
  2. Plug in you USB flash drive to your computer. (Please note that all current files will be deleted, so use an empty key)
  3. Run the program you just installed (HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool).
  4. Select your USB flash drive as your device.
  5. Choose FAT32 as file system.
  6. (Optional) Select Volume label if you want to give your USB flash drive a name.
  7. Under format options, choose create a DOS startup disk.
  8. Select ”using DOS system files located at” and point the program to the folder ”win98boot” which you just dowloaded (you need to unzip this folder).
  9. Then click the start button.
  10. Now when you have created your bootable USB flash drive, you need to input the BIOS.
  11. Download the latest BIOS for your motherboard from gigabyte.com
  12. Unpack the the file you just downloaded.
  13. You now see three files, Efiflash, autoexec together with a file thats called the same as your chosen motherboard. In this example we will use X79UP4.F2 (since we have a GA-X79-UP4).
  14. Copy all three files to the USB flash drive.
  15. Choose ”replace all files on destination”
  16. Reboot your computer, and during boot press ”F12” (like you normally press ”DEL” to enter BIOS”.
  17. Choose ”boot from USB”.
  18. Done.

Next time you need to change the BIOS on any GIGABYTE motherboard, you just have to follow step 11-18 since you have already prepared the USB flash drive.

 

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Hpusb 2.0 MiB 5568
Win98boot 670.6 KiB 5248

HOW TO UPDATE YOUR BIOS USING Q-FLASH PLUS ON X99 MOTHERBOARDS

How to update your BIOS using Q-Flash Plus on X99 motherboards

  1. Download the latest BIOS from GIGABYTE’s website.
    To download the latest BIOS for your motherboard go to gigabyte.com and enter the model of your motherboard in the search field located in the top right corner.
    Click on the tab “Support & Downloads”
    Set “Download Type” to BIOS
    Download latest BIOS file.
  2. Format your USB thumb drive in FAT 16/32 format
    (http://www.wikihow.com/Format-a-Flash-Drive)
  3. Extract the BIOS file archive that you downloaded and copy the BIOS image file (ie. X99SOC.F2) into your USB thumb drive
  4. IMPORTANT : Re-name the BIOS image file to “GIGABYTE.bin”
  5. Plug in your USB thumb drive into the “White” USB 3.0 port in the back panel.
  6. Q-Flash Plus will verify that the “GIGABYTE.BIN” file’s product ID is matched with the MB ID.
  7. The BIOS update progress is indicated by the flashing onboard LED light.
  8. When the FBIOS_LED stops flashing and shows a constant light the Q-Flash Plus BIOS update is complete.